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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One Community welcomes Kaung Htet Myat to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Kaung came to the United States from Myanmar to study computer science in 2018. He graduated from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. With 4 years of academic experience, he has worked on various projects implementing reinforcement learning models and web development. From learning web development tools and building small projects, Kaung has experience with MERN stack development too. As a volunteer software engineer, Kaung is helping the One Community team with software design for open source Highest Good Network project and time tracking software.

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Preserving conditions that make life wonderful is something that can be studied, quantified, constructed and replicated. One Community is developing open source and free-shared models to achieve this. They include 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

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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 23rd, 2022 edition (#500) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Preserving Conditions that Make Life Wonderful
One Community Progress Update #500

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is preserving conditions that make life wonderful 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 worked with the aircrete team to organize a materials list, preliminary testing on foam quality when using soft water, and reiterated better HGN-related communication to avoid further blue squares. The same team member also continued to address comments in the City Center Hub Connector final document and worked on and assigned to Luis the final steps needed to complete the energy task. Pictures below are related to this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 82nd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey completed a version of the instructions that are ready for a final review. The PDF has been updated with new cover pages and a directory added to the beginning of the booklet. There is a glossary being added to the back pages that is not completed yet. The URL links in the component section can be updated to working links but this will be done manually and at the same time we can create the glossary. Depending on final use, several versions of the booklet can be created. For now, we are focusing on a PDF file format which is intended to be either downloaded or viewed online. If the booklet needs to be more interactive with clickable images and links to videos, those features can also be added later to any PDF or ai file. Screenshots below relate to this work.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 64th week, now helping mainly with the Solar Microgrid sizing. Luis met with the core team to discuss the Solar Sizing Project and developed some calculations for analyzing the energy demand. He will continue working on validating his methodology and look to begin documentation modifications for the the Net-zero Bathroom component in the meantime. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 31st week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. ​​This week Diwei edited spreadsheets of peak discharge calculations for the stormwater harvesting system based on comments and summarized the filtration of the disinfection train of the rainwater harvesting drinking system. Some processes of water treatment were discussed and labels were added to some figures of the storage containers outlet and water treatment train. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 27th 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 tasks from previous weeks: Calling on business owners that he had already sent messages to, looking for potential plants/facilities, recording their info on the spreadsheet, and contacting sellers for instructions, especially on minimum capacity per day to fulfill our goals for small communities. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 7th 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 continued her research on recycling construction waste. She rewrote the section about impact crushing and added more hardware/plant options. Mercy also researched how to recycle waxed cardboard and absorbent hygiene products. She finished writing both sections and filling the table for plant recommendations for these two feedstocks. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Philip Bogaerts (Structural Window Designer) completed his 6th week working on completing the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research. This week Philip corrected the remarks in the door spreadsheet and started determining which window manufacturers will be considered for the ‘Best window’ spreadsheet. In the spreadsheet, Philip finished 2 qualification sections and worked on two others. He did this while adding some research about PVC, comparing them with other materials such as fiberglass and aluminum. 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 2nd week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team practiced using the compression testing equipment. They used the old cylinders that the previous team made for stucco and didn’t end up using. This provided the team with practice on how to maneuver the compressor. They also prepared a materials list and shared it with Jae to confirm the procurement of resources and came up with a new approach for recording data. ictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is preserving conditions that make life wonderful 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 first floor dormer framing. We finished modeling the first floor dormer that includes modeling the rafter tails for the dormer roof, roof rakes (two on each side), fascia boards and framing for siding support. We also started creating a model for framing of the second floor dormer. We designed a 48”x48” sliding window, set up the height from the floor to the window (3’ 5/8”), installed a double sill for the window, and designed framing in the lower part of the under-window wall section.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 52nd week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on detailing the roofs for the 4th floor. She exported all roofs from SketchUp to Revit with the correct scale and angles and added the joint details to the roofs. See pictures below.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 48th week, now focused mostly on the Duplicable City Center “Updated City Center Project Specification and Design Basis” report. This week Daniela focused on editing and responding to comments on her Flexible Pavement Design section. She went back to previous resources to look through and figure out how she could clarify the narrative. For a couple of comments, Daniela decided to come back to them later because she began to research but realized she needed more information outside of the sources she already had. Daniela continued research for some comments, added to the glossary, focused on rereading sections and working on how to improve them. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 47th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi installed downspouts for the community center. Using previously designed locations as reference, new downspouts were added following the new building additions. The newly added parts were highlighted in green for further review. The team also pointed out the sustainable ideas behind varying ground pavement that the majority of the roads being compact gravel/soil instead of concrete mix. Road material in the master file was updated according to this so it will be reflected accurately in the renders. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 17th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Jessica researched ideas for pieces and panels made of wood for the curved walls of her sunrise room. She worked on the 3D model, created a panel with a sunset made of wood, and tried different models with different shapes and colors to adapt for the design that she has been creating. See below for some pictures of this work.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 17th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela updated the name of her room to “Old Hollywood” and worked on the 3D model, adding more details, changing the chandelier, photo frames, wall covering, pillows and adding a timber ceiling. She also started working on the cost analysis table adding the first basic items (Bed, Closet, Sofa, etc.). Pictures below are related to this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 8th week working on the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage and the City Center Eco-spa and Natural Pool page. Charles spent most of the time this week working on the Table of Contents for the spa page, making sure all the anchor links worked, that there were no typos, and no syntax errors. Charles also updated the captions to be title case and corrected the City Center Hub Connector page based on feedback. See below for some pictures of this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 8th week with the team. This week, Julia reviewed the Feedback PDF for the “City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering” webpage and resolved and added comments as necessary. She also continued to edit and review the corresponding Google Doc and made necessary content edits directly to the webpage. Julia then carefully checked this webpage against the Webpage Review Checklist in order to finalize it for One Community’s website. Julia also reviewed the “BEST DOORS” and “Scoring Criteria Doors” tabs of the “Most Sustainable Windows and Doors” research spreadsheet. She made grammar, spelling, and formatting edits as needed and used the comments to communicate questions and clarifications. Julia then reviewed and edited the “Flexible Pavement Design” section of the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial” Google Doc. Finally, Julia began reviewing the “Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More” webpage. She went through the Feedback PDF and resolved, addressed, and added comments when necessary. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is preserving conditions that make life wonderful 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 the 3-Day Menu Block doc and addressed comments, then reworked the recipes through page 163. The primary comments addressed small portions and excess sodium levels. Numerous edits were made to titles, Tbsp vs tsp, capitalizations within the recipe titles and ingredients lists.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is preserving conditions that make life wonderful 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 preserving conditions that make life wonderful through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 21 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, 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 14 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 28th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun tried to fix the backend merge issue due to Andrew’s new timer feature. She also dove into Eiki’s PRs, trimming the backend PR code. For the frontend PR, Yiyun spent a lot of time to merge it because of the large scope of it. She merged it successfully but found some functionality that didn’t work. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera finished fixing the bugs with the project’s pie charts where the names of projects were not always displayed in the list. Now the backend passes data about the projects to which the tasks belong to the frontend. Vera also finished redesigning the project report page. She fixed the filters so they work properly and the table now looks like those on the rest of the report pages. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week she created a final day button for the admin user according to the requirement “Only an Admin can make a person inactive. This can be done on their Profile Page or through Other Links → User Management (only visible to Admins).” In the past, the final button was shown only on the view profile page, and this week, she put this button on the user management page too. For the emailsender function, Yan also changed the subject and body based on feedback. See pictures below for some of this work.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 12th week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This Week, Arthur focused on working on the Main page video. He added in the block pictures (2x) and fixed a variety of other details based on feedback. In addition to this, he delivered final versions of all of the Highest Good videos and the 5 main videos to Jae. See pictures below that are related to this work.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaung continued working on setting the default tab to tasks if the user role is admin/owner/manager/mentor and/or if the volunteer has any tasks assigned. Kaung wrote a function to check if the volunteer user has a task assigned. At first he encountered a bug where the tasks do not show up if the user is a volunteer. However, he later found out that this was not a bug, but rather the tasks did not show up because the user account that he is testing has no teams assigned to it. Kaung also reviewed a PR and joined the team working on the dashboard feature. See pictures below for some of this work.

Bruce Lin (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Bruce finished implementing the functionality of using a web crawler to crawl all the people’s image links and names down for later use. Although he had some difficulties because of the inconsistencies of the html content, eventually he managed to get all the people’s information correctly and is now able to move forward to the next stage. Pictures below relate to this work.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Kevin continued looking into the code to understand what is going on with the frontend code with the badge system to track what occurs when trying to delete a badge. As mentioned 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. Kevin then 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 within this component as well. He also fixed deleted badges counting toward the max of 5 featured badges. This involved decrementing the featured badges counter when deleting a featured badge. Kevin additionally did a PR review of a backend commit of reverting to the old timer system and pushed his PR for fixing the badge system. Pictures below relate to this work.

Guilherme Wustro (Front End Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Guilherme created the route/roles in the back-end to be used in the front-end. This route is used to update a role that already exists, to create a new role, and to fetch all roles. Using this created route, he made the reducers/actions adapting to the existing logic made by Miguel, but making some changes. Pictures below relate to this work.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. The total badge count and header data bug have been fixed. They weren’t designed to update upon login or logout, which is why they were one refresh behind from showing the actual data. The attempt to reproduce duplicate badges have been unsuccessful. The idea of creating a filter that will first check to see if a badge type is already assigned to a user and if true, add the count to the total count of that badge type is taken into consideration, but at first the code behind creation of duplicate badges needs to be checked. Pictures below relate to this work.

Alisson Rubas (Full Stack Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This past week, Alisson helped review the PRs provided by Vera (#534) and Kevin (#531). He also started working on “Medium: bug number 4. The goal of this bug is to see another person’s Dashboard. This is needed so an Admin or other team member can see exactly what the other person sees. This will save time fixing problems related to their dashboard and communicating with them about it. Also so a non-admin can view relevant information there that might only otherwise be viewable with Admin permissions. Working on this this week, Alisson made some changes in the CSS file for his new task to fix the yellow popup container so it remains at the top of the screen rather than vanishing. Pictures below relate to this work.

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One Community welcomes Charles Gooley to the Web Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Charles “Chuck” is a UCLA graduate and retired aerospace software engineer. Since retirement ten years ago, he has been a web developer for nonprofits. He also enjoys taking science classes and gardening. Chuck joined the One Community team to help develop our WordPress website because he likes web design and applying his development skills. Examples of pages Chuck helped complete are the Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More page and Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa page.

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One Community welcomes Julia Meaney to the Research and Web Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Julia Meaney – International Development Studies Student: Julia currently studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and is pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree in International Development Studies with a Gender Studies Minor. She is involved in various organizations on campus that promote sustainability as well as social justice. Julia’s interests include global affairs, human rights, empowering women, equitable and accessible education, and sustainable living. She passionately works in her professional and personal life to help build a future where all life on Earth is able to thrive and flourish. As a member of the One Community team, Julia is working to assist Executive Director Jae Sabol with a wide range of tasks that oversee and manage everything One Community is doing.

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Open sourcing applied eco-knowledge is what One Community is all about. We are doing this for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. The plans we are developing will be used to construct teacher/demonstration hubs that will share and evolve these plans further and as a pathway to global sustainability.

