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Conservation Accounting – One Community Weekly Progress Update #523

Posted on April 2, 2023 by One Community Hs

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Developing conservation accounting models is about stewarding our one shared planet for the benefit of all people and life on it. It’s about giving more than we take and living in integrity through everything we do. We are open sourcing teacher/demonstration hubs to help people who want to participate in a new way of living like this.

Here’s our project overview
Here’s our world-change methodology
Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 2nd, 2023 edition (#523) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Conservation Accounting
One Community Progress Update #523

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing conservation accounting through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

- - Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team created a flowchart with detailed instructions on how to make aircrete and reviewed the script for the video the current compression testing team is going to make for the next team to continue this effort.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 89th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey was following through on many of the design edits needed for the Murphy bed instructions. There were still a few areas that needed the lumber and wood pieces to be moved around and reconfigured. Stacey started a file with graphic elements and colors used throughout the instruction booklet. This can be used as a tool to further edit the current instructions and also make sure there is consistency in what each symbol and color means. This can also be used as a tool for future booklets that need to be styled in a similar way. Screenshots below relate to this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 25th week helping with web design, now focused on the Solar Energy Microgrid Setup and Maintenance tutorial. This week’s effort included building the two Tables of Contents, one at the top and the other a sub Table of Contents. He then added a column to the Website/Web Page Review, checked the whole page against it, and submitted it for review. Pictures below are related to this work.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 13th week helping, now focused on Earth Dam Design & Construction for Water Retention, Pond & Lake Creation. Dam safety and hazards assessment is required for risk mitigation. Therefore, there are no comments or additional work added to the existing project. However, the same related topics related to the approach for disaster mitigation, particularly in the case of Dam failure from different studies, needs to be applied. An additional literature review was done from the previous report work regarding septic tanks the image just shows the experiment setup. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing conservation accounting through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

- - Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, the core team continued reviewing the latest Duplicable City Center SketchUp file for accuracy. We finished updating rails for the inside deck on the third level, recorded four more issues found, and resolved one of them by removing part of the second floor wall of the Living Dome that was interfering with the entrance of the Living Dome from the central deck. See below for some pictures of this work.

The core team also continued working with a new member of the team on what’s needed for the complete Duplicable City Center cabinetry. This week involved more work on the design of the dining room stairs. The focus was the detailed design for the handrail components. Once these parts were designed, 2D drawings were drafted to prepare the design for creating a materials list and cutting list. The final part of the week was spent reviewing and selecting a decorative pattern to include in the stairs. See related pictures below.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 16th week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran focused on the production of the video. She first changed the material of pathways in front of the entrance to differentiate them from the sand ground. She also added grates in front of the entryway, which all sliding glass door entryways should have. Then she re-imported the updated model into Lumion. In addition, she added figures to the Lumion model according to the previous video. She also added some fragments to the video and finished the video clip of the entrance. See below for some pictures of this work.

Julio E. Marin Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Julio continued working on designing the brackets for the hub connectors for the traditional geodesic dome. He also found an efficient way to design the fasteners and began exploring ways to create a single part that can be modified to fit any specific dimensions for the different nodes. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 4th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Yiwei re-did the trimming part for all the edges of beams to make the process more streamlined and minimize gaps. She also added spheres between all the connections and applied pressure at one node to simulate the model. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the City Center Eco-laundry research. This week, Amal started by reviewing the two washer options and calculating the volumetric capacity. She then determined the load size for both models. Amal started her dryer analysis by investigating the basics of an efficient and eco-friendly dryer. She also looked for alternatives to dry clothes and talked about the laundry line drying option as a very good alternative to the clothes dryer. After that, Amal started her comparison between conventional and ENERGY STAR dryers. She stated the advantages of switching to an ENERGY STAR dryer and went in-depth by choosing the best available options in three categories: residential, commercial, and industrial dryers. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing conservation accounting through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

- - Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
  - See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team also worked more one the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week we finished checking the calculations for the Master Shopping List on the Master Recipe Template and all calculations appear to be working and correct. We added a cell for the total cost of 3 days worth of meals for one person on the Master Recipe Template, alphabetized the Cooked Staple Foods on the Master Recipe Document and modified recipes on the document to make sure they were finished and turned green, completed the FWA 3-day block recipe and added it as an example along with a blank recipe template to the Transition Kitchen Recipe Build Out for a new volunteer. See below for pictures related to this.

Rebecca Miller (Chef) completed her 7th week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week, Rebecca caught up on comments from other volunteers because she was off last week. She checked over recipes that had been entered into a spreadsheet to ensure the formulas were working correctly. Rebecca continued editing recipes that contained metric measurements and corrected any errors in the instructions. Additionally, she reviewed the work that another volunteer contributed in her absence. See below for some pictures related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing conservation accounting through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing conservation accounting through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

- - Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
  - Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
  - Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
  - Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team completed 26 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 48th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun raised a backend PR to change the weekly summary tabs from 3 to 4, helped the team on Slack with problem solving, resolved merge conflicts, filed new bugs, and edited the tutorials/documentation, and helped clean unused branches. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 34th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Yan worked on the summary group status for the summary management page. Now it is possible to click the green/gray circle in the active column to switch the summary group status to active or inactive. Also, when clicking the delete button, it will show three buttons, delete, set inactive, and close. This week, she finished the setInactive button, which is able to set the summary group from active to inactive. The inactive means the summary receiver will not receive their team members’ weekly summary, but when changed to active, the summary receiver will be able to receive it again. See pictures below for some of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 20th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang fixed issues for a PR to make intangible hours editable and fixed conflicts for the 24/48/72 hr buttons PR. He had a discussion with Ayush about work on the “ready for review” button task too. They are working together on this one and Ayush has completed the frontend side, Kaixiang will continue to help on the backend side. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 18th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun has almost finished subtask 4 of the performance optimization task. She rewrote the Timelog component as a functional component and used the state and the hooks to control the render process, which could be helpful to avoid unnecessary re-rendering. She also fixed some bugs caused by the changes and did some research for subtask 3. Pictures below show some of this work.

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Johny is working on the badge component Bug number 4: “New badges in same category should also remove the previous lower level when a new higher level is earned, because the new higher level replaces the lower one.” He focused on debugging the backend to find what was happening and he found out. Now Johny is thinking of a better way to implement the logic to fix this problem. Pictures below show some of this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul continuously developed new features, like the reports page “When creating a new task, remove the need to click the dropdown (see below) to see the list of people. Have list auto-populate instead as names are typed.” Also, “When searching the resources, fake data is still appearing. It’s necessary for someone to connect the real data and delete the old component.” Now, the reports page is fetching team data and creating a chart with it. Raul also finished developing the owner message feature on the header of the application. Now it’s possible to create a standard message by text or image. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. During the week, Filipe dedicated his efforts towards resolving the issue of unresponsiveness on the main page. Despite receiving guidance from Jae on potentially solving the problem by relocating the ‘team member’ and ‘clock’ titles to the right side and clarifying that it was an issue of responsiveness, Filipe encountered difficulty in understanding the root of the problem. He persevered with this task throughout the week, declining to divert his attention to other tasks. Unfortunately, his efforts did not yield significant progress. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Xinyu Jiang (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Xinyu joined the development team. Firstly she carefully went through all the docs about instructions and requirements for raising her own PR. Then she selected a bug that she would start to work on. In the process of fixing the bug, she did not realize a small logic issue until she finished all the changes and started to test the functionality locally. She tried to fix the rest of the bug and publish the related PR on time, but accuracy and correctness were more important. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jinchao finished the development of making users able to change their visibility and raised two PRs: #300 and #731. He then followed up on his previous PR and made further changes to address the bugs found by reviewers. He also raised PR #730 to fix the incorrect showing of the save change alert when active/inactive users at the userProfile page. Besides that, he updated the ‘assignBlueSquareForTimeNotMet’ function in userHelper.js of HGNRest to accumulate the unfinished hours of Core Team members to their next week’s committed hours. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sav tackled two of the backend bugs focused on the badges component. The first bug was related to the total hours in a category badge where the 200 hrs for the economics badge were being added to users despite not having the prerequisite time for it. After thoroughly testing the bug they came to the conclusion that the bug had been fixed in a previous PR. However, there was some validation that could be added to check and make sure users’ data met the prerequisites for the badge before running. After adding that and some refactoring of the badge, Sav pushed a PR to GitHub for it. The second bug focused on the minHrsMultiple Badge where if users had tangible hrs of 0 or committed hrs of 0 it would cause the function to read infinity and award the badge incorrectly. A little validation and refactoring were added to make the function run better. See below for related pictures.

Vitor Adriel (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vitor solved 2 bugs from the bugs doc. One in the Permissions management page where trying to access a role whose name included special characters that are interactive with the URL such as ‘?’ or ‘/’ it was not possible to access the page about the role, due to the inclusion of these characters. The solution he developed was, when creating a new role, it’s not possible to create a role if the name of the role includes any character that can make the URL not work. The second bug was that the roles ‘Mentor’ or ‘Manager’ should be able to make suggestions to tasks, but the suggestion button was not appearing when using these roles. The problem was that the permission to make suggestions didn’t exist for some reason. He solved it by adding the necessary permission on the Permissions Management page when editing or adding a new role. He reviewed PRs: #593, #720, #722, #723, #731 and raised PRs: #737 and #729. See some examples of this work in the pictures below.

Ayush Tripathi (Full Stack Developer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. According to his active story/task, Ayush needs to create a button for every Task. Once the task has been completed by the assignee the assignee can submit the button so that other people in the group can review it. For This week, Ayush presented two UI designs and had a discussion with Jae, who suggested three additional options to explore. Ayush also added a boolean field to the database to track the state of buttons, specifically whether they are “Review” or “Submit,” and shared the relevant code with Kaixiang. In the coming week, Kaixiang will guide Ayush on how to proceed with the controller logic. Ayush plans to experiment with more designs recommended by Jae, and some screenshots have been shared on Dropbox. See pics below that are related to this.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Lucas worked on both his tasks and submitted the Special Situation task PR. He then started developing a solution to #71, Fix tasks view when viewing another person’s dashboard. Lucas also reviewed two PRs this week, PR #729 and #730, both worked very well. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Angelina Truong (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Angelina reviewed PR #722 and addressed her peers’ concerns regarding the weekly summary submissions for others. The main concern was that after submitting a summary for another user the submission is successful, however the browser would freeze. You’d have to manually refresh the page in order to resume interaction with the UI. This seems to be a bug that is happening on the development branch as well as on PR #722. She reviewed her peers’ approach and suggestion and took a deeper dive into the application code. After several testing and console.log each section Angelina found that there was a set state function that was being passed down but the state variable was not being used. She commented out this state and repeated her test and found that the bug was resolved this way. To make sure that this was a change she could make since it was not directly related to her PR, so she responded to the team on GitHub and waited for an approval to make this change official. Angelina also discovered a bug that seems to not be updating the permissions management for the owner’s role. This bug is inconsistent as it only happened to her. To confirm this she requested her peers to test for this scenario in order to see if they could also reproduce this bug. She then continued her third week in code development and selected a new bug to work on. The new task is a bug that is also very inconsistent as it does not appear often. At first she tried to recreate the bug on the local server and found that there were indeed some sections in the task that did not update after saving the changes. She created a list of sections that did not update and worked on each section individually. Unfortunately she was not able to fully recreate the bug that was blocking the hours section from updating though. To better understand this bug she decided to test on the dev server next. Through extensive testing Angelina was able to reproduce the bug in the hour section that did not update. She proceeded to return to the local server and repeated the process until the bug appeared. This time she console.log the front end to see if the front end was capturing every update and to observe what would happen when the bug occurs. As she continued to diagnose the task she saw that when the bug appeared the console was still capturing the updates that were submitted. This leads her to believe that somehow the back end is not receiving the data from the front end when the update has been triggered. Angelina analyzed the code in the back end and console.log some areas she would like to see in the back end terminal as she makes changes to the task. She resumes testing the front end by repeating the process and for every change she checks the back end terminal to see if the update was received properly. She hasn’t been able to reproduce the bug since then. This is an ongoing bug she will continue to diagnose. See pics below.

Akshay (Full Stack Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Akshay identified and fixed an issue in the WeeklySummary component that caused an 8-day gap between the ‘Last Week’ and ‘Week Before Last’ tabs. By analyzing the code and understanding the root cause of the issue, he made the necessary changes to the date calculation logic using the moment.js library. This ensured that the due dates for the ‘Last Week’, ‘Week Before Last’, and ‘Three Weeks Ago’ tabs were calculated accurately, eliminating the 8-day gap. In addition to fixing the date calculation issue, Akshay also took the time to review Alan’s PR #593. Pictures below are examples of this.

Harlley Bastos (Full Stack Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Harlley’s primary focus was on the timer feature of our application, mostly fixing bugs. To begin with, he conducted a thorough analysis of the timer feature, identifying the root cause of the issues and creating a plan for addressing them. After resolving the issues, he proceeded to push the changes he made to the feature to both the Frontend and Backend repositories. He opened two separate pull requests, one for each repository, to ensure that the changes were properly tracked and reviewed by our team. Overall, Harlley is confident that the fixes he made to the timer feature will greatly improve its performance and reliability and looks forward to receiving feedback on the pull requests and collaborating with the team to continue improving this function. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Crystal Song (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Crystal continued to tackle the same bug as last week. Upon looking at the code, crystal noticed that the state of the folder `open` or `close` with each click is not updated (passdown) correctly in the next component. Crystal also look at PR#271 and 653 regarding refactoring the timer function. Some pictures related to this work are below.

The Highest Good Network software also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week, Christopher Alexander (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week, Davi Castro (Software Engineer) completed his 1st week, Jailson Sanches (Software Developer) completed his 5th week, Jay Kang (Web Development Volunteer) completed his 5th week, Meenakshi Pavithran (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week, Natália Favaro Cavicchioli (Full-stack Developer) completed her 3rd week, Nicolle Coelho (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week, Yihan Liu (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week, and Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer). The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) also helped create the custom graphic for the header of the Highest Good Network software.

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One Community Welcomes Vidhi Bansal to the Design Team!

Posted on April 1, 2023 by One Community

One Community welcomes Vidhi Bansal to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Vidhi is a recent graduate of SCI-Arc’s M.S. in animation technology, visual graphics and environment art. She works in the confluence of creative technology and world design for architecture, film, and games, with the goal of becoming an art director someday. Over the past seven years, Vidhi has designed concepts for libraries, residential towers, private homes, school extensions, medieval bazaars in war-affected countries, and more. She has developed these concepts through construction phases, physical models, and site installations. Additionally, she has worked as a CGI and motion graphics artist and aims to ultimately venture into the film design world and continue her love for world building and storytelling. As a member of the One Community team, Vidhi is helping with the virtual flyover and tour of the 4-dome home design which is an extension of the Earthbag Village.

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Common Sense Ecology – One Community Weekly Progress Update #522

Posted on March 26, 2023 by One Community Hs

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One Community is showing that demonstrating common sense ecology is both possible and beneficial. We have the ability to create a world that works for everyone. One Community calls the living models capable of this “for The Highest Good of All” and we are open sourcing all the components needed to replicate them.

Here’s our project overview
Here’s our world-change methodology
Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 26th, 2023 edition (#522) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Common Sense Ecology
One Community Progress Update #522

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating common sense ecology through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

- - Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team reviewed the draft script that the Compression Testing Team wrote and provided substantial comments, as well as provided the Team with examples of flow charts they can use to present the instructions on how to make aircrete in the simplest way possible. The same team member also completed a final review of the work completed for the energy need estimates, and supported the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering modeling efforts.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 24th week helping with web design, now focused on the Solar Energy Microgrid Setup and Maintenance tutorial. The effort included finishing sections on POWER DRAW > 400 KWH/DAY, Demand Totals, inverter and battery sizing, charge controller rating, additional factors affecting equipment selection, choosing the best solar hardware, types of solar cells, advantages and disadvantages of new solar harvesting technologies, recyclability, solar harvesting hardware, solar inverters, battery-based inverters/chargers, calculations, costs of an installed system and a sample cost summary. Pictures below are related to this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 24th week with the team. This week, Julia wrote out and set up a detailed Action Items section for Amal’s Eco-laundry research Google Doc. She then checked on the “Murphy bed Instructions” PDF and resolved and addressed comments as needed. Julia continued to review Philip’s progress on the “Door and Window Research” Google Doc and Spreadsheet and resolved comments where her feedback had been integrated. Also this week, Julia began to work on the “Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design” task. She read through the Google Doc and its source Doc and edited the format for clarity for when it comes time to integrate it on the site. She also edited the content and updated the tables and images with more effective formats, captions, and source links. See pictures below.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 19th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team prepared the text and materials needed to make an instructional video for next year’s team. They also made a few aircrete flowcharts to help explain the steps that are required/involved with making aircrete. Pictures below are related to this work.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 12th week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza read the report document and checked the comments from the previous work. Overall this week the review was on all topics that are listed on the report. Comments were added on the CAD design and a review was made to check the standards for the design on the Wheelchair ramp according to ADA standards. Overall the standards are being met. See below for some pictures related to this.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed her 8th week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week Vidhi worked on some texture modulation, and adding more assets. She retextured a part of the ground, changing the colors, and added a playground that was modeled and textured but will be made into more earthy colors next. Vidhi then also added some more big trees which required more asset hunting and texturing. She also posed some people within the landscape and placed some under the trees and around the playground. Next step would be working on some foliage re-coloring (the one right next to the walkways), playground textures and more posed people. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating common sense ecology through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

- - Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, the core team continued reviewing the latest Duplicable City Center SketchUp file for accuracy. We corrected five issues mentioned in the suggestion list. Updates were related to the redesign of kitchen cabinets, moving the kitchen sink to match window opening, adding more washers and designing dryers for the laundry room, and we started updating the balcony court of the third level. We also updated its shape and started redesigning the railing to match the updated balcony. See below.

The core team also continued working with a new member of the team on what’s needed for the complete Duplicable City Center cabinetry. This week’s work involved beginning the design process for the Kitchen-Dining room stairs. The design process involved compiling the exact dimensions for the stairs, then using those dimensions to calculate the number of steps, riser height, tread depth, handrail height and balustrade spacing, then using that information to create a first draft model of the stairs. See related pictures below.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 15th week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran focused on the production of the video. She first fixed the ground material at the entrance, changing the sand floor to a stone floor. And she re-imported the updated model into Lumion. After that, she changed the material of the exterior paths, which includes sand, decomposed granite, and stone. In addition, she added figures, animals, and plants to the Lumion model according to the previous video. Ranran also added some fragments to the video and finished the video clip of the entrance. See below for some pictures of this work.

Julio E. Marin Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Julio came up with an idea to incorporate hub connector brackets at each node faster. Also he noticed some irregularities with the model that are likely due to the underlying 3D sketch that was originally created and so is looking into that. Julio and Yiwei are both working to generate a load analysis model in different software packages for better confidence in the results. At the same time, they are able to share solid models using the STEP file format which is readable by both softwares and so are not entirely working in parallel. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 3rd week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Yiwei continued to work on the solid model of the traditional dome structure, including refining the interface between the beams where they meet at the modes in order for the load analysis model to run properly. She also began incorporating the latest design of the hub connector bracket to each of the nodes, also for the load analysis modeling. Pictures of some of this work are below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating common sense ecology through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

- - Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
  - See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team also worked more one the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week we continued our work with the Master Recipe Template. We worked to align the proper links and costs with the Master Shopping List, needed to modify a few of the equations so everything would calculate correctly, and are now in the process of importing data to check that all sheets are importing the proper information and calculating the costs correctly. See below for pictures related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating common sense ecology through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating common sense ecology through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

- - Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
  - Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
  - Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
  - Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team completed 23 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 47th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun worked on the bug “weeklyCommittedHours cannot be edited”, she raised a PR for this bug and also cleaned up the misspelled objects (weeklyCommittedHours/infringements) in the database. In addition to this, she helped the team on Slack with problem solving, resolving merge conflicts, logging new bugs, and creating/maintaining the tutorials. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 33rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Yan revised the first PR. She also worked on the edit button on the summary management page. Now it is possible to click the edit button, and it will show a pop-up to input the new summary group name and, after clicking the ok button on this pop-up, the new summary group name will be shown in the table. Next Yan started finishing the create, update, read, and delete functions for the summary group and the team member selected and summary receiver selection functions. See pictures below for some of this work.

