One Community welcomes Kevin Shields to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Kevin is a Southern California native who grew up in Orange County. He spent several years working as a QA tester for different companies. During the Covid pandemic, he decided to devote his free time into a career transition to full stack development. He loves technology and programming, and his other passions include: hiking, traveling, craft beer, the beach, and playing a lot of board games. As a member of the One Community team, Kevin is helping with the Highest Good Network software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM KEVIN SHIELDS!

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Creating an abundant planet is recognizing that global abundance is measured by those of us who have the least. To help those who need help the most, while helping everyone else too, One Community is creating open source and free-shared plans for teacher/demonstration hubs that will teach, evolve, and make globally accessible sustainable, regenerative, and replicable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

• 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 December 11th, 2022 edition (#507) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating an Abundant Planet
One Community Progress Update #507

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating an abundant planet 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 member managing the aircrete compression testing team held the weekly meeting with the aircrete team, made a list of tasks for the team, and responded to comments and emails. The same team member also addressed comments in the City Center hub connector final document, and Net-zero Bathroom doc, as well as following up with Luis as he approaches the end of his volunteer term.  Pictures below are related to this work.

Another member of the core team used SketchUp to follow the assembly instruction steps for the Murphy bed build. We finished checking the lumber selection and parts layout for the Closet and Storage section and Nightstand section. We pointed out missing parts, misalignment and corrections for alignments of some parts in the lumber cut-out steps, checked corrected issues and resolved corresponding comments.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 54th week, returning to work on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial. This week Daniela started off the week by responding to all comments that were left on the Flexible Pavements Design section. She was able to find a resource in order to help the reader reference a database and decided to remove a subsection that was previously created because it related too much to a more elaborate subsection. Daniela then went through the Roadways document and edited all images that were numbered by cropping them and making sure the title was under the image. She then started working on the Updated Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report. Daniela reviewed what she was previously working on and started off where she left off. She numbered all of the figures and added in anything that she had left out previously. Afterwards Daniela bookmarked and linked the images that had titles in addition to adjusting the formatting. She plans to read through the document next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 33rd week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming primarily did searches on new waste treatment plant options. All the results were searched via typing: incinerator / gasifier / pyrolysis with electricity generator / generation, then digging into the details. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 13th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy researched, edited, and rewrote the Non-recyclables Recycling Options (Metal recovery from e-waste and aluminum composite material, Crushing method for construction and demolition waste, Separation method for absorbent hygiene products) and the Non-recyclables Waste-To-Energy Options (Pyrolysis technology) of the tutorial. She carried out new research requested in the comment and integrated Ming’s research findings. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 13th week with the team. This week, Julia completed her final review of the “Flexible Pavement Design” section from the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial” Google Doc. She resolved and addressed comments as needed. Julia then made all remaining fixes to the images on the “City Center Eco-spa and Natural Pool” webpage and resolved all of the comments on the corresponding Feedback PDF. She then continued to work on the “Open Source Climate Battery Design” webpage, addressing, resolving, and adding comments as needed to the source Google Doc. She also re-sourced and re-uploaded a few blurry images from the site to update them with improved quality and legibility. Julia then added new resources from the Google Doc to the “Resources” section of the live page and backed each one up to her shared Dropbox folder. Finally, Julia completed her initial review of the “Waste to energy incinerators master” spreadsheet. She used the comments to leave feedback and to ask questions, and made various formatting updates to make the sheets more visually effective. The pictures below relate to this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 8th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Aircrete Team made aircrete utilizing a 7-gallon bucket instead of a 5-gallon bucket, which was successful in containing the aircrete better and mitigating material loss due to splashing. The team continued to have trouble maintaining the right foam density, so care was taken by checking the density before measuring the amount needed when mixing. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 4th week working on reviewing and formatting for publication the newest content for the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage. ​​This week, Yifei continued to work on revising the net-zero bathroom design and assembly instructions. She mainly focused on how to make the content easier for readers to understand. Yifei made suggestions, rephrased the content based on her understanding, and asked Diwei questions. Pictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating an abundant planet 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 Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 58th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. Venus completed roofs number 1 and 3. She modeled the roof in Revit according to the SketchUp model and started to create the section view of these roofs to show the R-value and define the roof layers. See pictures below.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 24th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Jessica designed the Bathroom for room 3. She kept the same pallet used in the room. She tried different compositions of finishes, and got the images you see below. Jessica chose furniture and finishes, and started adding in the Interior design Cost Analysis. She also added the bathroom page on the PPT. See below for some pictures of this work.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 24th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela worked on improving the materials of the 3D model and doing a few tests as the TV didn’t work as planned. She added a nightstand on both sides of the bed, a few more details at the bathroom, the surround sound system, and asked and worked on the Cost Analysis Table. Pictures below are related to this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 13th weeks helping with web design. Charles spent the week working on the City Center Eco-laundry page. He worked on the Interactive Tool Tutorial, Search Results of Specific Machines, Eco-Laundry Research Methods, Discussion and Frequently Answered Questions sections. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the updated video internal and external walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ranran finished the onboarding process and gained an initial understanding of the workflow. On Tuesday, Ranran had her first meeting with other members (Xuanji, Yuxi, and Huiya) on zoom. During the meeting, Ranran learned more about the project through the presentation of the other team members. On Thursday, Ranran and Yuxi had a second meeting to discuss the rendering. They found out that there are still some details of the SketchUp model that need to be modified before importing it into Lumion. Therefore, in the second half of the week, Ranran focused on modifying the SketchUp model. She repaired the shell of the living dome. And she referred to the AutoCAD files to modify the materials of the main entrance of the building and the entrance of the social space. Ranran also modified some details inside the building, like the position of trees and butterflies. See below for some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating an abundant planet 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 core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We went through the 3-Day Menu Block doc resolving comments that had been addressed or were outdated. The comments all pertained to a series of back and forth comments by various team members addressing a multitude of food issues throughout the doc and mostly related to complete proteins, amino acids, sodium amounts, etc. Pictures below relate to this work.

The core team also finished guiding the creation of the Aquapini/Walipini video tour. All that remains now is to upload it to YouTube, SEO optimize it, share it on all our social media networks, and add it to the relevant pages of our website. Below are some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating an abundant planet 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.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• 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 creating an abundant planet 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

Over the past week the core team completed 27 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and setting up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

The core team also wrote the SEO content and uploading this video to YouTube:

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 34th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time on fixing the “cannot save task edits” problem, she figured out the problem and found the cause, and solved the problem in her 3rd cherry-pick PR. Other than that, she ran management work, provided help on Slack, fixed release merge conflicts, and hotfixed the app as usual. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 20th and 20th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Yan tried to fix the bug when reaching out about the reactivate date and found when reaching out the end date did not automatically get deleted, which may cause this bug. She also refined the email format details, including the date format. Yan additionally added an email to notify the Admin when the app reactivates a paused person. She also tried to fix the bug about a deactivated user ending one day too soon. See pictures below for some of this work.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 19th week helping create videos. This week, Arthur worked on the last video: The Aquapini Labeling video. He mostly had to improve the tracking of some labels and re-time the blocks of the introduction to match the music beats. Arthur delivered a total of 6 exports for Jae. This final video should be ready and approved within the next week. See pictures below that are related to this work.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaung started off with rebasing the fix-timelog branch and pushing it back with changes. While he waited for the fix-timelog to be reviewed, he made 2 changes to the task-dashboard branch. First, he fixed an error so Owners/Admins can also delete tasks. Second, he changed the delete function from reducers to utils folder. Then Kaung noticed there was a node error in the fix-timelog github PR and worked on installing the node packages again. See pictures below for some of this work.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kevin worked on adding new suggestions made by the reviewer of his WBS task deletion PR. This included formatting the code and changing the controller row (with the actions) to properly span the correct amount of rows and changIng it to match the amount of columns the parent has. He also did a PR review for Yiyun – Backend and frontend of tasks suggestions by managers and mentors, looked into some extra tasks Jae assigned regarding WBS task deletion and changing the warning message, and looked into the API call to the backend to make sure tasks are not actually getting fully deleted. Pictures below relate to this work.

Guilherme Wustro (Front End Developer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Guilherme finished the task to show the tasks in the user’s profile project tab. The layout and a brief demonstration were provided. The delete option is just appearing to the users that have the permission “unassignUserInProject”, so just the Administrator and the Owner. The tasks are being shown in the ascending order by their id. Pictures below relate to this work.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, codes related to the auto-assignment of badges after completion of the due date was found. Each method was analyzed. To make changes and check changes, due dates need to be manipulated so that the changes become immediate instead of having to wait until the end of the week. That part of the problem is still being worked on. Once it is worked out, the rest of the badge related bugs should be easy to configure. Pictures below relate to this work.

Kaixiang Gu (React.js / MongoDB Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang spent most of his time debugging the user profile issue, and he made a quick fix for that bug. He also helped other team members by reviewing their pull requests. The rest of the time, he worked with the volunteering times bug, he made it so task hours can be logged correctly, and will continue working on this bug next week. Pictures below show some of this work.

Alan Lee Sing Chan (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan started by working on fixing an issue that was not resolved in a PR he raised previously so the correct data will show when viewing another person’s dashboard. The problem was that the wrong tasks sometimes would show up in the Timelog component, and to make sure this did not happen anymore, Alan made some changes in the Timelog component. The component now renders based on only the userID that is passed as a prop by dashBoard component. He also made sure that the popUpBar sticks to the top when we scroll through the dashboard. After he raised a PR that fixes this, he carried on to work on fixing ESlint problems on the backend and he raised a PR for that. Then he continued working on ESlint problems in the frontend. Pictures below show some of this work.

Rajasri “RJ” Janakiraman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Worked on the design tasks 1.2.1 – BM summary dashboard and 1.2.3 – Project specific page. She submitted 1.2.3 for final review, made a short walkthrough video for easy understanding, and also suggested some improvements at the end of the video. In addition to this, she reviewed Jianjun’s user flow design and wireframes designs and provided suggestions for consistency. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun started working on the wireframe design of the HGN Phase II system. She first proposed a new navigation bar with a hamburger menu, then changed it back to a drop down menu to match the existing system. She reorganized the layout of the original “add material/equipment or tool” pages and reduced its complexity. She also redesigned the “daily log E/T issue” page as “update E/T status” page with a redirection page to make it easier to use. Pictures below show some of this work.

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One Community is paving the path to rebalancing the biosphere with open source plans for teacher/demonstration hubs that will teach and evolve radically sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We are developing this as an open source and free-shared model for living and creating for “The Highest Good of All”.

• 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 December 4th, 2022 edition (#506) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Rebalancing the Biosphere
One Community Progress Update #506

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is rebalancing the biosphere 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 member managing the aircrete compression testing team reviewed work that the aircrete team had done last week, followed up on unaddressed comments, and led the weekly meeting. The same team member also responded to comments within the climate battery document, and continued to work on the quotes for the punch and dies needed for the City Center hub connectors. Pictures below are related to this work.

Another member of the core team used SketchUp to follow the assembly instruction steps for the Murphy bed build. We finished checking lumber selection and parts layout for the wall assembly and Table/Benches assembly sections. Suggestions made were related to size of the lumber, parts layout changes, missing parts and lumber selection.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 53rd week, returning to work on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial. This week Daniela started off by reviewing all the newest comments made on the Flexible Pavement Design section. She researched information that was being asked for and incorporated her finding into the narrative for the Cold in Place Recycling subsection. Throughout the week she continued to address other comments on the section and altered the narrative based on questions left. Daniela finished up responding to the majority of the comments, then decided she needed to do more research for the last subsection. It was difficult for her to find an image that correctly represented the concept so she looked for more resources. Daniela found multiple resources and read through them to ensure that what she wrote was correct. Pictures below are related to this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 32nd week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming continued research on new and alternative incinerator equipment for small-scale mixed-waste treatment. No significant discovery was made since all the equipment is less versatile than that provided by Dongguan Haibao. Also, a clarification for incineration over landfill was made and incorporated into the main doc. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 13th week with the team. This week, Julia watched and reviewed the “Ultimate Classroom” video and added comments with her feedback. She then continued to work on the “Flexible Pavement Design” section of the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial” Webpage and resolved and added comments as necessary while also editing new content. Julia also worked on the “Open Source Climate Battery Design” webpage. She completed her review and editing of the content for grammar and spelling fixes on the live page and used the source Google Doc for questions and clarifications. As these comments were addressed, Julia integrated fixes to the content. For this webpage, she also updated all of the embedded links throughout the content and in the Resources section with the correct settings and mouseover texts. She also reviewed all of the images and ensured their Alternative texts and Image Title Attributes were correctly formatted. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 3rd week working on reviewing and formatting for publication the newest content for the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage. ​​This week she added content to the file according to the outline, proofread for grammar mistakes, and adjusted figures’ content. Pictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is rebalancing the biosphere 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 finished creating the video tour of the Duplicable City Center and surrounding grounds. All that remains now is to upload it to YouTube, SEO optimize it, share it on all our social media networks, and add it to the relevant pages of our website. Below are some pictures of this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 57th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus added different layers to the roof to receive the desired R-value for roof number 3 and modeled the roof according to the SketchUp model on the Revit file. See pictures below.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 23rd week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Jessica searched for ideas to start designing the bathroom for the Sunrise Dream – Room 3. She continued with the 3D model, started the PTT with images and details of furniture and textures, and also did renderings of the different colors for the string lights for the sun on the dome wall. See below for some pictures of this work.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 23rd week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela worked on the room layout, changing the position of the couch, adding one more position for the room, but still having the main bed centered with the TV. She also started working on the bathroom design, running a few render tests of the bathroom to check the finishes and materials. Pictures below are related to this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 13th weeks helping with web design. Charles spent the week working on the City Center Eco-laundry page. He converted the Product Type/Criteria Levels graphic from a table to an image and started adding content to the section Summary and Limitations near the graphic called “Annual Baseline Water Consumption Across Different Washing Machine Types”. The content included the sections Initial Machine Rationale and Flexibility Strategy, Industrial Laundry, Summary, Running Your Own Calculation, and the Interactive Tool Tutorial. Charles paid particular attention to the metadata including alt and title text.  The pictures below share some of this developing work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is rebalancing the biosphere 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 past week the core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We focused on addressing and agreeing quinoa was a food staple, providing lesser expensive costs than 25# bags of black beans and long grain brown rice. We also clarified by rewording the omnivore and vegan recipes, stating the elimination of the meat/dairy ingredient and replacing it with a vegan substitute so as not to confuse the interpretation of the recipe. This clarifies we’re replacing something rather than just adding to, for instance, a complete vegan recipe, without a substitution of the omnivore ingredient for the vegan ingredient. Pictures below relate to this work.

The core team also started guiding the creation of the Aquapini/Walipini video tour. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is rebalancing the biosphere 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. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• 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

This last week, the core team finished creating the video tour of the Ultimate Classroom and surrounding grounds. All that remains now is to upload it to YouTube, SEO optimize it, share it on all our social media networks, and add it to the relevant pages of our website. Below are some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is rebalancing the biosphere 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

Over the past week the core team completed 26 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and setting up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 33rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time into helping the team solve the backend merge conflicts and researching on cleaning up the Dependabot PRs. She also did some management work like reviewing the DropBox submissions and tasks’ progress. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 18th week helping create videos. This week, Arthur worked on finishing the Ultimate Classroom Labeling video and the Duplicable City Center Labeling video. Working on the animated introduction of the Ultimate Classroom video was a big part of his week as well. Both videos were completed and delivered. Arthur then started to work on the Aquapini labeling video as well as creating its animated intro. See pictures below that are related to this work.

