One Community welcomes Palak Gosalia to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Palak is a budding engineer who recently completed her Master’s degree. She is a young woman in tech and has demonstrated her ability to contribute effectively to software development projects. With an innate enthusiasm for tackling new challenges, Palak actively seeks opportunities to refine her skills and share the knowledge she has acquired. As a dedicated member of One Community, Palak has undertaken the responsibility of reviewing numerous pull requests and gaining a comprehensive understanding of our codebase. Furthermore, she has initiated efforts to create unit test cases for various front-end components, showcasing her commitment to ensuring the robustness and reliability of our Highest Good Network software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM PALAK!

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One Community is designing a Highest Good future, and we’re open sourcing the complete process. As an all-volunteer organization, we’re designing open source sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Our model is more than a blueprint – it’s a self-replicating engine for positive change through global collaboration. Committed to “The Highest Good of All,” we’re open sourcing and free sharing every step, contributing to a world that’s not just sustainable but fosters fulfilled living for everyone.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 1st, 2024 edition (#563) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Highest Good Future
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HOUSING PROGRESS FOR A HIGHEST GOOD FUTURE

One Community is designing a Highest Good future 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 Highest Good future village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source Highest Good future portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, Abhishek Kadian (Architect) continued his work on the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster option. He worked on creating a Revit file, adding more details to the model such as the site and dome structure details. Additionally, Abhishek researched wooden joist fixing details and gathered some reference images of roof detailing in a way to incorporate them into the Revit model to the proper detailed section. The Earthbag Village is one of the first two components we’ll construct as part of our Highest Good future through open source Highest Good housing. See the collage below for a summary of this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused on addressing comments for two pages, the Rainwater Harvesting, Water Catchment, and Swale Building Open Source Hub and Portal, as well as the Water Recycling Net-zero Bathroom. All comments were reviewed and amended, awaiting final approval. Charles also worked on the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More page. Both top-level and secondary Tables of Contents were implemented, featuring mouse-over titles and anchor links for navigation to specific sections. Finally, titles were added to the links within the resources section. This research is part of One Community’s Highest Good energy component for creating a Highest Good future. The collage below shows his work.

CITY CENTER PROGRESS FOR A HIGHEST GOOD FUTURE

One Community is designing a highest good future 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 Highest Good future function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) completed the examination of the cost analysis related to materials and furniture for Room 10 in the Duplicable City Center, focusing specifically on a Boho-industrial aesthetic. Concurrently, she finalized files for previous and ongoing room design projects within Duplicable City Center, including the DWG drawings of the rooms. Additionally, Amiti curated a themed mood board for the final room in Duplicable City Center, Room 7. The Duplicable City Center is the second of the first two components we’ll construct as part of our Highest Good future through open source Highest Good housing. The collage below shows some of her architectural renderings.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) focused on the completion of City Center Hub Connector’s placements for the third row, ensuring coverage and functionality. He then worked on finalizing the design of the hub connector for the fourth row, situating it throughout the entire row. Julio also worked on transitioning to the hub connectors for the fifth row. However, this specific section of the dome introduces added complexity, necessitating the creation of multiple variations for hub connectors due to potential differences in the angles between beams at various nodes. The collage below shows his work on the connector design process.

 

FOOD PROGRESS FOR A HIGHEST GOOD FUTURE

One Community is designing a Highest Good future 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 with Hayley on the Highest Good food component. We focused on the Food Edits document, addressing concerns and responding to queries within the comment section. We analyzed different sections of the document, ensuring its coherence with the expected increase in Pioneers arriving at the One Community property. Adjustments to food quantities were discussed and strategically planned to accommodate the larger population. The One Community food infrastructure is an open source foundation of our designs for a Highest Good future. You can see the images in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food rollout plan. Hayley reviewed implementation details for a project involving up to 20 individuals, updating information from the initial document’s conclusion. To improve document clarity, she removed redundant content from the EDITs document, eliminating all information below page 72 that duplicated the original. Progress tracking involved transferring relevant content to another document. Additionally, Hayley corrected and formatted links with identified issues within the EDITs document and posed inquiries and comments. The One Community food and housing infrastructure will provide the space and time freedom for the Highest Good future we envision. See below for some of her work.

 

EDUCATION PROGRESS FOR A HIGHEST GOOD FUTURE

One Community is designing a highest good future 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 this Highest Good future 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

 

SOCIETY PROGRESS FOR A HIGHEST GOOD FUTURE

One Community is designing a Highest Good future 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 Highest Good future model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 Highest Good future economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source Highest Good future community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the core team completed 42 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. We also shot and incorporated the video above that talks about how a Highest Good future is a foundation of the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.

The core team also tested the Highest Good Network PRs for One Community, concentrating on HGN PR testing, resolving several issues, including PR#755, PR#1264, PR#1300, and PR#1163. We also encountered issues with PR#1098, PR#1104, PR#1280, PR#1123 and PR#1319. In addition, we communicated with a volunteer to provide more details about the problem with multiple dates of assigned badges, and documented the issue in the Badge section for review. The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to a Highest Good future. See the collage of pictures below that are related to this week’s work.

Vishvesh Sheora (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on elevating the SEO performance of blog posts featured on the One Community website. These focus on key SEO terms like “Highest Good Future.” Vishvesh improved the SEO across critical pages on the live main site of One Community. He raised the SEO scores of various pages above 80 using the RankMath plugin, adhering to best practices for optimal SEO. Additionally, Vishvesh worked on plugin exploration, particularly focusing on tools facilitating Table of Contents (TOC) for WordPress websites. See the work in the image below.

ADMINISTRATION TEAM

The Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Catherine Liu (Administrative and Analytics Assistant, Team Manager) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant), and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). Alyx managed blog content, ensuring optimal performance without the need for adjustments on Ola’s blog page while addressing and correcting a few issues on Catherine’s page. She produced a video for Richelle’s blog during the review process. Alyx also enhanced positive words in RankMath up to the “F” level. Catherine reviewed Admin, Blue Steel, Alpha teams, and individuals, organizing images and summaries in WordPress Editors for final edits. She compared her work with the final webpage, edited three previous blog pages, and elevated the SEO score of one page from 87 to 90. Catherine expanded her knowledge of Google Ads and Google Analytics with her additional time. Ola focused on optimizing the Admin Teams’ workspace, offering constructive feedback to PR Review teams, transferring live blog content, and reviewing admin teams’ work to enhance their performance. Ruiqi completed a review process for Code Crafters Git-R-Done, Graphic Design, and Expresser Team, providing feedback, creating collage images, incorporating SEO keywords in WordPress, and contributing to the Food Infrastructure Comprehensive Cost Analysis Spreadsheet for the business plan project. Shaurya reviewed pull requests, addressed issues, updated tracking sheets, and compiled a concise team summary with a collage for the Highest Good Network team. Xiaolai edited summaries, organized documents, completed webpage development, and submitted it for review, while also utilizing the NREL Solar Market Research & Analysis tool for cash flow simulations in the Business Plan. See the Highest Good Society for more on how all this relates to the Highest Good future. You can see the work for the team in the image below.

ALPHA TEAM

The Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Carl Bebli (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Yongjian Pan (Software Engineer) and  Zichan Yang (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Yongjian tackled the resolution of npm test errors about his pull request, PR #842, implementing a dark mode for the entire application. Recognizing the intricacies of the encountered issues, he sought assistance from relevant developers. During the debugging process, he grappled with numerous warnings generated by the tests, introducing an extra layer of complexity to pinpoint specific failures. Simultaneously, Zichan modified the “usermanagement.css” file to align the button appearance with the specifications outlined in the “BlueSquare.css” file. The adjustments incorporated a linear gradient background color directed towards the bottom right, a refinement specifically applied to the project and team pages accessible to the admin user. Furthermore, these updates were integrated into PR 1746 to ensure uniformity and optimal functionality across the entire platform. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to highest good future. View some of this work in the collage below.

BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer, Team Manager) and includes Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Keyun Huang (Software Engineer), Shubhankar Valimbe (Lead Full Stack Software Developer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), Xuying He (Software Engineer) and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Haohui focused on implementing a “Delete Blue Squares” button in the Permission popup window for the task “Handle and Delete Blue Squares Permissions.” This feature is aimed at allowing users with appropriate permissions to view, update, and delete blue squares. He also reviewed pull requests, including PR1739, PR1737, and PR1759, submitted by team members. Keyun addressed critical bugs by adjusting the CSS logic in PR #1751, improving the hover box position in the blue square section of the profile page, and enhancing visibility and user experience. In PR #1760, she updated the process of adding team members, ensuring an instant display of a member’s status after addition. Nathan responded to Slack messages, learned about volunteer management systems, and reviewed weekly summary requirements. He created a hotfix for permission labels, reviewed tasks marked as ready for review, and addressed ambiguity in permission descriptions. Nathan also provided feedback on team summaries and videos, initiating the creation of a unit test utility for permissions. Shubhankar focused on team management, reviewing and providing feedback on team members’ summaries, pictures, and videos. Additionally, he resolved issues related to the “assign blue squares only” permission, ensuring correct functionality for non-owner accounts. Xiao completed two pull requests, addressing concerns such as timer button overlap and formatting misalignment on smaller screens. He also improved testing process descriptions in prior PRs based on feedback. Xuying continued working on the “Finish ‘My Team’ filter for the Tasks Tab and Leaderboard,” facing challenges in displaying only selected team members correctly. Yubo completed the backend task of creating the Core Team blue squares email format, initiated PR #673, and addressed feedback on PR #1745. Yubo participated in the code review process, providing feedback on Backend PR #627 and approving frontend PR #1742. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the highest good future. The collage below shows some of this work.

CODECRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer) and includes Ramya Ramasamy (Software Engineer), and Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Shantanu created a pull request review for the setup final day pop-up and debugging test cases in UsersProfile/AssignBadgePopup. He also finished the test across various cases, including DeleteUserPopup.jsx #1697, unit tests for TangibleInfoModal #1737, and unit tests for AboutModal, ensuring a careful and systematic approach to maintain the functionality and integrity of the codebase. Ramya completed unit test cases for two components, AssignBadgePopUp, and TeamChartsGroup. In addition to this, she reviewed seven PRs related to phase 2 functionalities. Ramya also discussed with Tan the prospect of enforcing the use of ESLint and Prettier upfront, an initiative aimed at streamlining development practices and ensuring code quality from the outset. Anirudh focused on the unit test case for WBS/SingleTask, addressing all possible scenarios to ensure coverage in the test cases. In addition, Anirudh took updates from all teammates, offering assistance in resolving any issues or challenges faced by the team members. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the highest good future. The collage below shows some of this work.

EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Expressers Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Tim Kent (Full Stack Software Engineer) and includes Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer), Sahil Patel (Frontend Developer), and Vishala Ramasamy (Software Developer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Tim worked on overhauling the Phase 2 documentation, restructuring the document, removing unnecessary sections, writing a detailed “Getting Started” section for developers joining the project, and writing new descriptions of project components. He continued the development of the Add Equipment API by refactoring the frontend components as a webpage rather than a modal and updating the buildingInventoryType model to include a creatorId field. Aishwarya generated a PR for the Tool Purchase Request form. She re-wrote the code, ensuring the seamless functionality of the form. Additionally, Aishwarya reviewed the frontend PR #1585: Ruike message after task submission, ultimately approving the submission. Vishala focused on the Consumables Page View project, contributing to both frontend and backend development. On the backend, she established an API to retrieve consumables data and gained insights into discriminators. On the frontend, Vishala addressed various components, implementing features such as list view for Consumables, sorting functionality by columns, filtering by selected values, and incorporating a modal window to display update and purchase history for consumables. Sahil addressed Pull Requests 1750, 1737, 1736, 1733, and 1704, making enhancements and bug fixes. As Sahil worked on combining these codes, he also concentrated on testing the toggle switch and Teams tab to make sure they work well and are reliable. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the highest good future. The collage below shows some of this work.

GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

The Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Kaikane Lacno (Learning Assistant) and includes, Miguelcloid Reniva (Software Developer), Olena Danykh (Software Engineer), and Rhea Wu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Olena worked on extracting Author and Project names from the backend and displaying them on cards. She also developed a reducer and action specifically for fetching a single BM project, named getBMProjectById, culminating in code cleanup and the submission of changes for review. Miguel enhanced the functionality of a sortable list, implementing logic to detect the position of a dragged element relative to listed values. This facilitated movement within the sorted list and included the addition of an “Edit” option to interact with the sortable table logic. Miguel also addressed various edge cases in the dragging and dropping functionality within the sortable list. Rhea worked on Phase 2 WBS 6.3.2 New Lesson routing and controller. She built and tested the GET functions. Kai’s focus was on bolstering the security features of the system by implementing authentication for the routes associated with the Lesson List page. He integrated a consumable page form into the project and structured the layout based on specifications outlined in the Figma design. Additionally, Kai incorporated calendar functionality into the application, enhancing its overall functionality and user experience. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to the highest good future. The collage below shows some of this work.

GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM

The Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi (Administrative Assistant) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Jackie King (Graphic Designer), and Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer). Ashlesha worked on creating two Volunteer Announcements. She created two bio images and two announcement images for the same. She created and updated web content for both the volunteer announcements. Ashlesha also created three Social Media images and researched and curated a collection of nature-based background images and different theme-based images for creating Social Media Images. Nancy advanced redesign efforts and enhanced various design elements. Additionally, she split the Photoshop file to manage file size and prevent potential issues. See the Highest Good Society for more on how all this relates to creating a Highest Good future. The collage below shows some of this work.

MOONFALL’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Moonfall Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Navneeth Krishna (Software Engineer) and includes Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer), Cheng-Yun Chuang (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer), Jiadong Zhang (Software Engineer), Xiao Fei (Software Engineer) and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Abdelmounaim focused on implementing functions to facilitate the sending of notification emails following the deletion of time-off requests, participating in testing and reviewing Pull Request #1759 by Shrey for unit testing in the WorkHistory module, and contributing to the testing and review processes for Pull Requests #1758 and #672 initiated by Vishala, addressing updates related to the Consumables Page View. Cheng-Yun created unit test code for Members.jsx and Project.jsx, including render testing and verification of correct prop displays, adding new test cases to Members.test.jsx, and initiating PR#1750 with a detailed description of the unit test code. Haoji worked on improving the email editor’s functionality and user interface, introducing features such as centering images and adjusting their sizes for enhanced content formatting. Jiadong replaced the dashboard badge, introducing a new tab within the time log section labeled “Badge” and relocating the badge component beneath it. Navneeth continued working on the “Create Weekly Summary Email for Admins” task, aligning code implementation in PieChart.css and PieChart.jsx, integrating Google Doc links into weekly summaries, gave a final review of PR #1708, and setting up the Gmail API. Xiao Fei completed front-end and back-end pull requests for the ‘Update teams page sorting’ task, enhancing the user interface, implementing sorting functions, and refining sorting icons to ensure a smooth and intuitive user experience. Zubing did many PR reviews for unit tests and high priority tasks and read the code base rule conventions and instructions for unit test reviews. Look below for a collage of their work.

REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Reactonauts’ Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant) and includes Jiangwei Shi (Full Stack Engineer), Shengwei Peng (Software Engineer), Shivansh Sharma (Software Developer), Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer), Shrey Jain (Software Engineer) and Vikram Badhan (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Jiangwei integrated a new feature into the project by adding a tangible/intangible checkbox to tasks on the Tasks tab. In addition to this development task, created tests for another key module. Shengwei addressed a bug in the weekly badge assignment scheduled task, specifically focusing on the issue of the earned date not being updated after the weekly assignment. Additionally, he uncovered another bug in badge’s last modified date on the frontend while working on the fix. Shivansh implemented additional security measures for the delete team and delete user functionalities. He identified the appropriate methods to validate the permissions of the current user, determining whether the user has authorization to delete another user or team. Shiwani focused on writing unit tests for the AddNewTeamModal component. She examined various aspects, including confirming that the modal renders when the `isOpen` prop is true and doesn’t render when `isOpen` is false. Shiwani verified the modal title and label’s appearance as expected, ensuring their presence in the virtual DOM. Additionally, she validated that the team name options, derived from the passed props, displayed correctly in the virtual DOM. Shrey considered all possible cases to ensure complete coverage of the code of two UserProfile components, HistoryModal.jsx and WorkHistpry.jsx. Vikram focused on configuring the local frontend and backend environments and engaged in the review of six pull requests. Look below for pictures of this work.

SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Skye’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Luis Arevalo (Front End Developer) and includes Bailey Mejia (Software Engineer), Fan Yang (Software Engineer), Jerry Ren (Full Stack Developer), Jiarong Li (Software Engineer), Roberto Contreras (Software Developer) and Zuhang Xu (Software Engineer). The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. Bailey focused on the ‘add link to submit’ feature, he worked on the ‘updateMany’ method to enable the update of all task documents with a new field, ‘relatedWorkLinks.’ This addition aims to streamline the management’s review process by allowing users to store relevant links. Bailey revisited his previous pull request (PR) related to the ‘personal max record’ feature, identifying and removing residual console logs. Fan engaged in Task 444, which is centered on converting time entry to tangible outputs. In addition to this task, he also performed peer reviews, specifically examining and providing feedback on three front-end pull requests. Jerry tested on backend pull requests 619 and 666, approving the associated changes. He initiated the testing phase for pull requests 1741/667, noting the addition of a “Do not review” label during the session, leading to the abstention from approval or rejection of the PR pair. Jiarong transitioned to a new role in the development team, which began with the start of a reflector task. Luis resumed work following a two-week break, reviewing notes and reacquainting himself with the point of interruption. He integrated the front-end and back-end systems, facilitating the transmission and removal of new warnings to streamline the process. Luis shifted focus to reinforcing his understanding of React and Redux concepts, aiming to address lingering confusion. Roberto concentrated on refining the “Jump to Another Person’s Dashboard” pull request, enhancing the logic of the associated popup yellow bar. Roberto documented instructions for using this mock data if a pull request is submitted before fixing the leaderboard functionality. Additionally, he investigated unexpected behavior in the frontend related to code opening a new window. Zuhang finalized a significant issue where the space drop-down menu was not appearing during username searches. See the collage below for some of their work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM

The PR Review Team’s summary covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant). This week’s active members of this team were: Aaron Persaud (Software Developer), Chengyan Wang (Software Engineer), Christy Guo (Software Engineer), Ilya Flaks (Software Engineer), Jay Yong (Software Engineer), and Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. The Highest Good Network software is how we’ll be measuring progress towards a Highest Good future through our social architecture, construction, production, and maintenance processes. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.

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One Community welcomes Smit Bhoir to the Administration Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Smit has over 2 years of data/business analysis experience, driven by a keen interest in leveraging analytics for business impact. Proficient in Python, SQL, Tableau, Excel, and Power BI, he specializes in deriving actionable insights from complex datasets. With a Master’s in Information Systems from Stevens Institute of Technology, he adeptly gathers user requirements, documents business needs, and excels in data modeling. Smit is passionate about driving business success through data; his expertise lies in harnessing analytics for business intelligence and innovation. As a member of the One Community Team, Smit has helped track and manage Software PR review teams’ weekly work, analyze and boost Google Ad Campaigns to enhance user engagement, and generate insightful data visualizations for Highest Good Food developments.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SMIT!

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One Community welcomes Vishala Ramasamy to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

With more than 4 years of experience in software development spanning a wide range of projects, Vishala is adept at handling various types of software projects. She specializes in intricate web designs that incorporate features like tree views and drag-and-drop functionalities. Vishala has developed this web-app MathGotEasy to showcase her development skills. She excels at staying current with the latest technologies and is highly skilled in crafting code that is both efficient and easily understandable. As a valued member of the One Community team, Vishala has helped with bug fixing, UI design, front-end development, back-end development, and database design for our open source Highest Good Network software.

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In a relentless pursuit of maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences, One Community stands as an example of what’s possible through a collaborative effort. Our all-volunteer organization is dedicated to creating sustainable solutions across food, energy, and housing, to education, economics, and social architecture. Fueled by the vision of “The Highest Good of All” our model, evolves sustainability into a self-replicating force. Committed to global stewardship practices, we’re open sourcing and free sharing the complete process, working towards a world that not only regenerates our planet but also creates fulfilled living for everyone.

• 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 maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences and this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 25th, 2023 edition (#562) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Maximizing Involved and Meaningful Life Experiences
One Community Progress Update #562

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences 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

See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences.

This week, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused on addressing comments for four pages. Specifically, he worked on the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors page, making adjustments to the right margins of the icons. Additionally, he gave attention to the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering and Design, along with the Rainwater Harvesting, Water Catchment, and Swale Building Open Source Hub and Portal. While most comments on the latter page were resolved, some still need clarification. Afterward, he continued work on the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More” page. The sections covered reasons for comparing lightbulbs for sustainability, selecting the most sustainable light bulb, and exploring types like incandescent, compact fluorescent, and light-emitting diodes. The page also discussed discerning the best sustainable light bulbs, decoding LED light bulb labels, identifying the most sustainable light bulb companies, and evaluating the best energy-efficient lights, including alternatives. Company logos and names were linked to their respective websites as part of the ongoing content development. The One Community food and housing infrastructure will provide the space and time-freedom for maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. See his work on sustainable lightbulbs and light bulb companies in the collage below.

Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) focused on reviewing content related to Earth Dam risk assessment and dam break hazard assessment. These assessments play a vital role in securing the safety and stability of dams by pinpointing potential risks, vulnerabilities, and consequences linked to dam failure. This information allows for the implementation of measures aimed at reducing risks and improving public safety. The One Community food and housing infrastructure will provide the space and time-freedom for maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. You can see her work on dam assessment in the collage below.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) had a meeting with Chris to delve into the complexities of system operations, particularly emphasizing detailed mechanics. Yiwei assigned the task of overseeing calculations concerning overall distributions and waste load, aiming for completion before the next scheduled meeting. Simultaneously, she tracked the progress of the light bulb page and the Duplicable City Center project. The One Community food and housing infrastructure will provide the space and time-freedom for maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. The images below show her work on the mechanics of system operations.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences 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 its function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences.

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) worked on the cost analysis related to the materials and furniture designed for Room 10 in the Duplicable City Center, focusing on achieving a Boho-industrial aesthetic. She assessed the furniture and material palettes, employing a cost analysis methodology to guide her decision-making process. After this assessment, Amiti reviewed the detailed moodboard for the room, presenting the outcomes through slides. At the same time, she worked on finalizing files for previous room design projects within the Duplicable City Center. This City Center is one of the primary gathering spaces that One Community will use while maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. The collage below shows her cost analysis for furniture materials for the City Center.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) finished designing City Center hub connectors for the second and third rows, integrating them throughout the entire dome. This placement guarantees uniform coverage and functionality. This complete set of hub connectors will pave the way for the next step: performing Finite Element Analysis (FEA). This phase is pivotal in evaluating the structural integrity and performance of the entire dome design. This City Center is one of the primary gathering spaces that One Community will use while maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. See the images below for an idea of his work on hub connector design.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences 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

See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences.

