One Community welcomes Haoji Bian to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

A student double majoring in Computer Science and Data Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Haoji has two years of experience in software development using Spring, Python, and MySQL and one year of experience in the MERN stack. With professional experiences ranging from a Full Stack Developer role and founding his own platform, Katfun.com, Haoji is comfortable managing and delivering on complex projects. He has developed responsive, user-friendly systems and websites. He also has experience as an Embedded Software Development Intern. As a part of diverse teams, Haoji has employed his programming acumen to create efficient solutions and drive projects to successful completion, demonstrating a passion for innovation and quality in the tech industry. As a One Community volunteer, Haoji has helped the teams develop new features and fix bugs in the Highest Good Network.

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One Community welcomes Jiadong Zhang to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jiadong is a recent graduate of the Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon University, with his undergraduate studies completed at the University of California, Irvine. Armed with a strong foundation in full-stack software development, Jiadong is proficient in a range of technologies, including Django, React, and Node.js. During his time at CMU, he played a pivotal role in a team dedicated to crafting a gamification platform tailored to gather valuable feedback from both students and professors during presentations. As an active member of the One Community team, Jiadong contributes his skills and passion to the development of the Highest Good Network software project.

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One Community welcomes Mounica Dingar to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mounica is a passionate and experienced MERN stack developer with a strong love for building web applications that leave a mark on the digital landscape. She’s on the lookout for emerging web development trends and technologies. Mounica has collaborated with cross-functional teams to design, develop and deploy web applications using MERN stack and analyzed business requirements to translate functional requirements into technical requirements and developed web applications using MongoDB, Express, React.js/Redux and Node.js (MERN stack). In her free time, she enjoys contributing to open-source projects, attending tech meetups, and experimenting with new frameworks to expand her skill set and belief in the power of continuous learning and improvement. As a member of the One Community team, Mounica has contributed to the project’s features and development of the Highest Good Network project.

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Open sourcing global sustainability is a path to a better world for everyone. Understanding this, One Community is committed to the idea that a sustainable future for our planet is a shared opportunity. Across the key areas of food, energy, housing, education, economics, and social architecture, we are developing open source solutions. Built on transparency and collaboration, we are ensuring that the knowledge and innovations we develop are accessible to all.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 6th, 2023 edition (#555) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Sourcing Global Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #555

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing global sustainability through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, the core team continued the review of the Murphy Bed assembly instruction. We offered detailed feedback and corrections across multiple sections, including storage, drawer front components, rectification of height representations for upper sections of closet shelves, recommendations for additional screws to enhance panel security, adjustments to measurements on nightstands, and the inclusion of missing screws. Additionally, we did HGN PR testing, confirming the resolution of several PRs related to the Devadmin account, badge count modifications, and cursor placement in fields. However, we noted persistent issues, such as the occurrence of a white screen when determining the time zone for Ukraine, default tab settings for volunteers without tasks, and unaddressed areas concerning shadowless buttons. See below for a collage of some of this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles concentrated on the Water Harvesting, Catchment, and Water Conservation tutorial, completing the Peak Discharge Computation section with associated graphs and tables. Moreover, the pertinent entries in the main Stormwater Drainage System Design Table of Contents were finalized, along with the remaining links in the resources section. All modifications in the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design Google Doc have been finished. Furthermore, the updates to the Earthbag Village Tools and Equipment Needs For The Net-Zero Bathroom, which included cropping and resizing images, were transformed into tables. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