Kaixiang Gu (React.js / MongoDB Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang reviewed four pull requests. Three have already been merged and one is still waiting for the fix. Kaixiang found a new bug that he could not load the user profile page and left a message on Slack. After he did debug he found it was because the backend side PR of misspelling infringements has not been merged and he left a message to let Alan know it. A new volunteering times bug was found by Jae on his previous work and he started working on fixing those. Pictures below show some of this work.

Alan Lee Sing Chan (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Alan started working on re-enabling ESlint. He read the feedback that Yiyun Tan left, and read how ESlint is expected to be used in the Front End Project. He then researched best practices and made sure it works well with prettier code formatter. He made a PR for re-enabling ESlint, then Alan chose to tackle the task of creating a button that displays all the summaries of the “teammates” of the current user. Pictures below show some of this work.

Rajasri “RJ” Janakiraman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week RJ completed the onboarding process and got the app working on her local machine. She analyzed the existing design document of Phase II and clarified her doubts, cleaned up the wireframes by organizing the pages and removing the old designs, and outlined a few points for the BM summary dashboard which will be incorporated into the design. She worked on “Finalizing the WBS for Phase II” and has come up with the System design WBS but it requires further refinement and estimation for each task. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun first set up the development environment as suggested, then completed the onboarding checklists. After the initial setup, she joined the team to complete the HGN Phase II Outline document. She improved the user class structure and clarified their authorization. After the discussion in the kick-off meeting, Jianjun drew a new user task flow diagram to represent a user’s journey through the usage process. Pictures below show some of this work.

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One Community is demonstrating ethics as a design science by applying our values for the “Highest Good” of all people and life on this planet to every area we’ve identified as necessary to achieve a truly sustainable civilization. This includes developing open source and free-shared sustainability models for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Combined, they will be used to construct teacher/demonstration hubs that will share and evolve these ideas even more.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
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OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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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 November 27th, 2022 edition (#505) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating ethics as a design science 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 member managing the aircrete compression testing team organized materials for the team, watched and reviewed methods used by Aircrete Harry, and guided the team on how to make the next 4 batches of experimental aircrete. The same team member also followed up with Yifei regarding her tasks, and Luis about a detail in his weekly summary, as well as responded to several comments from Julia regarding the climate batteries. Pictures below are related to this work.

Another member of the core team used SketchUp to follow the assembly instruction steps for the Murphy bed build. We finished building the sections for wall base, wall framing, bed framing and table with benches, including checkIng all the lumber measurements and reviewing the order of the wall assembly. Then we did the same for the bed, bedside shelves, back storage unit and nightstand assembly. We also started checking the lumber cutting section by recreating the lumber selections with the required assembly parts for the wall section in 3D. 

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 84th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was more revisions based on team feedback. Revisions were focused mainly on formatting and alignment fixes. Screenshots below relate to this work.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 52nd week, returning to work on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial. This week, Daniela continued to focus on responding to comments/questions. She started by researching more information for the Cold in Place Recycling section. Once she completed adding more narrative to this section she then started researching why this form of pavement rehabilitation was considered more eco friendly than others. Daniela then incorporated her findings into the narrative. She was also able to find a resource that further explained a process for another section and linked it in the narrative. Daniela also did more research based on the definitions she added to the glossary in order to ensure a proper explanation. After doing so, she researched and added more information for the FDR section. Pictures below are related to this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 30th and 31st weeks helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. These past two weeks, Ming primarily followed up with suppliers that were contacted previously. After checking with their engineers, a representative from Dongguan Haibao Machinery Technology has endorsed the feasibility of waste-to-energy on mixed waste at small scales, although pre-sorting is needed. Ming also did additional searching on Alibaba for alternative facilities. One important distinction that was made this week when consulting with suppliers, they referred to WTE as energy-saving facilities for waste processing, not a source of generating renewable energy (Changzhou Jintian is an example of a company that said this). Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 11th and 12th weeks with the team. In the past two weeks, Julia finished reviewing the completion of the “Duplicable City Center Dome-Hub Connector Engineering” Webpage and made necessary coding fixes and content edits to finalize this page. She also checked the corresponding Feedback PDF and resolved comments that had been correctly integrated. Julia then went through the “Addressing Non-recyclables” Google Doc, leaving thorough feedback using the comments for recommended research expansion. While doing this, she made edits for grammar and spelling in the content itself. She also completed review of the Feedback PDF for the “Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More” Webpage and left comments for further fixes as necessary. She then began going through the corresponding source Google Doc to check that suggested edits had been integrated properly on the live page. Finally, Julia completed reviewing the remainder of the “Murphy bed Instructions” PDF and did a final run through, adding more feedback for further edits as needed. The next week (this last week), Julia worked on the “Sustainable Window and Door Research” Spreadsheet and resolved comments that had been correctly integrated. She also left additional feedback for recommended updates and edits with the comments. Julia then reviewed the Feedback PDF for the “Open Source Climate Battery Design” Webpage and made necessary updates to image formatting and coding. She begun editing the content of this webpage on the live site and left comments on the source Google Doc for any questions she had. Julia updated all of the linked resources on this webpage so that they are now embedded in the text rather than to reference numbers. Also, Julia continued to address comments and leave feedback on the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial” Google Doc, as well as editing added content in the “Flexible Pavement Design” section. Finally, Julia went through the Feedback PDF for the “Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More” Webpage again to address comments, and then she made fixes to coding, formatting, images, and the ToC’s on the live page as needed.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 11th and 12th weeks working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. For the past two weeks, Mercy focused on the comparison table and evaluating criteria. She searched for new information (energy input, carbon emission, etc.) on existing selected waste processing plants. She also looked for smaller models to replace options with large capacities. Regarding the criteria, she wrote the equation for emission and population calculation. She updated the comparison table and filled it in with plants that process multiple types of waste. She spent a lot of time researching benchmarks, carbon emission calculations, and carbon capture. She also contacted suppliers for information not provided on the website. There are several blanks in the table and she will fill them in once the suppliers reply. Since the time spent on the comparison table exceeds her estimate, she will need another 30 hours to work on the narratives and rewrite parts according to the new comparative study. See below for some pictures related to this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 6th and 7th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. Over the last two weeks, the Compression Testing Team continued to troubleshoot issues related to generating foam of consistent density. They also identified larger buckets to purchase to minimize loss of aircrete volume due to splashing while mixing, and they learned that longer mixing times lead to more bubbles popping, which lead to more water being in the bottom of the cylinders. They then made two batches using Aircrete Harry’s instructions, which had a different method for testing foam density and a lower target foam density than other recommendations. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also joined the team and completed her 1st and 2nd weeks working on reviewing and formatting for publication the newest content for the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage. ​​For her first two weeks, Yifei worked on proofreading the Net-zero Bathroom Design and Assembly Instructions from page 325 to the end, adding comments, fixing spelling and grammar mistakes, and raising clarifying suggestions. Pictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating ethics as a design science 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 Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 63rd week, now helping with energy analysis for our open source solar microgrid design. Over the last week he was able to continue elaborating and formatting the descriptions of the Energy Demand Template tab. This expansion and explanation makes it much easier for new users to understand this open source information and replicate these substantial energy budgeting strategies. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 56th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. For the last two weeks, Venus worked on modeling rafters and the roof layers for Roof #3. She modeled the roof according to the SketchUp model and using Revit. Venus added different layers to the roof to receive the desired R-value and worked on making a section of the roofs to show the R-value as defined by the roof layers. See pictures below.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 21st and 22nd weeks working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This past couple weeks, Jessica fixed the lighting configuration, putting led strings behind the wood rays, and tested different colors for these LED lights. She tested pink, blue and orange. She also made small changes in the overall design, so it would look more fluid. And Jessica changed to a round carpet that looks better in the center of the room, aligned with the sun on the wall and chandelier above it. She also reduced the 2 chandeliers to one centralized chandelier and added small lights in the hall and above dresser and couch. Then she updated the headboard hexagonal pattern to be more organized and updated the ottoman to one that will serve as a stool for the desk too, removing the need for a chair and creating more space for circulation. Jessica also added to the Interior Design Cost Analysis the new furniture and elements and added quantities for floor finishes and wallpaper. See below for some pictures of this work.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 21st and 22nd weeks working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This past two weeks, Gabriela worked a bit more on the sign to make it fit, but it didn’t, so she changed the entire room to Room 6, as requested, and it looks good. It won’t fit a pull-out couch though. She also tried a different layout with the decorations and the mirror, changing the brick wall and the “Hollywood” sign to “Old Hollywood”, the name of this room, and worked on a few new layout options to add one more bed. Pictures below are related to this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 11th and 12th weeks helping with web design. This past couple weeks, Charles completed addressing the comments for the City Center Eco-spa and Natural Pool page. This included the misalignment of the captions of side-by-side images that were not 50%. ie. some being 30% the the other 70%. The width of all the 30/70 side by side images added up to 640px. The problem was that the caption widget did not center the captions correctly. Charles then started working on comments to the Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More page. Charles finished the images’ alt text and title case for captions comments. Charles also added descriptions for links to the images. He will work on the TOC next week. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating ethics as a design science 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 past two weeks the core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We sorted through individual recipes and touched on ingredient quantities, grammar, bold facing headings that weren’t bold faced, questioning the grouping of ingredients under specific headings, and rewording the vegan and omnivore recipe adaptations to reflect the replacement of one item over the other instead of utilizing the addition of an item when they clearly should be a replacement that was not mentioned, etc. Pictures below relate to this work.

And Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 29th and 30th weeks helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. Marilyn continued to add recipes to the Summer Fresh Week J menu block and started on Summer Fresh Week K. She focused on using saved and old recipes and scaling them to work as one recipe for both vegans and omnivores where possible. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating ethics as a design science 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. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• 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

These last couple weeks, the core team continued creating the video tour of the Ultimate Classroom and surrounding grounds with many more rounds of review and feedback for Arthur. Below are some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating ethics as a design science 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

Over the past 2 weeks the core team completed 41 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

The core team also updated additional areas of our site with the new videos from Arthur.

Here’s the latest one we’ve finished and added!

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 31st and 32nd weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. This past couple weeks, Yiyun put most of her time on wrapping up the “edit suggested tasks” development. She created her 2nd “changes pick up” PR, got the 3rd “changes pick up” PR ready, and helped some on the Dependabot PRs that need review. She also helped with reviewing/testing other people’s PRs, answering questions and helping debug on coding problems. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 19th and 20th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan’s work for the last two weeks focused on the user management page setup of the final day button. It is about PR #221 for back end (HGN) and PR #557 for front end HighestGoodNetworkApp. She got feedback on her PR and revised the code and recommitted it. Yan also worked on a bug where the final day is setting one day too advanced. See pictures below for some of this work.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 16th & 17th weeks helping with updating all our homepage videos. In the last two weeks, Arthur completed the final export of the Main Page Video, and delivered multiple new versions of the Ultimate classroom labeling video and its animated intro. He also started the Duplicable City Center Labeling video. See pictures below that are related to this work.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 11th and 12th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. ​​These past two weeks, Kaung continued working on the bug that was not sending requests to the backend. After getting help from Yiyun, Kaung figured out that he was calling the backend with the wrong link. He changed the link and was able to delete the task. At first, whenever the task was deleted though, the WBS was also deleted. It is not the case with a WBS with 1 task, but if the WBS haS more than 1 task, it is a problem. He changed the request link and was able to delete the tasks without deleting the WBS. The next week (last week), Kaung got feedback from Yiyun regarding the PR from the previous week. The feedback was to change the deletion icon into an imported icon from FontAwesomeIcon and to align the tasks tabs. At first he tried to import the X button from FontAwesomeIcon but he could not use it. He later realized that the documentation he was reading is 5.0 version which is different from 4.0 version. Kaung switched the version and was able to change the X button. He then saw that there were multiple tables within each row which may be causing the misalignment of the tasks tabs. He tried refactoring them but he broke the code. So instead Kaung changed the tab’s elements to a grid element from CSS and was able to align the tasks. He then pushed the PR. See pictures below for some of this work.

Bruce Lin (Software Engineer) completed his 9th and 10th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. These past two weeks, Bruce read the source code of the HGNRest(backend) and was able to find the API he needed to get access to the database to call getUserByName. He found that this API has already implemented the function of splitting firstname and lastname, but since some users have 3 to 4 words in their name, this API needs some modifications. Bruce spent the next week trying to get users from the database but he could not because of all those not in the database. He then managed to write a function and determined that out of 238 contributors in this page, 213 are not in the database. Also, he tried to get the profilePic from the users but nothing was returned because no image was associated with the users in the database. Pictures below relate to this work.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) completed his 6th and 7th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. For the past couple weeks, Kevin looked into a crash that Aashish was getting, an unhandled exception crash on code Kevin previously committed. Kevin could not reproduce the code and not likely something he did, but likely exposed by his code so he implemented a PR with new code that will catch the unhandled exception and will prevent the app from crashing and instead display an error – but the deletion/assignment should work as intended. Then he worked on getting the WBS task button to properly delete, this helped him find out it was an improper API call to the backend which resulted in a 404 response from the server. Lastly, Kevin worked to reimplement a new button on the WBS task to display the hidden task actions that were hidden and hard to get to before. Pictures below relate to this work.

Guilherme Wustro (Front End Developer) completed his 6th and 7th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. These last two weeks he made a correction in his first PR, two code reviews, and started a new task, 2.3.2 Show assigned tasks as projects on user profile “project” tab; make them deletable. He is still thinking about what is the best way to display the info about the tasks inside the table. Guilherme already made the logic to display everything, but still needs to sort the tasks and call the delete function for deleting a task. He then fixed a bug in the dashboard permissions. Pictures below relate to this work.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 6th and 7th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. Over the last two weeks, Aashish worked on the solution to getting the badges displayed by streak. It’s complicated. First, the already existing streaks will be corrected and after, a filter will be put to give precedence to the higher streak, thus removing the previously accumulated streaks. A few PRs were also looked into. The fix for badge streak will require a little bit more time to find where in the code it is auto assigned. A majority of badge related bugs require filters to get them working the way they are supposed to but so far none of the files Aashish has worked on have such codes. So, once the code where the auto-assigning of badges is figured out, Aashish will have an easier time fixing the badge bugs as a group. Pictures below relate to this work.

Kaixiang Gu (React.js / MongoDB Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 3rd and 4th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. Over the past two weeks, Kaixiang tested, reviewed and approved Guilherme’s PR. He tested Alan’s PR and left his comments on Slack, fixed ‘Zoom’ as the default value of the video call preference, and completed the UI update for the permissions management dashboard task, and made the related pull request in GitHub. Kaxiang also reviewed and approved Alan and Guilherme’s PRs and started working to fix the auto-refresh bug of category hours. Pictures below show some of this work.

