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One Community Welcomes Obeda Andrilalaina Velonjatovo to the Software Development Team!
One Community welcomes Obeda Andrilalaina Velonjatovo to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Obeda graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from San Jose State University. His passion lies in web development, and he aspires to use his software development skills to make a positive and meaningful impact in the world. Obeda has contributed to various projects, including an e-commerce platform named OSD for office supplies and the Go Split Android application designed to facilitate bill splitting. He believes it’s important to use resources wisely, do more with less, and support sustainability to positively impact both the environment and the economy. As an active member of the One Community Team, Obeda is helping implement new features and address bugs in the Highest Good Network Software.
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Creating Positive Change Permanence – One Community Weekly Progress Update #559
With a mission of creating positive change permanence, One Community’s initiatives include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fostering fulfilled living, global stewardship practices. Beyond constructing a community, we’re creating a replicable model poised to establish teacher/demonstration hubs globally. The essence of our approach lies in open sourcing and free sharing, ensuring the evolution of sustainability and the creation of a lasting, positive impact on our world. Join us as we pioneer a future built on the permanence of positive change.
- Here’s our project overview
- Here’s our world-change methodology
- Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
- Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world as engines of creating positive change permanence. This is the December 4th, 2023 edition (#559) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Creating Positive Change Permanence
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is creating positive change permanence through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
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- 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
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This week, Abhishek Kadian (Architect) reviewed the drawings, renderings, and structures of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) three Dome clusters and started preparing the relevant files. He updated the section of the three Dome Cluster to synchronize with the 3D model. Furthermore, Abhishek collected information for the four Dome Cluster, initially aiming to create a Revit 3D model that corresponds with the rendered images. The Earthbag Village is the first sustainable village in our creating positive change permanence plan. See the dome cluster renderings he worked on below.
Charles Gooley (Web Designer) focused on enhancing the Water Recycling Net-zero Bathroom page by addressing comments. Tasks undertaken included rectifying the anchor link in the Tables of Contents to ensure seamless navigation to the respective headings, replacing the Structural Wood Lumber Engineering Properties chart, eliminating extraneous spaces beneath underlined headings, updating the Tables of Contents to reflect section relocations, resizing the High Desert Utah Monthly rainfall graphic and relocating it to the right, and rectifying the left margin subsequent to the Tables of Contents. Additionally, he contributed new content to the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering page. This involved incorporating a new section that offers a comparative analysis between traditional geodesic domes and city center domes, encompassing an introduction and frame models, vector loads, weather and environmental effects tests, as well as examinations of snow and earthquake loads, supported by relevant illustrations. Water recycling and the Duplicable City Center are both huge parts of our strategy for creating positive change permanence. Check out the collage below for a look into his web design work.
Khushboo Vyas (Architect) reviewed and reorganized the Earthbag Village page. She broke each component down into distinct sub-components categorized under ‘what,’ ‘why,’ ‘how,’ and specific details within the Earthbag Village Site Map spreadsheet. She also proofread the body text, ensuring high-resolution visuals were correctly accessible through relevant hyperlinks and cross-referenced other URLs. Khushboo provided suggestions, including corrected text and proposed graphic incorporations. Addressing the process sequence for the DIY open-source tutorial, she initiated the creation of flow charts and structuring the order using traditional pen-and-paper methods. The Earthbag Village is the first sustainable village in our creating positive change permanence plan. You can find her work in the collage below.
Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) undertook a review of comments, removing resolved older comments while preserving the option to restore them if further clarification is required. In addition, she contributed additional points regarding the dam break and dam safety. We feel earthworks are an essential component of creating positive change permanence through water conservation. Some of her work is shown in the collage below.
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is creating positive change permanence through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
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- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
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Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) advanced the design work for the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering in the sixth row. A realization emerged during this process — none of the connectors in this row exhibit repetition. Consequently, each node necessitates a distinct variation in hub connector design, a factor that is expected to extend the time required for completion. The same scenario is anticipated for the fifth row, where the absence of repeated designs poses a similar challenge, emphasizing the time-intensive nature of the design work for these specific rows. See images of this hub connector design work below.
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is creating positive change permanence through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
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- 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
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This week, the core team continued working with Hayley on the Highest Good food component. We worked with her addressing the arrival of 20 individuals to the property, with collaboration centered on critical topics such as fencing, water laboratory setup, and various logistical considerations related to the food infrastructure. We also continued our review of Eckhart Tolle’s audio A NEW EARTH noting statements for possible inclusion in the One Community values page. We consider this part of integrating the consciousness of positive change permanence. You can view this work in the collage below.
Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food rollout plan. Hayley completed the final rough draft for the implementation details involving a 20-person team and initiated the preliminary draft outlining tasks and materials for a 50-person project. Additionally, she concluded the review of a 100-person task list. This all relates to the food component of positive change permanence. See below for the picture.
Smit Bhoir (Data and Business Analyst) continued data analysis for the menus for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. The primary concentration was on the analysis of Transition Kitchen Recipe data, concluding weekly tasks associated with kitchen recipe management and analysis. He also reviewed Sharuya’s PR blog post. In tandem, Smit began creating a tutorial focused on tasks related to kitchen menu data visualization. This all relates to the food component of positive change permanence. A visual representation of Smit’s work can be observed in the accompanying picture collage below.
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is creating positive change permanence through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.
With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the positive change permanence structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:
- Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
- How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
- Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
- Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
- Curriculum for Life
- Teaching Strategies for Life
- Learning Tools and Toys for Life
- Evaluation and Evolution
Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is creating positive change permanence through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
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- 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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This week, the core team completed 57 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 creating positive change permanence and how creating positive change permanence integrates into the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.
The core team also worked on testing on Highest Good Network PRs for One Community this week. They focused on HGN pull request (PR) testing, confirming the resolution of four PRs. The team reported issues encountered during the testing of PR 1126 and communicated with a volunteer via Slack to resolve an issue in PR1168, specifically addressing concerns related to the updating of the Media Folder link on the Profile page. Additionally, the team retests and updates PR1126, offering insights through comments on badge visibility within Weekly Summary reports for a specific user. Furthermore, the team contributed by creating two new PRs: one aimed at addressing badge visibility on the week’s page (PR 1116) and another focused on PR 1025, dealing with the absence of the “I” icon on the Weekly Summaries Reports pages. See the collage pictures below
Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued to help One Community with working on fundraising. We won’t be able to open source creating positive change permanence without funding. This week, Aaron did comprehensive research on eight potential funders: Taylor Swift, Russell Brand, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Moore, Bono, Rosario Dawson, Mark Ruffalo, and Ryan Reynolds. His investigation delved into their sustainability activities, philosophical inclinations, funding records, and the specific organizations they have supported. Following this detailed analysis, Aaron compiled his findings into a report that not only summarized the philanthropic profiles of these individuals but also served as a strategic tool for future networking and connection-building efforts. An important aspect of this week’s work was the development of a prioritization system. Aaron ranked each potential funder based on various criteria to determine which individuals should be approached first for potential collaboration or support, streamlining the approach for future outreach and engagement. You can view this work in the image below.
Vishvesh Sheora (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on improving the SEO of the live main site, addressing issues and enhancing criteria to elevate scores. He raised the SEO for the ‘Global Sustainability Systems’ page from 71 to an impressive 91, this is an important keyword for us, like “creating positive change permanence” is on this page. Content pruning and length balancing were pivotal elements in achieving this improvement. Vishvesh also resolved formatting issues, removing the Table of Contents from two posts in progress. Working on content separately, he rectified a broken link and submitted it for review. Additionally, he investigated changes in permanent links and examined WordPress posts, ensuring proper functionality and updates. See the work in the image below.
ADMINISTRATION TEAM
This week, 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 Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant), Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). Catherine completed a comprehensive review process for the Admin, Blue Steel, Core teams, and individuals, providing comments to each team member and contributing to the overall feedback process. Simultaneously, she organized images and summaries to establish a systematic and accessible repository of relevant information. In a proactive move to enhance her analytical skills, Catherine initiated her learning of Google Analytics by participating in relevant courses. Meenakshi continued her administrative tasks, including checking the website for inclusion and following up on bio notifications. Taking on a new role as the editor of webpages, she reviewed and updated two web pages, ensuring they adhered to professional formatting and requirements. Meanwhile, Ola focused on finalizing forms, assessing team members’ work, and providing constructive feedback for trainees. Additionally, she reviewed PR Review teamwork and transferred the live blog to her edited page for thorough correction and error identification. Ruiqi completed the four-step review process for the Git-R-Done, Graphic Design, and Expresser teams, offering feedback to all team members and creating collage images stored in Dropbox and added to the WordPress media library. She generated SEO keywords from weekly summaries (keywords like “creating positive change permanence”) and incorporated them as Alt Titles on WordPress. Ruiqi also worked on a cost analysis of “Landscaping” in the business plan development task. Shaurya did a comprehensive review of pull requests (PRs), addressing issues with team members who omitted crucial steps. He updated tracking sheets and weekly tables to include new Highest Good Network team members, ensuring they met required PRs and hours. Shaurya also crafted a concise team summary and created a team collage featuring all PRs. Lastly, Xiaolai organized documents, reviewed summaries, completed a webpage, and submitted it for review. He also researched solar microgrid setup and maintenance costs, provided feedback to the training process, and prepared documents for the week. This is the team managing our positive change permanence development process. You can see the work for the team in the image below.
ALPHA TEAM
This week, the Alpha Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Carl Bebli (Software Engineer, Team Manager). Carl began by reviewing the weekly summaries and videos submitted by Team Reactonauts members. His focus then shifted to implementing hotfixes, specifically incorporating replyTo features for both the Suggestion Modal and BlueSquare emails. The purpose behind this enhancement was to facilitate easier communication for One community, allowing seamless replies to users presenting suggestions and addressing all users with infringement emails. Concurrently, Carl played a crucial role in streamlining preparations for the transition to a newly established team, the Alpha Team. Additionally, he undertook the assessment and provided constructive feedback on numerous pull requests, tackling issues #621, #1587, #1589, #1590, #1591, #1593, #1595, #1598, #1599, #1609, and #1610. The Highest Good Network is how we’ll be measuring and tracking creating positive change permanence, related investments of time, and the components as we develop them. View some of this work in the collage below.
BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, 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 Shubhankar Valimbe (Lead Full Stack Software Developer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer) and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer). Nathan responded to Slack messages, implemented putRole, deleteRole, and postRole permissions for a restructuring of role logic on the front end, and explored UI solutions while separating the yellow highlight bar for bio posted status from other permissions. He engaged in a Zoom meeting with Jae to organize the permissions spreadsheet. Nathan also performed testing on the “forgot my password” functionality, discovered an issue with account identification, and created PR #633 for resolution. Shubhankar worked on bugs and tasks such as reviewing weekly team summaries and doing PR evaluations. He also proofread the weekly summaries, including images and videos, shared by the team, Xiao completed four PRs and advanced the TimeEntryFrom refactoring. The initial PR (PR1592) addressed a hot fix for failed png files, caused by variations in developers’ end-of-line setups affecting png files functionality. He added a rule in .gitattribute to classify all png files as binary, resolving the issue. The subsequent two PRs (frontend PR1600 and backend 623) addressed an owner’s inability to create a new team bug, tackling the backend model check for teamCode and modifying validation on the frontend. Another PR addressed a request for an audio reminder during timer force pauses. Despite these achievements, the TimeEntryFrom refactoring remains a work in progress, requiring ongoing efforts for completion. Meanwhile, Yubo focused on resolving a bug related to changing the Media Folder link, addressing the local issue and testing the affected component before preparing for a pull request. The Highest Good Network is how we’ll be measuring and tracking creating positive change permanence, related investments of time, and the components as we develop them. The collage below shows some of this work.
CODECRAFTERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, the Code Crafters Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Ruiqi (Administrative Assistant) and includes Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer), Ramya Ramasamy (Software Engineer), and Shantanu Kumar (Software Engineer). Anirudh led the inaugural standup for the Code Crafters Team. He submitted code for review, concentrating on implementing an edit button on the summary page. He also identified a bug allowing lower-level roles to submit summaries for higher-level roles, documented in the Bugs Document. He also did a test on unit test cases and discussed the Badge task with Bailey. Ramya focused on resolving lint issues in UserProfile, adapting her strategy due to dev branch modifications. She reviewed and submitted PRs for 6 submodules, maintaining a lint rule tracker. And Shantanu enhanced code reliability by completing the ‘show save warning’ unit test case and is developing test cases for the profile dot nav component. The Highest Good Network is how we’ll be measuring and tracking creating positive change permanence, related investments of time, and the components as we develop them. The collage below shows some of this work.
EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, 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), Harshida Dalal (Software Engineer), Kavya Alla (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), and Vishala Ramasamy (Software Developer). Aishwarya implemented important backend adjustments for the tool purchase request form, addressing issues related to unit display, enabling category-based filtering, and resolving outstanding project details. Harshida worked on the Equipment List, completing the frontend view but facing a technical challenge with routing. Kavya undertook a review of Phase 2 documentation and initiated frontend development for the Reusables List, participating in meetings for project familiarization. Olga completed the development of the project summary view component, enhancing each summary with informative bullet points highlighting vital project information. She also worked on the single tool/equipment view component, concluding the front-end implementation by creating the router and controller and establishing their connection. Vishala focused on migrating material changes to production, addressed git conflicts, resolved lint and build errors, and enhanced the Add Materials form with a similarity checker. Tim oversaw eight software engineers on the new building and inventory management portal (Phase 2), and made substantial updates to the work breakdown structure, incorporating a detailed task list for the new reusable inventory section of the site. He facilitated team collaboration by hosting the weekly standup meeting, pair programming, and planning meetings, ensuring effective communication and coordination. Additionally, Tim updated the work breakdown structure, hosted meetings, and made substantial updates to the MongoDB aggregate function in the project summary backend API. The Highest Good Network is how we’ll be measuring and tracking creating positive change permanence, related investments of time, and the components as we develop them. The collage below shows some of this work.
GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, the Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) and includes Kaikane Lacno (Learning Assistant), Olena Danykh (Software Engineer), Rhea Wu (Software Engineer), and Ziming Song (Software Engineer). Kai focused on backend functionality for editing names and units, contributing to multiple pull requests, and enhancing the GitHub pull request template. Olena worked on enhancing the user interface of the lesson card component, addressing conflicts during pull requests, completing the collapse/expand functionality, and initiating the development of Edit and Delete buttons for lesson cards. Rhea continued work on Phase 2, focusing on the New Lesson schema and database setup. Ziming concentrated on adding a Google Doc icon and link for individuals in the Tasks Tab, integrating each user’s Google Doc link with the icon. Eduardo focused on the BM New Issue project and continued developing Routes and Controllers, utilizing MongoDB Compass to create a schema for requests and enhancing testing procedures. He engaged in pair programming to gain insights into backend-MongoDB communication. Additionally, Eduardo reviewed and provided feedback on the team’s work, hosted the weekly team meeting, and addressed Phase 2 features and documentation improvement. He also facilitated orientation for new team member Shuhua and communicated with Jae about detailed Phase 2 documentation on ‘Consumables.’ The Highest Good Network is how we’ll be measuring and tracking creating positive change permanence, related investments of time, and the components as we develop them. The collage below shows some of this work.
GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM
This week, the Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi (Administrative Assistant) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Emily Ferguson (Visual Designer), and Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer). This week, Ashlesha focused on creating a Volunteer Announcement, producing bio and announcement images, and updating web content for the announcement. She also generated six Social Media Images, researching to curate nature-based and theme-specific background images for these graphics. Emily focused on graphic design tasks, creating and editing images related to global sustainability food diversity, and health. She incorporated both existing images and personal creations. Emily also set up and edited multiple volunteer bios. Jackie completed five Social Media Images, retouched lighting, and two Volunteer Announcements, and added nature backgrounds to two bio images. Additionally, Jackie initiated the compilation of a spreadsheet containing all existing copies of the Social Media Images. These images convey our messages associate with creating positive change permanence. The collage below shows some of this work.
MOONFALL’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, 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), Anny Wang (Software Engineer), Cheng-Yun Chuang (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer), Jiadong Zhang (Software Engineer), Lu Wang (Software Engineer), Palak Gosalia (Software Engineer), Ruike Qiu (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), Xiao Fei (Software Engineer), Yi Lin (Software Engineer), Yihan Liu (Software Engineer), Zijie “Cyril” Yu (Software Engineer) and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer). Abdelmounaim submitted a PR for the home country option within the setup of new user functionality. Additionally, he created an input validation function, restricting date inputs solely to Sundays. Furthermore, Abdelmounaim implemented a list feature within the scheduler to display added time-off requests and facilitated the addition and deletion of time-off requests directly from the scheduler interface. Anny created a quick setup function and modal for new team members, completing the frontend and initiating backend schema implementation. Cheng-Yun set up unit test code for Project.jsx, initiating PR#1610 with a detailed description of the unit test code. Jiadong replaced the dashboard badge, implementing a toggle button for badge section visibility. Haoji advanced the project aimed at creating an alternative to MailChimp, focusing on the ability to broadcast emails to a system’s entire user base with a single click. Lu wrote unit tests, performed PR reviews and learned about Circle CI while managing the team and assisting with Circle CI issues. Navneeth completed the task “Permissions Mngmnt: See Teams Management Tab,” addressing bugs in team creation and doing final reviews for relevant PRs. Palak focused on ramping up her development skills by familiarizing herself with tasks and bugs through the development documentation. Ruike focused on fixing a toaster to display success or fail messages based on backend responses and made modifications to previous pull requests. Tzu Ning checked the badge assignment mechanism, resolving issues in the “checkXHrsForXWeeks” function, optimizing database queries, and addressing conflicts in PR #997. Xiao F completed tasks related to the Blue Square Scheduler, addressing issues with text box content and date pickers. Yi updated the CSS for the “Select Featured” and “Assign Badges” buttons, aligning them to the right using justify-content. Yihan developed a solution for “Create a way to see 6 months & yearly anniversaries,” addressing trophy icon and follow-up button issues. Zijie fixed issues in the HighestGoodNetworkApp through six pull requests, including resolving conflicts during branch merging. Zubing worked on the final parts of integrating the ‘Write it for me’ button into the summary page, aligning with the development team’s objectives. The Highest Good Network is how we’ll be measuring and tracking creating positive change permanence, related investments of time, and the components as we develop them. Look below for a collage of their work.
REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, Reactonauts’ Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Masasa Thapelo (Software Engineer) and includes Changhao Li (Software Engineer), Jiangwei Shi (Full Stack Engineer), Jiyuan Xia (Software Engineer), Obeda Andrilalaina Velonjatovo (Front End Developer/Software Developer), Shihao Xiong (Software Engineer), Shivansh Sharma (Software Developer), Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer), Shrey Jain (Software Engineer), Vikram Badhan (Software Engineer), Wanting Xu (Software Engineer) and Yixiao Jiang (Software Engineer). Changhao proceeded with unit testing development for CountdownTimer.jsx and completed five tests covering various cases. Jiangwei focused on creating unit tests for the Selectors component and TasksTable component. Jiyuan Improved the task management system by implementing a scheduled-on date feature for tasks with blue square reasons. Masasa finalized the creation of two visualizations: a table and a pie chart. Obeda focused on the Add Project and Delete Project. Shihao reorganized the file structure to align with the prescribed guidelines for previous unit tests, ensuring a streamlined and efficient system. Shivansh completed an investigation aimed at comprehending and addressing a newly surfaced software glitch. Shiwani concentrated on setting permissions for editing project categories or status, implementing a permission check for ‘editProject’ and raising PR#1606. She also expanded CurrentPromptModal unit tests to validate functionality, raising PR#1595. Additionally, she worked on creating a leaderboard feature, adding ‘timeOffFrom’ and ‘timeOffTill’ fields to the userProfile model. Shrey wrote unit test cases. He selected three UserManagement components: ActiveCell.jsx, DropdownSearchBox.jsx and DuplicateNamePopUp.jsx. Vikram focused on configuring the local frontend and backend environments and engaged in the review of seven pull requests. Wanting worked on the “X hours in X weeks streak badges,” and wrote unit tests for the “ProjectTableHeader”. And Yixiao resolved bugs, particularly in the TaskEditSuggestions.test.js file. The Highest Good Network is how we’ll be measuring and tracking creating positive change permanence, related investments of time, and the components as we develop them. Look below for pictures of this work.
SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, 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), Roberto Contreras (Software Developer) and Yao Wang (Software Engineer). Roberto enhanced network security by transitioning the OpenCage API network request to the backend. He implemented error handling to differentiate between frontend and backend errors during API calls, addressing a specific challenge on the initial user profile setup page. He also created a custom function to handle requests without an authentication token, fortifying the logic for security purposes. Yao resolved the text misalignment issue by adding an “i” button to improve the functionality of the blue block. He initiated the development of a FAQ modal, ensuring alignment with project requirements. Jerry manually tested and examined the impact of different savedTangibleHrs values on badgeCollection. He implemented code changes to ensure the smooth functioning of awarding and removal of streak badges. Bailey addressed a critical issue in the user profile card within the reports/people section, resolving abnormal expansion on smaller screens and promptly notifying Jae about the pull request for this fix. He also tested and approved a peer’s PR during the weekly standup meeting, offering assistance to a colleague in need and collaborating with Yao to gather further details. Luis finalized the icons component, ensuring its functionality across various color options. He initiated the process by establishing a new route and controller. Collaborating with Roberto, he created a schema for warnings, choosing to integrate it into the user profile controller and implementing an array for the warnings. Fan completed the task of fixing letters with accents and their functionality in searches, as well as resolving conflicts related to merging and responding to peer reviews on pull requests (PR). The Highest Good Network is how we’ll be measuring and tracking creating positive change permanence, related investments of time, and the components as we develop them. 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: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer), Demi Zayas (Software Engineer), Jay Yong (Software Engineer), Jiarong Li (Software Engineer), Keyun Huang (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer), Shengwei Peng (Software Engineer), Sucheta Mukherjee (Software Engineer), Xuying He (Software Engineer), Zichan Yang (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. The Highest Good Network is how we’ll be measuring and tracking creating positive change permanence, related investments of time, and the components as we develop them. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.
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One Community welcomes Justin Varghese to the Engineering Team!
One Community welcomes Justin Varghese to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Justin earned his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mumbai and holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. He brings his expertise in CAD (SolidWorks, Inventor), FEA (Ansys), Structural Analysis (Autodesk RSA), as well as proficiency in mechanical design, manufacturability, and material engineering to the One Community Project for the development of the Duplicable City Center domes. Justin’s diverse passions for crafting and designing, combined with a natural inclination for mechanics and analytical thinking, contribute to his excellent problem-solving abilities and a unique, creative approach. As a member of the One Community team, Justin is dedicated to generating comprehensive CAD models and conducting structural Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for the beams and hub connectors of the project’s dome structures.
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One Community welcomes Tuan Dinh to the Software Development Team!
One Community welcomes Tuan Dinh to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Tuan has a passion for Computer Science and has explored many facets of the field. He is dedicated to applying his knowledge and skills in innovative ways, demonstrating a keen interest in problem-solving and technological advancements. With a strong foundation in computer science principles, Tuan continuously seeks to expand his expertise through hands-on experience and academic exploration. He believes in leveraging technology for positive societal impact and remains committed to contributing to the evolution of the digital landscape. He has a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and is driven to make meaningful contributions that push the boundaries of what’s possible in the world of computing. As a member of One Community team, Tuan has been helping the Software team create the Unit Tests and testing all the functions in the Highest Good Network software.
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Applying Nature as Our Teacher – One Community Weekly Progress Update #558
With an ongoing commitment to applying nature as our teacher, One Community is open sourcing a global sustainability model created by an all-volunteer team, driven by the ethos of “The Highest Good of All“, and covering sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, and more. Beyond establishing a community, we’re pioneering a self-replicating teacher/demonstration hub.
- 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 and demonstrating nature as our teacher as a path to global sustainability. This is the November 27th, 2023 edition (#558) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments and below are the 5 areas we’re focusing on apply nature as our teacher:
Applying Nature as Our Teacher
One Community Progress Update #558
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is applying nature as our teacher 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:
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- 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
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This week, Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) investigated the extraction and refinement of informative videos, aiming to generate ideas for enhancing the assembly of the Vermiculture Toilet. A summary paragraph has been added to the Google Doc, and Shengguang created 2D sketches for the waste-collecting rotational container. The design now includes accurate specifications for each dimension. See the images below for an idea of this work, an excellent example of applying nature as our teacher.
Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) focused on the Most Sustainable Lightbulb selection page and project management tasks with the Duplicable City Center. Her primary activities included light bulb content review and feedback, and advancing the design work for the hub connectors. Check out the collage below to see her work for the week.
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is applying nature as our teacher 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:
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- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
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This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) continued her work helping with the interior design details for the rental rooms within the Duplicable City Center. Amiti initiated the 3D rendering process for Room 10, focusing on a Boho-aesthetic industrial theme, not an example of applying nature as our teacher, but still very beautiful and interesting. She began with the establishment of an initial material palette for the room, laying the foundation for the design elements. In addition to this, Amiti completed file finalization for the room design projects. See below for the collage of images related to this.
ENGINEERING TEAM
This week, the engineering summary was managed by Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer) and featured Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) highlighting Julio’s concluded work on the Dome Hub Connector designs for the seventh row, generating four variations based on the initial design. Moving to the sixth row, a notable complexity emerged, necessitating a more extensive array of variations. The absence of discernible repetition in the designs presented a unique challenge for the sixth row and a similar situation is anticipated for the fifth row. See below for the visual representation of the images.
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is applying nature as our teacher 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:
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- 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
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This week, Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food rollout plan. This plan is very much built on applying nature as our teacher. Hayley reviewed the 50-person webpage, her plan involves creating the final rough draft of the EDITs document. She also spent time working on other web pages and implemented details for the 20-person webpage. See below for the picture.
MENUS UI/UX WEB AND GRAPHICS TEAM
This week, the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan UI/UX Web and Graphics development was managed by Shivangi Patel (Graphic Designer) combining her work with the contributions of Rihab Baklouti (Freelance Generalist. Shivangi focused on producing social media content for Facebook, utilizing her Photoshop skills. Additionally, her efforts were directed toward the creation of mock-ups for Vegan Rice, Vegan Potato, Vegan Yam, and Vegan Pasta recipe pages. See below for the visual images.
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is applying nature as our teacher through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.
With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that integrates applying nature as our teacher and 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 applying nature as our teacher 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:
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- 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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This week, the core team completed 63 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 applying nature as our teacher and how applying nature as our teacher integrates into the bigger picture of everything One Community is doing. The pictures below show some of this work.
The core team also worked on testing on HGN PRs for One Community this week. They worked on on several Highest Good Network (HGN) pull requests (PRs) to ensure the platform’s functionality. The tean also confirmed the resolution of various issues, including fixing the white screen problem related to entering certain locations, implementing the team members’ sorting function by name and date, addressing the leaderboard refresh animation, and fixing the functionality of the Task Info Changes modal. Moreover, they confirmed the yellow bar display on the entire width of the screen to appropriately warn users about requests for posting their bios. Despite these accomplishments, challenges persisted with PRs related to uneven formatting on the People’s Reports Page, difficulties saving an updated media link, and the non-visibility of badges assigned during the week on the This Week page under the user’s name. Additionally, the team created a new user account to facilitate testing for a specific scenario aligned with ‘short week’ scenario. You can view this work in the collage below.
Another core team member continued his review of Eckhart Tolle’s audio A NEW EARTH noting statements for possible inclusion in the One Community values page. He also engaged in a phone call with Hayley Rosario and answered her questions about animals and how they fit into the property, and for what purposes and functions. Additionally they discussed the 20 & 50 person tasks. You can view this work in the collage below.
Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued to help One Community with working on fundraising. We won’t be able to open source applying nature as our teacher without funding. This week he focused on revising and enhancing the research conducted in the previous week, specifically regarding potential funders Robert Downey Jr., MacKenzie Scott, George Soros, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. His work involved identifying and linking events and organizations these individuals have supported, integrating hyperlinks directly into the research for ease of reference. Additionally, Aaron expanded his research scope to include Salma Hayek and her husband François-Henri Pinault, as well as Emilia Clarke. For these new subjects, he thoroughly investigated their sustainability activities, philosophical beliefs, funding history, and the specific organizations they have supported. You can view this work in the image below.
Harsha Kulkarni (Data Analyst) continued working on One Community’s Google AdWords campaigns and Analytics details. This week, she focused on ad creation across multiple campaigns, with a particular emphasis on the Education campaign, including the development of ads for first lesson plans and Blooms Taxonomy ad groups. Additionally, ads were generated for the Society ad campaign, specifically under the Sustainable Community Building ad group and Consensus Decision Making. Two ads were created within the OCG Branding Methodology ad group. Furthermore, two ads were crafted for the Food ad campaign, specifically under the Hoop House Construction and Dam and Lake Construction ad groups. The week also involved the creation of ads for the Energy ad campaign. You can see some of this in the picture below.
Julie Musicar (Sound Editor) continued to help One Community this week by addressing the Dropbox storage constraint and resolving the issue. Maximizing uploads, she set up a YouTube to MP3 converter for various audios. Screenshots of the storage message are attached in the Dropbox. Additionally, Julie introduced two more audio samples to a shared Google Drive folder for potential podcast intro music choices. We also considered this week’s applying nature as our teacher blog as an option for optimization. View this work in the collage below.
Vishvesh Sheora (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on elevating the SEO performance of blog posts featured on the One Community website. This week, Vishvesh focused on enhancing the SEO performance of the “About Us” and Global Sustainability pages. Notably, the SEO score for the “About Us” page witnessed a significant improvement, rising from 81/100 to 90/100. Simultaneously, the Global Sustainability page saw a substantial boost in its SEO score, escalating from a modest 33/100 to an impressive 91/100. This achievement was the result of Vishvesh’s dedicated efforts and specialized expertise in utilizing the RankMath plugin and optimizing for relevant keyword strings like “applying nature as our teacher” is for this page. See the work in the image below.
ADMINISTRATION TEAM
This week, 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 Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant), Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). Catherine completed her onboarding training, addressing and rectifying errors in her dry run practice, and demonstrated a commitment to swift integration into her role. She acquired proficiency in the PR review component of administrative tasks, participating in the evaluation of existing reviews and contributing pertinent comments to enhance the overall process. Meenakshi focused on diverse admin obligations, including ensuring everyone is included in the weekly blog, bio announcements, and status updates. She created new bio announcements for volunteers, updated the monitoring spreadsheet, worked on integrating notes/summary into the light bulb webpage, and incorporated changed content sections. She also engaged in webpage overview checklists and tutorials for new editorial and webpage review tasks. Melina completed the orientation process with One Community, gaining proficiency in evaluating team members’ work, producing images, and editing summaries for the One Community Weekly Progress Update Blog. She learned to provide feedback on colleagues’ work, review summaries, compose collages for presentation, and utilize WordPress for finalizing and posting blog content. Ola dedicated her week to reviewing comments and work of new trainees, uploading the live blog onto her edited page, and creating forms for the new task assigned to her. Ruiqi completed the four-step review process for various teams, providing feedback, creating collage images, incorporating SEO keywords, and working on business plan development related to “Walkways” and “Landscaping.” She also conducted a detailed comparison of the management team’s modified webpage with her own. Shaurya completed a full review of pull requests (PRs), addressing issues with team members, updating tracking sheets and weekly tables for the Highest Good Network team, and crafting a concise team summary with a team collage featuring all PRs. Xiaolai organized documents and summaries for weekly report 557, refined the draft, reviewed the final report, and set up the webpage for this week’s updates. Additionally, he researched costs associated with solar and wind infrastructure, working on a spreadsheet to compile and analyze relevant data. You can see the work for the team in the image below.
BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, 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 Sávio Mendes (Full Stack Software Developer), Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer), and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer). Nathan undertook a comprehensive review process, rejecting Edwin’s PR 1545 and re-reviewing and rejecting Yongjian’s PR 1331. He followed up on reviews for their own PRs, specifically PRs 1548 and 585, and contributed to updates on the permissions management document, focusing on grammar and punctuation. Among their tasks were the review of PRs and tasks by Yubo and Shubhankar, the segregation of permissions for access to reports and summaries, and addressing the yellow bar issue on the “bio announcement” in the weekly summary page for Jae. He also engaged in discussions with Jae about permissions ideology, reasoning, and corporate structure, and responded to Yubo regarding a bugs doc question related to permissions testing. Activities also included updating the Permissions spreadsheet color coding, adjusting the permissions management page, and responding to Jae’s comments about the yellow highlight for bios in the Weekly Summaries Report page. Savio concentrated on finalizing mock-ups and design for the new ‘Overview Report’ Page, exploring Data Visualization and Graphs Libraries, particularly emphasizing the D3.js library. He enhanced the previous design based on feedback, introducing four new graphs – the Horizontal Bar Graph, Horizontal Grouped Bar Graph, Horizontal Grouped Big Bar Graph, and Horizontal Stacked Bar Graph, integrated with the Donut Graph for improved user experience beyond plain text presentation. Yongjian completed the re-implementation of dark and light modes for the entire application, overcoming challenges from merge conflict issues. He conducted thorough testing, confirming functionality alignment with expectations, though minor issues, notably the “message 2” message within the header component, still require resolution. He also continued efforts to address these outstanding issues for a seamless integration of dark and light mode features throughout the application. Yubo took on the responsibility of developing a specialized version of emails for blue squares. Engaged in advancing frontend PR #1035, he focused on managing permissions for other users and communicated updates through Slack. After a thorough review, he provided approval only for backend PR #585, recognizing that frontend PR #1548 and backend PR #585 addressed the same issue. He also identified and rectified a bug hindering the updating of user media links, implementing a minor fix on the RegEx, while contemplating the potential removal of frontend PR #1035 as deemed necessary. This software will be used to objectively track all our open source creations applying nature as our teacher. The collage below shows some of this work.
EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, 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), Harshida Dalal (Software Engineer), and Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer). Olga refined the design of the tool/equipment view component and refactored the tool component, integrating the rentalDurationItem function to display the duration period. Concurrently, she continued building the router and controller for a single tool. She also reviewed the Backend PR for the project API and initiated its integration into the BM dashboard refactor branch, while addressing and resolving styling issues in the BM dashboard project summary view. Harshida took the lead in initiating pull requests (1573, 1578) for the Sorting and Filtering functionality on the Material List component, ensuring the completion of all necessary code changes and submitting the pull request for review. She also developed the frontend view for the Equipment inventory list, which is currently in progress. Tim focused on upgrading the building project summary backend API to facilitate the GET request, fetching aggregated and calculated values essential for the frontend display of project summary data. This involved transforming the API route’s MongoDB query into an aggregation operation, effectively joining documents from multiple database collections, and performing various operations on the data using both aggregation pipelines and JavaScript array methods. Aishwarya coded all necessary files for the creation of the tools purchase request form. Additionally, she extracted specific files from the frontend pull request raised by Tim for the Material Purchase request form. This software will be used to objectively track all our open source creations applying nature as our teacher. The collage below shows some of this work.
GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, the Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) and includes, Kaikane Lacno (Learning Assistant), Miguelcloid Reniva (Software Developer), Olena Danykh (Software Engineer), and Shuhua Liu (Full-Stack Developer). Eduardo guided team member Rhea on linter issues, provided feedback to Jeffrey, and addressed file modification and EOL setting concerns in PR reviews. He also completed the HGN spreadsheet unit test and raised PRs to introduce the .nvmrc file for Node v14, showcasing commitment and collaboration within the team. Olena led the development of the Edit button functionality, clarified its specifics in the team document, and modified the tags input functionality in the Lesson Card component to prevent duplicates. Kai focused on refining tags functionality, updating a drag-and-drop pull request, and testing the “take a photo” feature on mobile devices. Additionally, he participated in the code review process, conducting four pull request reviews. Miguel focused on implementing dynamic rendering functionality for checkbox options, dependent on the selected dropdown option. He also integrated dynamic rendering for rows and columns, ensuring that each row displays two-column checkboxes. Shuhua was involved in creating a distinct view for “! Summary” tailored for individuals who don’t need to submit one. Prior to delving into coding, she finished a thorough examination of the relevant components and states in the Front End app, breaking down the task into smaller actionable items. This software will be used to objectively track all our open source creations applying nature as our teacher. The collage below shows some of this work.
GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM
This week, the Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi (Administrative Assistant) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Emily Ferguson (Visual Designer), and Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer) Ashlesha created eight Social Media Images and curated nature-based and theme-based background images. She also updated web content for a previously created volunteer announcement and expanded her skills with advanced features in Adobe Photoshop. Emily focused on vibrant social media image creation, incorporating diverse graphics and integrating feedback for improved impact. She experimented with Pixabay as a graphic source and you can definitely see themes of applying nature as our teacher in these images. Nancy crafted a bio profile in Visual Code. She also finished a redesign task, completing two distinct assignments during the week. The collage below shows some of this work.
MOONFALL’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, Moonfall Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Navneeth Krishna (Software Engineer) and includes Cheng-Yun Chuang (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer), Ruike Qiu (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), Xiao Fei (Software Engineer) and Yihan Liu (Software Engineer). Haoji focused on the creation and refinement of an email editor and sender within a web application. He implemented a user interface, dubbed the “Weekly Progress Editor,” which provides users with standard text editing tools and a field for inputting email addresses. Cheng-Yun developed unit test code for Overview.jsx, focusing on render testing and verification of correct prop displays. He initiated PR#1574, providing a detailed description of the unit test code within the pull request. Lu reviewed documents related to the Assistant Manager position provided by Jae and actively assisted Navneeth in team management, following tutorials shared by Navneeth. Lu also selected a debug project to initiate JUnit testing responsibilities, studying relevant test documents for preparation. Navneeth improved the implementation of the “Permissions Mngmnt: See Teams Management Tab (Create Teams and edit team members only)” task while navigating issues with the dashboard and teams APIs in the Development server. He finished the final review of PR #1503 and #599 related to the interactive map functionality. As the Team Manager of Team Moonfall, Navneeth fulfilled responsibilities related to daily monitoring, weekly work reviews, and task delegation, including training the Assistant Manager in team management duties. Ruike addressed specific issues within the system, resolving a bug related to overlapping task-change counts and rectifying a text bug occurring when users submitted tasks for review. He also refined the functionality of managing user permissions to ensure that only active users are displayed, enhancing the overall user experience. Tzu-Ning enhanced the accuracy and integrity of the system’s badge awarding functions, reviewing the checkXHrsForXWeeks function to guarantee precise badge awards based on user time logs. Xiao F achieved progress on the ‘Add floating and dismissable team notification modal’ task, implementing a floating style for navigation and summary bars. He also optimized both front-end and back-end code for the ‘Create way for an Owner to edit/update the ChatGPT prompt text’ task, resolving issues in reducer functions and clarifying naming conventions. Yihan focused on the task “Create way to see 6 months & yearly anniversaries,” addressing date issues within the showTrophyIcon function and making updates to PR#1535 based on feedback. This software will be used to objectively track all our open source creations applying nature as our teacher. Look below for a collage of their work.
REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, Reactonauts’ Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Carl Bebl (Software Developer) and includes Masasa Thapelo (Software Engineer), Obeda Velonjatovo (Front End Developer/Software Developer), Ramya Ramasamy (Full Stack Developer), Shantanu Kumar (Full Stack Software Developer), Shivansh Sharma (Software Developer), Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer), Shrey Jain (Software Engineer), Yixiao Jiang (Software Engineer) and Zuhang Xu (Software Engineer). Anirudh resolved all encountered bugs related to the edit button task, and the corresponding code has been submitted for review. Masasa focused on visualizing team data using a pie chart and a table. He developed a table component showcasing the members and roles of selected teams, along with the total count of individuals across all chosen teams. Obeda worked on the fixing the issue with the “Add New Project” task. He was able to identify the source of the problem; a delay in an asynchronous function called whe adding a new project. Shantanu completed the task of writing unit test cases for the color generator component related to the pie chart common component. Shivansh fixed a recently discovered bug, allowing users to delete essential team or project elements without possessing the required permissions, hinting at a potential security vulnerability within the user’s profile during such deletion attempts. Shrey finished unit test cases. He selected two components, initiated pull requests (PR#1581, PR#1582 and PR#1583) for these components and submitted his work for peer review. Yixiao resolved issues with the TaskEditSuggestionModal.test.js file. He also initiated an analysis of the TaskEditSuggestions component, planning to segment the testing process into rendering, integration and event handling. Ramya reviewed pull requests related to phase 2 functionalities and unit tests due to limited ongoing development works. During these reviews, she identified an issue with the location where unit test files were being saved and promptly communicated this to the team. Shiwani finished two pivotal tasks. For the CurrentPromptModal unit test, she categorized test cases into six areas, executing tests that included verifying rendering, assessing button functionality, validating tooltips and ensuring modal operation. Carl reviewed unit testing guidelines and studied existing unit tests. Additionally, he opened an issue related to the reordering of suggestion options and offered support during meetings with Reactonauts team members. He assessed and provided feedback on multiple pull requests, addressing issues #599, #1501, #1503, #1518, #1565, #1567, #1568, #1573, and #1574. Zuhang examined feedback from prior Pull Request evaluations. This software will be used to objectively track all our open source creations applying nature as our teacher. Look below for pictures of this work.
SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, 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), Roberto Contreras (Software Developer), Tuan Dinh (Software Engineer) and Yao Wang (Software Engineer). Bailey submitted a pull request for the personal maximum badge task, editing tangible hours in the MongoDB database for immediate badge awarding and providing a test guide. He also investigated and identified the cause of prolonged loading times in the tasks component, attributing it to simultaneous data loading for over 600 users and highlighting areas for potential optimization. Yao addressed a new bug by removing the text “(function under development)” beneath the blue square and initiated the integration of a modifiable “i” button on the page. After a thorough code review, he eliminated the problematic text and implemented the button. Tuan completed unit testing for WbsTable.jsx and InfringementsViz.jsx, crafting eight test cases for WbsTable and ensuring correct rendering, ID truncation and icon display. In InfringementsViz, Tuan verified error-free rendering, the presence of the graph display button, and modal behavior, ensuring proper functionality on button clicks. Roberto addressed an intangible time issue related to large decimal values, implementing rounding measures and correcting database entries. He also provided feedback on assigned pull requests, addressing mapping team locations and personal max hours duplicate issues. Focusing on the user profile page modal, Roberto introduced an asynchronous approach to mitigate data mix-up during page refresh after saving changes. Luis finished the warning component that will be displayed under every user. He added 8 icons and text to display what each icon represents, and imported a bootstrap component which would render a hover component. This software will be used to objectively track all our open source creations applying nature as our teacher. See the collage below for 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: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer), Changhao Li (Software Engineer), Hemsharavanan Bharathithasan (Software Engineer), Jiarong Li (Software Engineer), John Mumbi (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer), Palak Gosalia (Software Engineer), Shengwei Peng (Software Engineer), Zichan Yang (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. This software will be used to objectively track all our open source creations applying nature as our teacher. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.