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. The work involved in-depth examination and evaluation of critical factors to assess potential risks related to dams and their operational aspects, with a particular emphasis on potential failure scenarios. The process of dam risk analysis encompasses the utilization of various methods and responses commonly employed in this field. 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 developing strategies to improve mobility and expand the range of motion for the collecting container. He explored multiple ideas and identified an optimal choice for reference. See the images below for some of his work.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed another week of assisting with Earthbag Village. Vidhi concentrated on the 4Dome flythrough project, where she created multiple animations showcasing various character behaviors for the rooftop, including walking, sitting idly, engaging in conversations, and talking on the phone. Her responsibilities encompassed character and animation importation, as well as adjustments for scene compatibility using the control rig and the skeletal system within Unreal Engine. Additionally, she allocated time to typology edits to ensure accurate landscape grading. See below for some of the pictures.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) continued assisting with the Vermiculture Toilet designs. Yiwei participated in discussions with the vermiculture team to outline the next steps and propose ideas for improvement. Additionally, she had a meeting with the Duplicable City Center group, completing the design work and preparing it for testing in the following weeks and upcoming enhancements. See the pictures below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing global sustainability through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) continued her work helping with the interior design details for the rental rooms within the Duplicable City Center. Amiti worked on the 3D model for Room 10, with a specific focus on an industrial Boho aesthetic theme, which combines eclectic industrial furniture and boho decor to create a softer color palette. The design process began with mud-journey inspirations and an initial material palette for the room was established. Furthermore, she completed file finalization for the previous room design and explored new themes. 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’s focus was on conducting a comprehensive stress analysis that encompassed the entire dome, including its beams and the newly designed hub connectors. This analytical work involved activities such as defining contact types, applying forces, establishing constraints, and selecting appropriate meshing scales. In addition, the week marked the completion of the finite element analysis (FEA) simulation for the dome, providing valuable insights into maximum displacement, deformation, and stress analysis for the structure. See some of the images below.

ENGINEERING TEAM 

This week, the engineering summary was managed by Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer) and featured Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) highlighting Julio’s initiation of the design work for the Dome Hub Connector of the eighth row. Given the absence of symmetry in this specific portion of the dome, the design process necessitates an individualized approach for each node. Julio extended his efforts to the hub connector designs for the rows below, recognizing that the remaining nodes’ lack of symmetry will require additional design variations for hub connectors. See the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing global sustainability through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food rollout plan. Hayley took on the responsibility of organizing both the 3-person Material/Task list and the 20-person Material/Task list. She gave a review of soil testing, wildfire assessment, and associated documents. Hayley then documented her inquiries and revised the 3-person list, Materials/Task list, and implementation details. 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 initiated a cost difference data analysis task related to the kitchen menu recipe spreadsheet, with a specific focus on identifying the particular item(s) responsible for the price increase and created data visualizations. See the collage below to view this 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 used her Photoshop skills to combine eye-catching visuals with meaningful sustainability quotes, effectively conveying the values of eco-friendly cooking. Furthermore, Shivangi and Rihab engaged in a productive collaboration, marked by an exchange of ideas, as they worked on refining the UI/UX webpage designs for the Open Source Menu Tool Home Page. This collaboration extended to brainstorming sessions for the Open Source Recipe Tool Tutorial page and Vegan/Omnivore Recipes pages, resulting in well-structured outlines for both sections. Notably, Shivangi assumed the role of creating visually appealing banners for the vegan and omnivore recipe pages, while also initiating the mock-up design for the Vegan Recipes Page. See below for the visual images.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing global sustainability through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team completed 53 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.

Another core team member contributed this week by listening to the audiobook “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle and noted several profound statements that align with One Community’s values. He also collaborated with Hayley on the Food Infrastructure Rollout document, making edits and changes related to the arrival of the first three Pioneer personnel to our property, followed by the remaining group of 20. View some of this work in the collage below.

Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant) continued to help with fundraising outreach. He contacted five potential donors to express an interest in establishing connections. He also did research on five additional potential funders, encompassing assessments of their backgrounds, philosophy, funding track records, potential for securing funds, and the acquisition of their contact information. He also established a connection with a prospective funder from Common Good and initiated communication. The collage below shows some of his work.

Harsha Kulkarni (Data Analyst) continued working on One Community’s Google AdWords campaigns and Analytics details. This week, Harsha focused on comprehending and constructing Looker reports based on data gathered from Google Analytics 4. Initially, she developed a report using the existing format, incorporating visualizations for top countries per session, site session trends, channels contributing to engagement, and engagement categorized by gender and age. Subsequently, she worked on another section of the report, focusing on site traffic and its sources. Additionally, she created visualizations for session sources, engagement rates, conversions, conversion rates, and events per session. Harsha presented this information in the form of a bubble map for clearer visualization. The image below shows some of this work.