Alan Lee Sing Chan (Software Engineer) also  completed his 2nd and 3rd weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. For the last two weeks, Alan continued to work on the dashboard component. He was able to fix the problem with the summaryBar component not displaying the correct data for the current user, and he created a pull request for that. He was able to do this by making sure we are displaying the data based on userID rather than the authenticated user. He also fixed some conflicts in the PR he created that fixed the problem where the wrong data was displayed when a new dashboard window popped up after clicking the dot next to a name in the leaderboard. He was able to fix that and the PR was eventually approved. Then Alan worked on fixing the misspellings of infringements that were on the frontend and backend, and he was able to do that without affecting the functionality of the app. He then carried on working on the misspelling of committed, and was able to fix most of the misspellings but not all of them. It seems that the variable name in the MongoDB schema must be changed. He also deleted yarn files and dependencies from the project and created a PR for that. On Saturday, Alan noticed that the tangible time in the Leaderboard and the tangible time in the summaryBar did not match for the current user, so he created a PR fixing that. Pictures below show some of this work.

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Working with nature is only one part of being conscious and conscientious global stewards. To really make a difference, sustainably addressing our systems for food, energy, housing, and even education, economic design, and social architecture is needed. One Community is designing open source and free-shared plans that do this for all these areas and more.

• 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 November 20th, 2022 edition (#504) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Working With Nature
One Community Progress Update #504

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This last week the core team members responsible for production of these weekly progress updates were out of town for three days and then got notice of a death in the family and were required to be out of town an additional 2.5 days. For this reason, and for the first time in over nine and a half years, we put the weekly progress reporting on pause for a week. 

We’ll report on everyone’s work for this week along with their work next week. 

Thank you for your patience and understanding. 

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One Community is charting a path to true wealth using radical sustainability. We’re doing this because we believe it’s not money that people want, but rather the things money can (and can’t) buy. In our opinion, “true wealth” is a life that fully meets our foundational needs, builds and maintains quality relationships, includes more of the things that make us happy and more time to do those things, and, in the case of our team, makes a difference in the world. Our open source and free-shared plans are designed to achieve all of these and more.

• 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 November 13th, 2022 edition (#503) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Path to True Wealth
One Community Progress Update #503

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is charting a path to true wealth 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 member managing the aircrete compression testing team emailed a schedule to the aircrete team for the next two weeks, had a weekly meeting with them, and reviewed the data collected to date. The same team member also created an outline and reviewed the tasks list for the rainwater catchment content, and continued working on the DIY option details for the hub connectors for the City Center. Pictures below are related to this work.

Another member of the core team finished updating the “Aircrete Engineering and Research” website and submitted it again for review by Julia. We resolved comments by fixing indent level for the Materials List, changed the list from numbered to bulleted list, added missing anchors for the “Related Pages” section, fixed broken links in the Resources section, updated the FAQ section with bold font for all questions, and updated all images attributes with captions. See below.

The core team also worked with the software development team further evolving the user stories and flowcharts for the Highest Good Network software Phase 2 which is a material, equipment and tool (MET) tracking component of this web application.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 51st week, returning to work on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial. This week Daniela worked on adding more to the narrative for the Flexible Pavement Design section. Based on previous comments, Daniela decided to research and find more information about certain topics that needed more clarification or explanation. Throughout the week she searched for more resources and read through current documents in order to find the information she was looking for. She changed some paragraph formatting for better narrative flow in addition to adding new images. Daniela responded to comments and changed some sections within the Flexible Pavement Design section in order to add more narrative. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 34th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. ​​This week Diwei summarized the storage container of the stormwater harvesting system. Different types of water tanks such as fiberglass cisterns, Atlantis flo-tank systems, and reinforced concrete (RCC) water tanks were presented. Designs of the sedimentation chamber upstream of the water tanks were illustrated. Pump stations, submersible pumps, and pressure tanks downstream of the pump were shown too. Pictures below show some of this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 10th week with the team. This week, Julia worked on more on reviewing the “Flexible Pavement Design” section on the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial” Google Doc. She also went through the “Duplicable City Center Natural Pool & Spa” Feedback PDF and addressed and resolved comments for finalizing this Webpage. Julia then continued to work on the “Murphy bed Instructions” PDF and resolved comments that had been integrated. She added further comments for suggested improvements to make these instructions as visually effective as possible. Also this week, Julia began the management of feedback for the “Addressing Non-recyclables” Google Doc. She reviewed and edited the content, making minor grammar and spelling fixes and added comments for needed expansions on research.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 10th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy edited the non-recyclables tutorial and researched on the questions raised in the comments. She spent most of her time researching whether incineration is a recommended WTE for small communities and the distinction between recycling and WTE. She is now reevaluating recommendations related to incineration. Mercy also edited some sections in the related hardware research spreadsheet. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Philip Bogaerts (Structural Window Designer) completed his 9th week working on completing the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research. This week Philip finalized the draft of the best windows tab and made adjustments to the best door tab. He also started working on a spreadsheet to rank the best door companies by figuring out what the most important criteria are for ranking these companies. See below for some pictures of this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 5th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the team purchased a lot of distilled water. They began making standard aircrete with soft water and Drexel, and tagged and compressed all 6 cylinders (2 batches) at the 48 hr mark. The first batch of 3 experienced collapse, about 0.5 to 1 inch. During compression testing these 48 hr cylinders “squished” instead of breaking or cracking. Pictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is charting a path to true wealth 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 Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 62nd week, now helping with energy analysis for our open source solar microgrid design. This week Luis developed the Solar Sizing calculations and website narrative. He updated and validated the minimum, maximum, and average energy demands across the Duplicable City Center, Earthbag Village, Ultimate Classroom, and the Strawbale Village. He also formatted and added to the narrative for the website. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 55th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on detailing roof number 3. She modeled the rafters and the roof, added layers to the roof to achieve the desired R-value, added the joint details, and started to make a section of roof to show R-value and define the roof layers. See pictures below.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 20th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Jessica configured all the lights and materials so she could start to render all the scenes. She added the led strip lights on the rays for the dome wall. Also the clouds lamps. See below for some pictures of this work.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 20th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela worked on improving the size, location, sign and other details of the box for the TV. She also made a box office for the window to fix the problem with the curtains and changed the room layout to center the bed more on the TV. Pictures below are related to this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 10th week working on the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage and the City Center Eco-spa and Natural Pool page. Charles completed working on Jae’s comments on the Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa page feedback PDF. The focus there was mostly mouseover text in the Table of Contents. Charles also completed the comments by Julia on the pool and spa page. The focus on that page was areas that he’d fixed before and needed additional fixing.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is charting a path to true wealth 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 continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We reviewed, answered questions, and commented throughout the 3-Day Menu Block doc. We also made suggestions for standardizing the individual recipes regarding the inconsistencies in the title caps, spacing, bold print of instructions, ingredients, spacing between separate entities, etc. Pictures below relate to this work.

This week Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 28th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn started to research recipes for Summer Fresh Week J and K menu blocks. She utilized some recipes that were taken out from previous Fresh Week menu blocks and developed some new recipes that require fresh ingredients. She commented on the recipe summaries overview and is continuing the process of adding recipes to the menu blocks. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is charting a path to true wealth 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. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• 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

This week the core team began creating the video tour of the Ultimate Classroom and surrounding grounds. Below are some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is charting a path to true wealth 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, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

The core team also completed another 5 hours of reviewing, giving feedback, and creating imagery for the new overview video Arthur is developing.

We also uploaded, shared, and added to the appropriate places on our website this finished video!