• 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 October 16th, 2022 edition (#499) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Applied Eco-knowledge
One Community Progress Update #499

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing applied eco-knowledge 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 aircrete team. The week’s schedule, general preparation, pre-experimentation and preliminary order list for materials was identified, they had their weekly meeting, and details were clarified regarding the HGN-related communication. The same team member also addressed several comments in the city center hub connector final document, revised some statics equations, added verbiage, started putting together the DIY option details, and verified text.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 63rd week by wrapping up the research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs and continuing his review of the Net-zero Bathroom calculations completed by Diwei. He verified the final touches of the City Center Spa design narrative for the website and validated the Net-Zero Bathroom calculations. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 30th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. ​​This week Diwei wrote the narrative for the configuration of the various water tanks. The advantages and disadvantages of connecting tanks in series and in parallel were introduced. Two configurations of two and four tanks connected in parallel for the rooftop rainwater harvesting system were presented. Piping, valve, fitting, and valves were summarized. Different types of pressure tanks were also discussed. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 26th 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 the similar tasks as the last week: seeking merchants selling WTE facilities at Alibaba. Maybe because of the lengthy inquiry message, not so many responses have been received from merchants. An adjustment should be made on the wording to make sure the contact step can be initiated. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 6th 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 reinitiated the research on addressing non-recyclables (e-waste, construction materials, waxed cardboard, etc). She recreated the comparison table according to the template and looked for recycling plants for e-waste and construction waste. She also restructured the tutorials and removed irrelevant parts and references. She researched and wrote the e-waste section in the tutorial and researched recycling methods for construction materials. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Philip Bogaerts (Structural Window Designer) completed his 5th week working on completing the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research. This week Philip completed the spreadsheet of the door section and started organizing the windows section. He was also researching which door manufacturers are also manufacturing windows and came to the conclusion that the window manufacturers will probably be different from the door manufacturers. This, because those who do both, usually do not come out on top and therefore it seems companies who focus on doors or windows only are better choices. 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) joined One Community and completed their 1st week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week, the aircrete team set up the new mixer recommended by Aircrete Harry and created an excel sheet of materials on hand and an order list. The team looked into getting soft water and, out of the options available, decided to go with buying gallon jugs of distilled water. The team also worked on locating the air compressor and getting weekend access to the lab. Pictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing applied eco-knowledge 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 started creating the 3D SketchUp model for the City Center first floor dormer framing. We set up double level cripple studs, double sill plates for the window, king studs, trimmer studs, header, dormer corner post, dormer double rafter plates, and the dormer ridge and roof rafters. We also sized the window to 36’’ x 72’’. The same team member also worked on updates for the Aircrete Engineering and Research webpage. She resolved comments by fixing formatting of paragraphs, adding 2px borders to the images, and checked the HTML code to remove code for ‘font-weight: 400” formatting.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 51st week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus updated the interior design for room 12 and worked on detailing the new cupola roof. She exported the roof models from the SketchUp file to Revit for detailing, made a 3D model of the roofs on Revit, and requested the exact number of dimensions and height of the roofs in order to continue working on the detailing. See pictures below.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 47th week, now focused mostly on the Duplicable City Center “Updated City Center Project Specification and Design Basis” report. This week Daniela finished fixing all of the bullet points that were numbered incorrectly based on what she had noted previously. At times the formatting of the bullet points on the doc created other issues. After completing this, Daniela started working on the List of Tables. She went through the report multiple times and labeled all of the tables and bookmarked them. After going through and including the tables she had previously missed, Daniela linked the bookmarks to the top of the report where the List of Tables is. She plans on going back and creating titles for all tables she found without one. Daniela then moved on to labeling the Figures in the report with the correct format. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 16th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Jessica did research for ideas of an abstract sunrise for the dome wall that could match with the colors and geometry proposed for the room. Then she created a couple options and tested on a 3D model. She also research ideas for texturized wallpapers and panels for the dome wall.  See below for some pictures of this work.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 16th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela finished her work on her first room, the Fairy Garden themed one. She sent all her files for final review and started her second room with the theme “Red Carpet/Oscar”. She did research and started with two options for the layout, working on the 3D. Pictures below are related to this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 6th 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 and completed migrating content from the Google Doc to the web page. He then started working on the Table of Contents and will continue next week. Charles also addressed reviewer comments on his previous page, the City Center Hub Connector page. See below for some pictures of this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Personal Assistant to Jae) completed her 7th week. This week, Julia began with finishing off her reviewing of the Feedback PDF for the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage and added, addressed, and resolved comments. She also continued to check this Webpage against the Website Review Checklist. Julia then reviewed and edited the content of the “Flexible Pavement Design” section on the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial” Google Doc. She added comments with questions, clarifications and more complex suggested edits as needed. When she completed this task, Julia moved on to begin work on the “BEST DOORS” tab of the “Sustainable Window and Door Research” Spreadsheet. She went through this sheet and resolved comments of suggested fixes that had been correctly addressed and also added comments with her own suggestions for improved formatting. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing applied eco-knowledge 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 continued to look for ways to reduce salt content, highlighted finished and approved recipes in green, and differentiated Tbsp and tsp throughout the now 400+ page document.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 25th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn started by correcting recipes based on comments, suggestions and new developments to the menu blocks, which included adjusting recipes or finding replacements for others. After finding that most sardine recipes she created used fresh sardines, she researched canned sardine recipes for future menus. After concluding on adjustments, Marilyn continued to add recipes to the Second Week menu blocks. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing applied eco-knowledge 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 open sourcing applied eco-knowledge 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 22 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 about 7 more hours of reviewing, giving feedback, and creating and providing voiceover audio, imagery and video for the new overview video (and other videos) Arthur is developing. The pictures below show some of this work.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 27th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time into supporting others on Slack. She helped with a problem where new members cannot login or create accounts, figuring out the problem and created a PR to resolve it. She also started looking into Eiki’s remaining PR. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vera worked on fixing a bug where project names are not always displayed in the pie charts on the people report page. She wrote a solution, but didn’t get a chance to test it because the application started crashing with a database error. This error is not related to the solution and it crashes even on the development branch. So now Vera is trying to find the cause of this error. She also spent time investigating a bug related to displaying tangible time by categories on people’s profile page. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan pushed her PR for adding the email reminder for the final Day. This PR enables the app to send an email from our gmail to our Admin’s gmail after the last day they set passes. She also fixed the timezone problem for the final day. In the past, the endDate was converted to UTC timezone in the backend, but now it’s changed to use local time (where a person’s machine is located). See pictures below for some of this work.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 11th week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This week, Arthur worked on finalizing the all 5 main videos and the Highest good videos. He exported the final versions of the 5 main videos, delivered three versions of the Main-Page video, and almost finished the Highest Good education video. See pictures below that are related to this work.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kaung continued working with the bug for the Tasks and Timelogs component. With Jae’s help, Kaung was able to spot that he forgot a simple calculation from his last PR. He worked on the simple change and was able to fix the problem. He also made sure that the “Week before last” component is working. Then he published the PR and the new changes were pushed to the “development” branch as well as the beta app. Kaung also reviewed and approved Yiyun’s PR which is a fix on his previous component to make sure that the current user is shown above if there are tasks assigned. Kaung also wrote a function to change the default tab on Tasks and Timelogs based on the current user’s role in the app.  See pictures below for some of this work.

Bruce Lin (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Bruce confirmed from Yiyun that using a web crawler to get all the images from the website is a feasible way and the right direction to go. He took some time to learn how to build this web crawler. In addition, Bruce found out that to get the user’s names, regular expression is needed and he will dive deeper. Pictures below relate to this work.

Hani Khellafi (Software Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Hani recloned and set up his HGN rest and HGN react App to fix the task board issue. He also worked on fixing the “Mark as read button dismisses the red bell sign only” and the “log/edit/delete timeEntry actions need refreshing the page.” During the process of fixing these bugs, he encountered the same issue regarding the missing current week timeEntries on his local App. Pictures below relate to this work.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kevin got the frontend and backend fully setup, created some test accounts, ran into crash issues with non-admin accounts without projects, and reported the crash to Slack. He then looked into the HGN github to understand more about how the PR reviews work in this system, signed up for two bugs on the ‘HGN Phase I Bugs and Needed Functionalities’ page, and began working on the badge deletion issues. Kevin primarily focused on these issues this week while learning the frontend system. Kevin is pretty certain he’s narrowed down the issue to a couple of possibilities because the data is actually getting deleted, so it’s most likely an issue with stale data that the UI is using. Pictures below relate to this work.

Guilherme Wustro (Front End Developer) joined the team too and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Guilherme set up the React App locally and also the APNRest to do some tests. He also installed redis, nvm (node version manager), and read some documentation about the project. He learned about the HGN Permissions System and cloned the previous designer’s branch ‘Miguel-PermissionsDashboard’. After this, Guilherme created a modal with a form that, when the submit button is clicked, returns an object with an array of the permissions selected and the name of the role. This functionally is working just in the Front-end but still needs to connect with the back-end, to create the reducers/actions. Pictures below relate to this work.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Aashish went through the orientation and initial setup processes, documentation, and reviewed the front and backend codes to get a proper picture of the overall structure or architecture of the web app. He then began working on bugs with the badges system, focusing first on bugs related to the badge counts. Pictures below relate to this work.

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Demonstrating cooperative systems design means showing an integration of cooperative and collaborative models incorporating food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. One Community is creating open source and free-shared plans for all of these components and more. Combined, they will be used to construct the first of a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs to teach others how to implement and expand the plans even 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 October 9th, 2022 edition (#498) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Cooperative Systems Design
One Community Progress Update #498

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating cooperative systems design 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 continued creating the Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More page. We used team member comments after website review to correct formatting of headings, placement of missing links and anchors, aligning/formatting text and headings, reformatting the Frequently Answered Questions section, and adding a 2px black border to the images.

The core team member managing the aircrete compression testing team made sure onboarding was done properly and completely and made a detailed list of assignments for the week. They also reviewed the City Center Hub Connector work and double checked equations and other information that needed clarity for easier understanding by the general public.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 62nd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs and moved on to reviewing the Net-zero Bathroom calculations completed by Diwei. The design narrative was finalized for the Spa with the completion of the chemical automation research with regards to chlorine and bromine applications. Luis was then able to begin validating rain collection projections and drain flow rates for the Net-zero Bathroom. He will continue to expand his role across other projects in the coming weeks to continue supporting teams throughout the organization. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 29th 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 storage containers for the rooftop rainwater harvesting system. Principles of design to reduce contamination of biofilm and settled debris were discussed. He introduced different types of containers and showed the pros and cons of each. Components outfitting the tank, such as inlets, outlets, overflow outlets, air vents, and manway were presented in detail with 3D model renders. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 25th 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 further research into merchants selling waste to energy facilities on Alibaba too. A quick plan was made to improve efficiency of communication. Lots of filters were made to make sure products offered by merchants are relevant to our goal, then the majority of Ming’s time was spent reading their product details. The second time-consuming task is reaching out to merchants, especially since the time zones are different from Ming’s. They respond in their mornings, but that’s his midnight. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 5th 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 started looking for incinerators and other waste-to-energy plants for different sizes of communities on Alibaba.com. She tried to include plants for all the options mentioned in the tutorial. She recorded her research results in a spreadsheet and submitted it for feedback. See below for some pictures related to this work.

Philip Bogaerts (Structural Window Designer) completed his 4th week working on completing the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research. This week Philip worked on the spreadsheet, finalizing the draft of the door section as well as rethinking the scoring criteria. He also worked a bit more on the informative document, specifically on the section of the doors and which one should be top of the list and for what reason. See below for some pictures of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating cooperative systems design 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 50th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus updated windows on the south, west, east, and north elevation, updated the vehicle entry, column location, and server counter to finish section C_C. She then uploaded the master file for her supervisor to provide their final review. See pictures below.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 46th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development and moved on to the Duplicable City Center Updated City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report. This week Daniela was able to complete her corrections to the Flexible Pavement Design section. She searched for the document she had used to write the section in order to figure out what she was originally trying to say. Once making the necessary additions to the narrative Daniela closed out her work for the Flexible Pavement Design section until she receives further feedback on it. Daniela then added another resource for this section and uploaded them all to the DropBox. With this completed, Daniela moved on to the next action item on her list: working on the Updated City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report. As she had made corrections prior, Daniela had to figure out where she had left off and what more needed to be added. Once she did this, she worked on editing formatting issues she had found due to the report changing from horizontal to vertical page formatting. Daniela added this formatting to new material and ensured that it refreshed in the Table of Contents. Lastly, she left some comments for herself and started editing a section of numbered bullets that were not matching the other bullets. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 46th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi added the gutter to the surrounding roof edges, they make a big impact on building appearance. They were added to horizontal edges of the central area mainly, assuming other horizontal pieces are embedded with the larger roof. The greenhouse and barn made by the team was also added into the main model. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 15th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Jessica worked on the 3D model, adding more details to the design. She changed the armchair for a fuzzy bean bag to bring a more fun look to the room, researched appropriate sculptures, and textured the wall with abstract painting ideas. She created a pattern of painting and wallpaper for the dome wall, added carpet, switched the couch for couch-bed, and is still researching decorations for the walls. See below for some pictures of this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 5th week working on completing the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage and now working on the City Center Eco-spa and Natural Pool page too. This week, Charles continued working on the Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa page. He was directed to keep the current content and update from the corresponding Google Doc. He replaced the two images with the word therapeutic misspelled, completed addition of the sections through Control Panel to Pumps and plumbing, and spent a bunch of time resizing and inserting images, many of which had links to images with larger sizes. See below for some pictures of this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Personal Assistant to Jae) completed her 5th week. This week, Julia worked on editing the content of the “Geodesic Dome/Duplicable City Center Hub Prototype A Final Report” Google Doc and updating the corresponding webpage with her edits. Throughout this process, she worked collaboratively through the comments with researchers answering her questions and helping with clarifications. Julia has reached the final stages of editing and reviewing this corresponding webpage, “City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering“, and began going through the Web Page Reviewing Checklist. Julia also worked on the final review of the “Addressing Non-recyclables” development Doc. She has made minor spelling and grammar edits while adding comments as needed. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating cooperative systems design 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. This week we engaged in a phone call with Marilyn regarding all comments pertaining to her work through page 160 on the 3-Day Menu Block doc. We then went back through the doc from page 160 to the beginning and changed all the small case letters in the recipe names to large case, resolving/addressing addition/new comments as we did. Pictures below relate to this.

The core team also updated/converted and standardized all the measurements to match the Master List for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. Pictures below show some of this.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 24th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn took the week to make corrections based on suggestions and comments to recipes she’d previously made. She also went ahead to split recipes that had double complex protein recipes on all Fresh Week menu blocks and a few Second Week menu blocks. As part of this process, she saved unused recipes to be added to future menu blocks. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating cooperative systems design 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 demonstrating cooperative systems design 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 22 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.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 26th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun spent most of her time on enabling ESLint for the frontend repo, she also applied the changes of the “actions” directory based on the ESLint rules and created a PR for this feature, a really large change. Yiyun also dug into Prettier usage so she can configure Prettier in the next week or so. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan wrote the email sender for the final day function this week and tested it. This function enables the app to send off an email from the app gmail to the app Owner. The Gmail account could not be sent to others without authorization due to safety. Therefore, our team members use OAuth 2.0 to provide specific authorization flows for web applications. The authorization process needs some credentials and passwords, such as the password of our Gmail, refresh token, and client ID. She didn’t have these credentials so she tested it using OAuth 2.0 to authorize her own Gmail account. It worked well and she submitted final questions to her supervisor. See pictures below for some of this work.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 10th week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This week, Arthur worked on updating all of the following videos: Duplicable City Center, Why Now Video, Highest Good Society, Highest Good Food, Overview Video, What Is It Video, Global Strategy, Get Involved. He also worked on the main page video, integrating the video we shot from the week before. See pictures below that are related to this work.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaung started off working on the dashboard bug. While he was working on the final change of the team member tasks and timelog bug, he noticed that the HGN beta application does not work correctly. On the beta version, when the current user clicks on “week before last”, the application crashes. Moreover, the current week timelog is also showing a different timelog. So Kaung reported the bug and started working on fixing the it. Kaung first tried the application on his branch and everything seems to work fine. So he switched the branch to the development branch and compared the codes. Not finding any differences in the components, he ran the development branch and everything works on the development branch too. When he was scanning the codes, he spotted a tiny error but it does not seem to be related to the bug. Kaung is still working on finding the error. Meanwhile, Kaung was able to switch the current tab to tasks by default, but still needs to work on making tab 2 default if there aren’t any tasks assigned. See pictures below for some of this work.

Bruce Lin (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Bruce chose a bug on the bug list but later found out that the bug was somehow fixed by itself and chose another one to work on. Bruce chose the one that requires a cron job to scan all the images from the website. Right now Bruce is still seeking a way to get all the images from the website. Pictures below relate to this work.