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, Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant), and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). Jamie took on several key responsibilities, including crafting a team summary for the administration team and generating collages for various teams, such as the administration team, core team, Blue Steel team, and individual contributors. She reviewed summaries, incorporating essential links and SEO optimizations while also organizing Dropbox files and the summaries page for efficient content management. Ola completed her responsibilities, which involved creating collages, editing pages, examining images, and summaries, and organizing work within specified subfolders. She contributed to the PR review process, verifying reviews, checking images, tracking progress, providing feedback, and managing comments. Shaurya reviewed of all pull requests (PRs), proactively addressing issues with team members who omitted crucial steps in their work, such as insufficient PR submissions, lack of summaries, or missing visuals. He updated tracking sheets and the weekly table, incorporating newly onboarded members of the Highest Good Network team to ensure they met the required minimum PRs and hours. Shaurya crafted a team summary and compiled a team collage featuring all PRs. Xiao created collages and summaries to credit the team’s development work, finished the webpage draft for the report, and submitted it for final review. He also reviewed and corrected mistakes in the weekly report 554, updated the webpage, copied the work from the final report, and set it up. Additionally, Xiao reviewed the work, communicated with the team manager to set up the report, and examined the business plan and financial statements in phase 1, preparing the webpage and conducting further business plan reviews. He also organized weekly summaries and documents related to the development work 555. The collage below shows some of this work.

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), Shree Birajdar (Software Developer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer), and Yubo Sun (Full Stack Software Developer). Haohui focused on enhancing the app’s features, specifically working on the task: Fix permission for edit tasks in PR#1466. Additionally, Haohui dedicated time to developing the functionality that assigned permissions to individual users, allowing manager accounts to access projects and edit project details. His work approach and focus were instrumental in advancing the project and nurturing a collaborative environment within the team. Shree triggered emails upon clicking the save button, further improving text formatting with a focus on CSS. She contributed to the team by reviewing and approving PR #485. Xiao focused on implementing timer improvements based on user feedback, including ensuring the timer’s ringing affects all open tabs and enhancing the TimeEntryForm component by disabling the submit button upon clicking, which enhances user experience. Yongjian resolved a failing npm test error and maintained permissions that prevent admins and owners from deleting their own accounts in PR #1331. He addressed merge conflicts, ensuring a smooth pull request integration. Yubo began by reviewing the team’s work and planned to finalize the unit test for the EditLinkModal component while assessing the feasibility of working on the task to replace PR#860. Nathan played a pivotal role in reviewing PR 1331 for Yongjian, developing permission categories for the permission management page, enabling permissions to be saved in the new format, and transferring permission spreadsheet data while ensuring info points worked seamlessly. 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), Tianyuan Nan (Software Engineer), Vishala Ramasamy (Software Developer). Vishala communicated with Tim regarding the material schema. Tim then updated the material features to manage material records within the database. Harshida resolved PR#1317 and PR#1389 and devoted time to reviewing the Phase-2 development documents and the WBS Sheet. She also worked on WBS#3.1.3 for Phase 2, aiming to provide users with a straightforward method to sort the list alphabetically (A-Z and Z-A) under the MaterialList component. Tianyuan focused on revising his PR #1407, addressing the Lint fix in the “Service” folder, and removed all Eslint disabled comments related to default exports and rectified corresponding errors associated with incorrect export formats, leading to the successful merging of the PR into the development branch. Aishwarya worked on integrating the frontend and backend systems, created a missing reducer file in the front end, resolved an issue with records not being fetched as expected in the backend with Tim’s assistance, and is currently focused on the frontend aspect. Tim created a new Mongo database collection and schema for building project data, updated the associated API router and controller function, contributed to the Building Management (Phase 2) documentation, and updated the project’s work breakdown structure and task list. Tim also hosted the weekly standup meeting, exchanged messages and ideas, and held brainstorming sessions with the team. He also reviewed all team members’ code, resolved issues, and provided detailed explanations and comments. 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). Olena engaged in a Stand Up Meeting with the GitRDONE team and participated in the review of the HGN Phase II. She reviewed and studied the Lesson Component to acquire a comprehensive understanding of its features, formulating a list of questions to facilitate a well-defined implementation plan. Miguelcloid focused on addressing the issue of a 0 badge count leading to the failure to delete a badge. Kai completed a pull request for the design of the BMdashboard lesson form, ensuring a close alignment with the Figma design. Kai also implemented the drag-and-drop and select file features and addressed feedback from the pull request review team. Jeffrey focused on addressing a development bug pertaining to the 5-letter-codes-dropdown saving function in the Weekly Summaries Report. He modified the existing code to rectify the functionality of changing team code names within the dropdown menu and ensuring the accurate display of selected team codes. Eduardo gathered feedback from team members to enhance the team documentation, addressing comments on the Google Doc, adding a column on the WBS2 spreadsheet, and orienting team members on routing design patterns, emphasizing the nesting of new pages inside/BMdashboard/new page. 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), Nancy Mónchez (Graphic Designer), and Shivangi Patel (Graphic Designer). Ashlesha worked on creating a volunteer announcement. She created the bio image, announcement image, and five Social Media Images for the volunteers. Ashlesha also researched and curated a collection of nature-based background images and different theme-based images for creating Social Media Images. Nancy completed multiple redesigns, incorporating a design grid and a variety of images in each project. The consistent use of gradients across all posts has provided a cohesive style. She improves the cohesion of all her posts through the use of consistent gradients. Shivangi produced captivating social media content specifically for Facebook. The collage below shows some of this work.

One Community welcomes Yeasin Arafat to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yeasin has a profound enthusiasm for creating sustainable and innovative solutions that shape our built environment. An aspiring engineer with a strong foundation in structural analysis, sustainable design, and environmental sustainability, Yeasin is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering at Zhengzhou University. He has gained hands-on experience through internships and practical projects, enhancing his project management skills and problem-solving abilities. As a member of the One Community team, Yeasin has helped with designing the social media content for the One Community weekly progress updates.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM YEASIN!

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One Community welcomes Sarah Boyd to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Sarah is a student at California Baptist University (CBU) studying Civil Engineering. She chose Civil Engineering for two reasons. The first reason is her love for national parks. She has visited many throughout the United States and has learned that the world needs to be protected, and its resources used wisely. Her second experience took place during a mission trip to Ensenada, Mexico. While there, she participated in building a house and a school. This experience showed her the importance of construction and how it can be a blessing to people. With her degree, Sarah hopes to pursue a career related to water resources and management. As a member of the One Community team, Sarah helped with the planning, documentation, and problem solving for the 2nd round of aircrete compression testing for the open source Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More page.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SARAH!

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One Community welcomes Xiao Fei to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Xiao attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics. He is proficient in a wide range of languages and frameworks including React, Gatsby, Svelte, Django, Spring Boot, GraphQL, React Native, Swift, and Kotlin. In addition, he holds an AWS Certified Solution Architect credential. During Xiao’s senior year’s capstone project, he led the front-end team in collaboration with Amazon Inc’s Shopbop, pioneering an innovative web application that elevated the online shopping experience. Xiao’s expertise also encompasses cross-platform and native mobile application development, exemplified by a cross-platform application integrated with AWS infrastructure. As an active member of One Community, Xiao contributes to the Open Source Software – Highest Good Network, prioritizing user interface enhancement and back-end optimization.

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Cooperatively designing a world that works for everyone is about fostering collaborative efforts that lead to sustainable solutions across various domains such as food, energy, housing, education, and social architecture. Our approach focuses on collective design and implementation, ensuring that every step we take is geared towards creating a world where all individuals thrive. What truly distinguishes One Community is our commitment to open sharing, making our entire process accessible to everyone, and facilitating a global movement towards a more inclusive and equitable future.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 30th, 2023 edition (#554) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Cooperatively Designing a World
that Works for Everyone
One Community Progress Update #554