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 18th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan finished the set final day button on the user management page this week and fixed the related bug (described last week). Now it is possible to set the final day and delete the final day as an Admin. Now, both the admin and user can select the last day. All that remains is to push the PR for the above coding, which means the front-end work of this project is finished. See pictures below for some of this work.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 15th week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This Week, Arthur mostly worked on delivering new exports of the Main Page video and Ultimate Classroom Labeling video. For the Main Page video he changed out images for the redesigned ones, replaced the animated GFX with a bigger font, and updated the formatting of the intro. For the education video, Arthur added images from the education PDF, updated the callout elements, and worked on the tracking of the callouts. See pictures below that are related to this work.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. ​​This week, Kaung continued working on the Dashboard component button for deleting tasks. He incorporated the changes request such as changing the button into X instead of “Mark as Done” and also showing a text that says “task will be marked complete and be deleted if the button is clicked”. Kaung realized that the status on editing the tasks does not work also, so now he is focused on just deleting the tasks instead. See pictures below for some of this work.

Bruce Lin (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Bruce checked and made sure that all the people on this page are crawled down by comparing the page with the output from the code one by one. He also made sure that even if the HTML content is not consistently formatted, the code worked fine and could find all the people on the page. He then found out how to get the authorization token to access the backend APIs that he was struggling with in the last week. Pictures below relate to this work.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kevin fixed a UI bug with the featured badges system where the featured checkbox was not properly aligned with its corresponding column. As a member of the Management Dashboard team, he worked on adding a task deletion method within the WBS tasks area. Kevin noticed there was already pre-existing functionality and design for this feature, so for the time being, he copied the existing code for a ‘Remove’ button on the Action column of the WBS task table. It still needs further testing though before he raises the PR. Pictures below relate to this work.

Guilherme Wustro (Front End Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Guilherme finished the Dashboard permissions. He needed to change the hasPermission function in all files again, in order to adapt to permissions of a specific user. The user permissions management layout needed to be changed too. He then raised the PRs for back-end and front-end for code review, explaining what was changed. Pictures below relate to this work.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week the duplicate badges have been removed from the HGN APP (surge.sh) for dev admin. There were some issues that disabled badge functionality in the app but they were fixed. The display of badge streak is still a work in progress. Pictures below relate to this work.

Vivian Baik (Software Engineer and Project Team Leader) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software, specifically on Phase 2, a material, equipment and tool (MET) tracking web application. Vivian continued to develop the wireframes and documentation for the project. She updated the ‘Add Tool or Equipment’ form, daily logging of Tool/Equipment form, and the main project dashboard. She also created a wireframe for creating a new team page, time log for members and Build Manager dashboard. See pictures below for some of this work.

Alan Lee Sing Chan (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan got his local environment set up and began working on a bug related to viewing other people’s dashboards. Pictures below show some of this work.

Kaixiang Gu (React.js / MongoDB Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang focused on two issues for the volunteering times bug. He added features that allow an admin and manager to manually input numbers in volunteering times and made it so category hours will track edited time entries to increase/decrease the number compared to their old entry. Kaixiang then made a PR, posted it on Slack, and updated the Google Docs. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped us fix an issue where our other sites were prompting users to download a .gz formatting file. The pictures below show some of this work.

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From One Community’s perspective, all the systems we are developing are earth care systems because they are all designed with sustainability in mind. From the open source and free-shared food, energy, and housing plans to the education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices, everything we’re creating to the best of our ability in the “Highest Good” of all people, all life, and the planet.

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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 November 6th, 2022 edition (#502) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing earth care systems 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 member managing the aircrete compression testing team created a data collection sheet for the aircrete, did general preparation for executing the week’s plan, assessed data from compression of old cylinders, helped with ordering materials, and led the weekly meeting. The same team member also addressed the last section of the city center hub connector final document which covers the DIY option details, and fixed the formula for min and max energy usage by hour for solar sizing. Pictures below are related to this work. 

A member of the core team reviewed the Murphy bed Assemble Instruction document. This team member began by reviewing the first 100 pages of the MurphyBed Doc for accuracy regarding materials and hardware sections of the doc. We made comments where it was too small of print, miscounts of quantities that require correction, pictures that inaccurately depicted 5 inch bolt size, and other areas needing fixing. The images below relate to this work. 

Another member of the core team reviewed the Murphy bed Assemble Instruction document too. This team member added more than 50 comments related to missing or incorrect labels, misalignment of parts on the images, use of images that showed the old design, suggestions for using more screws to connect parts in the storage stepping shelving section, incorrect labeling of previous/next steps, and missing information and labels for using wood glue throughout the whole document. See below. 

The core team also did detailed review and feedback on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research.

And the core team worked with the software development team creating user stories and flowcharts for the Highest Good Network software Phase 2 which is a material, equipment and tool (MET) tracking component of this web application.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 83rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was more revisions based on team feedback. Revisions were focused mainly on formatting alignment fixes. Screenshots below relate to this work.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 50th week, returning to work on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial. This week Daniela continued making edits to the Flexible Pavement Design section based on previous comments. The comments she was addressing were ones that she had left to complete last because she knew that these would take more time and research to complete. Throughout the week, Daniela wrote more narrative and researched various concepts based on each comment. She went back and reviewed the information from the original resource, but also tried to find more information in order to clarify for the reader. Some information was harder to find than others but Daniela made sure to address what was asked for. Lastly, she found images and new resources to refer to in the narrative. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 33rd week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. ​​This week Diwei summarized the design of the stormwater harvesting system. The difference between stormwater harvesting and rooftop rainwater harvesting was specified. Supply and demand calculations were presented to obtain the catchment area and required storage capacity. Using inlet peak flow discharge calculations with catchment sections configuration to size pipes was summarized too. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 29th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming did more inquiring with equipment providers, finding potential new WTE plants on Alibaba, and added some of his own feedback on Mercy’s work. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 9th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy worked on the hot tub sanitary alternatives task. She researched methodology, advantages & disadvantages, and commercial options of non-chlorine alternatives. She finished the comparison table, comparing all the options and ranked them according to safety, efficiency, sustainability, and ease of implementation. Mercy also wrote the narratives to replace/add to the existing tutorial. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Philip Bogaerts (Structural Window Designer) completed his 8th week working on completing the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research. This week Philip continued his work on the best window research and tried to finalize it as much as possible. Among other things he did styling and formatting of the tables, as well as adding images and checking for grammar and spelling mistakes. Finally he also added some required values that were not yet found. See below for some pictures of this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 4th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week, the team completed preliminary testing on the effect of soft water on foam quality. The team also met with Marcus from last year’s team to go over some questions that the team had about how hard water affected the previous year’s results. Pictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing earth care systems 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

his week the core team completed another round of detailed feedback on the updated Natural Pool and Spa page. We also created and updated some of the imagery there. The pictures below share some of this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 54th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on detailing the roofs. She added ACT 2X2 on the roof detail, added different layers to the roof to receive the desired R-value, and joint details. See pictures below.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 19th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, to add another element in the room that ‘’pops’, Jessica created a hexagonal headboard with a cloud shape for the bed. She added birds hanging from the roof, worked on elements on the walls testing a painting, mirror, and fountain, played with colors around the room and ended up adding a mix of blue tones for the living room. Her thought was that this could highlight and sectorize the spaces, helping the room not to be overwhelmingly pink. See below for some pictures of this work.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 19th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela tried a new type of TV Support that will work with our high ceilings and in front of the bed. She also worked on the Cost Analysis Table and then changed back to the original support and added a box to get it lower and looking like an old cinema sign. Gabriela added a sound system close to the bed and a Dressing Room sign at the bathroom door too. Pictures below are related to this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 9th week working on the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage and the City Center Eco-spa and Natural Pool page. Charles continued working on the Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa page PDF comments. He also corrected the comments by Julia on the City Center Dome page.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing earth care systems 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 Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 27th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn started to research recipe replacements for the Summer Fresh Week I, putting into consideration the foundational ingredients and the vegan and omnivore proteins. She then started to research recipes for the development of the Summer Fresh Week J menu block. She is in the process of adding recipes to the recipe summary section before tagging it to be reviewed. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing earth care systems 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.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• 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 earth care systems 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 30 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

The core team also completed another 16 hours of reviewing, giving feedback, and creating imagery and video for the new overview video (and other videos) Arthur is developing. The pictures below show some of this review work.

