Let’s Innovate for Vegas

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The first 52 episodes, here we are… what comes with the next 52? Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There are many content creators out there making Content In the Greater Vegas Area, maybe About the Greater Vegas Area, certainly of Interest to the Greater Vegas Area… how does one locate these and inform others when we do? Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas RSS https://en.wikipedia...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have online office hours each week as we return to our Community Panel idea, replace the in-person Monthly Hackathon Meetup, and let´s remind you of the Labs plan! Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Alliance of Civic Technologists (ACT) https://www.civictechnologists.org/

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A few items that we could really tackle here in our Greater Vegas area, and our Board Meeting, and some other stuff as January comes to an end. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas LVMPD Most Dangerous Intersections https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/most-dangerous-intersections-...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Open Source could be software, could be hardware, could be just about anything tech or non tech, but we can ask the same question of all of it. Why? Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas The Primegen Short https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lMlhkWYe5qc Theo on Why Not https://www.youtube.co...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The end of CES 2024, today, reveals the absence of something essential, our Local Innovators. Where are they? The coolest part of the entire production, Eureka Park, is packed with nationally-supported presence from South Korea, Israel, Switzerland, Italy, Ukraine, Türkiye, France… where is the contingent of Innovators and Entrepreneurs from Greater Vegas? Links...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A real hardware project aimed at connecting civilian first response volunteers when normal communications are down. Can we do it? Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas FEMA CERT https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/individuals-communities/preparedness-activities-webinars/community-em...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our first full year since rebooting our organization, some ups and some downs, all learning experiences as we plot a path toward Community Elevation while we cultivate our Innovation Culture! Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The difference between making something that is difficult to change versus something that is easy (or easier) to change Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Elastic vs Plastic example https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Elasticity_vs_plasticity

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We continue to aim high for 2024, so how can our reach exceed our grasp? A strategy to get there… Links Top Gun: Maverick shows it can be done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXbnzEHZDPg Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas Our Homepage https://innovateforvegas.org

Show Notes: Host: Dan Hugo Summary: AI is everywhere, especially if you are ready to sign your future over to a Large Language Model. The good news, there is no shortage of open source effort in this space, for everything from generation of quips and code, to image and even video generation, not to mention new ways to do really useful things. Could be an interesting year ahead! Links Some Open Sou...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There are two main sides to Innovation, sometimes more of one than the other, but they are both there and they are both important… Links Our GitHub https://github.com/InnovateForVegas

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Long weekends are great for hacking projects or producing and audio program about projects being hacked upon. Let us do one here and the other after. Links Innovate for Vegas Foundation Home Innovate for Vegas on GitHub GOVegas Mobile App on Google Play GOVegas Mobile App on Apple Store CLV Future Forward 2018 (PDF)

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Coming up on two years since we rebooted and we get this kind of question all the time: Why don´t you just use Wordpress, why don´t you just use some existing service or tool, why don´t you just use AI? There is an answer for that, give a listen. Links Do Easy https://allenginsberg.org/2015/07/william-burroughs-proclamation-do-easy/ Emily Bestor Quote https://bus...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The 2023 NASA International Space Apps Challenge has come and gone (LV CHAMPS is on the list for potential advancement and prizes), learning for tomorrow by examining today and yesterday is essential for Innovation, and so we shall… Links NASA ISAC Website https://spaceappschallenge.org/ NASA ISAC 2023 Locations https://spaceappschallenge.org/2023/locations/ Caff...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Project-ACT was conceived before the great rug pull and so was initially aimed at helping other groups of Civic Volunteers to become independent. With the benefit of hindsight and a sense of the current state of affairs, it is also aimed at something else… Links Code for America layoffs and other changes https://cfaworkersunited.com/stories/2023/09/11/top-5-ways-...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our pivot has already been described, and it will be a hard pivot at that based on what we have learned so far. Staying Local will not work for us in the near term, but what about other localities, other bastions of civic volunteerism beyond our own horizons? Let´s make revolutions for 20 knots and engage the propellers! Links DemocracyLab https://www.democracyla...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The 2023 NASA International Space Apps Challenge is done, we sent our nomination to Global Judging, and there are more hackathons and challenges in the future. Why does this matter? Links 2023 NASA ISAC Nominee Las Vegas https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/2023/find-a-team/lv-champs/ 2023 NASA ISAC Las Vegas Teams https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/2023/locations/...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The NASA Space Apps Challenge 2023 hackathon is in the history books, we are in Hacktoberfest, and there is still so much to do… Onward and Upward! Links https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/2023/locations/las-vegas-nv/?tab=teams https://hacktoberfest.com https://github.com/InnovateForVegas

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Hacktoberfest is going on all month, NASA Space Apps Challenge has been a learning experience wrapping up with the annual Hackathon October 7-8, and we are now pressing ahead full force on general engagement with civic volunteers from anywhere… Links https://hacktoberfest.com https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/2023/locations/las-vegas-nv

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Guest: Mary C Norris Summary: Mary knows a thing or two about civic volunteerism, civic volunteers, and getting projects from ideation to implementation… for example, TrashAI. Can we do that more? Produced with Ennuicastr at https://ecastr.com for free, as the Innovate for Vegas Foundation is a public charity AND a fellow developer and supporter of Open Source, Thanks Enn...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We are sometimes asked about tech stacks or whether we are looking for any particular talent for our projects, not to mention questions about civic volunteerism. Let us address these these and more.

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: Name change official with the NV SoS, Innovation Culture in need of intense effort and participation, Hacktoberfest and outreach to Former Brigades through ProjectACT is the next attempt at collaboration. Links - https://hacktoberfest.com - https://www.lvcva.com - https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/2023/locations/las-vegas-nv - https://innovateforvegas.org

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Hacktoberfest 2023 is less than a month away and we intend to participate this year… along with facilitating the International Space Apps Challenge, the Congressional App Challenge, our local media project and its components, and a few other cool things. So what are you up to? Hacktoberfest this year Last year we were still getting booted up, this year we have pl...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There are various challenges that happen at scale, with prizes and one-shot project focus, maybe even a hackathon. Could this be the path to building innovation culture in Greater Vegas? Hackathons and Projects Today We already do these, don´t we? Well, nobody shows up… Our projects are ongoing community elevation projects intended up improve our communities and...