Let’s Innovate for Vegas

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: October 7 fast approaches, the details of the 2023 NASA International Space Apps Challenge are coming together, will Las Vegas have enough participation to hold our event? Quick History The last time ISAC had a Las Vegas event was 2021, with 28 participants Projects were submitted by 4 teams, made up of 12 of the 28 people Where did those 12 people go? One still...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Guest: Alex Just Summary: Do Comedy and Innovation go together? Just ask Alex Just… slated to be the Designated Humor Technician during our upcoming Local Edition of The Largest Hackathon in The World, The NASA Space Apps Challenge on October 7 and 8, 2023! We chat at length about humor, innovation, and doing it rather than merely thinking about it. Produced with Ennuicas...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: From our reboot in early 2022, one of our main foci, in fact our first Capstone Project, was and is the Virtual Vegas platform, all as part of an effort to Make our Smart City Smarter. We are going to need a bigger boat. What is a Smart City anyway? Connection Communication Compassion Compute How About a Smarter Smart City? Informed Consent with Transparency (Ope...

Show notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: Some of our existing projects were already designed with this notion in mind, as we extend invitations beyond Nevada to participate in our various endeavors, we are taking aim at open source municipal-scale information sharing! Social Meets News Meets Social - There has been a separation of News and Social, so that News appears on Social Networks - Community...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: As we switch on the mandatory weekly local lead meetings, the details of the upcoming hackathon on 7 and 8 October will become more clear. Or less. The tl;dr - Sign up today for the hackathon which begins 9am Pacific Time 7 October 2023 - Visit our [Local Event Page](https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/2023/locations/las-vegas-nv/) on the [NASA Portal ](https:...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Guest: Mary Norris - Summary: Mary has joined our Board of Directors to help us reach out beyond Nevada for civic volunteers looking to make a difference and to Innovate! - 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 Ennuicastr! First thing...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: Another update as the International Space Apps Challenge participant sign-up portal is almost ready for prime time! A quick recap on ISAC 2023 from part 1 - A Global hackathon taking place October 7 and 8, 2023 - All about Space, but not necessarily all about Apps. Non-technical participation is essential! - Our event is hybrid, with in-person and remote part...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: Civic volunteerism is not for everyone. The question is whether to accept that, or seek participation where we might find it… Civic Volunteerism - Simply put, doing things for your city and the people in it - Ideally motivated by one´s personal ethos - A great opportunity to be a part of one´s community with observable ROI Local Innovation by Local Innovators...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: The International Space Apps Challenge fast approaches, we begin to ramp up outreach and planning for a great, hybrid in-person and virtual event! What is the Space Apps Challenge? - NASA-sponsored global event - Vegas last fielded a Local Lead in 2019 - This is NOT an Innovate for Vegas event, we are facilitating with others (hint hint) Early Days - Local Le...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: Welcome to My Vegas, two projects that go great together! What are these Projects? - My Vegas is aimed at locals and people who spend enough time in Greater Vegas to be mostly-local (maybe even vLocal…) - Welcome is similar, but aimed at those who visit Greater Vegas now and then, for fun, work, conferences, sporting events… the list is long. - These will lik...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: One year since our nonprofit formed, today is our Birthday! Let us talk about it… The Bad - Code for America C&D - Complete lack of support from many parts of City of Las Vegas government - Complete mismatch in our initial governance - Essentially zero participation The Good - Don Jacobson and the IIC, our Home away from Home (unless and until…) - Support...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: The v in vLocal could stand for Vegas, it could stand for Virtual, or like a qbit it may stand for both at the same time… What is a Local anyway? - Got a state ID? You´re in! - The finer points, native vs just-got-here - Me? Almost 10 years… Locals Discounts - Some free stuff, some not-as-free stuff - The locals paradox (living next to the Empire State Buildi...