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 20th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This last week Alan focused on working on fixing the problem in the WBS page when opening a parent folder and opening a subfolder and then closing and reopening the parent folder. The subfolders would not behave correctly after we perform these actions. I believe that reviewers should give me videos as feedback, because I feel that some of them don’t know how it should behave. It’s hard to explain in words so it’s better to watch a video to understand the problem. This week’s main focus was closing and finishing up previous PRs. Alan made some comments and resolved conflicts on the PR to be updated to the latest development branch updates. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun went through the first two sub tasks of the performance enhancement task. She checked the points mentioned in the task and did some changes to remove the duplicated condition and then solved a problem related to the data fetching. Jianjun found two urgent bugs when working in the third sub task which only happens in the Development branch. She will try to fix them or at least find out the cause next week. Pictures below show some of this work.

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Johny this week worked on his task “Create a Details Button or other way to see when a specific badge was earned”. He had finished this task, but while working, he found out that the badges were not being assigned (because other functions on the userHelper file were getting an error and that was not allowing the other functions to assign the specific badges). Johny continues to work towards fixing this bug. Pictures below show some of this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aishwarya started working on email functionality, finding the files and understanding the backend code flow. She decided on the file and functions she will require for the functionality and has also written a basic function outline. Next, Aishwarya will bette understand the variable flow so that she can use Task related variables for her functionality. She also tried connecting to the hgnData_beta database collection from Compass and retrieved the credentials from Azure for the same. Pictures below show some of this work.

Raul Effting. (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul continuously reviewed and approved PRs as part of the PR Review Management Team. Frontend PRs included: 635, 695, 699, 700, 708, and 709 were approved. Backend PRs included: 289. He also worked on the functionalities of the Team Reports Page, now the page’s table is 100% working and with functional filters. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. During this week Filipe realized that he could not style a loading skeleton’s parent element and add child elements to it. He had to rearrange the code. Instead of using Bootstrap to style it in a jsx file and applying it straight to the skeleton element, he had to make a new file called cardskeleton.js and construct elements independently for each original page element. His current objective is to style the elements within the style.css and the cardskeleton.js file’s proper size. One issue he encountered while building these skeleton parts for team member tasks was that the titles of team member, clock, and tasks were being relocated to the right as he styled components specific to each user. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Prabhjot Singh (Fullstack Software Engineer) also completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Prabh worked on his WBS task responsibility. He attempted to build two options, but the second option did not work very well. The majority of time was spent on the 1st option, which was working as intended. He has added a scrollbar to tasks so we can now view them on mobile. Prabh also reviewed 6-7 PRs. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Tianjue Wang (Software Developer) completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Tianjue worked on fixing bugs and developing new features. The task Tianjue spotted and tried to fix is to create the ability for admin/owner users to approve and apply suggested changes on a task. By adding some functions to the designated button “Approve”, the owner can successfully apply those changes and the task should be updated. Also, the suggested changes will be removed from the alert page. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jinchao focused on the development of the function: all users but Volunteers can make themself invisible to team members. He reviewed mongodb docs and downloaded mongodb GUI to test the queries, finished most parts of the backend development, followed up and solved CircleCI problem on PR #699, and logged bugs of the user not being able to delete roles with special characters in the name. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sav tackled the backend bug focused on the badge component. The issue in question was a problem with the noInfringementStreak badge not being awarded to users despite meeting the requirements. After spending more time than expected testing the front end they realized that the issue must be somewhere on the backend specifically when users are updated at the end of the week to be awarded new badges. They ran into some problems testing the backend for the first time but with a bit of googling, they were able to find the bug, an improper call on a property of the user objects being used. Once this was fixed the bug was gone! Pushed up to GitHub and just waiting on approvals for the merge. See below for related pictures.

Vitor Adriel (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This was Vitor’s first week on the development team, his first PR was the #712. This PR made some changes in the BadgesReport component, adding a new function in the file and a new behavior when the save button is clicked. It checks if the count of the badge is zero and then adds this badge to an array of badges that will be deleted. Implementing the feature of removing all badges whose count is zero when the save button is clicked. He also addressed reviews on his PR #700, which was raised last week. This one fixed an issue where the Admin could not change the WeeklyCommittedHours directly from his profile page. That was being caused due to a misspelling on the variable that was being sent to the backend. Vitor also reviewed PRs: #707, #292(BE), #718, #291(BE). See some examples of this work in the pictures below.

Ayush Tripathi (Full Stack Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Ayush reviewed 4 PRs including 720, 721, 719 and 712. The majority of the stories worked flawlessly. Since he was still not clear with the approach to take for the new “Create “Submit for Review” Button” function assigned to him, he discussed the approach with Kaixiang and asked him to help with the database part. He discussed some of the concerns that he had with Jae and got feedbacks for them. For the first step of the story he is designing the UI part and the workflow of how the task will be done. He still needs to figure out the database part of the story. See pics below that are related to this.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Lucas worked on the task, “Special Situation – User Hours Set to Zero” and is almost finished. Lucas changed the function that gets the Leaderboard data, and the function that gets the Org data so the only users that are counted are the ones that are not Mentors and the ones that have weekly committed hours greater than zero. On the front end, a filter is applied depending on the user’s role. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Angelina Truong (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Angelina reviewed PR #709 and addressed her peer’s feedback regarding this PR. Some of the concern was that the height of the HOURS column did not fill out the summary bar height. She resolved this issue by adding the d-flex class onto the appropriate columns. She then started her second week in code development. She began studying the application code to familiarize the components that she will be addressing. She drafted different approaches that could resolve the task at hand, which is to allow users who are managers and above to submit weekly summaries for other users. She restructured her code to be consistent with the flow of the application. She raised a PR #722 she added submitWeeklySummaryForOthers onto the permissionLabel. She also used the hasPermission function to check if the user has the submitWeeklySummaryForOthers permission. If they do, this will not disable the summary bar. While testing the branch she discovered a possible bug that is happening on both the development branch and PR #722. She has addressed this possible bug and will continue to monitor this development. See pics below.

Harlley Bastos (Full Stack Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Harlley focused on fixing all the errors in the New Clock feature. Despite encountering several challenges, he remained determined and persevered until all the errors were resolved. Harlley displayed excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail as he meticulously combed through the feature’s code to ensure its optimal functionality. As a result of his hard work, the New Clock feature is now running smoothly and error-free. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Crystal Song (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Crystal started working on fixing the bug, “when a user clicks on the button `All` the expected function is to expand all the sub tasks.” It did not have some of the folders opening and many other side effects with the function. Crystal first started by examining and recording the UI to better understand the user perspective. Next, she looked at the code and noticed that there are some vanilla javascript used with React and suspects this might be causing the side effect with the function. Crystal will take a deeper dive to see how much code needs to be changed next week. Some pictures related this work are below.

Akshay (Full Stack Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Akshay resolved the issue related to the “Fix other user’s time log view” bug and submitted a pull request for it. He also implemented modifications to the Timelog module. Additionally, he evaluated pull requests such as PR #719, PR #712, and PR #710, offering feedback and recommendations. Moreover, he scrutinized the frontend code of several components, including Leaderboard, Dashboard, and UserProfile. Pictures below are examples of this.

Ray Lee (Digital Creator) also helped create the custom graphics for us to share each St. Patrick’s Day and Pi Day. These graphics replace the heading on our website and can be used for other marketing and promotional purposes too.

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Permaculture Community Creation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #521

Posted on March 19, 2023 by One Community Hs

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Facilitating permaculture community creation is one path to a more sustainable world that will benefit us all. One Community is supporting this with open source and free-shared sustainability models designed using permaculture principles and covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 19th, 2023 edition (#521) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating permaculture community creation through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

- - Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team had conversations with the Compression Testing Team about creating a script for the video on how to make successful aircrete, and other photos and descriptions to help the next Compression Testing Team. We also met with Yiwei to discuss adding the Foundational Calculations to the solar content and responded to comments and other input. The same team member also met with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering about incorporating the latest hub connector design into the dome model.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 24th week helping with web design, now focused on the Solar Energy Microgrid Setup and Maintenance tutorial. The effort included sections on foundation calculations, energy demand template with time matrices, and energy demand for the Earthbag Village, Duplicable City Center, Ultimate Classroom and Straw Bale Village. Links were added to each of these along with links to the corresponding spreadsheets. Each of these had a table of Area/Energy Demands (each linked to the spreadsheet), pie charts depicting average energy for each area, table depicting item categories/energy demands (also linked to the spreadsheet), and a pie chart illustrating the average energy demand of each item. Pictures below are related to this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 18th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team developed a list of instructions to help the next team that comes along to continue this effort with aircrete and stabilized earth. The Team also developed a script for a “how to make aircrete” video for further teams. Pictures below are related to this work.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 11th week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza added notes to the report document. The rainwater harvesting system is described briefly with figures, additional points will be added for next week. Wastewater treatment and rainwater collection methodology were also reviewed in relation to the report topics. Different methods for rainwater collection approaches are added/presented in the report document. See below for some pictures related to this.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed her 7th week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week Vidhi worked on multiple foliage iterations with edited texture, landscape ground cover and creating a less barren and more lush landscape. She also worked on creating a variety of options of pathways, some natural and some created. Further more, she reworked the pine trees and changed them to better fit the more green landscape. The next step will be to curate the foliage right around the building, adding plants and landscaping. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating permaculture community creation through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

- - Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, the core team continued reviewing the latest Duplicable City Center SketchUp file for accuracy. We checked/compared the basement, first, and second floors of the Dining Dome with the latest AutoCad file. We added nine items to be corrected in the Dining Dome 3D SketchUp model. The same team member also continued working with “Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions” document, resolving a lot of comments where feedback had been integrated and generating requested images for different sections of the Murphy bed. See below.

