Let’s Innovate for Vegas

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The origin story of Brigades and CfA includes working with Municipal Partners, to advance community elevation projects based on what one might hope is insight concerning need, gaps, requirements, and so on. Is this the best way to go? We don´t do that, so we are finding out… Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://g...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Digital versus analog clocks, calculators versus slide rules, and up near the top of a very long list, Generative AI making things for us versus people making themselves. Why does any of this matter? The question is how much learning may have happened before adopting the labor-saving route. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitH...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A return, at least today, to talking about actual progress, action taken on our various initiatives and projects toward completion, or at least milestones, where this one is sort of meta. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Project-ACT on GitHub https://github.com/Project-ACT Agile fo...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: What is Open Source and what does it mean to you? Maybe nothing, maybe everything, but it is what powers all of our efforts, from the tools we use to the things we are building, and there are some things to ponder into the future of all of this. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Pro...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Agile has been getting a bad rap for a while now, yet we have adopted Agile for Volunteers as a way to involve contributors of creative works in project description and implementation through the User Story process with two-week Iterations and the presumption that one contributor may not return after. And more… Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovate...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you are a software developer of any kind nowadays, you have heard of it, you probably use it or something just like it, let´s talk about it. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Project-ACT on GitHub https://github.com/Project-ACT A Git Origin Story https://www.linuxjournal.com/cont...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: As we continue efforts to reach out beyond our locality while at the same time pursuing our high priority internal projects, the elephant in the room, so to speak, is the differences in the way we all evaluate what is before us… and our fiscal year ends on Sunday! Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/I...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Innovate for Vegas Foundation Nevada Nonprofit was formed on 16 June 2022, two years ago now, and we continue to push the boulder up the hill with the most interesting stuff still ahead! Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Project-ACT on GitHub https://github.com/Project-ACT The G...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Reviewing our current project agenda and individual components as we continue to reach out beyond Nevada to participate in the larger Civic Volunteer landscape. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Project-ACT on GitHub https://github.com/Project-ACT

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Sources of motivation and value for civic volunteers, anyone working on open source projects, or really anyone doing anything for reasons that are not always obvious. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Project-ACT on GitHub https://github.com/Project-ACT Simon Sinek - Start with Why...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Infrastructure as Code is a bit of a slog, does it need to be? Some ideas about Terraform, Pulumi, and a wishlist, not to mention Project-ACT and our most recent Board Meeting for May 2024. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Project-ACT on GitHub https://github.com/Project-ACT

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A very long time ago I learned that it is quite easy to make every task Priority One, so long as you are not the one running down the list to complete the tasks. Not everything can be Priority One, especially if there is only one person checking those boxes. So let us review the prioritized task list and see where we are… Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We moved the weekly episodes to publish on Tuesdays so we can talk about busy weekend hackery, so let us do just that! Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Pulumi https://www.pulumi.com/ rdf:Notation3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation3 OWL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontolog...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Continuing the DOAP and FOAF for Project-ACT, moving the weekly episode release days to Monday so we can talk about busy weekend hackery, new website for Innovate for Vegas Foundation to feature this content and our Event Calendar, among other things… busy! Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/Innovate...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Moving along with infrastructure, getting DOAP and FOAF workflows together for Project-ACT, and we are of course advancing various projects that will be deployed as a modern information sharing platform, all while continuing to reach out to former brigades and other civic volunteer types… Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The other shoe has dropped with HashiCorp with a recent announcement, which has made the decision to switch to Pulumi a little bit easier for this update, not to mention our leaning in completely to using old methods to engage our colleagues across the distal tapestry of civic volunteerism… Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitH...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Putting together infrastructure plans for our org, and some old-school methodologies for outreach to other organizations to build up the civic volunteer engagement. We have our work cut out for us… Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Project-ACT https://github.com/Project-ACT Terrafor...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Many, many episodes about projects and endeavors, describing the blue sky at which we aim, under which we plan, and which must become clouded. In the desert, gray clouds are a good thing, let it rain! Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Open source has been in the news a bit lately, not all of it great. We are still all in on open source development, plus a little bit of Creative Commons, but we do need to pay attention and know the ins and outs, and you should, too! Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Not a good loo...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Smart City Forward document published in 2018 spelled out several goals and rationales for elements of Las Vegas as a Smart City. How are these elements working out, and can we make our Smart City Smarter? Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Smart Vegas Forward Focused Plan (2018,...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have various project components which are intended to be extensible and somewhat interoperable so that we can reuse our creative works contributed by civic volunteers. It would appear that our My Muni project is the most interesting for the largest number of people, so let us update this story. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org O...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our Name Change status has moved from done to administrative tedium, in the mean time it could be worse, which could make things better, depending on your perspective Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Code for America Brigade Program Sunset https://statescoop.com/code-for-america-lo...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Springtime is upon us, a few administrative items and some much-needed maintenance as we tackle projects in a new way (unless you have been listening, then this may not be completely surprising) Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Making some adjustments for some of our projects with a new domain and not enough people to make them go… yet. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We are looking to add Directors to our Board, especially now that we are having weekly board meetings! Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas