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One Community Welcomes Jose Luis Flores to the Engineering Team!

Posted on September 8, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Jose Luis Flores to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jose Luis holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His undergraduate work involves participating in the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge and developing an Integrated Scissor Jack System for Motor Vehicles. He has 7 years tutoring engineering fundamentals at South Texas College where he offers one-on-one tutoring and develops student workshops. His goal is to contribute to the development of eco-friendly technologies and infrastructures so that future generations can experience and admire the wonder and beauty of our Planet. As a member of the One Community team, Jose Luis is helping finish development of the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village.

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Creating an Age of Cooperation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Posted on September 6, 2020 by One Community Hs

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We think humanity is on the brink of creating an age of cooperation and collaboration that will transform our society into a sustainable one. One Community is supporting this with DIY and open source and free-shared plans and tutorials for teacher/demonstration hubs that will work together in a global cooperative for “The Highest Good of All.”

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 6th, 2020 edition (#389) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating an Age of Cooperation
One Community Progress Update #389

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of cooperation 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 review and development of our behind-the-scenes Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. We completed polished concrete research to confirm any construction detail differences with common concrete floor details and focused on tools doc research to ensure appropriate tools are designated for the proper purpose. This involved angle grinders, 3 categories of grinding wheels, cordless drivers, impact drivers, and hammer drills, plus pintle and combination ball hitches – determining the most effective use for our purposes and necessity of each tool. You can see some of the added and edited content below.

Tools, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Continued Review and Development of Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content – Click for Page

The core team also continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we addressed more comments and questions with Stacey and designed and integrated a Spring Lock for securing the table/benches legs shown below.

Murphy Bed Instructions, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Continued With the 2nd-to-final Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #198 of Dean’s work and the focus was continued modeling, addition and texture correcting on trees and other plants.

Earthbag Village, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Continued Modeling, Addition and Texture Correcting on Trees and Other Plants – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 22st week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro continued developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial. This week he focused on adding the titles to the hyperlinks that had none and coding more replacement rules to make this process faster and easier in the future, for examples adding these titles to the hyperlinks that reference a section in the webpage can be done all at once by running a replace rule. Now he only needs to click in the highlighted rule to do that (using Visual Studio Code). Here are some related images of this work.

Best Small and Large scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Continued Developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” Tutorial – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 15th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini continued working on the Material Specifications, Descriptions, and format for final integration from the Google Docs to the Google Sheets. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed the detailed drawings of the Door and Windows, displaying the placement and orientation of both fixtures. He also made and properly scaled the floor plan drawing into the Title Block Template and created a reference document for the upcoming plumbing and electrical plans. He started doing research into the upcoming plans for the plumbing, roof, and electrical systems and made a rough drawing of the roof plan. Pictures are below for this work.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Continued Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey and the core team were working on the Wall section instructions. There were many adjustments needed to the sizes of wood required. All of the pieces of wood in the key were not to scale anymore so she had to resize all the pieces so that they were all in scale relative to all the other pieces. We also had to recheck and question many of the size updates because there were several pieces that ended up being the same size. So going forward, if possible, we can combine these same size wood pieces with different numbers into the same number. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Worked on the Wall section of the Murphy bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 3rd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the remaining tutorials for publication by watching videos and taking notes on earthbag and aircrete construction. She specifically focused on videos about the construction of foundations, doors and windows, making arch/opening forms, and how to create aircrete bricks. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of cooperation 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 completed updating the City Center Water Catchment Design open source hub with all the rainwater collection specifics for the building itself. This is in preparation for our newest member of the engineering team who has joined to finish the related ground-based gutter system and water storage specifics.

City Center Water Rainwater Catchment Design, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Completed Updating the City Center Water Catchment Design Open Source Hub – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 14th week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial. This week she further benchmarked the lightbulb companies using a Google spreadsheet and researched more into lighting accessories and strategies. You can see some of this work in the pictures below.

Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Continued Working on the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies Tutorial – Click for Page

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major, Researcher) completed his 13th and final week helping with research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian completed most of the section for understanding windows and doors. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Most Sustainable Windows and Doors, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Continued Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors Open Source Guide – Click for Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 8th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish researched ideas on how mains lighting could be converted into emergency lighting in a given scenario. Locations of exit signs for zone E, zone F1 and zone D1 on the first floor were also identified. You can see some of the results of this research below.