The core team also continued working with a new member of the team on what’s needed for the complete Duplicable City Center cabinetry. This week’s work involved refining the WBS for the Duplicable City Center, then collecting all information relating to the design of the library and basement areas which include dimensions, design standards, images from the models and examples of similar objects. This information will then be used to create design briefing documents for the objects that need to be designed. The week also involved a first draft of the design for the tree shaped bookshelf. See related pictures below.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 26th week volunteering, now focused on the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Mercy 1) filled in the columns for non-chlorine shocks and enzyme-based treatment and completed the hot tub sanitizer information table, 2) wrote short descriptions of websites listed in the reference, 3) reviewed the non-recyclables page, and 4) edited the bullet points of advantages and disadvantages of biguanides to make them into sentences. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 14th week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran communicated with Yuxi about the video tour, for example, the views and the angles of the video which need to be presented. She also fixed a wall in the residential dome. In addition, she updated the Lumion file according to modified parts and selected three views that needed to be rendered. All of these views are in the residential dome, which shows the furniture layout of the rooms. Through these views, she wanted to show the assembled recycled furniture designed for this building as well. See below for some pictures of this work.

Julio E. Marin Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Julio came up with a hub connector design to implement into the current assembly for traditional geodesic domes. He prepared to make sub-assemblies to utilize in the whole assembly and provided a model without nodes to Yiwei so she can start working on making the nodes hollow to connect the connectors. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 2nd week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Yiwei finished editing the solar hardware content and started editing the foundational calculation portion for the solar option for energy. Yiwei also worked on modeling the model without connectors on Solidworks Simulation and troubleshooting the failure. She additionally downloaded SketchUp and deleted all the outside buildings and furniture to have a smaller file size for Julio to work with. Pictures of some of this work are below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating permaculture community creation through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

- - Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
  - See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team also worked more one the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week we completed the work on the Master Food Costs. While working with the Master Shopping List, we noticed the information that was being imported from the Master Food Costs was a combination of being inaccurate, misaligned in cells, or missing links. We added any missing information and corrected any inaccurate or misplaced information in the Master Food Costs. We then resumed the work on the Master Shopping List to make sure all costs are correct and calculations are working correctly. See below for pictures related to this.

Rebecca Miller (Chef) completed her 6th week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. Rebecca worked more on editing recipes in the Google document to be transferred to the spreadsheet. She is working hard to ensure each recipe has metric and imperial measurements. Rebecca is also making sure the ingredients used reflect the master ingredient list to ensure ingredients are readily available and cross utilized. See below for some pictures related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating permaculture community creation through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community facilitating permaculture community creation through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

- - Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
  - Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
  - Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
  - Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team completed 21 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 46th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun worked on the URGENT BUG #1. She raised a PR for adding the 4th tab on weekly summaries part as “three weeks ago” and will rework on her PR per reviews and figure out how to count “total submitted” correctly as her next PR. Additionally, she helped the team on Slack with problem solving, resolved merge conflicts, and logged new bugs. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 32nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan this week worked on the delete button for the summary management page. Now it is possible to delete a specific summary group by id from the table of the summary group, she set up the onclick function for the frontend, created the controller and router for the backend, and refined the code. In the past, Yan implemented the full stack with just Axios, now she upgraded to React Redux, which will make the request more quickly. She also found a bug in the frontend caused by the CSS file that changed the report admin. Yan then pushed the first PR for this new summary management page, which is a frontend demo without any onclick functions. See pictures below for some of this work.

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan worked on a bug that is happening in the projects page. This bug was happening when we open a new folder, and then we open a subfolder, and then close and reopen the first folder we opened and we cannot see the contents of the subfolder anymore, but it shows an open folder icon. The other bug happens in a similar way when clicking on the edit button of a subtask of a subfolder, and the editing options will still show after we close the parent folder. Alan was able to fix both problems by the end of the week, and he was able to raise a PR. There is a bug that is still in the projects page, and it happens when we click the all button and it is supposed to open all folders and subfolders. But this is not happening, and there are some subfolders that are left unopened. Pictures below show some of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 19th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In this week, Kaixiang continued work on making intangible hours editable. There was an issue that the volunteering hours sometimes will show negative numbers when the user manually edits hours, edits time logs or toggles tangibility. Kaixiang found a solution to make all the negative numbers turn into zero. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun fixed the wrong variable used in the report page and the bug that more pages were initialized than the content takes. Then she started working on the performance enhancement task which combines three main sub tasks proposed by the senior developer. She checked the duplicated instances of the component and tried to simplify the process. Pictures below show some of this work.

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Johny this week finished the task “Make the subtasks in a WBS create a new folder”, he chose to split the task in two, now it is possible to show all the tasks in the same folder. Johny also helped Filipe with his task and is now studying ways to improve the application and to make the application faster. Pictures below show some of this work.

Raul Effting. (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul continuously reviewed and approved PRs. Frontend PRs 690, 657, and 632 were approved. He also worked on “Finish the Team Reports Backend Functionality” and Pedro’s PR 641 was debugged and a big conflict was found. Time was spent trying to discover how to get it fixed using the already-created code. It was successful. All teams are already being displayed on the reports page. Also, Natália and Nicolle were mentored. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. During this last week, Filipe worked to implement the loading-skelton component from the react-loading-skeleton library and the associated CSS styles from the skeleton.css file that is located in the same library. For ‘<import Skeleton from ‘react-loading-skeleton’>’ and ‘<import ‘react-loading-skeleton/dist/skeleton.css’>’ the skeleton component provides a visual placeholder for content that is being loaded asynchronously. The import ‘react-loading-skeleton/dist/skeleton.css’ line imports the CSS file that is required to style the Skeleton component. This file contains the necessary styles for the Skeleton component to look and behave as expected. For ‘<tbody> {isLoading ? ( <Skeleton height={90} width={1010} count={10} /> ) : ( renderTeamsList() )} </tbody>’ the code checks whether the isLoading variable is true or false. If it is true, the code displays a Skeleton component, which is a visual placeholder that indicates that data is being loaded. The Skeleton component takes three props: height, width, and count, which specify the height and width of the skeleton component and the number of skeleton components to render. If isLoading is false, the code calls the renderTeamsList function, which presumably returns a list of teams as JSX elements. These elements are then rendered inside a tbody element. Overall, this code provides a way to display a list of teams in a React component with a loading indicator. When isLoading is true, the user sees a placeholder instead of the actual content. When isLoading is false, the user sees the actual content. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Prabhjot Singh (Fullstack Software Engineer) also completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Prabh worked on his PR, reviewed 3 PRs, and worked on a new PR. The new PR is still in the works. Prabh experimented with a horizontal scrollbar on tasks, but it was a bad experience, and he also worked on the second option. He researched HTML Tables, because our app makes use of tables, and is creating different tables for better mobile display. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Tianjue Wang (Software Developer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Tianjue worked on fixing bugs of the app and developing new features. The task Tianjue spotted and tried to fix was that the red bell sometimes didn’t work properly. By reading code and locating why clicking on the red bell will break the page, Tianjue added one condition for when the old task is empty. She also prevented reloading the page before all the needed actions were ended and this solved the problem. What’s more, she designed the look for a new feature of the app and will keep working on this next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jinchao worked on fixing bugs in the user management component where making someone inactive from their profile page wasn’t being reflected in the Team Management page. He analyzed codes in both HGNRest and HGNApp and raised two PRs to solve bugs #3 and #4. After raising PRs, he started working on function #6 under the user profile component: Create a way for all classes but volunteer to make themselves invisible to the teams they are on. He checked through the codes to find the best method for the problem. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Sav started his first week on the dev team working on addressing phase I bugs for the project. He tackled the User Profile Component bug # 12 as well as the Report Component bug #6. The User Profile bug addressed the issue of setting a maximum amount of hours for the weekly committed input for the volunteering time tab on the profile page. After spending awhile trying to push their first PR to GitHub (due to not realizing that they were not officially on the GitHub repo yet) they started working on the second bug. The Report Component bug addressed a behavior relating to the default time log tab shown to volunteers upon logging in. They found a couple of issues relating to the bug and remedies for most and are currently waiting on clarification from the bug reporter. See below for related pictures.

Angelina Truong (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Angelina reviewed a request PR #695 checking the responsive functionality of the UI in mobile display. She also started her first week in code development. She raised a PR #709 allows the dashboard of the application to have the same width regardless of the screen size changes which will enhance the user experience. She then started working on a new feature that will allow a manager role or above to be able to submit a weekly summary report for other users. This feature is a work-in-progress.

Harlley Bastos (Full Stack Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Harlley reviewed and fixed all the PRs of both Frontend and Backend Development related to the new timer feature. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Vanel Nwaba (Software Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vanel continued working on the New timer Functionality (Debugging, testing and cleaning code) based on the #271 PR for back and #653 PR for the front. Some actions made were cleaning the old timer implementation code, debugging and fixing errors in the existing code, and full testing to detect and fix unexpected behaviors.

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Imitating Eco-success – One Community Weekly Progress Update #520

Posted on March 12, 2023 by One Community Hs

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Imitating eco-success is about integrating the successful strategies of nature into our design models for living. One Community sees opportunities for this in all areas of sustainability, from food, energy, and housing to education, social architecture, and fulfilled living too. We are creating open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources to build the teacher/demonstration hubs that will further these designs and this movement, globally.

Here’s our project overview
Here’s our world-change methodology
Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 12th, 2023 edition (#520) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Imitating Eco-success
One Community Progress Update #520

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is imitating eco-success through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

- - Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team had conversations with the Compression Testing Team about this week’s plan and their results, we also did some troubleshooting. Task-based deadlines were prepared for the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering Team and Yiwei was assigned to the solar content. Had a meeting with the hub connector team for next steps and results to date.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 23rd week helping with web design, now focused on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables page. Charles spent the week working on comments, these included adding missing anchor links in the sub Table of Contents, adding some missing links, and some minor edits. Charles also worked on addressing comments for the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” tutorial. This included mostly updating several undated images by moving the title from the image to the caption. There was some missing content that needed to be added too. Pictures below are related to this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 17th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team made three batches of aircrete. The first batch was made normally with Drexel, the second batch was made with RO (reverse-osmosis; soft water) using 7th Generation soap, and the third was made using normal tap water and 7th Gen soap. After making the last batch, our scale needed to be re-calibrated. The calibration weights needed to do this were not in the lab. Pictures below are related to this work.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 10th week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza reviewed the report document and two topics were reviewed, rainwater harvesting systems and wastewater filtration systems. The literature points were added in the report document. Rainwater harvesting system material types were also reported in the document. See below for some pictures related to this.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed her 6th week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week Vidhi worked on creating pre-visualizations, setting cameras and observing how the textures, foliage and the building appeared under motion. This helped her detect some technical issues with foliage which she is currently solving and should be sorted out by next week, as well as some glitchy movements that will be corrected. The motion test also helped her understand how the lighting appeared on the digital camera and interacted with the building. She will work toward creating a stronger contrast and clear lighting for the final renders. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is imitating eco-success through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

- - Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, the core team reviewed the latest Duplicable City Center SketchUp file for accuracy and updated the first and second floors of the Social Dome by moving and reshaping furniture to fit between the doors on the first floor. On the second floor, we moved the door and window away from the conflicting column. We also moved/placed washers in the Laundry Room in the correct location and, in the Dining Dome, removed an extra column, moved the kitchen appliances that conflicted with supporting columns, shifted shelves and tables close to the wall, and removed/moved the compass mosaic from the kitchen to the correct location outside. See below.

The core team also continued working with a new member of the team on what’s needed for the complete Duplicable City Center cabinetry. This week involved familiarization with the SketchUp software, then careful study of the SketchUp model of the Duplicable City Center, then creating a WBS separated by functional area of all the item that require design based on the AutoCad model, the SketchUp model, and the Community website. Last was researching standards for the design of the items from the WBS. See related pictures below.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 25th week volunteering, now focused on the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Mercy 1) found Youtube videos for each “How to apply” section for readers’ reference, 2) wrote brief introductions for sanitization and oxidation sections, 3) expanded research on ozonator and reevaluated its effectiveness, 4) added advantages & disadvantages, a “How to apply” section, and a recommended product to non-chlorine shocks and enzyme-based treatment. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 13th week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran emailed Tatyana to update the latest model. She kept working on modifying some areas in the SketchUp model according to Tatyana’s comments. She fixed the blocked door on the right side of the inside pool, on the first floor of the Social Dome. She also cleared an extra wall inside the Social dome, first floor on the right side of the pool between two doors. In addition, Ranran updated the Lumion file according to modified parts and selected three views that needed to be rendered. These three rendering views are in front of the main door, garden, and water tower. See below for some pictures of this work.

Julio E. Marin Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Julio finalized the modified (One Community) geodesic dome using SolidWorks and Inventor. The modified dome is different from the traditional because each row of triangles are of equal vertical height. He also performed an FEA analysis for the traditional dome. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Yiwei researched how to complete a finite element analysis of dome structures, such as those in the Duplicable City Center, and also started modeling the most recent model in Solidworks. Yiwei also started to organize the solar content report on choosing solar hardware. Pictures of some of this work are below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is imitating eco-success through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

- - Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
  - See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team also worked more one the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week we began the week working on the Master Recipe and adding DIY recipes to the Ingredient List. We were also working on the Master Shopping list to ensure everything was linked and calculating correctly. While working on the Master Shopping list, we noticed the website links and costs in the Master Food Costs were misaligned and/or incorrect. Once we noticed the issue with the Master Food Costs, we began working on that so the costs were correct. See below for pictures related to this.

Rebecca Miller (Chef) completed her 5th week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week, Rebecca continued her work on editing recipes. Rebecca added metric measurements and continued editing instructions as necessary. Rebecca updated instructions to better reflect the available ingredients and for ease of cooking once the recipes have been scaled to larger portions. Rebecca is about halfway done editing recipes, and she will continue this work next week. See below for some pictures related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is imitating eco-success through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is imitating eco-success through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

- - Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
  - Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
  - Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
  - Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 45th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun was working on the depenababots PRs clean up, she left the three build error PRs due to Nithesh’s guide. She also finished the rework on her “people report pie chart updates” PR. Then Yiyun took over the urgent bug #1, “add a new tab on weekly summaries”. Other than that, she helped the team on Slack, problem solving as usual. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 31st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Yan worked on refining her code. So far, the front-end framework of this new web page and the back-end controller, router, model, and database have been roughly built, but the code is not clean and concise. She also created a document about how to work with our email sender code and shared it with Nyah and Aishwarya. See pictures below for some of this work.

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan started by working on resolving issues in past PRs. He started working on the “mark task done PR”, and by the end of the week he was able to fix the issues and the PR was merged into the development branch. Then he worked on resolving issues on duplicate name popup PR, and it hasn’t been merged because of some problems in the form, and it was not accepting some phone numbers where they had less than 10 digits. Alan fixed that and hopefully it can be reviewed again soon. He then worked on the “subfolder tasks not displaying” fix. Alan was able to solve the main problem when closing the mother folder and then reopening it, but there is still the issue where the edit still shows after closing the folder when clicking to edit a subtask or folder. Pictures below show some of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 18th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang made some user experience improvements on the 24/48/72 hours button. For now, the button that is selected will show a gray border around the button, this tells the user which one is selected right now. He also spent a couple of hours on reviewing PR#690, this one works for every other developer but does not work for him, so he did some tests and debugging and found a possible issue that might cause this problem. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun has found a new function for the member table of the project report page. She found that the data stored in the fetched url cannot fulfill the requirement. It could cause unwanted trouble to modify the backend data structure so she managed to get the required information with changes only made to the frontend. Now the report page will only display its active members but keep records of both active and the all-time member count. Pictures below show some of this work.

Rajasri “RJ” Janaki Raman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week RJ worked on final testing and raised the PR for performance optimization after final bug fixing. She also made an analysis doc, had a call with Anant, worked on 1 review point which wasn’t caused by her PR, and reviewed Alan’s duplicate user name PR and added comments and test cases for others to test. Pictures below show some of this work.

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Johny completed 2 items of the task “Make the subtasks in a WBS create a new folder”, he chose to split the task in two, now he is working on a way to show all the tasks in the same folder, the first part of the task has been resolved and the PR has already been reviewed and merged, now Johny is doing his best to finish the last item of this task. Pictures below show some of this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aishwarya started working on an urgent priority bug with Johny. She tested many times and found that the issue was not reproducible. The issue occurred only with Jae’s account on his desktop, so it was parked as of now. Aishwarya then went through the videos and documents shared by RJ regarding the performance issues of the Dashboard, time log, and SummaryBar. Later she went through and commented on the PR raised by Alan #684 in which a few of the imports were removed. This review was requested by RJ. Now Aishwarya started working on a task where a new email functionality is to be added. She has gone through files where similar functionality is implemented and videos on nodemailer. Aishwarya also went through the document provided by Yan. Pictures below show some of this work.

Raul Effting. (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul continuously reviewed and approved PRs. Frontend PRs included: 688, 686, 684, 682 Backend PRs included: 283, 281. He also worked on the following functionalities: “When creating a new task, remove the need to click the dropdown to see the list of people, have list auto-populate instead as names are typed.” and “Connect the new reports frontend to the real data”. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Rafael C Castro (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rafael reviewed some PR reviews, checked their related code, moved PRs to their final review and continued at developing the responsiveness adjustments for the WBS Task screen. PRs reviewed included PR#657, PR#285, PR#622, PR#654, PR#670, PR#687, PR#690, PR#692. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. During this week, Filipe worked to update the task list state and render the updated list, he added the useState() hook in the TaskList tasks component and passed the setTasks function to the markAsDone function, which updates the task list state. The list can then be rendered using the JavaScript map() function to iterate over the updated tasks. He also added the useState() hook for the tasks list (taskList) and passed the setTaskList function to the markAsDone function. Then, he updated the TaskButton function to pass the markAsDone function as a prop. With these updates, the task list should re-render whenever the setTaskList function is called. But whenever he tried to adapt the scripts to the needs of the software he broke the code. The example above was one of several unsuccessful attempts he made. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Prabhjot Singh (Fullstack Software Engineer) also completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Prabhjot submitted his First PR. This PR fixed the Mobile responsiveness of the tasks section. He found it a little bit difficult due to the HTML table, because he didn’t work that much with tables before. But After some research, Prabhjot was able to figure out a Good solution. He also resolved all conflicts and followed all guidelines to make a Good PR. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Akshay (Full Stack Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Akshay began actively working on the HGN Software Development project. He reviewed and approved PR #687 and provided a suggestion to round off the hours. He also approved PR #689, which included performance optimizations for the Timelog, Summary Bar, and Leaderboard components. In addition, Akshay reviewed and approved fixes for PR #692 and PR #285, which addressed issues related to the Timelog page not loading and default role status for deleted roles, respectively. He also fixed an issue in the Leaderboard where NaN was being displayed instead of the total weekly hours. Apart from these tasks, Akshay also looked into some bugs in the HGN App documentation and reviewed the Reports front-end and back-end code. Pictures below are examples of this.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jinchao fixed the bug ‘after creating a role and setting it to an user, if this role is deleted, the user role becomes Administrator by default’ and raised and followed up the PR, #285. He then worked on the bug: ‘updating a role of a user on the “Profile Page”‘ and reviewed the Redux document: Redux fundamentals. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Harlley Bastos (Full Stack Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Harlley started to develop the Timer Idle functionality. He tried many ways to handle this problem but the only way that works as hoped was to show a pop-up after 5 mins of inactivity of the user on the app. He’ll continue to search. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows: Anant Sharma (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week, Angelina Truong (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 3rd week, Ayush Tripathi (Full Stack Developer) completed his 4th week, Crystal Song (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week, Daniel Brice Kamghem Kom (Software Developer) completed his 3rd week, Jay Kang (Web Development Volunteer) completed his 2nd week, Kamto Tagne Eddy Richel (Full Stack Web Developer) completed his 3rd week, Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 3rd week, Meenakshi Pavithran (Software Egineer) completed her 3rd week, Sav Costabile (Web Developer) completed his 3rd week, Tianjue Wang (Software Developer) completed her 5th week, Vitor Adriel (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week, and Xinyu Jiang (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week. The collage below shows some of the work from this team.