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is cooperatively designing a world that works for everyone through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, the core team continued the review of the Murphy Bed assembly instruction PDF document. We corrected comments related to blurry linked PDF documents, reviewed the Wall Section for lumber lists, cuts layout, and sizes against the 3D SketchUp model, commented on the missing width dimension for the wall part’s opening, reviewed the entire “Benches and Table” section, checked the updated lumber layout in the SketchUp model for the “Clothing & Storage” section, generated an image with all measurements for the upper shelving unit and added comments about the correct dimensions. The review extended up to page 106 of the “Murphy Bed assemble instruction PDF document.” See below for a collage of some of this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) continued assisting with the Vermiculture Toilet designs. Yiwei continued her review of the CAD model for the vermiculture container structure and subsequently organized a meeting with the team to discuss the next steps. She also met with the Duplicable City Center group to assess progress made, and researched finite element analysis (FEA) simulations for earthquake scenarios. See the pictures below.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed another week of assisting with Earthbag Village. This week, Vidhi, worked on the 4 dome flythrough. She resized characters, paying careful attention to accurate scaling and double checking the measurements with the drawings provided. Additionally, the week saw efforts invested in refining animation quality and clothing quality, a process that encompassed control rig adjustments and comprehensive retouching for every character. She refined the animations and added more people. Vidhi also worked on test render output throughout the week which is being used to constantly test whether the animations are continuous and consistent. See below for some of the pictures.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is cooperatively designing a world that works for everyone through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) continued her work helping with the interior design details for the rental rooms within the Duplicable City Center. Amiti completed the development of the Japanese tea room-themed visitor room, incorporating recommended adjustments to the 3D visual representation and drawing inspiration from traditional Japanese tea room ambiance. She carried out post-processing on the room renders and produced a comprehensive mood board encompassing material selection, furniture design, color coordination, and paint palette curation through slides. Additionally, Amiti concluded the furniture and material selection process, resulting in a thorough cost analysis of the room. She also explored new themes for room design within the Duplicable City Center. 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’s primary focus has been on conducting a comprehensive stress analysis that encompasses the entire dome structure, including its beams and newly designed hub connectors. Within this scope, his activities have entailed defining contact types, such as bonded or separation contact, applying appropriate forces, establishing necessary constraints, and making informed choices regarding meshing scales. At present, Justin is working on the ongoing finite element analysis (FEA) simulation for the dome, furthering the understanding of its structural integrity. See some of the images below.

ENGINEERING TEAM 

This week, the engineering summary was managed by Arvindh Xavier (Civil Engineer) and featured Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) highlighting Julio’s completion of the design work for hub connectors in the third, fourth, and top (ninth) rows. As his focus shifts he will begin integrating the newly designed Dome Hub Connector into the overall structure. Julio will also begin conducting stress simulations across the entire structure, ensuring alignment with the project’s requirements and objectives, as he continues to make progress in this area. See the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is cooperatively designing a world that works for everyone through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Research Assistant) continued her review of the open-source Highest Good Food designs. She reviewed materials and task lists, concurrently addressing the format of the existing webpage. She researched unfamiliar topics, formulating a list of questions for a discussion meeting with a member of our core team. Additionally, she provided links to the organized material task lists in her session summaries. See below for the images.

Smit Bhoir (Data and Business Analyst) started data tasks for the Kitchen Recipe, completed the Transition kitchen recipe menu cell referencing task for all the tabs linking them to MasterRecipe, and began cost analysis and other data related tasks assigned for the kitchen menu spreadsheet. He also attended weekly meetings with Harsha to improve Google Adwords user engagement and reviewed the Software PR review team’s work. See the collage below to view this 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). Together they created finalized mock-up designs for what will be a new Open Source Menu web homepage. This collaborative process involved the exchange of feedback and revisions to ensure a polished final UI/UX product. See below for the images.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is cooperatively designing a world that works for everyone 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 cooperatively designing a world that works for everyone through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week, the core team completed 52 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. 

Another core team member contributed this week by continuing to review Eckart Tolle’s audio recording “A New Earth”, including various thoughts that were then transcribed onto a separate Google doc. These quotes may be included in an upcoming update to the One Community website. 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 comprehending Looker reports generated from Google Analytics. She took time to understand the current pipeline and dashboard setup and began migrating these reports to align with the Google Analytics 4 data source. Simultaneously, Harsha addressed ad campaign optimization, concentrating on enhancing the ad strength of specific ads within the Food ad campaign. Her efforts resulted in achieving an average ad strength level for the Apiary and Dam ad groups. The image below shows some of this work.

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), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant), and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). Alyx worked on various tasks related to the blog, editing and adding team summaries, fixing page summaries, copying content, downloading images, and providing feedback. She completed her contributions, followed up with team members, and initiated her part of the blog. Jamie contributed to multiple teams, including the Core Team, the Administration Team, Blue Steel, and individual collaborators, creating summaries, and collages, and proofreading. She also improved a training tutorial for incoming volunteers and began the set up process so she can post on social media as an administrator for One Community. Ola created summaries, images, picture collages, and SEO optimizations for the weekly blog, managing tasks for non-HGN team members, and providing reviews and feedback on PR team projects. Ruiqi focused on reviews and feedback for various teams, including the Funding Team, Git-R-Done Team, Graphic Design Team, and Expresser Team. She created collages, handled SEO keyword integration on WordPress, and revised the weekly progress update webpage. Shaurya worked on reviews of pull requests, ensuring team members followed the necessary steps and updating tracking sheets and tables to ensure compliance with minimum PRs and hours. He compiled a concise team summary and created collages featuring all PRs. Finally, Xiaolai oversaw the team’s progress, fixed errors in the weekly report draft, organized documents and comments, reviewed the business plan and cost analysis tables, and collected summaries, images, and videos of team members’ work for the week. The collage below shows some of this work.

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), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), and Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer). Xiao worked on addressing feedback for the recently launched timer feature, improving user experience by allowing goal time customization and adding tooltips to timer buttons. Nathan was actively involved in reviewing team summaries and videos, reorganizing the permissions spreadsheet to incorporate categories and multi-checkboxes, and focusing on the cascading indenting functionality in the new permissions component. Haohui familiarized himself with app features and conducted PR reviews, including tasks related to fixing permissions for editing tasks. Yongjian eliminated unused React hooks in PR #1331 to resolve console log errors, aligned the user management page with display requirements, and implemented permissions for deletion, with an ongoing commitment to resolve a failed npm test blocking a PR merge. The collage below shows some of this work.

This week, the Funding Team’s summary, covering their work for One Community Funding, was managed by Aaron Wang (Fundraising Assistant). Aaron completed follow-up email communication with six donors who had previous connections, aiming to advance ongoing communication. He also initiated email contact with seven potential donors, expressing a desire to establish connections. Additionally, he did research on five additional potential funders, involving an assessment of their backgrounds, philosophy, funding track records, potential for securing funds, and the acquisition of their contact information. The collage below shows some of his work.

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One Community welcomes Roberto Contreras to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Roberto Contreras, a growing software developer who prides himself in adaptability and coachability, excels in dynamic environments and collaborating with diverse teams. Roberto had work experience in the food industry, working his way up to become a sous chef, before undergoing a career transition that led him to graduate from General Assembly’s software engineering immersive program. This journey has helped him improve his skills and advance as a developer. During his time at One Community, he has demonstrated his expertise in identifying and resolving critical bugs in both the frontend and backend repositories, significantly improving overall system functionality of the open-source Highest Good Network software.

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At One Community, our driving force is maximizing sustainable impact. We are achieving this by focusing on open source and free-shared sustainability across diverse areas like food, energy, housing, education, social architecture, fulfilled living, and more. Our pioneering model is not just about making a difference; it’s about magnifying that difference globally through a collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs working together for the the highest good of all people and life.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 23rd, 2023 edition (#553) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Maximizing Sustainable Impact
One Community Progress Update #553

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainable impact through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week, the core team reviewed the Murphy Bed assembly instruction PDF document again. We provided feedback on various aspects, including the identification of the incorrect pre-cut of side panels for the wall supporting the Murphy bed, addressed the incorrect labeling of sections and pages in the document directory, made corrections in the electrical section, adjusted the numbers of items related to electrical components in the Procurement List, and noted challenges in accessing linked PDFs in the Component Section due to document quality issues. Additionally, we generated precise images of four different electrical circuits to enhance the visual representation of all switches and outlets. You can see this work in the image below. 