City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Researched Ideas on How Mains Lighting Could Be Converted Into Emergency Lighting in a Given Scenario – Click for Page

And Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she focused on familiarization with the project, collection of initial data for design (architectural plans, regulatory documentation, etc.), and design of the necessary templates. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of cooperation 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 working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we finished the instructions for the roosting ladder and started working on the steps to build the nesting boxes. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Chicken coop, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Finished the Roosting Ladder Instructions and Started Working on the Steps to Build the Nesting Boxes – Click for Chickens Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of cooperation through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 11th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu added tree and people elements in Lumion and test rendered various locations in preparation for the final walkthrough video render. You can see some of this work below.

Ultimate Classroom, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Added Tree and People Elements in Lumion and Test Rendered Various Locations – Click for the Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 10th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei also added people and other details to the indoor and outdoor aspects of the SketchUp model and completed test renders in Lumion as part of preparing for the final walkthrough. You can see below some screenshots related to this work.

Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of cooperation 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 continued behind-the-scenes updating of the Consensus and Groups of 200+. This week we updated the structure to have 5 as the minimum number of members per group, adjusted the emergency process to an 80% majority instead of 90% to reflect the original intent that it would take 3 people in a 10-or-more group to stop a decision the rest of the group felt strongly about, added a diversity of new FAQs, updated the ideas mind map to integrate dotted lines to show the path of an idea vs solid lines for related comments, and we created a new graphic to clarify the group structures. Pictures of some of this work can be seen below.

Consensus and Groups of 200+, Creating an Age of Cooperation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Continued Behind-the-scenes Updating of the Consensus and Groups of 200+ Content – Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 20th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to newspapers. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and a version of the press release he is sharing.

Promoting our Project, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Focused on Promoting Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Newspapers – Click for Helping Page

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 16th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon spent some time helping out Adam and Jerry over a voice chat regarding questions they had. He then worked on the Heroku server (dev environment) addressing the server’s idling issue which was affecting cronjobs as well as investigating why email isn’t working on that server. On the WeeklySummary component, he did updates to the form submission notifications and added a minimum of 50 word count requirement to the summary text. He then did some code refactoring and small bugs fixing for the WeeklySummary and submitted a pull request for review and merge. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the functionality to add and delete members of a team. Administrators can search for all available users and assign one user to a specific team by clicking the teams icon on the list page. They also corrected the confirmation message on deleting a team. An autocomplete text input box has been introduced in the team members list popup which allows the admin to search and select a user and then add that user as a member to the team. You can see some of this work below.

Completed the Functionality to Add and Delete Members of a Team – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 9th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi changed the position and the function of the “cancel” button. After people edit time, an edit-time notification pops up. If people click “cancel”, the edited time will be reset to the original one. Also, she resolved all conflicts between “feature/Timer” and “development” and completed the function so that an email will be sent if they get a blue square and popup reminders will inform them how close they are to a blue square when time is edited 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, etc. times. You can see some of this work below.

Changed the Position and the Function of the “Cancel” Button – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 4th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor determined what could be potential drivers for increases in premiums. She reviewed several papers and webinars to understand the components of a premium and all of the factors that are taken into account when creating a premium. She also consolidated the information she has gathered thus far to only include the information that is most relevant to finding the best insurance plan for our organization. Some of the materials researched included a webinar on the drivers of health insurance premiums as well as articles that provided in-depth explanations of health insurance premiums. You can see some of this work below.

One Community's insurance options, Creating an Age of Cooperation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #389

Determined What Could Be Potential Drivers for Increases in Premiums – Click for Health Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris completed testing of the Header and Monthly Effort Components. He looked through some of the other components that were assigned to Jaspal and realized that they were not connected to the App so skipped them at this time as he was not sure if they were functional. Chris started on Unit Testing the Project Component and has completed a good portion of that component. At the current moment Chris has gotten test coverage of 50%, which once Jun Hao’s tests are pulled in the testing coverage should reach in the 60-80% range, as there are several unconnected components that haven’t been used and tested. These will have to be taken into account from a code coverage perspective. You can see some of the code for Chris’ work below.

Completed Testing of the Header and Monthly Effort Components – Click for Highest Good Network

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun finished the unit tests for the UpdatePassword component from last week. He tried different approaches, such as mocking the action creator for just testing the component and mocking the server for testing the whole component-action-reducer process. Finally he utilized MSW to mock the server for achieving better test coverage. He then started working on the UserManagement component. He created separate test files for each sub-component for better code layout and better readability. He finished almost all the components expect for the integrated UserManagement component. You can see some of this work below.