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

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Creating an abundant world through sustainability will benefit us all. We have the technology and ability to do this and address our generation’s greatest challenges. One Community is creating open source and free-shared community teacher/demonstration hub models and plans to form a global collaboration that will lead the way by demonstrating what is possible and how to replicate the models and components. They include 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 October 2nd, 2022 edition (#497) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating an Abundant World
One Community Progress Update #497

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating an abundant world 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 continued creating the Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More page. We completed a detailed review of the finished first draft of the page.

Then another core team continued updating the aircrete webpage based on that feedback. She updated formatting of the headings, converted heading titles to all caps, inserted an extra line before each heading title, added missing anchors, and recreated data tables in a spreadsheet and generated images of it to be placed on the site (instead of building the table there) so it will scale properly on phones and other devices. 

The core team member managing the aircrete compression testing team created a task list for the new aircrete team. The tasks were broken down by week and addressed important questions around sustainable building materials. We also helped with the onboarding process of the new aircrete team, responded to comments on hub connector document, and made plans to address some with the input of a mechanical engineer. 

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 45th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela continued to focus on making correction and addition to the Flexible Pavement Design section. As Daniela had previously bolded any phrases that needed changing or more explanation, she had also left all the bolded section she knew would take longer to complete. Therefore Daniela focused on those bolded areas this week, researching more information or referring back to previous resources in order to better explain the narrative. She also added a term to the glossary in addition to downloading all the resources that had been used and incorporating them/linking them to the resources section of the Roadways Report. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 28th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. ​​Diwei summarized the main components of collection and pre-filtration in the rainwater harvesting system this week. Members of collection and pre-filtration include roof, gutters and downspouts, and pre-filtration. Guidelines for the selection of roof material for potable and nonpotable water were introduced. Sizing gutters and downspouts, and different styles of pre-filtration were discussed. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 24th 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 communication with all the merchants he’d found in Alibaba, or introduced by previous merchants via sharing name card. After filtering information, results have been organized and he’s come to the conclusion that WTE solutions via incineration are not for small-scale applications. A minimum amount of 220 tons per month of waste seems to be what is needed. Merchants manufacturing incinerators have suggested use of small but non-WTE products, so a new approach has to be figured out. The next focus is research on outputs of smaller incinerators to explore ways to sustainably use them. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 4th 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 tutorial as planned. She researched and wrote the “Examples of countries with sustainable programs in place”, “Conclusion”, and “FAQs” sections. She also reviewed previous research and edited and rewrote the “Cost analysis examples” and “Upcoming challenges to WTE and how to get prepared” sections. Mercy then finished formatting the references list and saved copies of articles to her DropBox. See below for some pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating an abundant world 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 61st week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on the final touches for the narrative and concluded the research on chemical automation. There were a few loose ends to be wrapped up and now he’ll work with the website team to make adjustments on the information if needed for publication. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 50th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya finished updating the herb garden model. She accomplished the work of remodeling the edible flower’s gardens around the leaf garden to make sure it perfectly connects to the edge of the leaf garden and also modified the Plant Tag frame to match the new roads. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 49th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus updated the vehicle entry, column location, and server counter. She updated windows on the south, west, east, and north elevation and added other structural details according to the updated plans. She will send the master file to her supervisor for review this week, but still needs to work on section C_C. See pictures below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 45th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi assisted on window discussion and communication. The window made was test fit into the current model verifying its frame fit. The Greywater greenhouse pond was also further improved based on feedback. Instead of pumping water up to an elevation to create the cascading water effect, the pond now starts at ground level and we use gravity to create the same effect, which is more sustainable. A curb around the pond was added for water retainment and decorative purposes too. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 15th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela finished the bathroom of the room she’s been working on. She added more details at the Cost Analysis table, finished the second final render and started a third (that need adjustments that she will be working on her next week). Gabriela finished the bathroom presentation and also did a layout for the wall finishes installation. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 14th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Jessica inserted the window on the 3D model and did more research on references, to find furniture and new elements. She tried different models of chairs, lamps, beds, dressers and wardrobes, mixing them together to find a good visual result. The theme is Sunrise dream and she is working with sunset sky colors. The color palette is pink, blue, purple and golden for the metals. Elements like clouds, birds and abstract paintings will be essential. See below for some pictures of this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 4th week working on completing the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage and now working on the City Center Eco-spa and Natural Pool page too. Charles continued working on PDF comments/feedback for the Hub Connector page. He had a meeting with Jae to discuss issues with the page and made notes of the issues Jae brought up and spent a few hours resolving them. He moved text that was too long in captions, uploaded larger images and linked them to the corresponding smaller images, and corrected heading sizes, spacing, & capitalization. He also updated alt tags to contain more keywords and shortened the title tags and captions for images. Charles then started working on the Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa page. He was directed to keep the current content and update from the corresponding Google Doc. Charles noted that the introduction was unchanged and that there were new sections starting with ECO-SPA Layout. He completed the sections through Control Panel to Pumps. He also noted that two of the images had the word therapeutic misspelled and that they needed to be corrected. See below for some pictures of this work.

Amanda Costa e Silva (Architectural Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the dormer window designs for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week she completed her onboarding process, evaluated the designs in SketchUp 3D and realized the complexity may be beyond her abilities, then spent the rest of the week researching to confirm the code specifics we need to comply with were correct. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating an abundant world 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. This week we focused on addressing limited ingredients of recipes, balancing out ingredients with instructions where they were not mentioned in both, and asking for clarity when the omnivore and vegan recipes overlapped. Pictures below relate to this.

The core team also finished our part of the 3D SketchUp model for the animal area and greywater system area. We researched the amount of required water related to the size of water tower and then created the water tower in SketchUp with a maintenance access door in the base of it and the One Community logo on the upper part of the water tower. The team has agreed to remove this logo, but it was fun to see it in the renders.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 23rd week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn continued to produce more recipes for the Second Week Menu Block, specifically Second Week G menu block. She rescaled some recipes to adjust the proteins in already created recipes. Marilyn also adjusted old recipes on menu blocks according to comments and suggestions. She is in the process of readjusting recipes with complicated V/O proteins and expects to finish the Second Week menu blocks next week. The pictures below relate to this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Personal Assistant to Jae) completed her 4th week. This week, Julia worked on the “Master Recipe and 3-Day Menu Blocks” Google Doc and added “(V&O)” to necessary recipe ingredients in order to allow for more accurate calculations using the Master Recipe spreadsheet. While doing this, she updated the Master Recipe Spreadsheet with new ingredients and reviewed recipes on the Doc. Julia also checked through the web design feedback Dropbox PDF for the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage and ensured feedback was appropriately integrated. She then went through the corresponding Google Doc and the webpage, making corrections for grammar and spelling mistakes and restructuring content for clearer communication to the reader. Julia updated the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage with her edits and corrected minor coding issues when necessary. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 21 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, 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 several more rounds of reviewing and giving feedback on the new overview homepage videos Arthur is developing (see below).

And core team team leader Jae also went to the San Gabriel river with Arthur and shot new video for updating the main intro/overview video on our homepage. Pictures below are from this shoot and giving feedback on which clips we should use vs. not use.

Chris Weilacker (Senior Software Engineer) completed his 40th week of formal contribution to the Highest Good Network software. Chris helped with a diversity of ongoing support for the team answering questions and helping with various emergency bugs. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 25th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun put most of her time into enabling Eslint for the frontend repo. She read the Eslint documentation and added a couple rules in the Eslint configure file and finished the changes to the files in the “component” folder. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yan wrote the email sender function for when a person reaches their final day. She wrote the draft code and tested the code by reference PR 146, but it did not work. She asked for help from another team member and is waiting for an answer. See pictures below for some of this work.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 9th week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This week, Arthur went to the San Gabriel River to shoot the content with Jae for a new intro video on the homepage. He then worked on syncing and selecting the best shots for Jae to choose, as well as starting to build the sound bites. He also worked on delivering and updating the Highest Good food video version 1 and fixing the other videos based on Jae’s feedback. See pictures below for some of this developing work.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kaung made sure that the tasks that make a user move to the top of the user list were ones contained in the WBS. He also created functionality to sort the users in alphabetical order. The current user will still stay shown on top of the list when there is a task assigned to the user too. He then started studying code to work on his previous bug, “Dashboard → Click dot by person’s name in the Leaderboard”. See pictures below for some of this work.

Bruce Lin (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Bruce finished all the needed concepts and syntax for React, Redux and JavaScript. He then started to work on a bug that’s related to a the time log modal that automatically pops up when the page sits open for an hour or so. However, Bruce looked into the issue but had no luck on how to solve the issue. He contacted some of his team members for some advice and will continue next week. Pictures below relate to this work.

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped us with integrating Google’s new Analytics 4. The pictures below are related to this and the process is still ongoing.

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One Community welcomes Arthur Olifant to the Marketing Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Arthur is a French videographer who graduated from Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, NY. He got his Associate’s Degree in Broadcast Media Communications. Over the past 4 years, Arthur has developed skills in videography, editing, audio recording, lighting and in story-telling. He had the chance to develop his Portfolio through various written, directed, and edited short films in France and the USA. A few of them have earned awards in festivals in Rome, Paris and NY State. In 2020, Arthur had the opportunity to study in the US for tennis and he decided to go into the Broadcast Media Communications major. There he learned how to create promotional videos, produce and host TV shows, and create news packages. As a One Community team member, Arthur is helping update all the One Community promotional videos.

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Building eco-systemic permanence means building systems designed to last because they integrate with and support Earth’s natural systems that we all depend on. One Community is including open source and free-shared DIY-sustainable models covering 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 September 18th, 2022 edition (#495) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Eco-Systemic Permanence
One Community Progress Update #495

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building eco-systemic permanence 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 continued creating the Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More page. We added missing links to the Foam Tutorial video, updated the text font to default (Georgian) font for six pages of previously entered text, and added text with images. We also added the graphs and external links for the Cylinder Mold Removal Process, Compression Testing Machine Process, Results and Aircrete Video Resources sections. Images below show some of this work-in-progress.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 43rd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela focused on making final edits for the Flexible Pavement Design section. She thoroughly read through the narrative and bolded all phrases and sentences that needed to be rephrased. Daniela then went through and made the narrative sound more cohesive. She altered some of the sentences in order to ensure that the message was being properly conveyed and added images to make it easier to understand. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 26th 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 the calculation of the peak flow discharge of drains for stormwater harvesting. The peak flow discharge at each inlet, combining the slope, is used for determining the pipe size downstream of each inlet. He also summarized the rooftop rainwater harvesting system design from the calculation of rainfall supply, water demand, and catchment area for optimization of the water storage capacity. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 22nd 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 a lot of contacting merchants via Alibaba. While looking at main information about WTE solutions, he had to learn how inquiries are made for business purposes (like what is RFQ, and how to speak as a representative of a company). Also it took time to sort and filter useful replies. Two examples (Ms. Zhou in China and Mr. Bien in Vietnam) are shown in the weekly images below. Their replies implied the minimum of feedstock input is still greater than our small-scale goals and this may not make their products economically feasible. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Philip Bogaerts (Structural Window Designer) completed his 3rd week working on completing the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research. Philip started working on the spreadsheet for “Sustainable Door Products” and added 11 products. He also further updated certain sections in the “Door and Window” Google Doc, especially in the frame section, because it is more complicated than originally thought to rank ‘the best door/material’. To actually rank the best door, it will depend on the spreadsheet system where he still might make some adjustments in ranking ‘cost per ft² per R Rating’. A note was added to the spreadsheet. See below for some pictures of this work.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 2nd 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 WTE conversion options left from last week (Pyrolysis, Landfills, Pulverization & Drying, Torrefaction, Liquefaction, Fermentation, and Anaerobic Digestion). She adjusted the structure of each section according to the example given in the working doc, and started editing the county case study. She also researched and filled in the comparison table. Once the table is completed, she’ll be able to rank the options at hand. See below for some pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building eco-systemic permanence 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 worked on content for the Solar Microgrid webpage. We replied to and reviewed comments from previous volunteers, organized current tasks in the Weekly Team Action Item Page, and continued the explanation of energy estimates spreadsheet for solar sizing for the Foundational Calculation Section. We also double checked the values for the dryer and updated the source of the information.