Here are some of this week’s images we created for the new video updates:

We also uploaded, shared, and added to the appropriate places on our website these two finished videos!

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 30th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time into helping and managing the Management Dashboard team. This included PR reviews and testing, answering questions, finding resources, updating documentation, solving the backend merge conflicts, etc. She also worked more on merging Eiki’s PRs. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yan wrote the code for the final day button for the user management page. Now it’s possible to set the last day and delete the final day. But there is still a bug in this button. After refreshing the page, the end date is shown in the column, but the button should show “delete final day” and instead shows “set final day”. Yan also changed the title and adjusted the table size for the user management page. For the back end, she helped colleagues to test code and finalize a PR for merging. See pictures below for some of this work.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 14th week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This Week, Arthur worked on delivering new exports of the Main Page video, Weekly Background Video and Ultimate Classroom Labeling video. For the Main page video, he added new images. For the Labeling video, he replaced animated graphics. For the Weekly Background video, he got it approved and ready to be fully exported. Arthur also had to re-export some of the previous videos like the “Get Involved” video to fix some mistakes. See pictures below that are related to this work.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kaung rebased his previous branch since it is a few commits behind and that could lead to merging conflicts. After that he started working on the dashboard task “mark as done” button. First, he removed all the complete buttons and wrote a onClick function that would be executed when the user clicks the “mark as done” button. After the user clicks “mark as done”, the status of the task is changed to done. With this he was also able to make the task disappear from the dashboard after the button was clicked. He is refactoring the code so he can raise the PR. See pictures below for some of this work.

Bruce Lin (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Bruce refactored the code so it’s not having to check for any name in the bold tags thanks to Jae. However, he still found an issue, which is that there are some p tags that have 2 strong tags with the first one having an “img” tag in it, which prevents the crawler from extracting the full name from the first strong tag it finds. Pictures below relate to this work.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Kevin looked deeply into finalizing the PR fix for badge deletion and assigning. He tried to reproduce an issue a reviewer was getting, but could not. So Kevin is waiting on a 2nd reviewer and the original reviewer to double check before moving on. Kevin also completed an incremental PR for the management dashboard’s task notification system and completed a PR for the redesign of the project reports page. Kevin was moved into the Management Dashboard team, so he spent time reviewing the relevant docs and code to move onto a new task within this new team too. Pictures below relate to this work.

Guilherme Wustro (Front End Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Guilherme fixed the bugs that were failing some tests and changed the ProtectedRoute, adapting it with the state roles to make them dynamic. He also created an automatic insertion of the new roles in the backend when the deploys happen. This was done in a way that will not need us to manually add the permissions. He created some tests and also solved some conflicts in the merge (pulling the branch development into the Guilhermes-Dashboard). Guilherme also started the feature that can give permissions to a specific user. Pictures below relate to this work.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, the duplicate badge bug has been resolved in the local repo. The new task taken this week includes fixing the badge streak bugs. When a new badge streak is earned, the previous streak badge should be permanently removed from a user’s badge collection. If not, it affects the total count of the badges the user has earned. On the dashboard, only the highest streak badges will be displayed. So, if users only count the displayed badges, the total count will look faulty when in fact the total count is showing an accurate count, because it includes the badges not displayed. Pictures below relate to this work.

Vivian Baik (Software Engineer and Project Team Leader) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software, specifically on Phase 2, a material, equipment and tool (MET) tracking web application. This week she continued to develop the wireframes and documentation for the project. She updated the ‘Add Material’ form and developed forms for adding tools/equipment and daily logging of METs and related issues. See pictures below for some of this work.

Kaixiang Gu (React.js / MongoDB Fullstack Software Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kaixiang completed all the required actions of the onboarding checklist and got the HGN App working on his local environment. He picked “Fix Volunteering Time” as his first focus. The reason why hours for each category are not increasing as the user logs time is that the time entries are not logging time to the hoursByCategory property of the user profile and updating in the database. To solve this problem, when a user submits a new time entry, Kaixiang created a new function that will log time to a specific category based on a selected project. For now, volunteering hours will be displayed correctly in the volunteering time tab. Total tangible hours will automatically sum up each category’s hours. Total intangible hours display the sum of all the past intangible hours. Pictures below show some of this work.

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped us with Google’s tag manager and fixing multiple website errors. The pictures below show some of this work.

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Creating a meaningful life is challenging when basic survival needs aren’t being met. One Community is creating open source and sustainable food, energy, and housing plans to address this. We see open source and sustainable plans for education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices as part of the solution too.

• 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

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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 October 30th, 2022 edition (#501) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a meaningful life 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 member managing the aircrete compression testing team guided the team to complete preliminary experiments to test soft water as opposed to hard water when making foam, as well as helped with a materials list and items to order, and compared compression testing results of cylinders that had cured for 220 days. The same team member also continued to address comments in the city center hub connector final document and the aircrete final report from the original team. Pictures below are related to this work.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 65th week. This week Luis continued his transition to his new projects, the Net-zero Bathroom calculations and the Solar Sizing Energy Balancing. He has been able to assist with some smaller tasks on these projects in the past, but he is looking to expand his role and become involved in the narrative integration to the website for each. Luis wrapped up his smaller tasks and began familiarizing himself with all of the project details by reading old summaries and analyzing the spreadsheet data, mainly for the Solar Sizing Design. Next week he will continue to review the project’s details and begin updating the documents for consistency, content, and other potential edits. Pictures below are related to this work.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 49th week, returning to work on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial. This week Daniela continued to review and respond to all the comments on the Flexible Pavement Design section. She researched more in-depth to explain concepts better, reviewed her previous resources in order to understand where her information was coming from and to figure out what needed to be analyzed better, and added to the narrative and moved around paragraphs based on the comments. Definitions were added to the glossary and Daniela figured out ways to clarify what she was trying to portray. By the end of the week she responded to all comments, but left a few of the comments she knew would take more research and writing. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 32nd week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. ​​This week Diwei completed a summarization of the water pump selection of the rainwater harvesting system. Instead of using the Darcy-Weisbach formula to calculate the dynamic pressure drop of water flowing through pipes, the equivalent length of pipes method was used because it is easier and more efficient. Some labels of the inlet and outlet of the water tank were added too. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 28th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming completed routine exploration of small-scale facilities on Alibaba. The obstacle is still the same as before: limitation of treatment types and scales in the same facility. This week most replies were for plants for agricultural purposes (not elaborated in description, but he learned from conversations), so they were not considered. The good news is, some sellers have suggested some questions regarding our demand, after answering my basic inquiry questions, so the conversations will continue. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 9th week with the team. This week, Julia continued to review and edit content of the “Flexible Pavement Design” section on the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial” Google Doc. She addressed, added, and resolved comments as needed throughout this review process. Julia then addressed and reviewed comments on the Feedback PDF for the “Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More” webpage and made coding updates on the live webpage accordingly. She also began to review and edit the grammar and spelling of the content on the web page itself. Also this week, Julia spent time reviewing the “Murphy bed Instructions” PDF, using the comments to recommend various visual and graphic edits. Below are some images related to this work.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 8th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy finished the non-recyclables tutorials. She researched methods and plants for mixed and composite material products, wrote the related section, and filled in the Alibaba table. Mercy edited the content to switch the focus on non-recyclables recycling and waste-to-energy solutions. She also organized the references and downloaded the pdfs of referenced articles. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Philip Bogaerts (Structural Window Designer) completed his 7th week working on completing the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research. This week Philip mainly worked on the ‘Best windows’ tab. Apart from the final section, this research is also complete, even though thorough proofreading still needs to be done. Collecting all the documents and researching other options to add to give a more complete overview were the main tasks this week. See below for some pictures of this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 3rd week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week they got help from a member of the previous team and learned how to make foam. They completed a handful of tests and mixed a batch of foam utilizing the distilled water, and found that the foam made with soft water appeared to be more dense, other than that, both soft and hard water foam held up well. The team also finished doing the compression testing from last year’s molds, and created a data sheet with all the compressions and included images for each mold that was tested. Pictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a meaningful life 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 creating the 3D SketchUp model for the City Center dormer framing. We continued working with the design of the 3D model for the framing of the second floor dormer. This included modeling rafter tails for the dormer roof, roof rakes (two on each side), fascia boards and framing for the siding support. We also researched SketchUp Extension software “SketchUp STL” that will export SketchUp files into .stl format for further use in SolidWorks and used the SketchUp first floor model to create an exploded version of the model, then exported it in .stl format for further work in SolidWorks by a new Industrial Designer volunteer who just joined the team. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 53rd week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on detailing the cupola roof. She added different layers to the roof to receive the desired R-value, added the joint details, and started working on the roof section view to show R-value and define the roof layers. See pictures below.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 18th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Jessica searched for types and colors of wood to apply on the sunset panel. She changed the wallpaper on the roof for a warmer color that would match better with the wood panel. She also replaced and rearranged some furniture and colors. See below for some pictures of this work.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 18th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela worked on the improvements requested by Jae. These included changing the carpet to a recovered hardwood, adding a drop-down TV on the ceiling, a surround sound system, and a new option for the pull-out sofa. She worked a bit on the cost analysis table too, adding a few more items and editing the new sofa. Gabriela then ran a couple of renders to test the lights and materials. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a meaningful life 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 continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We reviewed more recipes through page 170 on the 3-Day Menu Block doc providing comments regarding some of the ingredients relating to the omnivore and vegan options of the same recipe and answering comments related to our previous comments.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 26th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn started with adjusting recipes and making corrections on meals on old menu blocks based on comments and suggestions. She continued to develop recipes for the second week menu blocks taking into consideration suggestions for vegan/omnivore proteins and has concluded the meals for the second week menu blocks ending with the Second Week H menu block. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a meaningful life 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.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• 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 creating a meaningful life 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 19 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

The core team also completed another 18 hours of reviewing, giving feedback, and creating imagery and video for the new overview video (and other videos) Arthur is developing. The pictures below show some of this review work.

Here are some of the images we created for the new video updates:

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 29th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun worked on wrapping up Eiki’s PRs. She went through Eiki’s DropBox folders and figured out his implementation logic, created a plan to split his huge frontend PR into three or four small ones, and raised the first one for review. Once the first PR is approved and merged, she will create more. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yan push a PR #202, it is now possible to send an email to the Admin’s gmail when a user passes the final day. She also re-organized the user management page look. Although she has completed the set final day button for the view profile page, there are lots of differences between the profile page and the user management for the set final day button. As of now the button is able to set up the final day and patch the last date to the database, but it is not able to delete the final day which is related to the react hook and props problem. See pictures below for some of this work.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 13th week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This week, Arthur worked on updating the Main Page Video, Highest Good Education Video, the weekly background video, and he started a new Ultimate Classroom video labeling task. The main page video is almost done. Putting in the images is all that’s needed. The Highest Good education video is almost ready to export too. See pictures below that are related to this work.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaung joined the Management Dashboard team. He was assigned a task to create a “mark as done” button for admins and owners. He started off with reading and understanding the new function document. Kaung then started working on displaying a “mark as done” button for only the admins and the owners. Then he realized that tasks are divided into “not started”, “started” and “complete” categories. And those with complete categories should not be marked as done so he created a way to display if the button is done or not. He plans to let the other team members know later on about this change. The looks are good but he still needs to implement a function for the buttons to interact with the backend. Kaung also did a PR review for the wbs page but he did not approve it as he wants other team members to confirm it too. See pictures below for some of this work.

Bruce Lin (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Bruce discussed with Jae a new way to crawl the team page to get all the images and names from each person. Jae refactored the pages to help and Bruce also refactored the functionality of crawling the web page and added the feature of extracting the date on which the image was uploaded. He also extracted the first name and last name of each person. Pictures below relate to this work.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kevin continued looking into the code to understand what is going on with the frontend code with the badge system and to track what occurs when trying to delete a badge. As listed from last week, Kevin found the delete function was working properly but the user profile component was getting stale data. Kevin fixed this by updating the user profile and passing in a function from user profile that ‘saves’ the page, to properly update all data and refresh with the correct data. He also fixed the user profile badge system to properly update the featured badges list when assigning user new badges. This process was much of the same with deleting the badges, so Kevin pretty much called the same function. Kevin additionally fixed deleted badges counting toward the max of 5 featured badges, this involved decrementing the featured badges counter when deleting a featured badge. He also did a PR review of a backend commit of reverting to the old timer system and pushed his PR fix to the badge system. Pictures below relate to this work.

Guilherme Wustro (Front End Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Guilherme changed about 34 files that were using the hasPermission function, but he had some bugs, and not all tests are working right now. He started to modify some tests, adding to the mockStates and mockAdminState the rolesMockup, since it’s a new addition that affects all these components. Guilherme also started to think about the relation about back-end and front-end permissions, including some solutions to this case in the google drive file. Pictures below relate to this work.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, no new functionality was added. The filter to eliminate duplicate badges isn’t working as intended. The values passed between the components are difficult to pinpoint. How a badge that is a lower streak is still shown in the badgeCollection even after getting a better higher streak is still unknown. Pictures below relate to this work.

Alisson Rubas (Full Stack Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This past week, Alisson spent his volunteer time studying the users’ authorization roles to try to figure out the best way to fix his bug. Some of his approaches were reading articles, watching videos, and consulting with more experienced devs. As it was requested by Jae, Alisson put the CSS changes from last week back as they were. Pictures below relate to this work.

Vivian Baik (Software Engineer and Project Team Leader) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In addition to getting acquainted with the existing HGN Phase 1 software, she started to develop a user stories flowchart for the HGN Phase 2 which is a material, equipment and tool (MET) tracking web application. Vivian also started to develop wireframes for the main project dashboard and form for adding materials. See pictures below for some of this work.

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One Community welcomes Philip Bogaerts to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Philip has a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from KU Lueven. He has worked for almost 3 years as a Regional Technical Advisor for Guardian Industries, a world leader in glass manufacturing. In terms of structural/thermal glass design and performance, he was the main person responsible for all projects in Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. The main focus was on these three countries, however he also worked on several other projects in different locations around the world. Philip manages multiple priorities effectively, solves problems by making clear analysis, and keeps composure during stressful situations. As a member of the One Community team, Philip is helping research and evaluate the best possible glass and door products and companies for the project.

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One Community welcomes Jieying “Mercy” Cai to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jieying received her Master of Public Affairs with a concentration in climate policy from Brown University and a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She has a genuine interest and rich research experience in market-based approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation. As an ex United Nations intern, Jieying is an advocate for climate justice and she believes the Sustainable Development Goals and Net-Zero Goals should be achieved through inclusive climate action, action that tackles climate change and eradicates poverty and inequality as well. As a member of the One Community team, Jieying is helping with research on the Best community-based solutions for waste-to-energy conversion of non-recyclables and other sustainability topics.

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