Finished the Unit Tests for the Updatepassword Component – Click for Highest Good Network

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One Community Welcomes Yiqi Feng to the Software Design Team!

Posted on September 4, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Yiqi Feng to the Software Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yiqi received her B.S. in Automation from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China and her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California. She is passionate about full stack development and big real-time data technologies and has hands-on experience with React, Redux, and Node.js. Before joining One Community, Yiqi finished several large-scale programming projects and developed an open source real-time data management system to receive dataflow from distributed servers. As a volunteer at One Community, she’s helping develop the React.js version of the Highest Good Network software timer functionality and edit time functions.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM YIQI!

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One Community Welcomes Ashish Hirani to the Engineering Team!

Posted on September 4, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Ashish Hirani to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ashish earned his bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Pune University, India and his master’s in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He has 6 years of experience designing, testing and commissioning fire suppression systems for substations, high-rise buildings and refineries. As a fire protection engineer, he studies the causes of fires, the behavior of fires in different environments and methods to help mitigate the risks associated with fire. In his spare time, Ashish loves hiking, playing table tennis, cricket and biking. As a member of the One Community team, Ashish is helping with the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design.

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Rebuilding Our World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Posted on August 30, 2020 by One Community Hs

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Rebuilding our world as a sustainable one is possible if enough people want it. One way to achieve this is to demonstrate a self-replicating sustainability model that provides a way of living that is better than the way most people are living now. One Community’s designs for such a way of life are an evolution of sustainability that combines sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing with sustainable and “Highest Good” approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices.

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 August 30th, 2020 edition (#388) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Rebuilding Our World
One Community Progress Update #388

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is rebuilding our 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 review and development of our behind-the-scenes Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. This week’s focus was research and additions to the narrative, tools, and equipment details. You can see some of the added and edited content below.

Site Selection-Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Focused on Research and Additions to the Narrative, Tools, and Equipment Details – Click for Site Preparation Page

The core team also continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we addressed a diversity of comments and questions with Stacey and researched resources for securing the bed and settled on and designed the Hook Eye Latch and L-brackets shown below.

Murhpy Bed instructions, Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Continued With the 2nd-to-final Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #197 of Dean’s work and he fixed the problem from the last couple weeks with all the trees rendering with boxes around them. He also added furniture to the patio and more plants to the front area by the main window.

Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster designs-Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click to Visit

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 21st week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro continued developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial. This week he finished the editing of the images and tables of the article, and started to edit the images on his next article about hydropower. Image-addition tasked included finding the same image as the researchers at the best possible quality, resizing it to the standardized size of 640px width, renaming them to onecommunity image name conventions, adding the 2px black borders, adding caption text where needed, adding SEO alternative text, transform the tables to images and make them click-to-open the spreadsheet. Here are some related images of this work.

Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options, Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Continued Developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” Tutorial – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 14th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week she continued developing the Master Tools and Master Materials lists and updating the Master Spreadsheet to match. This last week’s main focus was copying images in Google in such a way that they will stay where she places them. She also tried to establish a standard code for those materials and tools. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials, Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Continued Developing the Master Tools and Master Materials Lists and Updating the Master Spreadsheet – Click for Earthbag Village

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis formatted the layers of the AutoCAD floor plan to standard specifications. He added framing details for the doors and windows and completed the section views and an elevation view with the updated rearrangement of the bathroom fixtures to meet both ADA and public bathroom regulations. Pictures are below for this work.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Formatted the Layers of the AutoCAD Floor Plan to Standard Specifications – Click for Net-zero Bathroom

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacy completed updating the Clothing&Storage assembly group. This assembly was complicated and required us to simplify many of the instructions. Many of the measurements needed to be rechecked and some of the screw lengths needed to be adjusted. The headers of each page and the key was kept consistent with the previous 2 projects. All page numbers were adjusted so that there is no more duplication between page numbers and wood piece labeling. Consistency throughout the instructions was addressed and changed as needed. There is still some improvement needed across all groups for components and page layouts. Next she will update the wall section group which includes the bed construction. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Murphy bed instructions, Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Completed Updating the Clothing&storage Assembly Group – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is rebuilding our 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 Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 13th week as a member of the team. This week Angela worked on editing her content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial, fixing grammar, doing more research, and finishing compiling her list of products so they are now ready for final formatting. You can see some of this work in the pictures below.

Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial, Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Continued Editing Content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies Tutorial – Click for Page

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major, Researcher) completed his 12th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian continued to make additions and edits to the window and door specifics and formatting. He finalized most of the formatting, added to the resources section, started listing spec sheets, and began working on sections for understanding the different types and efficiency differences of the various kinds of windows and doors.You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Most Sustainable Windows and Doors, Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Continued Making Additions and Edits to the Window and Door Specifics and Formatting – Click for Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 7th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused further on the design of exit lighting. The basic exit sign formatting, lighting requirements and spacing distance between the exit signs was identified. Location of exit signs in the basement floor level were also identified. You can see some of the results of this research below.

City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design, Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Continued Working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is rebuilding our 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 working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we finished the instructions for the roosting ladder and started working on the steps to build the nesting boxes. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

chicken Coop, Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Finished Instructions for the Roosting Ladder and Started Working on the Steps to Build the Nesting Boxes – Click for Chicken Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 32nd week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week Mohammad worked on the design criteria report, completing a climate battery integration check, and climate battery modeling. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 96% complete with these structural details.

Aquapini:Walipini engineering details, Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Engineering Details – Click for Page

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 10th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Jessica and Aly created the meals and recipes for Butternut Squash Chili, Lentil & Potato Dahl, Vegan Cornbread, and Rice Noodle Ramen, all for the vegan recipe pages. Pictures of this work are below.

Vegan recipes, Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Continued Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 10th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu imported her model into Lumion and began updating the materials in Lumion to prepare it for rendering. You can see some of this work below.

the Ultimate Classroom, Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Imported the Model Into Lumion and Began Updating the Materials to Prepare for Rendering – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei also started to put the SketchUp model into Lumion and worked on preparing it for the walkthrough. You can see below some screenshots related to this work.

Started to Put the SketchUp Model Into Lumion and Worked on Preparing It for the Walkthrough – Click for The Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is rebuilding our 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 continued behind-the-scenes updating of the Consensus and Groups of 200+ content to better explain the specifics of how the process will work to be efficient and inclusive of all people with groups so large. This week we further developed the mind maps to make them clearer and easier to understand and created and refined an excel sheet to show different transition points as the community grows and the self-governance structure shifts to accommodate that growth. We also began reviewing the content developed for glass and polystyrene recycling. Pictures of some of this work can be seen below.

Consensus and Groups of 200+, Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Further Developed the Mind Maps to Make Them Clearer and Easier to Understand – Click for Consensus Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 30th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he completed the “moving tasks” feature and functionality. This was a big challenge because changing the list of tasks could make an error in the structure of the WBS. Now, when we move a task to a new position, the WBS will re-calculate the position of all the tasks including the task’s subtasks. Pictures below show some of this new functionality.

Highest Good Network software-Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Completed the “Moving Tasks” Feature and Functionality – Click for Highest Good Network

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 19th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to newspaper and TV outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

Promoting One Community, Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Continued to Promote Our Project and the Helping Page to Newspaper and TV Outlets and Philanthropists – Click for Helping Page

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 15th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Andon started off this week by reviewing other member’s video and screenshot overview of last week’s work. He then provided some feedback on Slack to those members that he felt had some issues or needed further clarification. A big chunk of his time this week was also dedicated on helping out with a full review and merge of pull requests #71-73 from the “HighestGoodNetworkApp/unit-testing” branch (Unit testing Login, Logout, Dashboard and ForcePasswordUpdate tests) working closely with Chris Weilacker. He then spent some time updating the documentation for WBS 1.6 in the “HGN Functional Specifications Documentation”. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team continued working on the team functionality. They completed the functionality to update the status, delete a team, and listing the users of a team. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Team Functionality – Click for Highest Good Network

Adam Capdevill (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam completed a mock data unit test for the user profile, checking that the components are stored and fetched properly. At the end of the week, Adam collaborated with team members over best methods of approach for Unit Testing in React, and laid out a development plan for the rest of the unit tests. You can see pictures of some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 8th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi added a “cancel” button to the time entry form and invalidated the edit button when it’s not the same day or has been edited 5 times. As a result, people can’t edit their time entry form after their 5th time edit. She changed the original algorithm for counting the time edits too. Now, Only editing the TIME should cause them to get a warning. Editing their description should not give a warning or count as editing their time. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) also completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Jerry spent this week considering the groundwork needed for WBS 2.1. Consideration was given for the database models that will be changed as well as those that will need to be added. Additional routes will need to be added to the REST API in order to query these database changes. Ideally, database and API design can be completed next week so that tangible work can begin. Pictures of some of this are below.

Worked on Considering the Groundwork Needed for WBS 2.1. – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 3rd week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor continued her research finding different plans that each insurance company offered. She also did more research on the information needed by each company to get a quote. For each company she has looked for a general summary of their benefits and coverage and the costs provided with each different type of plan. You can see some of this work below.

One Community's insurance options, Rebuilding Our World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Continued Researching Different Plans That Each Insurance Company Offered – Click for Health Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris completed and cleaned up the Login and Dashboard Test files utilizing Screen and wairFor whenever possible. Chris also completed the ForceUpdatePassword tests and got them passing. You can see some of the code for this work below.

Completed and Cleaned Up the Login and Dashboard Test Files Utilizing Screen and WairFor – Click for Highest Good Network

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun finished the unit tests for the Timelog component. Specifically, Jun finished all 27 test cases for the Timelog component, where 16 of 27 were finished this week, and 11 of 27 were completed in the first week. Jun then started to build the unit test for the UpdatePassword component. Jun refactored the previous tests (which were implemented in enzyme and were completely failing) with react-testing-library and fixed most of the test cases. You can see some of this work below.

Finished the Unit Tests for the Timelog Component – Click for Highest Good Network

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Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions – One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Posted on August 23, 2020 by One Community Hs

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What if we were globally addressing climate change with local solutions? Would this be a better approach than the government-led approaches currently being used and promoted? One Community supports doing both and we’re leveraging our open sourcing and free sharing philosophy to help through carbon-neutral and carbon-negative approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 23rd, 2020 edition (#387) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with local solutions 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 review and development of our behind-the-scenes Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. This week’s focus was organizing headings, reviewing articles and adding info to the soils testing section. We also researched, created the narrative, and added photos to a new section called Compaction of Construction Project Site and added more resources.

Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Focused on Organizing Headings, Reviewing Articles and Adding Info to the Soils Testing Section – Click for Site Selection Page

he core team continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we addressed a diversity of comments and questions with Stacey and researched different latches for securing table/benches, designed the right angle lock, and tested all the possible latches on the 3D model as shown below.

Murphy Bed, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Continued With the 2nd-to-final Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #196 of Dean’s work and the focus was trying to fix issues with some trees showing up with black backgrounds or boxes around them. This has been a multi-hour process that has yet to be successful. Now Dean is trying other workarounds, seeking to identify and remove the trees creating this problem rather than trying to fix them.

Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster designs, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click to Visit

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 20th week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro continued developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial. This week’s focus was on editing the images of the article, finding the same image as the researchers at the best possible quality, resizing them to the standardized size of 640px wide, renaming them to onecommunity image name conventions, adding the 2 pixel black borders, caption text where needed, SEO alternative text, and making some of them click to enlarge. Also some other web edition details and replacing rules to make things easier to complete in the visual studio code. Here are some related images of this work.

Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Continued Developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” Tutorial – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 12th week as a member of the team. This week, Angela completed the final round of plastic recycling tutorial edits and additions. She also made good progress making edits to her Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial and is also finishing compiling the lists of lightbulb products. She hopes to be completing her lightbulb tutorial this week. The pictures below show some of this work.

plastic recycling tutorial, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions – One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Completed the Final Round of Plastic Recycling Tutorial Edits and Additions – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the Net-Zero Bathroom floor plan by rearranging the bathroom fixtures for the purpose of meeting public and ADA bathroom regulations. He added information to the cost analysis document by researching the availability and prices of the items listed out in the materials document. He also began educating himself on the standards for our title blocks in preparation for the completion and approval of future plans. Pictures are below for this work-in-progress.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Continued Working on the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click to Visit

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week she addressed many comments on the development doc and really focused on seeing this part of the project more as a whole, rather than a series of separate files. She double checked we are using the correct measurements and components, cleared up issues regarding the hinges being used on the benches and table, and focused mostly on the clothing and storage area, which she has almost completed. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Murphy bed instructions, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Continued Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 2nd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah made alterations and improvements to the dome calculations spreadsheet, read and prepared suggestions for the behind-the-scenes Dome-home Site Selection, Planning, Preparation and Maintenance, and reviewing the current behind-the-scenes Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial. She also began taking notes on the Bioveda earthbag and aircrete construction videos. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with local solutions 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 Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major, Researcher) completed his 11th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian continued work on the window and door report by adding product images, refining the formatting, and reading the work over to make various edits. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Most Sustainable Windows and Doors, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Continued Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors Open Source Guide – Click for Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 6th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on research and design details for emergency lighting, related power supplies, optimum lumen levels, etc. You can see some of the results of this research below.