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: Smart Social is our project intended to enable a Smarter Smart City to Communicate with Itself! You would think after all these years with the internets and social media that we humans would know how to do this, perhaps this has never been less true… The Project - Smart Calendar to start - Smart Contacts, Content, and More - Innovation and Implementation, als...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Guest: Josh Leavitt - Summary: In our Innovation Hub that is Greater Vegas, it is actually possible to have an idea and try it out, if you are lucky enough to know at least one of Josh Leavitt and Jamie Schwartz. Today we explore a collaboration with Tech Alley to launch… talks dot vegas. - Produced with Ennuicastr at https://ecastr.com for free, as the Innovate for V...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: Solo show today with a rundown on upcoming hackathons, ongoing and new projects for volunteers to work on, and more! Hackathons! - Due May 31: TechFashion Design Challenge 2023! - Summer Time: Becker Tech Center! - October 7 and 8: Global Space Apps Challenge! Projects! - Ongoing projects like Open Transit and Smart Social are gaining in importance, but not v...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Guest: Dr Kitty Yeung - Summary: The intersection of STEM and Creativity is sometimes called STEAM but is there more to it than that? Probably. Fashion and Technology are where people integrate science and technology into daily life, let us discuss! - Produced with Ennuicastr at https://ecastr.com for free, as the Innovate for Vegas Foundation is a public charity AND...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Guest: Tara Hernandez - Summary: Once upon a time, a company in Silicon Valley began the arduous task of changing the world. Netscape arguably began the adoption of The Internets by the general public with the Navigator and Communicator web browsers, enabled the so many innovations with the server side, and even did battle with Microsoft. Someone had to build this stu...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Guests: Anthony Willis, Nichole Malichky - Summary: Open Data is powering more things than most people know, and we are only getting started! - 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 Ennuicastr! Who are Nichole and Anthony? - Working f...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Guest: Priscilla Scott, CPRP - Summary: Priscilla is making local innovation happen at the newly-launched Becker Technology Center in west Las Vegas. 3D Printing and 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 Ennuicastr! Who is Pri...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: What is our Open Transit project, why did we begin with it, where is it at today? To reason why - Very first hackathon - Low-hanging fruit - Multi-discipline undertaking What Works? - The buses run, mostly - There is a set of GTFS schedule and realtime data available - We can use those GTFS Data to build our own services! What Doesn´t? - The Estimator in use...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Guest: Shawn Looker - Summary: Shawn was the OG in the first days of Code for Vegas from 2014-2016 and is today a fellow board member and driving forced behind our Innovate for Vegas Foundation. Who is Shawn Looker? - Time at Zappos - Working with Code for America - Co-founding and Co-captaining Code for Vegas - Moving on to other things in TN… Code for Vegas - Projec...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Guest: Mary Fay Long Norris - Summary: The first and last person to speak with about civic volunteerism in your locality, especially if you ever imagined being a part of Code for America… Who is Mary Fay Long Norris? - Can we call you Mary Norris? - First contact when we were rebooting Code for Vegas - Everybody asked if we had met Mary Norris yet… - Brigades (hang on...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: Catching up and filling it in for March. March comes to an end - An interesting month, but not as much as it could be. - One actual year! - More Hardware on the Horizon - Vegas is bigger than the City of… Volunteering on Projects - We have implemented our Agile for Volunteers policies - This is a two-way street that is rarely actually free - Our whole-team ap...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: Some thoughts on the newly-unbiquitous notion that AI will write, say, sing, illustrate, and animate everything everywhere for all time. AI and Our Ethos - A +Awareness - what is AI doing and how is it doing it? + Access - do paywalls and resources constraints make some beneficiaries of AI and others training material? + Accountablity - is AI a tool for good,...

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: More ideas from more people is more valuable for our future… International Women´s Day 2023 - A fundamental observation of the importance of diversity - Discounting the brilliance of half of the global population (give or take) is not sustainable - A story from Hack Holyoke 1… Our Ethos - Inclusivity, Diversity, and Accessibility - Our name change is part of...