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Let’s Innovate for Vegas

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 positive ways, while at the same time empowering our volunteers to make a difference, for their friends and neighbors and for themselves.

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Episode 0012: Make it Fashionable with Dr Kitty Yeung

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2023/05/11

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 a fellow developer and supporter of Open Source, Thanks Ennuicastr! Who is Kitty Yeung? - Just

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00:59:02

Episode 0011: Building the World with Tara Hernandez

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2023/05/05

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 stuff, and that person was (with her team), Tara Hernandez - Produced with Ennuicastr at

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01:32:50

Episode 0010: Open Data Everywhere!

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2023/04/28

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 for City of Las Vegas - A little background on each of our guests… - A day in the

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01:00:54

Episode 0009: The New Becker Tech Center!

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2023/04/22

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 Priscilla Scott? - Nevada Recreation and Park Society - Running the new Ernest &

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00:36:16

Episode 0008: Open Transit ASAP!

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2023/04/14

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 today is not always accurate - Phantom buses, incorrect telemetry data,

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01:14:47

Episode 0007: Quite the Looker!

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2023/04/05

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 - Projects - Participation - Startup and shutdown Civic Volunteerism and Benefits

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01:38:18

Episode 0006: Mary is Number One!

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2023/03/30

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) in California, participation everywhere Civic Volunteerism - Community

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00:34:47

Episode 0005: Odds and Ends for March 2023

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2023/03/24

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 approach includes collaboration on specs and projects - Volunteers in all areas

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00:33:02

Episode 0004: AI Awareness, Access, Accountability

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2023/03/18

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, or for profit at the expense of good? - I + Ideate - are we keeping

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00:38:58

Episode 0003: Diversity and Innovation

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2023/03/08

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 our effort to be more Inclusive - Our effort to reach out to and to appeal to a

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00:34:56

Episode 0002: Hackathons Projects and Stuff

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2023/03/02

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: Introduction to our Monthly Hackathons and our ongoing Projects Hackathons - We had a fun time with Wiliot visiting to try out their recently-released Innovation Kit, which enabled our participants to try out some IoT sensor technology hands-on! They found some early issues, which helped out the Wiliot team a lot, and we got to play with new stuff! - Our hackathons are always aimed at learning and progressing through collaboration. Our Febuary 2023

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00:22:43

Episode 0001: Volunteer Projects

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2023/02/24

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: We have many projects, and many more on the horizon Volunteering - As a volunteer nonprofit public charity organization, we have chosen to make all participants volunteers. There is no financial compensation for anyone in governance, nor any of the participants. - We do not want people to work for free. We do want to work with people willing to work for free. - When we began in 2022 we were having a Monthly Hackathon and an associated Project

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00:30:56

Episode 0000: Kicking Off Our Audio Programming

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2023/02/17

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Summary: Just getting a first episode out there to kick off our audio programming, continuing our engagement with Las Vegas and beyond! A few things, topical and general, 2023 the year ahead - CodeFor and CreateFor portals and outreach - Hackathons that lead to more collaboration - Deployed projects and community elevation Subscribe here on this podcast platform, check out our website and our projects, and come by our Monthly Hackathon Meetups. Remember,

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