City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Continued Working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with local solutions 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 working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we continued with the building instructions for the roosting ladder, developing pages 105-111 of the complete instructions, and you can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Chicken Coop instructions, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions – One Community Weekly Progress Update #387, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Continued With the Building Instructions for the Roosting Ladder – Click for Chickens Page

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 9th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Jessica and Aly created the meals and recipes for Carrot Cabbage Slaw, Cheezy Biscuits, Simple Mashed Potatoes, Split Pea Soup, and Shepherd’s Pie, all for the vegan recipe pages. Pictures of this work are below.

Vegan recipes, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Continued Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

Alanis Peguero (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 3rd week working on the updated/final designs of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Alanis focused on two main goals. The first one was to correct the volume, surface area and heat loss calculations to match updated geometries of the structures. The second one was to start the selection of the climate batteries optimum duct sizes using the friction loss method. You can see some of this work below.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions – One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Continued Working on the Climate Battery Design for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with local solutions through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu modified the amphitheater to a more natural design and made an axion section cut to show the effect of the design. You can see some of this work below.

the Ultimate Classroom, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei combined the Ultimate Classroom’s SketchUp model and rendered an axion view to show the other half of the external design. You can see some of these contributions below.

Ultimate Classroom, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Combined the Ultimate Classroom’s SketchUp Model and Rendered an Axion View – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with local solutions 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 began updating the Consensus and Groups of 200+ content to better explain the specifics of how the process will work to be efficient and inclusive of all people with groups so large. This week we developed a mindmap showing how ideas are implemented using the large group consensus model. We also developed a mindmap of the general explanation of the different groups within the large group consensus model. We added to the FAQs and made a simple excel sheet that calculates the number of each group that you need for this model based on the population size, then we developed a table summarizing the Who, What, Why of each group, as well as a pictorial of the model. Lastly we brainstormed different names for the groups, to better differentiate between the Discussion Groups and Decision Groups.

Consensus and Groups of 200+, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Began Updating the Consensus and Groups of 200+ Content – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 29th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he was working on the final feature for the WBS: moving tasks (or drag and drop). The “drag and drop” which he developed last month has some bugs and he tried to change it to a feature that lets the user select the position of the task instead of “drag and drop”. For each task, there is a dropdown to select the position the user wants to change. However, he couldn’t make it work this week, so he’ll continue development next week. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Highest Good Network software, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Worked on the Final Feature for the WBS: Moving Tasks (or Drag and Drop) – Click for Highest Good Network

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 18th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to newspaper and TV outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

One Community helping page, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Continued to Promote Our Project and the Helping Page to Newspaper and TV Outlets and Philanthropists – Click for Helping Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 15th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen has been working on the React Overlay. She did some coding experiments of different implementations, mainly for her learning experience and to satisfy her curiosity. In addition, Wen attempted to import batch data and finished a related tutorial.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 14th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon started off investigating an issue with the Development Environment where it didn’t run some cron jobs as the week transitioned to the next week. He also updated the weekly summaries reports page to generate PDFs with custom names as well as improved the Weekly Summary page responsive display for better views on mobile devices. Additionally he updated the documentation for the HGN Unit Testing Guide to now include testing with React Testing Library (RTL) and Mock Service Worker (MSW). Finally, as Andon completed the Weekly Summaries (WBS 1.6), he now turned his attention to the Leaderboard component (WBS 1.2) which has been assigned to him as the next task. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team continued working on the team page functionalities. The confirmation popup to status change and delete has been created and completed the option for adding a new team. Default sorting has been implemented in the descending order of created date, also the total team count and active team count has been added. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Team Page Functionalities – Click for Highest Good Network

Adam Capdevill (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam began researching unit testing done in a React environment. He also completed privacy settings and the toggle switches for the user profile, as well as fixed a bug dealing with viewing user profiles without privacy settings instantiated. Adam also began working on the user profile, teams and projects component. You can see pictures of some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Began Researching Unit Testing Done in a React Environment – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 7th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi added blue square functionality in the time entry page. If users edit a time entry more than 5 times (5 is the total time that users can edit the form even when they refresh the website), a blue square will be issued. You can see some of this work below.

Added Blue Square Functionality in the Time Entry Page – Click for Highest Good Network

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) also completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Jerry continued work on task WBS 2.2.1. This week, Jerry was able to fetch all necessary data from the backend. Currently, the component is able to display all teams the user is managing, the members belonging to each team, as well as each member’s total hours. Jerry will spend further effort on the visual design of the component and having current week’s hours displayed for all members. Pictures of some of this are below.