The core team also completed detailed review and feedback on the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage that Chuck has been developing.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 59th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week, Luis continued his development of the City Center Spa Design website summary. He focused on the development of the resources and formatting. The team also discovered a missing component of the narrative, the chemical usage within the spa, and started on that research. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 48th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Huiya updated the pond model at the main entrance and fixed the underground ramp problem she came across last week. She also found a problem when she brought in the herb garden, the size of the original herb garden mismatched the current CAD drawing and reached out for help to fix it. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 47th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus updated the interior design plan for rooms 1, 2, 8, and 11. She also added new dormers and windows for the east and west elevations. See pictures below.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 13th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela selected and implemented small square glass tiles with mixed pastel colors for the bathroom. She ran a few test renders to be sure it would work and the results looked good. Gabriela also estimated the cost of the closet and started to estimate the cost for the bed too. Pictures below are related to this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 3rd week working on completing the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage. Charles continued working on the web page for the City Center Dome Hub Connector using content from the content in the Google Doc. He corrected the comment on the formatting of the section on “Ways to contribute and researchers”. Then he added the remaining images and the equipment needed to bend metal and cost for the equipment to the end of the page. Charles also worked on the Table of Contents, linking the table to anchors in the text. This required deleting some of the original entries in the Table of Contents and adding some new ones. Charles then reviewed the page against the checklist, marking the items on the list. He cropped inadvertent margins off the images at the bottom and replaced the images that were there with the cropped images. See below for some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building eco-systemic permanence 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 wrote up an FAQ for “Why Nutritional Yeast?” highlighting those points and referencing two resources. We then continued with the 3-Day Menu Block doc review, questioning portion sizes, capitalizing Tablespoons to more easily differentiate between teaspoons on various recipe ingredient lists, and addressing numerous grammar and other corrections. Pictures below relate to this.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 21st week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn searched for more second week recipes that would work without fresh vegetables for both vegans and omnivores. She also responded to comments and suggestions that required adjusting recipes. She also started the process of researching the next fresh week recipes for the summer fresh week menu blocks. The pictures below relate to this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Personal Assistant to Jae) completed her 2nd week. This week, Julia worked on the “Open Source and DIY Permaculture Design” webpage and completed various coding and web design tasks. She organized the tables of content, coded anchor links, and formatted and reorganized webpage content. Julia also began reviewing and managing the completion process for the “Addressing Non-recyclables” research for the associate webpage. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building eco-systemic permanence 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 building eco-systemic permanence 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 14 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

The core team also updated the Seeking Software Developers Page and the Highest Good Network Page and the Highest Good Network WBS to reflect the evolution of the Highest Good Network software.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 23rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun switched to work on the feature “add edit button on singleTask page for advanced users” per Eiki’s request, he wanted that feature to help him solve the merge conflicts. She finished this feature, created a PR and got it merged. For the management work, Yiyun had a call and connected with a new team member. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera worked with the pie charts on the people reports page. She added a pie chart for projects with committed hours. Vera also changed the behavior of the tasks pie chart. Now it displays information about logged hours and shows only the most recently modified tasks. It is also possible to view the pie chart with all tasks by clicking on the “view all” button. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yan wrote a deactivated user function and tested it. The test function made it possible to test a future date immediately. In the real situation, if today is the final day, the function will set the user’s status from active to inactive. But in the test situation, since we want to see the effect immediately, she wrote the function to add 5 days, which means if today plus 5 days is later than the final day, the function will change from active to inactive. See pictures below for some of this work.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 7th week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This week, Arthur worked on updating the outro video. He had to export the outro with different music and re-retime the transition to the beat. He also worked on the Highest Good Education and Highest Good Food videos. Both have been delivered for review. See pictures below for some of this developing work.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaung worked on moving Team Member Tasks to make it a tab along with the Time Entries. He made some changes to several files associated with Tasks and Time Entries functions to keep the functionality of these components. Kaung also did 2 PR reviews. One of the PR reviews is for the frontend where he tested if the timezone changes from input for editing and creating users. Another PR reviewed was for the backend where he tested if the user got deactivated after a preset final day. The second PR review took longer for him as it was his first time working with the Highest Good Network App backend. Kaung has also picked a frontend bug to start working on. See pictures below for some of this work.

Hani Khellafi (Software Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. For his first week, Hani completed the initial setup process including filling out and submitting the volunteering agreement form and setting up the HGN app locally. He also reviewed 3 pull-requests: PR #179 (timer service), PR #497 (manager edit suggestion functionality), and PR #508 (WBSname bug fix). Hani also took time to learn about new packages and technologies implemented in the HGN app like Circle CI, Websocket and Radis. Pictures below relate to this work.

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