Let´s Innovate for Vegas

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....

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
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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…

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• Innovate for Vegas Fo...

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.

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• Innovate...

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://innovateforveg...

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• 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...

• 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.

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-ACT.i...

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• 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....

• 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 positive and a great way to spend your...

• 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!

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
• AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
• Mastodon fo...

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• 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, and so on...

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• 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-generat...

Show Notes

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: DEI is making headlines, some are sticking with it, some are tossing it out, it is simple and complicated. Our Foundation has always taken a scaled-down approach, making Inclusivity, Diversity, and Accessibility our goals, and we will continue to do that, but what does that mean? Let´s talk about it.

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• Innovate for Vegas Foundation h...

Show Notes

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Our episode number this week looks like the binary representation of the decimal number 5, and this nybble reminds me of a visit to Bits and Atoms at MIT a few years ago, where I met with Neil Gernshenfeld and took a look at their facilities and their program, and it is something that should be emulated everywhere, especially here in the Greater Vegas area, the FabLab...

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: The Greater Vegas area is a strange mix of cultures and possibilities, some of which may be wagered on. Our Foundation began reaching out beyond our locality to engage those in other places interested in community elevation and civic volunteerism over one year ago, and it was at CES 2025 where there was some leaning-in.

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.o...

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Any organization doing anything needs to have some way of informing those joining in how things work, how people work together, and so on. No more true than with an volunteer organization, especially one such as ours intending to deliver ideation and innovation in the form of implementation to elevate our communities. So we write things down…

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation htt...

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: It is rarely a bad idea to have things written down, and this is most definitely true when it comes to setting some ground rules for contributions to open source initiatives, and well, our contributing document is almost ready. Almost.

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
• AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvo...

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: There are always details to sort out, especially if you are more than one person and you are planning to do something or make something that may be used by many, or have far-reaching impact, or which might be around for a while. Flip is fun and easy, dotting and crossing everything is quite the other thing.

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-AC...

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: There are pros and cons being a nonprofit upstart in the innovation space. One thing that is a bit of both, is a general lack of market forces driving releases of early initiative efforts. That is, we have no ship dates for our initiatives, so no rush, but also, no rush.

• Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
• Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
• Agile...