This week, the core team continued working with Hayley on the Highest Good food component. We focused on resolving comments by verifying all unaddressed information from the Rollout document was incorporated into the Edits document, which is slated for publication on the website. The One Community food and housing infrastructure will provide the space and time-freedom for maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. You can see the images in the collage below.

Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food rollout plan. Hayley contributed to the development of the EDITS document, incorporating new items and refining its content. Noteworthy tasks included adding the food forest test plot to the 20-person material list, researching videos on ribbon and jar soil tests, and reviewing various items, including the drip irrigation system. Within the EDITS document, Hayley took the lead in initiating the final editing process, reviewing and annotating the content, and marking revisions. The One Community food and housing infrastructure will provide the space and time-freedom for maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences. See below for some of her work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences.

One Community is maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences 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.

See the Highest Good Society page for more on how all this relates to maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences.

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 maximizing involved and meaningful life experiences 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

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One Community welcomes Haohui Lin to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Haohui is an experienced software engineer with a rich background spanning over 2 years, encompassing a wide array of project types. His expertise lies in thriving within dynamic and challenging environments, where he excels in solving intricate problems through efficient and effective solutions. Haohui possesses a deep sense of ownership, coupled with a passion for tackling problems using advanced software technology, and a keen ability to empathetically understand user needs. Proficient in crafting client-side applications, web APIs, and logical services, his solutions are characterized by their reliability, scalability, and maintainability. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network software team, Haohui has made substantial contributions to maintaining the business platform and orchestrating detailed project development for all endeavors undertaken by One Community.

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One Community welcomes Anny Wang to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Anny is passionate about software development. After working as a dietitian for a while, she discovered her love for technology through interactions with the software she used at work. Anny signed up for a bootcamp and learned the MERN stack. Now, she is dedicating her skills to One Community. She believes that software development can help improve society and the world. As a software engineer of the One Community team, Anny is contributing to the development of the open source Highest Good Network software.

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One Community welcomes Rhea Wu to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Rhea boasts a robust background in full-stack engineering, accumulating over 4 years of hands-on experience across diverse tech projects. She has a proven track record of thriving in fast-paced development environments, tackling intricate challenges, and delivering efficient and effective solutions. As a member of the One Community team, Rhea has been instrumental in crafting comprehensive technical roadmaps and executing full-stack development plans for Phase 2 of the open source Highest Good Network software.

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One Community welcomes Yi Lin to the Infrastructure and Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yi is a proficient Computer Science professional, holding a Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an Associate’s degree from Bunker Hill Community College. Yi likes to demonstrate his strong aptitude for software development through various projects, particularly in the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node.js). These projects highlight Yi’s ability to effectively utilize a range of modern software development tools and methodologies. As a member of the One Community team, Yi has applied his strong problem-solving skills and technical expertise to help develop the Highest Good Network software and fix bugs.

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One Community welcomes Ruiqi Liu to the Administrative Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ruiqi received her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Economics and Policy from the University of California, Berkeley in 2023. She then started her Project Management journey with One Community on the Administrative Team. She has managed complex projects in a fast-paced work environment and efficiently solved a variety of challenging problems. She believes that increasing resource efficiency, doing more with less, and leveraging resources and infrastructure for sustainable development are ways to have a positive impact on the environment and the economy. As a member of the One Community team, she has contributed to the weekly updates posts on the One Community Updates Blog, provided ongoing feedback and support to the volunteer team, and helped with cost analysis for the business plans for One Community’s ongoing projects.

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