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Strategies for Anthropocene Epoch Abundance – One Community Weekly Progress Update #519

Posted on March 5, 2023 by One Community Hs

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One Community is establishing strategies for Anthropocene Epoch abundance. Starting now, we want to demonstrate humanity’s ability to truly steward our one shared planet and create a world that works for everyone. We’re creating the open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources needed to accomplish this.

Here’s our project overview
Here’s our world-change methodology
Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 5th, 2023 edition (#519) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Strategies for Anthropocene Epoch Abundance
One Community Progress Update #519

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is establishing strategies for anthropocene epoch abundance through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

- - Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team worked with the aircrete team to discuss the recipes to test this week based on repeated mistakes made during previous weeks, and she continued work on the electrical demand solar sizing writeup, specifically on the README tab. The same team member also interviewed Yiwei, onboarded Yiwei, and had a weekly meeting with the Compression Testing Team and City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering Team.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 23rd week with the team. This week, Julia reviewed Chuck’s integration of her feedback for the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” webpage from the Feedback PDF and the source Google Doc. She checked all of the image updates as well as various new content additions and while doing so, made necessary edits to coding, spacing, ToCs, and formats. Julia then completed her review of the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables” live webpage, crossing off correctly integrated content on the source Google Doc. She made a Feedback PDF for Chuck to see her comments about his work and also made various small fixes and edits to the page as necessary. Also this week, Julia worked on the “Eco-laundry” webpage editing content and adding sections to incorporate necessary narrative that outlines One Community’s current and future research conclusions and plans. She then reviewed Mercy’s progress on the “Hot Tub Sanitizer Alternatives” Google Doc, addressing, resolving, and adding comments as needed. Finally, Julia checked on the “Master Recipe and 3-Day Menu Blocks Doc” measurement conversions and fixed grammatical issues as needed. See pictures below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 22nd week helping with web design, now focused on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables page. This week’s focus was more of migrating content from the Google Doc to the tutorial. He added a ToC and scanned the tutorial making corrections, and submitted the document to Julia for review. Charles then worked on Julia’s comments on the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” webpage. Most of the comments involved cropping off the titles from images and putting the titles in the caption. He completed all the comments and submitted them for review. Pictures below are related to this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 16th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team made three batches of aircrete. The first batch was a control batch using Drexel as the foaming agent. The second and third batches were the same as the first batch with one variable change – instead of using Drexel, 7th Gen was used as the foaming agent. Two batches were made of the 7th Gen, because one batch was made incorrectly so the testing was repeated the correct way. Pictures below are related to this work.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 9th week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza reviewed rainwater harvesting systems for the report document. This topic was not completed, however there are several topics mentioned in this part, so some additional points were added to the literature review. In addition, the drainage section design was also reviewed. See below for some pictures related to this.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed her 5th week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week Vidhi started to work on plinths and human silhouettes to populate the render. However she encountered multiple technical glitches with the foliage flickering and going in and out of view. Trouble shooting this glitch also resulted in some of the work on the plinth and humans being lost, but this can be easily recovered in the upcoming week within a couple of hours. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is establishing strategies for anthropocene epoch abundance through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

- - Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, the core team reviewed the latest Duplicable City Center SketchUp file for accuracy after the last design update and created a list of comments with supporting images for items that need to be fixed.

The core team also began working with a new member of the team on what’s needed for the complete Duplicable City Center cabinetry. This research was broken down into 3 phases. First was a review of all the information and documentation available on the One Community website. Second was familiarization with the software used on the project, software such as Solidworks and SketchUp. Third was a careful study of the Duplicable City Center master plan. See below.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 24th week volunteering, now focused on the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Mercy worked on addressing Julia’s comments on the Hot Tub Sanitizer Task. She researched and added 1) the working principles, advantages, and disadvantages of ionizers, 2) the mechanisms and examples of non-chlorine shocks, and 3) the mechanisms, functions, and suggested dosages of enzyme-based treatments. She also redid the research on the ozonator to see if it is a suitable alternative. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 12th week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran communicated with Tatyana to double-check the latest model. Ranran modified some areas in the SketchUp model according to Tatyana’s comments. She cleared the box structure over the basement drive-in entrance. She moved the Chicken Coop to the east for 3’ because it is too close to the fence. Ranran also adjusted the position of the column, which interferes with the new exit door on the second floor of the social dome. In addition, she added figures for two views and rendered them. These two rendering views are located in the restaurant and swimming and recreation area. See below for some pictures of this work.

Julio E. Marin Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Julio worked on the final design for the traditional geodesic dome. He used the frame tool to add the beams to the structure. A new design for the beams had to be added to comply with the dimensions required for the dome and added to the library. He also performed an FEA analysis. Pictures of some of this work are below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is establishing strategies for anthropocene epoch abundance through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

- - Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
  - See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team worked on updates for the Rabbits webpage. We added a new Rabbit Meat section and updated the Rabbit Shelter Needs section with a short description and link to our open source plans of rabbit hutch and rabbit tractor cost analysis estimates and materials lists. See pictures below.

The core team also worked more one the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week’s focus was on the Master Recipe Template, importing information from the Master Recipe and 3-Day Menu Doc for the DIY recipes. We also linked cells within the Master Recipe Template for calculations within the spreadsheet and created new rows and cells to do this. All links within the spreadsheet are now correct for the added DIY recipes. See below for pictures related to this.

Rebecca Miller (Chef) completed her 4th week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week, Rebecca continued editing recipes. She added metric measurements and updated instructions as needed. Rebecca has also been updating ingredient amounts to reflect appropriate portions. This week, Rebecca took some time to correct and answer questions and edits previous chefs left comments about too. See below for some pictures related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is establishing strategies for anthropocene epoch abundance through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is establishing strategies for anthropocene epoch abundance through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

- - Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
  - Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
  - Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
  - Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team completed 24 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 44th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun focused on the PRs cleanup. She tested and approved a few dependabot backend and frontend PRs, created a tutorial about how to resolve merge conflicts on release PRs, and completed the people report pie chart bug which was worked on by Shaun before. Other than that, she helped the team on Slack, resolved PRs, and helped approve document updates as usual. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 30th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan this week created the get and post function for the summary management. Now it is possible to write the name for the summary group and pass the data to the database, and after refreshing the page, it is possible to return to the summary group page. See pictures below for some of this work.

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan started by working on the “mark task as done” new feature. The new feature was working well, he just had to test it out and clean the code a bit before making a pull request. In the process, Alan found out that not all tasks were showing the new check icon. This is because the check was only visible where taskNotification.length > 0, and that was the same for the bell. But now it shows up in every task under the Tasks tab in the Timelog and Tasks component. The PR looks good now, and hopefully it can be merged soon. Then Alan reviewed some feedback on his PopUpBar and Timelog PR about a small change in the css. He agreed that the feedback was good, and proceeded to make the changes. Right now the PR is approved and hopefully it can be merged soon. Lastly he focused on working on the subtask bug where the subtasks’ tasks were not showing correctly when opening and closing folders. Pictures below show some of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang focused on working with the 24/48/72 hours buttons. He addressed a responsiveness issue of the button group, made them align vertically in small screens, fixed the hide timelogs button, and made the button so it will be hidden by default. When the user fetches timelogs the button will show up, and switch to show timelogs button after being clicked. He also fixed the bug that made the red bell icon not work and found a new bug when he was working on it and reported it as a new bug on Google Docs. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun has fixed the bug from the WBS task page that it can not reload the tasks properly after deleting one task. She has made the page refresh automatically after deleting and renamed the functions in order to improve the readability of the code and avoid possible errors. She also started looking into a new task for the reports page. Pictures below show some of this work.

Rajasri “RJ” Janaki Raman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week RJ worked on performance optimization. She merged development branch changes, cleaned up the Timelog page by removing processing statements that are part of return statement to separate method which can be called on a component to load and update, fixed “toggleSummaryButton” working in timelog and dashboard page so that the “Owner” role user can submit summary for other users if needed, and created walkthrough videos on changes and open pain points. Pictures below show some of this work.

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Johny created the PR for the task “Make it so subtasks on WBS create a folder”, the reviewers asked for some changes, Johny made the changes and then the PR was tested and approved. Johny worked in the Priority Bug number 1 too, he debugged the backend and he found a clue that can solve the problem, he is chatting with other developers to see a better way to solve this bug. Pictures below show some of this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aishwarya solved the bug of making the total remaining hours calculate correctly for users, did thorough testing for different cases and users, and raised PR #685 for the same. She will cover the change to be done in the database as a different task. Pictures below show some of this work.