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design. Charles made significant progress on the Water Harvesting, Catchment, and Water Conservation tutorial, completing the top-level and Rainfall Tables of Contents with success. He also worked on the Stormwater Drainage System Design segment, involving tasks such as road drainage analysis, gutter flow analysis, inlet design, storm drain configuration, rainfall intensity assessment, travel time, time of concentration calculation, and peak discharge computation. Charles integrated equations, primarily hand-coded in HTML, and provided graphical representations for complex fractions. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Shengguang Jin (Mechanical Engineer) continued helping with the Vermiculture Toilet designs for the Earthbag Village. Shengguang examined the three originally proposed methods for dynamically emptying the waste collection chamber box, which included pallet jack discharging, pulley-winch-induced rotation, and hydraulic jack with a removable box wall. Additionally, he scrutinized the manual assembly process involving the hand-adapting rotary bar, recognizing that even subtle alterations in the gear’s aspect ratio could potentially exert a significant influence on the system’s handedness and overall efficiency. See the images below for some of his work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) also began assisting with Vermiculture Toilet designs. Yiwei reviewed a concise document pertaining to One Community’s toilet system and had a meeting with the newly formed Vermiculture team to deliberate on both past endeavors and prospective design considerations. Furthermore, she assessed the prior CAD design, with the intent of offering valuable insights and recommendations for design concepts. See the pictures below.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainable impact through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Amiti Singh (Architectural Designer) continued her work by helping with the interior design details for the rental rooms within the Duplicable City Center. Amiti made significant advancements in the development of the Japanese tea room-themed visitor room. She incorporated recommended alterations to enhance the 3D visual representation of the second room option, drawing inspiration from the serene ambiance of traditional Japanese tea rooms. Further contributions included the completion of post-processing for the room renders and the creation of a comprehensive mood board, encompassing material selection, furniture design, color coordination, and paint palette curation. Additionally, Amiti also began the initial cost analysis for the new option. 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 worked on the design and assembly of connector hubs, addressing the 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st rows. These designs were done under the expert guidance of the Senior Engineer, with a primary emphasis on incorporating recommended changes that stressed the avoidance of sharp bends and the adoption of a U-V shape configuration. The central objectives revolved around the structural assessment of these connector hubs, with a specific focus on evaluating maximum displacements under diverse loading conditions. Moreover, Justin established a ‘bonded’ contact for the bolt connections, while transitioning other faces from ‘bonded’ to ‘separation and sliding’ contact types. This pivotal adjustment lays the groundwork for the finite element analysis simulation of the entire structure. See some of the images below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating cooperatives of people making a difference through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, Hayley Rosario (Sustainability Researcher Assistant) continued our review of the open-source Highest Good Food designs. She did an extensive review of the Rollout plan, Highest Good Infrastructure, Permaculture, and soil amendment materials. Hayley documented personal notes to enhance our understanding and knowledge retention, thereby contributing significantly to our role as a Sustainability Research Assistant. See below for the images.

And Smit Bhoir (Data and Business Analyst) helped with the Transition Kitchen Recipe Buildout Data task and attended another meeting with Harsha to discuss Google AdWords. He took on a new data assignment from Jae regarding the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan menu, did a detailed assessment, and completed tasks related to the “Kitchen Menu” Spreadsheet cell referencing, including necessary corrections. He also helped with administrative tasks and One Community’s Google AdWords campaigns and Analytics details, reviewing Shaurya’s PR Team Review work and updated their personal blog for weekly update #552 on WordPress. Smit actively participated in a weekly meeting with Harsha, focusing on the Active and Inactive Ads list and Ads Data analysis over the past 30 days. You can view the collage below that is focused mostly on the menu design work work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, the core team completed 72 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. 

And another core team member contributed to One Community this week by reviewing Parts 2 and 3 of the Paul Wheaton’s podcast, Struggling With Big Spend. This is a panel discussion led by Paul Wheaton along with a few other panelists, including Jae. The main topic revolves around a discussion of how to spend 500K while simultaneously affecting positive global change and bringing money back to our project via a perpetual motion machine. Brief notations were made on Google. He then began listening to an Eckhart Tolle audio recording “A New Earth”. 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 enhancing the ad strength of multiple ads within the Open and Donating ad campaigns. She achieved this by adding relevant headlines and descriptions to the ads. Her strategy included modifying existing content to generate more responsive ads. As a result, Harsha elevated seven ads to an average ad strength and three to a good level within the donation campaign. In the open-source campaign, she accomplished the ad strength goals with one ad reaching an excellent level, six ads achieving an average ad strength, and three ads attaining a good ad strength level. The image below shows some of this work.