Continued Work on Task Wbs 2.2.1. – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 2nd week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor began working on organizing the different plans and insurance companies available to choose from. She has chosen ten insurance companies to pick from and has gathered information on their contact info, reviews, and the types of plans offered. For each company, she has listed several different plans to choose from, what those plans offer, and how they are different from each other. You can see some of this work below.

One Community's insurance options, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Began Working on Organizing the Different Plans and Insurance Companies Available to Choose From – Click for Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris looked into the Unit Testing being done on the HGN project. After splitting up the work with Jun and Jaspal he got the Login.page.test.js file to work, added a test for a snapshot of Dashboard, and created a mock state file with code that can render a Redux app via React Testing Library. You can see some of this work below.

Looked Into the Unit Testing Being Done on the HGN Project – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaspal Bainiwal (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jaspal set up the unit testing environment on his local machine. He then began unit testing his first component, the Memberships. As his first week there were struggles to getting familiar with the frameworks and the codebase of HGN. As a result Jaspal completed one component unit testing in full coverage. You can see some of this work below.

Set Up the Unit Testing Environment on His Local Machine – Click for Highest Good Network

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun spent some time setting up the development environment, playing with the HGN web app, and understanding the behavior of each component. Chris, Jaspal, and Jun had a meeting to divide the unit testing work, and Jun decided to take charge of Reports, Timelog, UpdatePassword, UserManagement, UserProfile, WeeklySummaries, and WeeklySummary components. This week, Jun mainly worked on understanding the detailed logic of the Timelog component and its sub-components. He finished the unit tests for DeleteModal, TimeEntry, and TimelogNavbar. He also finished some reusable helper functions for helping render components that require react-router and redux-store. You can see some of this work below.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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One Community Welcomes Shuwei Liu to the Design Team!

Posted on August 22, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Shuwei Liu to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Shuwei earned her master’s degree in landscape architecture and Urbanism from University of Southern California and B.S. in Landscape Architecture from Purdue University. She also had a full-year internship experience with a multidisciplinary firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts working on a wide range of projects including a school campus, commercial plaza and residential garden. Through all her professional learning and internship experience, Shuwei has become passionate about changing the environment and “user” experience through landscape design. She likes to learn new things and meet new people to continue expanding her professional skill and life experience. As a member of the One Community team, Shuwei is helping with developing the external learning area and playground for the Ultimate Classroom project.

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One Community Welcomes Xiaolu Song to the Design Team!

Posted on August 22, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Xiaolu Song to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Xiaolu earned her Master of Landscape Architecture degree from USC in May 2020 and has 3 months of internship experience covering residential and commercial projects in Austin, Texas. She is a dynamic and motivated professional with the skills to work cooperatively as well as individually. She believes excellent landscape design projects will find the real value, meaning, and possibility in the places people encounter and occupy. As a member of the One Community team, Xiaolu is helping develop the Ultimate Classroom landscaping.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM XIAOLU!

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Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Posted on August 16, 2020 by One Community Hs

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Has the time come for creating a new global eco-cooperative? Are we ready to work together globally to help humanity become a sustainable civilization? One Community thinks the answer to both these questions is a resounding ‘YES!’ and we are creating the open source and free-shared plans necessary to achieve this.

Here’s our project overview
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Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
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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 August 16th, 2020 edition (#386) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative
One Community Progress Update #386

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new global eco-cooperative 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 finished our detailed review and content additions for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. This week we added the final case study exams, formatted the Google Doc so it is ready for publication, and began the process of constructing the page.

Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Finished Detailed Review and Content Additions for Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Page – Click to Visit

The core team also reviewed and integrated into our behind-the-scenes Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content a diversity of untitled resources from previous site selection research and, after consulting MEGA, Missoula P.E., restructured the steps for Site Prep and began rewriting that as a more comprehensive approach. You can see some screenshots of this work-in-progress below.

Site selection, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Reviewed and Integrated a Diversity of Untitled Resources Into Our Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 19th week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro continued developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial. He continued adding content to the page and also worked on writing software tools for replacing rules to identify small but time-consuming website code addition tasks like adding a line break before every header. This was done with “visual studio code” and a find-and-replace plugin that uses regex code to write down each replacement rule.

Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Continued Developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” Tutorial – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed the first draft of the AutoCAD floor plan of the Net-Zero Bathroom and started working on elevation views of the front of the structure in AutoCAD and using the Solidworks model and AutoCAD floor plan in conjunction to accurately scale the bathroom. Section views A, B, and C on the floor plan were drawn on AutoCAD using the same method used to construct the elevation plan. Pictures are below for this work-in-progress.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Continued Working on the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click to Visit

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was on the nightstands. She integrated all the notes that were requested, made layout improvements, further identified missing steps and renders, and submitted the Nightstands Working File 8-5-20.pdf for review. She also updated the component Tally Sheet screw count for this group and started working on the Clothing & Storage group by applying the global changes to that layout and simplifying the instructions as needed. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Murphy bed instructions, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Continued Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah completed a thorough review to finalize the Earthbag Engineering Page, reviewed and made revisions to the related Earthbag Engineering loading spreadsheets, and reviewed the dome calculation spreadsheets for alterations and improvements.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Joined the Team and Began Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new global eco-cooperative 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 Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major, Researcher) completed his 10th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian finished a draft of products ranked with companies and began ranking best products overall. He also made other edits, most notably altering the product list for Ply Gem. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Most Sustainable Windows and Doors, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Continued Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors Open Source Guide – Click for Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 5th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on more code and product research to choose the correct Exit Lighting. You can see some of the results of this work below.

City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Focused on More Code and Product Research to Choose the Correct Exit Lighting – Click for Sprinkler Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new global eco-cooperative 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 working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we finished the instructions for removable trays and started working on roosting bars, these changes are on pages 101-106 and you can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Chicken coop, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Finished the Instructions for Removable Trays and Started Working on Roosting Bars – Click for Chickens Page

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 9th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Jessica and Aly created vegan recipes for Savory Biscuits, Morracan Style Soup, Simple Curry, and Dilly Cabbage. You can see these here.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Continued Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

Alanis Peguero (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 2nd week working on the updated/final designs of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week she focused on calculating the thermal requirements the climate batteries would have to provide for the Walipini 3. She also started calculating the desired airflow characteristics and making the analysis for the fan selection. You can see some of this work below.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Continued Working on the Climate Battery Design for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new global eco-cooperative through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu further developed the SketchUp model for the amphitheater, trolley path and small town play area, music wall and play structure, and fruit garden and farm land areas. You can see some of this work below.

Ultimate Classroom, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Further Developed the SketchUp Model for the Amphitheater and other Outdoor Areas – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 7th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei further developed the SketchUp model for the farm and outdoor areas, material identity and animal farm area, swing and slide, and other play structures. You can see some of these contributions below.

The Ultimate Classroom, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Continued Working on the SketchUp Model for the Farm and Outdoor Areas – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new global eco-cooperative 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 Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 28th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he updated the “adding links” feature, so users can add, edit, and remove links for a task. He also designed a “project users” feature to “add all” members to a project. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Updated the “Adding Links” Feature, So Users Can Add, Edit, and Remove Links for a Task – Click for PHighest Good Network

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 17th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

helping promote One Community, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Continued Promoting Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Media Outlets and Philanthropists – Click for Helping Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK talent team worked on the Team page, eslint correction and ember app migration to Azure – which is still giving us challenges. The teams list page is now done and lists all teams and status. A search box also has been added to search teams based on name. You can see some of this work below.

Worked on the Team Page, Eslint Correction and Ember App Migration to Azure – Click for Highest Good Network

Adam Capdevill (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam reviewed the majority of Andon’s summary submission feature and submitted comments for peer review before approving the pull request. He then shifted his attention back to developing his own module, working on privacy toggling, displaying teams & projects, and overall refactoring. Adam ended the week collaborating with Andon to wrap up his code review and submitted his pull request. You can see pictures of some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

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Reviewed the Majority of Andon’s Summary Submission Feature – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 6th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi checked the recognition when people just paste a link into notes. She fixed a bug where the time entry form was cleared after first time edit. Also, she added timer editing-tracking functionality to count and save edit times in MongoDB. Additionally, she implemented different notification popups when people edit their timer the first 3 times, fourth time, and fifth time. After people edit the time entry form and close the notification, data time-edit changes are now saved. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Jerry made tangible progress with his task of WBS 2.2.1: Create the ability to easily see each Team Member’s weekly hours committed and hours completed for the week. We are now able to fetch all of the teams the current user is managing as well as the members of each team. Additionally, we fetch the time entries of each user. In the next week, Jerry will create basic components to display this information and will integrate with other necessary components from other development members. Pictures of some of this are below.

Made Tangible Progress with the WBS 2.2.1 Task – Click for Highest Good Network

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