Let’s Innovate for Vegas

By Innovate for Vegas Foundation

Our audio program about the Innovate for Vegas Foundation, our volunteers, our projects, our ideas, and how what we are working on will ideally impact our communities in and around Las Vegas in positi... more

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September 04, 2024Episode 0081: Whole Team
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: One of the more essential elements of the original Agile brought over to Agile for Volunteers, and to our endeavors in general, is the notion that all participants should be able to, and should be enabled and encouraged to, contribute to the planning, implementation, and ongoing development of initiatives and projects. This may be a new idea for newcomers and maybe even a curious thing for non-coders. Let´s get into 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
Agile for Volunteers https://github.com/InnovateForVegas/doc-agile-for-volunteers
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39min
August 27, 2024Episode 0080: Puzzles vs Mysteries
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: You may know the differences between complication and complexity, but do you know the difference between a puzzle and a mystery? Do you know how these apply to civic volunteer projects? Let´s find out!
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 for Volunteers https://github.com/InnovateForVegas/doc-agile-for-volunteers
Gladwell, Puzzles, Mysteries https://boingboing.net/2007/01/09/gladwell-on-mysterie.html
Agile Manifesto https://agilemanifesto.org/
Jeff Jonas https://www.jeffjonas.com/bio
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45min
August 20, 2024Episode 0079: Volunteer Time Management and Value
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Volunteer time is gold as we say here at the Foundation, and so we endeavor to shine light upon it, and to best do that we need to write things down. Knowing who did what for which projects is important, not only for giving due credit, but for managing the resources volunteered not only by one, but by all concerned, especially when there is collaboration involved…
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 for Volunteers https://github.com/InnovateForVegas/doc-agile-for-volunteers
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58min
August 13, 2024Episode 0078: Polyglot
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Programming languages, there are many. So many. Sometimes a company or project will pick what people like to call a Tech Stack with specific programming languages, tools, libraries, modules, and so on, to focus the efforts of their developers, but we are not going that route.
Links
Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas
Project-ACT on GitHub https://github.com/Project-ACT
One Program in 1500 Variations https://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/
Lists on Lists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages
Categorized https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_by_type
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54min
August 06, 2024Episode 0077: Munici Pals
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://github.com/InnovateForVegas
Project-ACT on GitHub https://github.com/Project-ACT
Code for America Local Initiatives https://codeforamerica.org/programs/local-initiatives/
Five Questions with Jennifer Pahlka https://medium.com/five-questions/regardless-of-who-is-in-the-white-house-we-have-work-to-do-from-the-bottom-up-and-from-the-3bca82ea4203
Code for America Next Chapter for Brigades https://codeforamerica.org/news/reflections-on-the-brigade-networks-next-chapter/
What Next for Civic Volunteers? https://statescoop.com/code-for-america-former-brigades-regroup/
CfA Layoffs and Realizations https://cfaworkersunited.com/stories/2023/09/11/top-5-ways-cfa-leadership-abandoned-values.html
Alliance of Civic Technologists https://www.civictechnologists.org/
Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka https://www.recodingamerica.us/
Central Planning aka Planned Economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy
Forgiveness vs Permission Quote https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/06/19/forgive/
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1h 27min
July 30, 2024Episode 0076: Manual vs Automatic
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 GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas
Project-ACT on GitHub https://github.com/Project-ACT
Example: 77% of employees find AI increases workload! https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrobinson/2024/07/23/employees-report-ai-increased-workload/
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59min
July 23, 2024Episode 0075: Iteration and Collaboration
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 for Volunteers https://github.com/InnovateForVegas/doc-agile-for-volunteers
The Tessellation https://github.com/Project-ACT/ov-tessellation
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56min
July 16, 2024Episode 0074: Pause for Open Source
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
Project-ACT on GitHub https://github.com/Project-ACT
Open Source Definition https://opensource.org/osd
Open Source Needs You https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/15/opinion_open_source_attract_devs/
Everybody is Doing It https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-open-source-attracts-some-of-the-worlds-top-innovators/
History of Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux
xkcd Dependency https://xkcd.com/2347/
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1h 27min
July 09, 2024Episode 0073: Polishing Agile for Volunteers
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://innovateforvegas.org
Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas
Project-ACT on GitHub https://github.com/Project-ACT
268% Higher Failure Rates with Agile! https://www.engprax.com/post/268-higher-failure-rates-for-agile-software-projects-study-finds
Coding with Dee agrees? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSVBWvoNJ-s
What about Prime? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Wr3j4h_1I
Old School Reality Check from Dave Farley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcuw5UNw4jU
The Agile Manifesto https://agilemanifesto.org/
Clean Agile book by Robert C Martin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45280021-clean-agile
Our Agile for Volunteers documentation project https://github.com/InnovateForVegas/doc-agile-for-volunteers
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1h 35min
July 02, 2024Episode 0072: The GitHub
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/content/git-origin-story
About GitHub https://github.com/about
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1h 4min

FAQs about Let’s Innovate for Vegas:

How many episodes does Let’s Innovate for Vegas have?

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