Vishvesh Sheora (Artificial Intelligence Specialist) focused on elevating the SEO performance of a multitude of blog posts featured on the One Community website. This week, Vishvesh was set to improve the SEO performance of articles. He pursued the objective of elevating their SEO scores by adhering to RankMath’s stipulated criteria, an influential SEO plugin. Moreover, Vishvesh continued to expand and refine the tutorial draft, offering guidance on the effective utilization of RankMath for superior SEO results. He carefully curated content, incorporated RankMath’s tools and functionalities, and concurrently enhanced his knowledge of the plugin, solidifying his expertise in the field. 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), Olawunmi “Ola” Ijisesan (Administrative and Management Support), Ruiqi Liu (Administrative Assistant), Shaurya Sareen (Administrative Assistant), and Xiaolai Li (Administrative Assistant). Alyx focused on summarizing and providing comments on Google Docs for the blog, downloading images, and duplicating summaries to contribute to the blog’s content. She also did work on preparing summaries and downloading media, for her assigned portion of the blog. She followed up with relevant individuals to ensure seamless collaboration and rectified any issues with the summaries on their page for the blog. Meanwhile, Jamie’s efforts revolved around the creation of video tutorials and the editing of her weekly page. She actively managed and coordinated the activities of the administration team, Blue Steel team, core team, and individual contributors. She worked on organizing summaries, generating team summaries, and creating collages. Ola focused on non-HGN tasks, including reviewing and updating weekly folders and creating collages for the One Community blog. She played a key role in assisting the PR team, overseeing the review process to ensure that all summaries and images adhered to the feedback provided by the PRs. Ola actively engaged with the reviewed work, confirmed the accuracy of reported PR numbers and offered comments and suggestions to enhance the team’s performance on their weekly tasks. Ruiqi achieved significant progress by completing the four-step review process for the Funding Team, Blue Steel Team, and Expresser Team, providing feedback to all team members, and ensuring the creation of collage images stored in Dropbox and added to the media library on WordPress. She effectively utilized weekly summaries to generate SEO keywords and incorporated them as Alt Titles on WordPress. Additionally, Ruiqi revised the weekly progress update webpage, ensuring accuracy and fixing any content issues. She also assisted other administrative assistants in checking web content and created a PDF with revision suggestions. Shaurya did a review of all pull requests (PRs), addressing issues with team members who had omitted crucial steps in their work. He updated the tracking sheet and weekly table to include newly onboarded members of the Highest Good Network team, ensuring compliance with required PRs and hours. Shaurya skillfully crafted a concise team summary and compiled a team collage featuring all PRs. Lastly, Xiaolai completed collages for three teams, organized the weekly report 552, and made necessary comments on team members’ work. After receiving feedback, he adjusted and updated the reports, checked summaries, and prepared images. Xiaolai also reviewed the final PDF for accuracy, transferred the work to his page, and planned to enhance tables and charts in the One Community Business Plan. He collected and organized weekly summaries, pictures, and documents for weekly report #553 and uploaded the reports. The collage below shows some of this work.

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 includes Bada Kim (Full Stack Software Developer), Haohui Lin (Software Engineer), Kurtis Ivey (Full Stack Developer), Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer), Shree Birajdar (Software Developer), Xiao Wang (Software Engineer), and Yongjian Pan (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Software Developer). Yongjian persistently tackled the challenges of addressing failed npm tests in PR #842 and PR #1331, demonstrating a commitment to codebase integrity. Additionally, he delved into bug resolution for API call errors and console warnings, initiating a pull request to investigate non-existing projects and enhance user notifications. Nathan’s week involved reviewing team summaries, creating PR 1420, helping Luis with permissions, and collaborating on reorganizing the permission spreadsheet. Kurtis investigated a front-end crashing issue and reviewed substantial PRs. Haohui engaged in thorough reviews of Frontend PR#1277, 1390, 1359, and Backend PR#530, 556, and 562, contributing to project advancement. Shree introduced significant improvements to the Blue Square scheduler, streamlining user interactions and enhancing efficiency. Lucile worked on quality assurance, testing pull requests, assessing bug reports, and participating in community activities, along with improving her Jest skills. The collage below shows some of this work.

SOFTWARE PR REVIEW TEAM

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