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Common Sense Eco-management – One Community Weekly Progress Update #557
At One Community, we are dedicated to demonstrating common sense eco-management, building a model with an all-volunteer team for “The Highest Good of All“. Our sustainable approaches encompass food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, forwarding fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. We’re not just building a community; we’re pioneering a model that becomes self-replicating. Our work will be used to create a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, evolving sustainability and regenerating our planet. Committed to creating a world that works for everyone, we’re open sourcing and free sharing the complete process.
- Here’s our project overview
- Here’s our world-change methodology
- Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
- Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 20th, 2023 edition (#557) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Common Sense Eco-management
One Community Progress Update #557
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating common sense eco-management 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:
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- 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
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This week, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles focused on the Most Sustainable Windows & Window Companies page, organizing the content and incorporating a Table of Contents with anchor links. The structured sections cover topics such as why assess doors, understanding doors, types of doors, door materials, and listings of the best & most sustainable door companies. The page is now ready for review. Additionally, Charles updated the Table of Contents on the Duplicable City Center Engineering page, streamlining the referencing process by aligning it with corresponding section numbers. The visual representation of this work is provided in the accompanying pictures.
Khushboo Vyas (Architect) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) complete organization process. This week she developed a spreadsheet tutorial and its data organization. The focus of the tutorial was to establish a structured organization and workflow for the processes outlined on the page, emphasizing a clear sequence across pre-construction, and post-construction phases. This approach aims to enable any interested individual to navigate the entire do-it-yourself (DIY) process. See below for the visual pictures.
Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) continued developing the Earth Dam Design and construction for the Water Retention, Pond, and Lake Creation tutorial, still developing the dam break risk analysis topic. Loza worked on the revision of design standards and construction techniques, specifically, her attention was on the evaluation of dam break risks. This process involved an examination of factors such as the extent of flooding and the consequential impact on downstream areas. Take a look at the pictures below to get a glimpse of this work.
Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the Vermiculture Toilet designs for the Earthbag Village. Shengguang focused on the material selection for components amenable to layer-by-layer 3D printing. The materials selection involved in hyperelastic solids is characterized by a capacity to soften in response to temperature drops and harden with rising temperatures, presenting a property-temperature relationship compared to crystalline metals. With this in mind, he explored an individual design that could possibly be 3D printed. Visual representations of his work are available in the accompanying images.
Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) continued assisting with the management of two teams. Yiwei assumed responsibilities for both the Vermiculture Toilet and Duplicable City Center teams. She contributed her design ideas and also an in-depth discussion with a senior engineer, focusing specifically on assembly details and the utilization of hand tools. The primary objective was to formulate practical plans with a particular emphasis on implementing the new hollow design. Visual representations of her work are shown below.
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating common sense eco-management 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:
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- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
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This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) continued her work helping with the interior design details for the rental rooms within the Duplicable City Center. Amiti advanced the 3D model for Room 10, focusing on incorporating a Boho-aesthetic Industrial theme. The integration of lighter materials into the room’s color palette was a key aspect of this development. Additionally, Amiti took up working on the material and furniture palette for the washroom of Room 10. Beyond her primary focus, she curated the final files for Rooms 4, 5, and 9. This task involved drafting plans for these rooms and detailed cost analyses and product specifications. See below for the collage of images related to this.
ENGINEERING TEAM
This week, the engineering summary was managed by Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer) and featured Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) highlighting Julio’s creation of three variations for the Dome Hub Connector design specific to the seventh row. While one variation remains outstanding, its completion is a prerequisite for advancing to the sixth and fifth rows. The timeline for these subsequent rows is extended due to the need for a more design approach, requiring the creation of multiple variations. See below for the visual representation of the images.
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating common sense eco-management 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:
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- 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
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This week, Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food rollout plan. Hayley completed the initial rough draft of the 20-person material/task list within the EDITS document. Her approach involved curation of information sourced from the Food Infrastructure Rollout document, structuring it in a manner that aligns with the intended web page format. See below for the picture.
MENUS UI/UX WEB AND GRAPHICS TEAM
This week, the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan UI/UX Web and Graphics development was managed by Shivangi Patel (Graphic Designer), combining her work with the contributions of Rihab Baklouti (Freelance Generalist). Shivangi refined the volunteer’s profile image and produced work visuals using Photoshop. Concurrently, she created the corresponding web content for the announcement. Collaborating with Rihab, Shivangi played a key role in co-designing mock-ups for both the Vegan Recipes Home Page and Omnivore Recipe Home Page while Rihab’s contribution included button designs and assets. The duo employed their creative skills in designing individual recipe images, ensuring a user-friendly presentation of recipe information. Similarly, Shivangi also took charge of creating webpage banner images for specific recipe categories, including Vegan Rice Recipes, Vegan Potato Recipes, Vegan Yam Recipes, Vegan Pasta Recipes, and Omnivore Rice Recipes. See below for the visual images.
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating common sense eco-management through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.
With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:
- Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
- How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
- Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
- Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
- Curriculum for Life
- Teaching Strategies for Life
- Learning Tools and Toys for Life
- Evaluation and Evolution
Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating common sense eco-management 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:
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- 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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This week, the core team completed 57 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. The pictures below show some of this work.
The core team also worked on testing HGN PRs, delivering precise results for One Community this week. We confirmed the case for PR 485, ensuring the seamless operation of a custom Infringement email, an increased number of required hours for the current week, and the addition of one Blue Square. All functions operated as intended. We tested a case for recording a video addressing a bug where a user needs to be on a team to view their tasks, providing a video demonstration. In her testing efforts, she resolved PR#1169 and scrutinized the functionality of PR#994 on both Development and production (Main) environments. While testing the latter, aimed at blocking all but Jae’s accounts from editing his accounts, we found that we could add and delete badges, and add teams for Jae’s accounts, and observed that there was no warning message during the profile modification process. You can view this work in the collage below. You can view this work in the collage below.
Another core team member continued to review Eckart Tolle’s audio of “A New Earth”, noting statements for possible inclusion in our One Community values page. This week, he also worked with Hayley Rosario revising and clarifying various aspects of the sections regarding the arrival of Pioneers to One Community’s property related to the Three and Twenty sections. You can view this work in the image below.
Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued to help One Community with working on fundraising. This week, he researched six potential funders for future networking and partnership opportunities. The focus of his investigation included high-profile individuals and philanthropists: Robert Downey Jr., MacKenzie Scott, Salma Hayek, and her husband François-Henri Pinault, George Soros, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Aaron’s research analyzed their sustainability activities, philosophical approaches, and historical funding records. This included an examination of the organizations they have previously supported. The outcome of this research was compiled into a report intended to guide and enhance future connection strategies and networking efforts. Aaron’s work lays a foundational understanding of these potential funders’ philanthropic interests and past engagements, setting the stage for informed and strategic outreach in the future. You can view this work in the image below.
Harsha Kulkarni (Data Analyst) continued working on One Community’s Google AdWords campaigns and Analytics details. This week, Harsha focused on resolving data population issues on page 1 of the OCG Google Analytics Looker page. The tasks involved rectifying the data source by redirecting it to GA4 and adjusting the scheduled email alert to align with the updated changes. These efforts were aimed at ensuring the accurate and up-to-date population of all pages in the report. Harsha also generated new ads for campaigns associated with pages currently without active campaigns. She created five new ads under the donation campaign, contributing to the ongoing optimization and expansion of campaign content. You can see some of this in the picture below.
Julie Musicar (Sound Editor) continued to help One Community this week by going through the Google Doc and exploring a tutorial for implementing the timer. She began editing the podcast episodes, leveling, mixing, and mastering the audio to ensure optimal voice quality. She also generated music options, which can be found in Dropbox. View this work in the collage below.
Vishvesh Sheora (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on elevating the SEO performance of blog posts featured on the One Community website. This week, Vishvesh addressed a checklist for various posts on the live main site, fixing issues such as featured images and CSS text while adhering to WordPress protocols. His focus extended to optimizing SEO elements by rectifying inconsistencies in numbering and bullet points, thereby minimizing SEO discrepancies in the live post content. Lastly, he enhanced the SEO for the latest blogs on the live platform. See the work in the image below.
ADMINISTRATION TEAM
This week, the Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Jamie Cruz (Administrative Assistant, Social Media Manager, and Team Manager) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Catherine Liu (Administrative and Analytics Assistant), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant), Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). Alyx collaborated with Melina on summarizing and college-related tasks, focusing on refining two pages for the upcoming blog. Jamie, overseeing the administration team, managed the Blue Steel team, Core Team, and individual contributors, prioritizing editing tasks for tutorials and refining her social media management skills in collaboration with Sara. Meenakshi handled admin tasks, ensuring blog inclusivity, updating bios monitoring sheets, making bio announcements, and developing content from podcasts and an e-book chapter. Ola initiated a form creation project and, alongside creating collages, reviewed summaries, organized images for the blog, and collaborated with the PR Team. Ruiqi completed a four-step review process for multiple teams, created collages, and contributed to business plan development related to Energy and Roadway Infrastructure. Shaurya reviewed all of the pull requests, updated tracking sheets, and created a team summary and collage. Xiaolai organized documents, created summaries, reviewed cost analyses, and worked on a webpage for the weekly report. Catherine, starting as Administration and Analytics Assistant, completed onboarding checklists, familiarized herself with action items, and ensured an understanding of operational aspects associated with her duties. You can see the work for the team in the image below.
BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, the Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer and Team Manager), and includes, Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Mohit Bali (Software Developer), Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer), Sávio Mendes (Full Stack Software Developer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), and Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer). Yubo coordinated the team’s efforts, with Nathan reviewing Luis’s bug fix for managing summary intro, redirecting Jeffrey for linting problems, and engaging in discussions with Yubo about unit testing permissions. Nathan and the team worked on the permissions multi-checkbox, completed data entry, implemented it in various locations, and delved into hook research, leading to code refactoring for simplification. Nathan further accomplished all implementations of PermissionList, addressed associated bug fixes, and created PR 1548. In a parallel focus, Mohit, newly promoted to the Dev Team, worked on four high-priority PR reviews, investing time in familiarizing himself with the development task selection process. Despite the substantial time invested in understanding tasks and workflows, Mohit addressed the critical issue of the automatic timer stopping when viewing WBS details. Haohui concentrated on enhancing app features, specifically fixing permissions for editing tasks in PR#1466. Haohui also worked on developing functionality that assigned permissions to individual users, enabling manager accounts to access projects and edit project details while managing permissions assigned to individuals and ensuring rigorous code testing. Yubo, in addition to overseeing the team’s collaborative efforts, concentrated on unit tests for the LinkModButton component and potentially the UserLinkLayout. Resolving a pull request (PR) with a failed npm test, Yubo identified that the issue might stem from a permission rebuild, prompting a refactoring approach aligned with recommended practices for consistent code access permissions. Unfortunately, testing the pull was hindered by challenges in permission management. Yubo provided assistance to Shree in finalizing her assigned tasks, contributing to the overall progress of the team. Yongjian addressed merge conflicts within his pull request, PR #842, which aimed at implementing a dark mode across the entire application. However, post-resolving these conflicts, he encountered an issue where the toggle button and associated features for the dark mode were inadvertently removed. He compared the files changed on Github and worked on re-implementing the original features for this task in his local branch, aiming to reinstate the functionality as intended. Sávio undertook the assignment of creating the new “Overview Report” page. His responsibilities included designing mock-ups, and prototypes, and exploring Data Visualization techniques suitable for implementation on this page. Sávio developed two versions of visualization employing the Donut Graph: one featuring attached labels and another with separate labels listed alongside. The complete design of the page was not finalized. The collage below shows some of this work.
EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, 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), Harshida Dalal (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Sahil Patel (Frontend Developer), and Vishala Ramasamy (Software Developer). Aishwarya implemented modifications to the pull request (PR#605) for the building Tool schema in accordance with Tim’s specific requirements. Vishala began work on the Add Materials Page, creating two backend APIs to fetch material types for display on the frontend and to create a new material type. She implemented user-friendly validations using JOI on the frontend, allowing the material type to accept either a custom unit or a pre-existing unit in the database. Olga finalized the design and refactoring of the tool view component, initiating backend development for the single tool view page. She addressed responsive design issues in the project summary component and compiled a list of data for extraction from the backend. Harshida focused on the Filter Material list for the BM Dashboard, completing the task by adding a select input labeled Material. She also ensured that option fields in the select input were appropriately mapped to all materials used in the current Project filter selection and dynamically adjusted based on the user’s project selection. Besides, she integrated a filter function that executed project and material filters for a refined result. Tim rounded off the week by finalizing updates on the frontend and backend branches for Purchase Request: Material, incorporating new fields into the form, and enhancing its adaptive styling with CSS rules. He also resolved conflicts and linting errors, presenting detailed pull requests. Sahil focused on PR reviews and unit testing, examining updates through PRs #1536, 612, 1556, 1554, 1547, 1546, 1540, 1541, 1552, 1559, 1557, 1558, and 1560. He ensured the effective implementation of the .nvmrc configuration and did thorough unit tests on various components like tooltips, pie charts, and modal components. The collage below shows some of this work.
GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, the Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) and includes Jeffrey Li (Full-Stack Software Developer), Kaikane Lacno (Learning Assistant), Miguelcloid Reniva (Software Developer), Olena Danykh (Software Engineer), Rhea Wu (Software Engineer), Ziming Song (Software Engineer). Eduardo guided team member Rhea on bypassing the linter for HGNRest, recommending the use of “git commit-n-m” in the routes/controller for a new Lesson PR due to the absence of specific lint rules. He also raised pull requests, reviewed team members’ work, hosted the weekly team meeting, oriented members on Phase 2 features, and improved documentation while accessing teammates’ branches during the meeting. Olena completed modifications to the Lesson List component design, integrated tag input functionality, and reviewed PR 1453, confirming seamless functionality. She created DummyData for the Lesson Card, splitting components and making styling changes to the Lesson List Card component. Kaikane incorporated a new capture feature into the lesson form, refined visual elements, and implemented automatic tag addition corresponding to the selected project in the “Belongs to” dropdown. He submitted a pull request for team members, targeting PR 1479, and focused on enhancing the lesson form for project-specific functionalities. Jeffrey addressed two development bugs and reviewed three pull requests, resolving issues with the 5-letter-codes-dropdown and user access to tasks. His reviews ensured the validity of unit tests and functionality for various components in PRs #1547, #1548, and #1554. Miguel focused on several key tasks. He addressed issues with the redirect URL, incorporated a redirect feature for the cancel button, and implemented the remaining CSS styling to align with the Figma design specifications. Ziming focused on developing the task of adding a Google Doc icon and link to people in the Tasks Tab. He collected information about the features and aimed to enhance the functionality by using existing functions to get the Google Doc link.. The collage below shows some of this work.
GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM
This week, the Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi (Administrative Assistant) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Emily Ferguson (Visual Designer), and Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer) Emily designed diverse graphic images for social media and created a volunteer bio announcement on the organization’s WordPress website. Nancy focused on a redesign project, incorporating a more serious style with gradients and a customized footer. The collage below shows some of this work.
MOONFALL’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, 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), Anny Wang (Software Engineer), Cheng-Yun Chuang (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer), Jiadong Zhang (Software Engineer), Ruike Qiu (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), Xiao Fei (Software Engineer), Yi Lin (Software Engineer), Yihan Liu (Software Engineer), YuFu Liao (Software Engineer), Zijie “Cyril” Yu (Software Engineer) and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer). Abdelmounaim integrated the ‘add profile picture’ option into the new user setup, implementing functionalities to validate image size and type, along with a modal to notify users when the selected size or file type isn’t acceptable. Anny focused on creating the UI and modal for the new team member. She navigated through the requirements and designed the UI. Haoji focused on improving the application’s email communication system by shifting from a standard email service to utilizing Gmail’s robust sending capabilities. Jiadong incorporated a button in the dashboard, aiming to present the badge through a more versatile and accessible pop-up interface. Yi accomplished the unit tests and passed for PR#1554, PR#1558, PR#1559, PR#1547, PR#1541, PR#1546. He also fixed minor formatting issues on dashboard and profile pages. Cheng-Yun reviewed 13 pull requests spanning both the HGNRest backend and HighestGoodNetworkApp frontend repositories, with an emphasis on frontend PRs, along with attention to backend PR#602. Navneeth addressed the task “Permissions Mngmnt: See Teams Management Tab (Create Teams and edit team members only),” incorporating updates from the Permissions Management Fixes document. He also reviewed PRs & in his role as Team Manager, oversaw daily monitoring, weekly work reviews, task delegation, and training teammates in team management duties. Ruike implemented an indicator for active or inactive users on team pages. Tzu Ning focused on backend scripts, concentrating on badge management and time tracking, reviewed and approved PRs #1528, #1529, and #1530, and restored a mistakenly deleted bug in the project’s Google Docs. Xiao F finished the task ‘Add floating and dismissable team notification modal’ and completed the feature enabling owners to edit and update ChatGPT prompt text, initiating pull requests with testing instructions. Yihan streamlined the project, removing redundant code, enhancing logic in front-end and back-end files, and resolving conflicts post-merging, creating PRs #1535 and #611. Yufu focused on making columns editable by Owners on the User Management Page, introducing popup windows and enhancing backend development. Zijie revisited pull requests for the HighestGoodNetworkApp repository, making revisions to enhance implementation methods and contributing to tasks within the ‘src/component/Memberships/’ directory. Zubing integrated the ‘Write it for me’ button into the summary page, restructuring frontend code. Look below for a collage of their work.
REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, Reactonauts’ Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Carl Bebl (Software Developer) and includes Jiangwei Shi (Full Stack Engineer), Jiyuan Xia (Software Engineer), Obeda Velonjatovo (Front End Developer/Software Developer), Ramya Ramasamy (Full Stack Developer), Shantanu Kumar (Full Stack Software Developer), Shihao Xiong (Software Engineer), Shivansh Sharma (Software Developer), Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer), Shrey Jain (Software Engineer), Vikram Badhan (Software Engineer), Wanting Xu (Software Engineer), Yixiao Jiang (Software Engineer) and Zuhang Xu (Software Engineer). Shantanu completed the creation of test cases for the NewModal and Pie Chart components, subsequently initiating a pull request for review. Zuhang Xu reviewed feedback from the previous Pull Request. Yixiao focused on render tests, integration tests, Redux tests, and edge case analysis. Jiangwei concentrated on developing unit tests for the ProjectTable component. Vikram configured the local frontend and backend environments and engaged in the review of seven pull requests, namely, #1492, #1528, #1530, #1560, #1559, #1558, and #1556. Shivansh addressed a critical bug that allowed a user to delete a team or project without the required permissions, possibly stemming from a security gap within the user’s profile during these deletion attempts. Wanting completed task #437 by adding a copy icon to the Weekly Summaries Reports and subsequently submitted a pull request (PR) for the task. She also resolved task #401, fixing the X hours in X weeks streak badges for accurate user achievement display. Shiwani focused on writing unit tests for the BadgeDevelopmentTable component, creating mock data and formulating eight test cases to ensure proper rendering, functionality of tooltips, correct display of badge details, and the handling of buttons and checkmarks. She submitted PR#1547 for a testing review. Carl concentrated on refining the modification of the suggestion modal, limiting it to email modifications, and initiated an issue on the reordering of suggestion options. He participated in peer review meetings with the Reactonauts team, providing valuable feedback on multiple pull requests, and addressing issues #1528, #1529, #1530, #1532, #1540, #1541, #1545, and #1548. Jiyuan reviewed 5 PRs and maintained code quality. Shihao reviewed and approved PR#1545, assigned critical unit test tasks, and raised significant PRs #1540 and #1556. Shrey focused on writing unit test cases for the Paging.jsx component, submitting PR#1559 for peer review. Ramya resolved lint fixes, initiating three Pull Requests (1550, 1552, 1553), and addressing lint fixes for the user profile module and its sub-modules. Look below for pictures of this work.
SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, 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), Roberto Contreras (Software Developer) and Tuan Dinh (Software Engineer). Fan enhanced the functionality of the software by addressing a critical issue in pull request (PR) #1537, which involved fixing letters with accents and their interaction with the search feature. Tuan authored Unit Tests for TeamsReportCharts.jsx, TeamsReportLogs.jsx, and UserLoginPrivileges.jsx components. Bailey prepared for the loading task section speed, submitted a pull request (PR) for a new personal max badge and resolved a delay in badge assignment. Jerry addressed issues related to undefined values in `changeBadgeCount()`. He resolved the problem by modifying the argument to `badgeCollection[i].count`, ensuring the proper removal of the last badge earned in a streak. Jerry also identified and corrected an inconsistency in the mongoose aggregate function, ensuring the correct sorting of streak badges by weeks and total hours. Roberto tackled the time zone API issue, merging a pull request for the Ukraine time zone problem. He addressed multiple decimal points in intangible time entry hours using the `toFixed(2)` function. Luis addressed a bug and generated a pull request (PR) to incorporate functionality for adding users to projects and granting administrators permission to remove users from projects. He shifted focus to a new feature enabling Jae to monitor the number of warnings issued to users. Luis discussed the details of the features with Jae and started building a part of the project using the Figma design he made. See the collage below for 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: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer), Changhao Li (Software Engineer), Demi Zayas (Software Engineer), Hemsharavanan Bharathithasan (Software Engineer), Kavya Alla (Software Engineer), Keyun Huang (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer), Lu Wang (Software Engineer), Palak Gosalia (Software Engineer), Shengwei Peng (Software Engineer), Shuhua Liu (Software Engineer), Xuying He (Software Engineer), Zichan Yang (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.
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One Community Welcomes Shubhankar Mishra to the Software Development Team!
One Community welcomes Shubhankar Mishra to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Shubhankar has over 2 years of Product Development experience across different projects. He has demonstrated success working in a fast-paced environment and on different complex projects requiring efficient and effective solutions. As a member of the One Community team, he has and is utilizing his knowledge of web development on the front end to develop several features for the Highest Good Network. If you’d like to learn more about Shubhankar, you can do so at this link.
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One Community Welcomes Tianyuan Nan to the Software Development Team!
One Community welcomes Tianyuan Nan to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Tianyuan is a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA. He previously studied Electrical Engineering at UCSB for an Electrical Engineering bachelor’s degree, specializing in embedded system design. During his academic journey, he successfully completed a Capstone project with ASML, leveraging image processing and machine learning tools in Python to enhance the efficiency of 3D reconstruction code by 70%. Tianyuan possesses more than four years of experience in software project design, encompassing various programming languages, including Javascript, Typescript, C++, and Python. He is driven by a strong passion for continuous learning and self-improvement, with a primary goal of developing software solutions that enhance convenience for users, even if in small increments. As a member of the One Community team, Tianyuan contributes to the maintenance of high-quality code standards and addresses visibility issues for different account roles within the Highest Good Network software.
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One Community Welcomes Rihab Baklouti to the Graphic Design Team!
One Community welcomes Rihab Baklouti to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Rihab has been on her freelancing journey for 4 years and counting. It all began after her graduation with a 5.3 GPA in the SAE Institute of Dubai with a Bachelor’s degree in Animation, specializing in VFX. Rihab has always had a huge passion with anything creative, with pride and utmost commitment, she has taken up multiple projects that catered to Graphic Design, Video Editing, 3D Modelling, Translation, Social Media Management, Digital Art and Web Design. Hard work, quality over quantity, and communication are the key forms of her work ethics. As a member of the One Community Team, Rihab has contributed to developing the graphics of the blog updates and volunteer announcements, as well as the upcoming Transition Food Menu webpage.
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Forwarding Global Cooperatives – One Community Weekly Progress Update #556
One Community is dedicated to forwarding global cooperatives. Our organization is committed to advancing the cause of collaborative efforts covering food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, and more. Combined, these will be used to build the cooperative teacher/demonstration models we see as holding the keys to a more sustainable and equitable future, empowering individuals and communities to come together, sharing knowledge, and working collectively to shape a brighter future for all.
- Here’s our project overview
- Here’s our world-change methodology
- 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 November 13th, 2023 edition (#556) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding global cooperatives 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:
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- 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
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This week, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles focused on the Most Sustainable Windows & Window Companies page. He structured the content, incorporating a Table of Contents with relevant anchor links for easy navigation. Charles explained the significance of accessing windows and delved into understanding windows, specifically addressing glazing and coating aspects, including types of glass coatings and window performance metrics. He curated information on the best and most sustainable window companies, presenting a total of fourteen options. The culmination of the page includes a summary, a resources section, and frequently answered questions. Then, Charles began work on the Most Sustainable Doors and Door Companies page. The visual representation of this work is provided in the accompanying pictures.
Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the Vermiculture Toilet designs for the Earthbag Village. Shengguang focused on the development of optimal designs for a litter collection container. His efforts centered on creating an assembly comprising multiple intricately designed components that collaborate to enhance usability, mobility, strength, and storage capacity. The emphasis was placed on ensuring that the various parts function cohesively to achieve an efficient and user-friendly device. Additionally, Shengguang considered the potential incorporation of the design intent into a practical and cost-effective manufacturing process, reflecting a concern for the economic viability of the proposed design. Visual representations of his work are available in the accompanying images.
Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) continued assisting with the management of two teams. She worked with the Vermiculture Toilet team, addressing challenges and seeking solutions, incorporating input from colleagues. In parallel, she collaborated with her Duplicable City Center team, specifically concentrating on the evaluation of a new hollow design. Yiwei researched multiple simulations to compare the new design with the previous one, emphasizing an analytical approach to improvement. Visual representations of her work are shown below.
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding global cooperatives 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:
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This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) continued her work helping with the interior design details for the rental rooms within the Duplicable City Center. Amiti made progress in the development of the 3D model for Room 10, focusing on achieving a boho-aesthetic industrial theme. Her concentration was on integrating eclectic industrial furniture and boho decor to mitigate the color palette. Amiti utilized 3D inspirations to refine the furniture palette for the room. Furthermore, she extended her work to the bathroom, applying an industrial palette to the space. See below for the collage of images related to this.
Justin Varghese (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. Justin focused on developing new dome hub connectors with designs optimized for ease of manufacturability. The decision to pursue this new design arose from concerns within the team regarding potential complications in the manufacturing process and increased machining costs associated with the previous design. The updated design shows a rectangular plate bent to provide support for the beam, which is secured to the ring using bolts and nuts. See the images of the work.
ENGINEERING TEAM
This week, the engineering summary was managed by Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer) and featured Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) highlighting Julio’s achievement of concluding the design phase for the eighth row. Expanding on this progress, he began the design work for the Dome Hub Connector of the seventh row. This phase introduces increased complexity and time investment, as the seventh, sixth, and fifth rows necessitate the creation of multiple variation designs for the dome hub connectors. The intricate nature of this section of the dome, compounded by its lack of full symmetry, will make the design process longer for these specific rows. See the pictures below.
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding global cooperatives 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:
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- 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
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This week, Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food rollout plan. Hayley took on the task of revising the outdated three-person material/task list in the EDITS document. Drawing relevant data from the “Food Infrastructure Rollout” document, she created an initial draft in a separate document organizing and updating all items within the three-person material/task list. See below for the images.
Smit Bhoir (Data and Business Analyst) continued data analysis for the menus for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. He visualized ingredient cost data for the Transition Kitchen Menu, starting the process during the initial stages. Throughout the week, Smit focused on high-cost ingredients within the Transition Kitchen Menu Recipe worksheet. Smit improved how the information looks on the menu sheet. He made it better by adding a clear summary of the data and easy explanations for people who aren’t tech-savvy. In parallel, he reviewed Sharuyra’s PR Review work while simultaneously contributing to the publication of his work. Check out the picture collage below to see their work.
MENUS UI/UX WEB AND GRAPHICS TEAM
This week, the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan UI/UX Web and Graphics development was managed by Shivangi Patel (Graphic Designer), combining her work with the contributions of Rihab Baklouti (Freelance Generalist), Shivangi and Rihab began a mock-up, concentrating on either a Vegan Recipe webpage or an Omnivore Recipe webpage, expanding on the outlines established. In this process, they designed a template for One Community Global’s webpage, utilizing Photoshop to refine header images, create harmonious color palettes, and maintain a standard of high-quality UX design. Simultaneously, Shivangi focused on generating social media content for Facebook. Using her Photoshop skills, she merged eye-catching visuals with sustainability quotes, highlighting eco-friendly initiatives. Additionally, Shivangi designed volunteer announcement images and corresponding web content. See below for the visual images.
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding global cooperatives through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.
With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:
- Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
- How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
- Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
- Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
- Curriculum for Life
- Teaching Strategies for Life
- Learning Tools and Toys for Life
- Evaluation and Evolution
Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding global cooperatives 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:
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- 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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This week, the core team completed 51 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. The pictures below show some of this work.
The core team also worked on conducting tests on several HGN PRs, confirming the resolution of six PRs. Challenges came up with PR#1169, unable to test part ‘b’ related to the ‘More work needed, reset this button.’ Additionally, in PR#722, we observed that while a manager can see all team members on the Dashboard Tasks tab, not all are visible on the Leaderboard. We retested this issue and provided an explanation to a volunteer on Slack. the core team also identified a new bug where, following specific steps in the Projects section, a popup window appears and the timer stops. In addition to PR testing, we set up a test scenario for PR #485 using the ‘Tanya-test Test1’ account, which already had 5 blue squares. Unfortunately, attempts to create an Owner account on the Dev environment were unsuccessful, preventing testing of part ‘d’ of PR#994. You can view this work in the collage below.
Another core team member continued to listen to Eckart Tolle’s “A New Earth” for key points and word additions to be integrated throughout our website. He also collaborated with Hayley Rosario focusing on clarifications regarding the 3 and 20 Pioneer arrival to our property. Discussions centered on the food portions and rewriting portions for further clarity and defining more specifically the tasks for the 3 person’s duties. View some of this work in the collage below.
Harsha Kulkarni (Data Analyst) continued working on One Community’s Google AdWords campaigns and Analytics details. This week, Harsha focused on modifying looker reports that were not populating the dashboard. She looked into how the reports were made to make changes easier. She focused on changing where the info comes from for the graphs, using Google Analytics 4 and incorporated new attributes during the report-building process. This resulted in the migration of all dashboards except for one. Harsha also worked on making certain ad groups stronger in Google AdWords. You can see some of this in the picture below.
Vishvesh Sheora (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on elevating the SEO performance of blog posts featured on the One Community website. This week, Vishvesh addressed issues such as fixing featured images and adjusting CSS text in accordance with WordPress protocols. He focused on optimizing SEO elements by rectifying inconsistencies in numbering and bullet points, effectively minimizing SEO discrepancies within the post content. See the work in the image below.
ADMINISTRATION TEAM
This week, the Administration Team’s summary, covering their work administrating and managing most of One Community, was managed by Jamie Cruz (Administrative Assistant, Social Media Manager, and Team Manager) and includes Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist), Meenakshi Velayutham (Sustainability Associate), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant), and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). Alyx worked on a review of two blog pages, to make sure they included everyone and reviewed additional pages, while also inspecting uploaded images and providing feedback via Loom-recorded videos. Jamie focused on refining team summaries, creating collages, and managing administrative tasks, including overseeing social media and organizing video content. Meenakshi performed setup tasks, oriented herself to management responsibilities through video tutorials, actively contributed to last week’s blog page, and engaged in analyzing research questions. Ola prepared for the weekly live blog, handling tasks such as curating image collages, SEO optimization on WordPress, and contributing to PR tracking. Ruiqi completed a four-step review process for multiple teams, providing feedback, creating collages, and initiating business plan development. Shaurya worked on a review of all pull requests, updating tracking sheets and weekly tables, and created a team summary and team collage. Xiaolao worked on on organizing documents and summaries, reviewing financial statements and a business plan, managing cost analysis, researching expenses, and setting up the webpage for the current week. You can see the work for the team in the image below.
BLUE STEEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, the Blue Steel Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer and Team Manager) and includes, Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Shubhankar Valimbe (Lead Full Stack Software Developer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer), and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer). Nathan responded to Luis’s requests for clarification and assistance, completing reviews for the previous week, communicating expectations to the new assistant manager, and making modifications to the permissions management document. While responding to Slack messages, Nathan also reviewed Jefferey’s PR and, although unable to resolve Luis’s bug after inspecting the code, continued to provide support. Additionally, he assisted Yubo with unit testing questions related to permissions and kept the permission design document updated. Haohui focused on enhancing the app’s features, specifically working on the task: Fix permission for edit tasks in PR#1466, and developing functionality to assign permissions to individual users, fostering collaboration within the team. Shubhankar addressed bugs, including missing box shadow styles, leading to PR #1518 for frontend enhancements, and investigated a bug related to task resolution efficiency. Xiao addressed a critical issue by implementing a hotfix in PR#600, enabling the information modal to save changes on the backend. In addition to this, Xiao provided assistance to various team members with their inquiries. Support was extended to Anny in resolving a text alignment problem, Jahanzaib in addressing a CSS style precedence issue, Anirudh concerning a delay in changes reflecting on the page, and Jae in identifying the cause of failed requests to /task/task. Lastly, Xiao continued progress on the ongoing TimeEntryForm refactor. Yongjian put time to a thorough re-review of his pull request, specifically PR #1318. During this process, he addressed alignment issues related to green dots on the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) page under Projects, as well as console log error messages that had been highlighted by one of the reviewers. Yongjian encountered challenges in resolving the alignment issue, as it continued in his local environment despite his initial attempts to rectify it. Yubo worked on completing the unit test, and resolving permission problems with Nathan’s assistance, with plans to transition the draft pull request into an open pull request once all functionalities are confirmed. He also identified suggestions for permission access updates to be proposed in the documentation. The collage below shows some of this work.
EXPRESSERS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, 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), Harshida Dalal (Software Engineer), Olga Yudkin (Software Engineer), Tianyuan Nan (Software Engineer), Vishala Ramasamy (Software Developer). Tianyuan focused on packaging his branch to resolve the email list visibility issue at the bottom of the Weekly Summary Page. He completed Seven PRs, including a Lint fix for the inventory component, unit tests for various folders, deleting badges, and drag-and-drop picture upload. He also delved into Phase 1 and 2 documentation to plan his future contributions. Aishwarya raised a PR for a backend task related to Project details routing and controller, addressing issues during the process. Vishala completed tasks related to material updates, integrating pop-up windows and validations, and began work on the equipment/tool update history log page and the Add Material page. Olga refactored the BM dashboard component, connecting the front end to the database and integrating Redux for efficient data management. Harshida focused on the Filter Material Task, adding a new select input and mapping option fields appropriately. Tim merged the building project API, created MongoDB collections and schemes for inventory types and materials, and revamped the Purchase Material form and backend API for correct data handling. Tim also hosted meetings, communicated with the team, and conducted brainstorming sessions. Additionally, he contributed extensively to Phase 2 documentation and updated the WBS spreadsheet. The collage below shows some of this work.
GIT-R-DONE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, the Git-R-Done Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Ruiqi (Administrative Assistant) and includes Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer), Jeffrey Li (Full-Stack Software Developer), Kaikane Lacno (Learning Assistant), Miguelcloid Reniva (Software Developer), Olena Danykh (Software Engineer), Rhea Wu (Software Engineer), Ziming Song (Software Engineer). Eduardo prepared reports and planned meetings while addressing coding problems and enhancing documentation. Jeffrey addressed two development bugs and reviewed three pull requests, ensuring the functionality of various features. Kaikane worked on addressing conflicts and integrating new features while also focusing on the drag-and-drop feature. Miguelcloid developed the structure of a form, with an emphasis on CSS styling. Olena worked on the development and design of the LessonList Component, with some final code cleanup tasks remaining. Rhea made progress in Phase 2 development. Ziming did the testing part, contributing to several pull requests. The collage below shows some of his work.
GRAPHIC DESIGN TEAM
This week, the Graphic Design Team’s summary was managed by Ruiqi (Administrative Assistant) and includes Ashlesha Navale (Graphic Designer), Emily Ferguson (Visual Designer), Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer) and Shivangi Patel (Graphic Designer). Ashlesha worked on eight Social Media Images. She curated nature-based and theme-based images for the project. Emily undertook a project of crafting six distinct hand-drawn digital images, promoting food sustainability, global impact, and sustainable practices. And Nancy focused on creating re-design posts with added design elements like gradients and opacities. She introduced the color purple for visual appeal and maintained brand consistency by including the brand and URL for promotional purposes, showcasing their dedication to the project. Shivangi created 13 beautiful social media images too. The collage below shows some of this work.
MOONFALL’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, 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), Anny Wang (Software Engineer), Haoji Bian (Software Engineer), Jiadong Zhang (Software Engineer), Ruike Qiu (Software Engineer), Tzu Ning “Leo” Chueh (Software Engineer), Xiao Fei (Software Engineer), Yi Lin (Software Engineer), Yihan Liu (Software Engineer), YuFu Liao (Software Engineer), Zijie “Cyril” Yu (Software Engineer) and Zubing Guo (Software Engineer). Abdelmounaim contributed to the enhancement of the setup profile functionality by introducing a new feature. Anny undertook the task of fixing text alignment in Permissions Management buttons, achieved a merged PR and valuable insights into CSS and Bootstrap conflicts. Haoji focused on enhancing profile image selection, introducing a verification mechanism for active members, enabling users to choose profile images, and integrating an automated email system for transparency. Jahanzaib concentrated on pull request reviews, bug fixes, and improvements, addressing issues in user profile and timelog updates, conducting unit tests, and investigating CSS conflicts. Jiadong made efforts to the ongoing task of refactoring the time log component. He identified a time efficiency issue stemming from a bug, addressed and resolved it. Navneeth addressed a backend bug, worked on in multiple pull requests, and managed Team Moonfall responsibilities. Ruike addressed a bug in the user profile controller, implementing robust measures for data sanitation. Tzu Ning focused on testing, refining functionalities, and resolving merge conflicts. Xiao F developed a feature for owners to edit ChatGPT prompts, addressing backend issues and participated in the review process. Yi passed unit tests, ensuring code reliability, and verified UI aspects in various pull requests. Yihan addressed tasks related to lost hours, and implemented an auto-refresh feature. Yufu focused on making columns editable by Owner on the User Management Page, developing and testing a popup component. Zijie revised and fixed pull requests for lint fixes in the reports component, completing 80% of the required fixes. Zubing integrated the ‘Write it for me’ button into the summary page, restructuring frontend code for successful outcomes despite challenges. Look below for a collage of their work.
REACTONAUTS’ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, Reactonauts’ Team’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Carl Bebl (Software Developer) and includes Anirudh Ghildiyal (Software Engineer), Jiangwei Shi (Full Stack Engineer), Jiyuan Xia (Software Engineer), Masasa Thapelo (Software Engineer), Obeda Velonjatovo (Front End Developer/Software Developer), Ramya Ramasamy (Full Stack Developer), Shantanu Kumar (Full Stack Software Developer), Shihao Xiong (Software Engineer), Shivansh Sharma (Software Developer), Shiwani Rajagopalan (Software Engineer), Shrey Jain (Software Engineer), Shubhankar Mishra (Software Engineer), Vikram Badhan (Software Engineer), Wanting Xu (Software Engineer), Yixiao Jiang (Software Engineer) and Zuhang Xu (Software Engineer). Shubhankar worked on configuring the work environment and addressing errors from previous weeks, conducting reviews for 10 distinct PRs (#1487, #1488, #1491, #1492, #1497, #1499, #1501, #1502, #1504, and #1505). Shiwani wrote unit tests for the AssignBadgePopup and BadgeTableFilter components, creating six test cases for each, employing mocking techniques and raising pull requests for both tasks (PR#1499 and PR#1507). Carl advanced the development of the suggestion modal for a community, participated in peer reviews and provided support in multiple meetings with team members, addressing issues in PRs #571, #602, #1414, #1489, #1490, #1491, #1501, #1507, and #1508. Jiyuan continued with 5 PR reviews (#1499, #1498, #1502, #1504, and #1505). Shantanu created test cases for the Pie Chart and new model components, implementing a null safety feature for the Pie Chart. Shihao reviewed and approved pull requests, specifically PR#1488, PR#1499, PR#1501, and PR#1502, contributing significantly to code quality. Shrey wrote unit test cases for Input.jsx and Modal.jsx, initiating pull requests (PR#1497 and PR#1501) for peer review. Ramya gave feedback for the PR testing of the Limit See All feature, engaging in discussions with the lint fix team for UserProfile component improvements, and testing high-priority Pull Requests. Anirudh discussed with several developers on different teams, gaining valuable perspectives on contributions and tasks for the development of various technical endeavors. Wanting reviewed the pull requests (PRs) she had previously created, focusing on a specific task related to making 5-letter codes editable only by Admin and Owner Class. Masasa focused on configuring the data for the pie chart to reflect team-specific information. Zuhang examined feedback from prior Pull Request evaluations. Yixiao executed a pull request for the TaskEditSuggestionRow.test.js file within a designated GitHub repository. She outlined tests for four components of TaskEditSuggestionModal.test.js file: rendering tests, integration tests, Redux tests, and several edge cases. Shivansh initiated an investigation into a newly identified bug, where a user possesses the ability to delete a team or project without the necessary permissions. Jiangwei engaged in strategic dialogues with Jae, focusing on creating unit tests for the TeamTable component. Vikram focused on configuring the local frontend and backend environments and engaged in the review of four pull requests, namely, #1507, #1501, #1499, and #1511. Look below for pictures of this work.
SKYE’S SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
This week, Skye’s summary, covering their work on the Highest Good Network software, was managed by Luis Arevalo (Front End Developer) and includes Fan Yang (Software Engineer), Hector Agudelo-Carmona (Front-End Developer), Jerry Ren (Full Stack Developer), Mounica Dingar (Software Developer), Roberto Contreras (Software Developer) and Tuan Dinh (Software Engineer) This week, Jerry focused on Task 428, specifically addressing the X-hours in X-weeks streak issue for auto dropoff. He comprehended the awardNewBadges() function and manipulated the lastWeekTangibleHrs property in the userProfile document to assess checkXHrsForXWeeks(). Roberto created a unit test for the BadgeHistory component, submitting a corresponding pull request (PR) marked as 1481. Fan made efforts to Task 436, focusing on issues related to letters with accents in search functionalities. He examined the existing search method code, led the development of a specialized function designed to enhance data search capabilities with accent consideration. Luis addressed the caching issue on the backend, which was causing a bug that removed the project when adding tangible time. He modified the backend PR to conduct additional testing on the caching issue. Hector focused on resolving the time zone issue associated with the location feature, specifically when inputting Ukraine. Mounica tested on PR#1468, enhancing the functionality for task submission, review initiation, and task completion optimization. Tuan addressed issues in the previously established unit tests, specifically focusing on the Login Privileges and Pie Chart Info Details Unit Test #1491, and the Report Charts and Team Chart Group Unit Test #1495. See the collage below for 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: Anish Pandita (Software Engineer), Hemsharavanan Bharathithasan (Software Engineer), Kavya Alla (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Software Engineer), Lu Wang (Software Engineer), Mohit Bali (Software Engineer), Palak Gosalia (Software Engineer), Sahil Patel (Software Engineer), Shuhua Liu (Software Engineer), Xuying He (Software Engineer). They reviewed all the Highest Good Network PRs (Pull Requests) shared in this week’s update. The collage below shows a compilation of the work from this team.
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