Raul Effting. (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul continuously reviewed and approved PRs. Frontend PRs included: 686, 685, 681, 665, 657, and 593. Backend PRs included: 272. He also worked on the following functionality: “(PRIORITY LOW) Jae: Add to top of app a section that the “Owner” class (only) can edit to post a message to all users of the app like, “Happy Holidays”. The functionality is done, however, he is going to meet Pedro to figure out how to display the message on small screens. Also, Harlley Bastos and Crystal Song were mentored. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Rafael C Castro (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rafael performed PR reviews, checked their related code, followed up on those with new developments, worked to complete unfinished PR (PR#686) and progressed at developing responsiveness adjustments. The reviewed PRs were PR#677, PR#670, PR#665, PR#652, PR#595, PR#535, PR#281. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. During the last week Filipe worked to implement the function of deleting tasks and a functionality of the WBS that was not working. He sent a message to Yiyun explaining the situation of the time that this PR was out of date and she confirmed that he needed to open a new PR. That message from Yiyun arrived just after Filipe had already worked on the branch conflicts. The software was still running before resolving the conflicts but after that the software stopped working as expected, freezing the entire main page after a few seconds. He’ll continue to problem solve this. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Akshay (Full Stack Developer) joined the team and completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Akshay tested and reviewed various PRs for the HGN Software Development project. He tested PRs #672, #684, #685, #635, #686, #680, #283, #681, and #682. In his comments, Akshay provides detailed information on the testing he performed and the results he obtained for each of the PRs. He mentioned that PR #672 and PR #684 both worked as expected and that he confirmed that the new features added by these PRs were functional. He also approved PR #681 and noted that the username now shows up after logging in without the need to refresh the page. While testing PR #635, Akshay performed several tests and confirmed that the changes made in the code allow for the calculation of total remaining hours based on every task while keeping the estimated hours and logged-in hours for each task intact. Akshay also encountered an issue while testing PR #682. He found that when removing a sub-task, both the removed task and the remaining task were removed from the list, indicating a bug. He also reviewed the codebase and read the “HGN Phase I Bugs and Needed Functionalities” Google document. Pictures below are examples of this.

The Highest Good Network software PR Review team also worked to test all of the above PRs and find any bugs they could within those PRs and the software as a whole. This week’s active members of this team and how many weeks they’ve been with us are as follows: Anant Sharma (Software Engineer) completed his 1st week, Angelina Truong (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 2nd week, Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week, Ayush Tripathi (Full Stack Developer) completed his 3rd week, Crystal Song (Software Engineer) completed her 1st week, Daniel Brice Kamghem Kom (Software Developer) completed his 2nd week, Harlley Bastos (Full Stack Developer) completed his 1st week, Kamto Tagne Eddy Richel (Full Stack Web Developer) completed his 2nd week, Jailson Sanches (Software Developer) completed his 2nd week, Jay Kang (Web Development Volunteer) completed his 1st week, Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week, Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) completed his 2nd week, Meenakshi Pavithran (Software Egineer) completed her 2nd week, Sav Costabile (Web Developer) completed his 2nd week, Tianjue Wang (Software Developer) completed her 4th week, Vanel Nwaba (Software Developer) completed his 2nd week, Vitor Adriel (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week, and Xinyu Jiang (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week. The collage below shows some of the work from this team.

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One Community Welcomes Raul Effting to the Software Development Team!

Posted on March 2, 2023 by One Community

One Community welcomes Raul Effting to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Raul is a Front-end Web Developer specializing in React. He trained through the Rocketseat’s Explorer and Ignite boot camps and, even though he’s been studying programming for just over two years, has already developed more than 30 personal and study projects. He also has expertise in TypeScript, React Native, Node.js, Git, SQL and MongoDB. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network Software Team, Raul is helping manage and mentor all new members of the PR Review Team while also applying his skills to debugging and developing new functionalities.

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Teacher Permaculture Hubs – One Community Weekly Progress Update #518

Posted on February 26, 2023 by One Community Hs

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One Community is developing teacher permaculture hubs that integrate open source and free-shared designs for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We are doing this as a “Highest Good” approach to living and creating a better world for people globally.

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 26th, 2023 edition (#518) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing teacher permaculture hubs through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

- - Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team edited the data collection sheet for the aircrete team and created a test plan for the week. We had a team meeting with both the Compression Testing team and the City Center Dome team to discuss the overall plan and plan details and also organized files for city center dome work. Pictures below are related to this work.

The core team also continued working with “Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions” document. We resolved comments where feedback had been integrated, generated requested images for different sections of the Murphy bed, and provided detailed explanations with supportive images for some of the comments.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 88th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued to resolve many of the comments received on the Murphy bed instructions. The individual files for each section are being separated and saved with the correct section name and all the pages within the files are being renamed. Since we have finalized the pages and page orders, each page will be named with the section name, page number and page name so that the JPG file for each page will be properly labeled once exported. When complete, we’ll post all the individual pages as separate JPG files in addition to the PDF. There are many comments relating to adjusting graphic elements and also the placement and cutting of wood. We’re trying to make changes consistently across all areas. Screenshots below relate to this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 22nd week with the team. This week, Julia checked on the Murphy bed Instructions” PDF, resolving and addressing comments as needed. She then took a look at the “Addressing Non-recyclables” Google Doc and reviewed the last added content as well as the final format. Julia worked on the “Door and Window Research” Google Doc to review recent work and edits and also edited the “BEST DOOR Companies” tab of the “Sustainable Window and Door Research” Spreadsheet to make it more visually effective. Also this week, she added new screenshots of the updated “Chickens” tab of the “P1c – Food Infrastructure Comprehensive Cost Analysis” Spreadsheet to the “Chicken” Google Doc. She then backed up all of the missing items from the Resources section of this webpage as PDF documents to her Dropbox folder. She then checked progress on other tasks such as the “Hot Tub Sanitizer Alternatives” Google Doc and the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” webpage. Finally, Julia worked on finishing the “Eco-laundry” webpage. She re-wrote sections as well as adding new sections to the page and rearranging and editing content to make sense with the overall narrative. While doing this, she made corrections to ToC formats, links, and various other coding issues. Julia reviewed the entirety of the page and evaluated the research to clarify the final washing machine decision. She made notes of this on her OC Google Doc and relayed her thoughts about bringing on researchers for updating this research and finding currently available models. See pictures below.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 21st week helping with web design, now focused on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables page. Charles spent the week migrating content from the Google Doc to the tutorial. This included sections on what are non-recyclables, why open source strategies for disposing of non-recyclables, sustainably disposing of non-recyclables, non-recyclables management options with some existing plant examples, non-recyclable recycling options with existing plant examples, sustainability emissions and cost reductions, one community’s plan for addressing non-recyclables, conclusion, resources and the FAQ. Pictures below are related to this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 15th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing team focused on reproducing last week’s batches. Two batches of aircrete were made. One was with Drexel and the other with 7th Gen. Both had the foam directly inserted while mixing was taking place. This time to measure how much foam was used, the bucket with our foam solution was weighed before adding any to the aircrete batch and after we had finished adding aircrete to the batch. Pictures below are related to this work.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 8th week helping review the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage engineering calculations and designs. This week Loza reviewed septic tank design calculations from the spreadsheet. This part is not yet very well described and the section is not selected according to the design. She added literature review screenshot to the dropbox showing insights into how to select the septic tank dimensions for residential buildings from existing standards. See below for some pictures related to this.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed her 4th week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week Vidhi worked on multiple landscape iterations, and created one from scratch for the 4-dome flyover and walkthrough project. The week was spent on sculpting the landscape and adding foliage, as well as sourcing foliage assets similar to the reference.This is still a work in progress as texturing is being done from scratch to match that of the images shown. The next step will be to match the ground coloring to that of the references. Trees have been sourced to match references as well. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing teacher permaculture hubs through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

- - Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 34th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela worked on checking the cost analysis table and filling the sizes, quantities and other information that was missing. She also drew the TV box that will be on the ceiling and added it to the presentation. Then she submitted everything for final review. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 23rd week volunteering, now focused on the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Mercy researched and wrote on the sustainability of biguanide (in comparison to chlorine and bromine), and the mechanisms, functions, and effectiveness of UV water purifiers and ionizers. She also looked for supplementary products to improve the effectiveness of biguanides. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 11th week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Ranran modified the SketchUp model mentioned in last week’s feedback. For the material of the restaurant wall, she fixed the textures to match the interior design plan and the previous renders. Ranran also updated the Lumion file according to the modified parts and selected two views that needed to be rendered. These views are located on the first floor of the recreation area. For the problem of the exterior elevator, she made a note of this storage room on AutoCAD for subsequent revisions. See below for some pictures of this work.

Julio E. Marin Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Julio worked on CAD models on Inventor for a traditional and a modified dome with the same measurements used for the City Center Domes and he worked on a Google sheets document to calculate the weight of every metal component used in both domes to have a better understanding of how much load each node will carry and to perform load analyses. Pictures of some of this work are below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing teacher permaculture hubs through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

- - Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
  - See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team worked on updates for the Rabbits and Chickens webpages. We reviewed the latest added updates on the Chickens webpage and worked on updates for the Shelter section for the Rabbits webpage. We added more information about colonies and general guidelines for shelters. See pictures below.

The core team also began final testing and work on the menus for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We created a “Test Copy of Master Recipe to Duplicate” in order to run a test on the calculations. Michael imported data from the Master Recipe and 3-Day Menu Blocks Doc for Fresh Week A. The data imported included the instructions for recipes, quantity and measurements for ingredients, as well as alternatives to the recipe for omnivore, vegan, and vegetarian diets.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing teacher permaculture hubs through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing teacher permaculture hubs through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

- - Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
  - Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
  - Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
  - Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team completed 29 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

The core team also invested significant time (about 6 hours) into migrating our website to a new dedicated server that should radically improve the experience of our visitors. Pictures below relate to this.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 43rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun worked on the PRs clean up process. She tested and approved a few dependabot backend and frontend PRs. She also did research on the remaining dependabot PRs build errors and will resolve and test them next week. Additionally, Yiyun helped the team on Slack, with PR reviews, problem solving, and document updates as usual. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 29th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yan continued working on the add function for the summary management page. For the front end, she created an action endpoint (router) to “create a new summary group button” for the back end, she made a controller, router, and model for the “create a new summary group button.” Although it is extensive code work, it still does not work yet; every time after clicking create a new summary group button, it consoles the log post error in the browser. Yan still needs time to debug. Also, she improved the code for the summary management page. She divided the page into small components like table header, table body, and summary overview, instead of all the code written in the one page. Yan then put it into a server file and imported it to the summary management page. The aim of this action is to make it easier to maintain in the future. See pictures below for some of this work.

Alan Lee Sing Chan Yau (Software Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Alan started by working on fixing ongoing problems in his previous PRs. One of the PRs he worked on was the change from”Classification” to “Category” PR, and Alan created a more clear way to see which items are tasks and which are subcategories. He also replied to some feedback on the duplicate name PR, and it was approved by three different reviewers so hopefully it can be merged soon. Alan also worked on the View weekly summaries button PR, since it was requested to make the button smaller. Alan updated the PR, and got some feedback about some small problems. Lastly, Alan worked on the user management dashboard new feature to mark a task as completed on the dashboard. Alan was able to mark tasks as done from the dashboard with the new code he wrote. He will test it further and create a PR if it all works well. Pictures below show some of this work.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang completed the 24/48/72 hours button features. The time logs can be displayed correctly when clicking each button. He made a new pull request for other people to review. Kaixiang also spent a couple of hours debugging priority urgent bug #1, but even though he found the task that is not updating he still cannot figure out what is causing this bug. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) completed her 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun fixed a high priority bug for the header when the user first signs in. She located the cause of the problem and made a simple change to the code to fix the bug. She studied if the fix is helpful to another loading bug and also corrected the text mistake of a previous update. Pictures below show some of this work.

Rajasri “RJ” Janaki Raman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, RJ worked on optimizing dashboard and timelog data load. She successfully reduced the 18 time leader board data setting to 1 time, removed console log statements, and added a scroll bar on overflow to badges section in the dashboard. She also assisted a few volunteers on Slack for an environment issue. She additionally sanity tested all the code changes. Since it is such a major change, it needs further deep testing. Pictures below show some of this work.

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Johny this week worked in the list of urgent priority bugs but he was not able to find what is generating the bugs. Johny solved the bug #3 from the badge bug list “100 hour badge is not being assigned”, he already created the PR and is waiting for review and working on his other task from the Project/Task bug list number #5 “Creating sub-tasks in a WBS doesn’t create a new folder and makes the tasks uneditable”, as soon as possible he will send the PR for review. Pictures below show some of this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Aishwarya worked on setup and installation to access the database this week. She struggled to access the database, but finally, Yiyun helped her and she was able to read the data from the database. Aishwarya found a solution to calculate the total remaining hours for the users by keeping the estimated and logged in hours intact. She needs to do some more testing before she raises a PR for the solution. Also, she found that in many previously removed tasks, a common thing is that the field ‘completedTask’ is marked ‘true’. This can help in making the total remaining hours of previously deleted tasks 0 from the database side. Pictures below show some of this work.

Raul Effting (Jr. Front-End Web Developer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Raul continuously reviewed and approved PRs. Frontend PRs included: 665, 671, and 632. Backend PRs included: 276. He also worked on Pedro Elton’s PR 672, helping him to connect his changes to the backend data. Raul is still working on the following functionality: “(PRIORITY LOW) Jae: Add to top of app a section that the “Owner” class (only) can edit to post a message to all users of the app like, “Happy Holidays”. The text message function is already working, however, the image message function is still being developed. Also, Meenakshi Pavithran, Vitor Adriel, Angelina Truong, Akshay, Daniel Brice, Kamghem Kom, Vanel Nwaba, and Jinchao Feng were contacted. Some of them were helped. A 9 minutes video teaching how to set up the application environment was created as well. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Rafael C Castro (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rafael performed PR reviews, checked their related code, followed up on those with new developments, worked to complete an unfinished PR and started a responsiveness adjustment. The reviewed PRs were PR#281, PR#535, PR#652, PR#665, PR#670, PR#677. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Filipe Santos de Oliveira (Full Stack Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. On 02/14, Filipe found that first and last name popups are in inverted fields in ‘validate input at forgot password page #677’. On 02/15, Filipe reviewed ‘aixiang-fix-make-intangible-hours-editable #267’. The total tangible hours was zero after Filipe saved the intangible/tangible time. After he edited the time from 24h to 19h he returned to the user profile and noticed that tangible time was negative. Filipe asked Kevin to let him know if this negative tangible time is part of his PR or not. On 02/17, he started to work with ‘Task dashboard #558’. He was working to solve the issue related to the WBS task action menu that was removed and that function is not working. On 02/18, the WBS task action menu that was removed and the function was stopped returned to working again. After Filipe identified that the controllerRow function was responsible for that action, he copied the same part of the ‘Fix timelog #535’ script from PR #535 and pasted these lines in the ‘Task dashboard #558’. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Anish Pandita (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Anish continued his work on reviewing some older PRs along with deep diving the code base and studying the flow of code in the HighestGoodNetworkApp Repository. Some of the PRs reviewed were #535, #661, #658, #659, #656, #647. Some of the features tackled were checking the default view for admin/volunteer role according to permissions and validating whether the blue square addition functionality is available only to an administrator/owner role and not volunteer. Also the loading symbol was introduced to avoid the glitching data rendering so that it’s better for the user. The profile opening on the new tab using the Command + click or control + click in user management was verified too. Lastly, some minor spelling mistakes were verified and the check on calculation of the number of blue boxes shown in the dashboard summary bar was also tested. See pictures below as examples of this work.

Prabhjot Singh (Fullstack Software Engineer) also completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This last week, Prabhjot did 25 reviews + follow-ups. He has reviewed and checked all PRs and old PRs too. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Tianjue Wang (Software Developer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Tianjue worked on reviewing PRs by checking the code, adding comments, etc. By reviewing #535, #593, #620, #652, #677, #546 and reading comments, she learned how to communicate more effectively with her colleagues. Also, she spent some time reviewing some prio PRs and made some adjustments and updates. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Xinyu Jiang (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Xinyu spent most of her time reviewing PRs and learning React. For the PRs, Xinyu followed up with all the PRs she previously reviewed every day and synced offline with colleagues requesting the PR when it was needed. She also found some compiling issues when she tried to review the PR from the backend and finally solved it with research. Apart from that, Xinyu made efforts to learn more about React, because she wants to be prepared for the following debugging stage. PRs reviewed were: 593, 639, 641, 677, 681. See the images below as examples of this work.

Ayush Tripathi (Full Stack Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. During the second week, Ayush took on the task of reviewing PR requests while also dedicating time to reading. In this process, Ayush reviewed request numbers #654, #665, and #672. Regarding PR #665, Ayush provided valuable feedback on coding standards that could be implemented in the future, such as creating a constants file for storing labels. Ultimately, he passed the PR from his end. For PR #654, Ayush not only reiterated previous comments but also provided additional input on issues such as red-colored dots and delays in the Project/Tasks data. In PR #672, he thoroughly examined the code and identified six issues that needed attention, including font family and font weight, formulae, duplicate records, and validation checks on date. Ayush also offered some helpful UI/UX suggestions to further enhance the user experience. See below pictures as examples of this work.

Akshay (Full Stack Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Akshay successfully completed all items on the General Onboarding Checklist and the Specific Onboarding Checklist. In addition, he worked on several pull requests, including PR #657, PR #665, PR #574, and PR #639 for the HighestGoodNetworkApp repository, as well as PR #272 for the HGNRest repository. Akshay has also taken the initiative to explore the application to gain a better understanding of its functionality and architecture. Pictures below are examples of this.

Angelina Truong (Full Stack Software Developer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Angelina started on her orientation and set up her application locally. She reviewed the following PRs: 272, 657, 276, 671, 654, 672 and tested the features to make sure that they are running as expected. She also ran into trouble with the local application and resolved it by restarting the setup for the application. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Daniel Brice Kamghem Kom (Software Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week. Daniel was able to set the app locally and run it and to grasp the project and its goal. He managed to understand most of the codes that was given to him. What you see below shows some of this work.

Kamto Tagne Eddy Richel (Full Stack Web Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Eddy set up the backend and the frontend versions of the application on his personal computer, learned how to review pull requests, and participated in the review of 4 of them. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jailson Sanches (Software Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jailson performed the final setup of the frontend application, because it was still necessary to fix some packages to perform the installation. He also reviewed some PRs: 680, 672, 681, and 670. Below are some images related to this work.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jinchao finished all the onboarding tasks and set up his local development environment for frontend and backend. Then he went through the GitHub repositories and reviewed multiple PRs. He thoroughly tested the functional features of each PR and left suggestions or approvals. He also dove into codes to give some suggestions on function realizing and troubleshooting. Besides that, he tested the WBS task components and reported new bugs. Pictures below show some of this work.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Lucas went through the initial setup documentation and made some comments and suggestions about it. Lucas also ran into some errors with the initial setup in the Redis Server part, and made suggestions about a section teaching how to install Redis Server and activate it. Lucas reviewed Pedro’s PR and changes and made some suggestions along with some of the other code for the platform to get used to the way that things are done. See below for some pictures related to this.

Meenakshi Pavithran (Software Egineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Meenakshi finished onboarding by completing all the items on the general onboarding checklist and the specific onboarding checklist on the google doc. This included setting up the HGN app locally. She also began reviewing PRs, but only locally. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Sav Costabile (Web Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Sav worked on several PR reviews on the front end and one on the back end. Around 3-4 hours was cumulatively spent reading through the app and getting familiar with the code. This is the biggest project Sav has worked on, so he took extra time on reviews to triple check and make sure he had addressed all of the possible issues he could think of for each review. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Vanel Nwaba (Software Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vanel got to known about the team and the application, set up his personal work environment, and reviewed some PRs. The pictures below relate to this work.

Vitor Adriel (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vitor got his local environment set up and focused on understanding how the project works, how the back-end is working and how the front-end handles it. He also reviewed two PRs. See pictures below.

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