Let’s Innovate for Vegas

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The common scenario is external contribution to open source projects, or lack there of, but what about any open initiative, whether yours or someone else’s, is it worthwhile to add time, effort, and expertise? Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Project-ACT.info https://p...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our foundation is focused not only on ideation, innovation, and implementation, but on developing the skills to do these, and more, individually and collaboratively. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info AgileForVolunteers.org https...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Perhaps you heard it mentioned in the movie, Up in the Air, or maybe you know it to be a real thing, this is what glocal means for our Foundation moving forward. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info AgileForVolunteers.org https://a...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A Latin word usually translated into English as “Ever Upward,” the path we hope to follow as we enter our fourth fiscal year, which happens to be just about the same as our fourth year as a Nevada Nonprofit corporation. The adventure continues… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.fo...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The next episode of this audio program will be on the first day of our fourth fiscal year, a little over three years at this undertaking, so why not share a few end-of-year thoughts and notions? So here they are… Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunt...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The original forkening effort was implemented to provide an onramp of sorts for coders, in keeping with our Code for Vegas origins, and Creators, who may have felt not-being coders was an issue. We have since reimagined that with our rename and some restructuring, now we need to be more obvious about our Foundation itself. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation http...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have talked about Cohorts, Motivation, and The Business of Civic Volunteerism in recent episodes, now the real challenge, advancing the cause or causes and making sure there is something to get Attention for (that was yet another recent episode) Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info AgileForV...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We touched on this a bit in a previous episode about Cohorts, but it is actually quite important, if you plan to form a nonprofit or similar business entity, to decide where the line between the business and the volunteering is and make sure that line is clear. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Project-ACT.info https://project-act.i...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Are you thinking about pursuing a civic volunteer path, possibly civic tech specifically or some other focal area or maybe general community elevation as we are? How about some ideas getting started and some things to think about… Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info AgileForVolunteers.org http...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Why would anyone want to spend their time, effort, and expertise on something that does not pay and may not receive the immediate appreciation it probably deserves? It is a question of motivation… Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org Mastodo...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Usually simplified to the Chicken and Egg Problem, most volunteer organizations will face a similar challenge, gaining interest in something not yet done so that the something can get done, to gain interest in the next thing not yet done. Getting attention is a challenge. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Project-ACT.info https://pr...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There is still a need to remind people that civic volunteerism, and many things in fact, require more than Code, and so we will do that again today! Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The exciting world of civic volunteerism collides with nonprofit public charity budgets to leave an intense need to make use of gratis tools whenever possible, and in so doing we get to know up close what is out there and what works, and along the way we can try to be visible to the outside world, though not everybody buys that. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundatio...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: One of the fundamental elements of our efforts is a way to account for and recognize the value of volunteer time, effort, and expertise as applied to our initiatives, and our experiment to accomplish this is something we call Agile for Volunteers, and this is how we are making it go. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Project-ACT.inf...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have at least two virtual meetups each week, barring schedule conflicts or respites, and some might be wondering what these are all about, so a quick rundown on what these are for and why they are split, and what about hackathons anyway? Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info AgileForVolunteer...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Whether a civic volunteer organization such as ours, or any activity to which you commit your volunteer time, effort, and expertise, there is something different about working in something other than a workplace that brings with it norms and expectations. Do they translate to the world of volunteer initiatives? Well… Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://in...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: It has been a while since we touched on our community elevation initiatives that are pure outreach. That is, these are initiatives that will launch as part of Innovate for Vegas Foundation, maybe drive some donations, and if all goes to plan, offer some utility to our local communities. So let´s talk about initiatives like talks. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundati...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Why on earth would we add yet more initiatives to our already-full plate? Well, the best time to lay some groundwork for the coming years might be when things are moving slowly, so that we can establish a broad range of possibilities for our future cadre of civic volunteers to consider. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Project-ACT....

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you are in the tech world you may have seen or heard the term “Full Stack Developer,” but what if you are involved with something better than that? The Full Full Stack is everything, especially the non-coding parts, and this is what we are doing. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info AgileFor...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our fiscal year ends on 30 June each year, and at the same time we file our annual list update with the Nevada Secretary of State, so that we can tell them who is governing our nonprofit corporation. The more the merrier, as some might say, so let us discuss growing our board of directors and a few other things. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovat...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: These are interesting times, no doubt about it, and while there is a lot of news to follow in the world, one of our core tenets is to focus on community elevation, thinking and acting locally through ideation, innovation, and implementation. What does that really mean? Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Project-ACT.info https://proje...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We find ourselves in interesting times of late, and while some of the chaos taking place at the federal level is concerning, we are very specifically thinking locally, and maybe it is time you do as well, and then act locally. Not only is there an opportunity to develop skills for yourself and peers, but Initiatives designed to elevate communities are a net posit...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: This is the first episode of Season 2 of this audio program, a perfect time to review a couple of things, see where we are, where we are headed, and how we might get there. Interesting times call for interesting measures! Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info AgileForVolunteers.org https://agile...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The news of late includes many mentions of recent findings at the level of the Federal Government concerning foreign aid and science and maybe education and emergency management and the list goes on. Some of the confusion, or lack of clear understanding, may be due to the notion that the federal government has been hiding data, hiding errors, corruption, fraud, a...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: For an organization such as ours which hopes to collaborate with volunteers on a somewhat chaotic basis, it makes sense to have everything written down so that someone who works on an initiative for a few hours each month can locate information and work with others using the same information. It is the reading part that can be a challenge. Stay tuned for an AI-ge...