Episodes

  • Episode 0092: The Hackathon Way

    Episode 0092: The Hackathon Way
    Nov 19 2024
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: We haven´t talked about hackathons in a while, from whether we should bring back our monthly hackathon meetup, to participating in a hackathon, to hackathon outcomes, to why you should participate in hackathons regardless of your level of experience.
    Links
    • Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
    • Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
    • AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
    • Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas
    • The Sprint Book https://www.thesprintbook.com/
    • Britannica on Hacker (the negative take) https://www.britannica.com/topic/hacker
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    43 mins
  • Episode 0091: Bringing it Back

    Episode 0091: Bringing it Back
    Nov 12 2024
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Our very first project and hackathon, the one that got the most interest for some time and the one that many people need to see happen even though they have no idea we were ever working on it, is finally getting some real attention.
    Links
    • Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
    • Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
    • AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
    • Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas
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    34 mins
  • Episode 0090: Honor the Customer

    Episode 0090: Honor the Customer
    Nov 5 2024
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: The user story seems like a basic idea, often dismissed as a part of the much-maligned Agile method but often a real and legitimate representation of why any initiative is undertaken and for whom. If one is looking for motivation or reason of any kind to participate in community elevation initiatives, look around, your users and customers are all around you.
    Links
    • Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
    • Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
    • AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
    • Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas
    • Steve Jobs introduces Think Different
      • Longer, good audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM4If6YHN3s
      • Good Audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDD5G2_6hdA
      • Brief, poor audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keCwRdbwNQY
    • Think Different Original Crazy Ones
      • Steve Jobs Narration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEPhLqwKo6g
      • Richard Dreyfuss Narration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMBhDv4sik
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    48 mins
  • Episode 0089: Fediverse

    Episode 0089: Fediverse
    Oct 29 2024
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: You may or may not be aware of The Fediverse. Unlike The Metaverse, this is actually a real thing, and in fact we could argue that it has been around in one way or another the whole time. Surely a component of our Virtual Vegas vision, making our Smart City Smarter, should include something intersecting The Fediverse, how about this week?
    Links
    • Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
    • Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
    • AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
    • Join Mastodon https://joinmastodon.org
    • ActivityPub (Rocks!) https://activitypub.rocks
    • Mastodon for Vegas https://mastodon.vegas
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Episode 0088: Behind the Scenes

    Episode 0088: Behind the Scenes
    Oct 22 2024
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: The exciting worlds of nonprofit public charity endeavoring, civic volunteerism, story-telling, and the always-essential, difficult-to-describe umbrella category, miscellaneous, can make for some interesting times, but also some interesting times…
    Links
    • Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
    • Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
    • AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
    • Alliance of Civic Technologists https://www.civictechnologists.org/
    • Open Austin https://www.open-austin.org/
    • Civic Hackers https://civic-hackers.org/
    • Interesting Times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Episode 0087: Test and Debug Everything

    Episode 0087: Test and Debug Everything
    Oct 15 2024
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Obviously we test and debug and test again and debug yet more our various software applications and whatnot, and then you the customer, the user, does more testing for us. The same goes for everything else, not merely Software, and we can always do better across the board.
    Links
    • Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
    • Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
    • AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
    • Observability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Episode 0086: Sites and Sounds

    Episode 0086: Sites and Sounds
    Oct 8 2024
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: At long last our website is near the top of our to-do list, and what we want to do with this audio program 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
    • Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info
    • AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforvolunteers.org
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    40 mins
  • Episode 0085: Hacktoberfest 2024

    Episode 0085: Hacktoberfest 2024
    Oct 1 2024
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: That time of year is upon us once again, a truly scary time indeed. When the curious and inexperienced are invited to sprinkle some contribution to open source projects or initiatives out on the Internets, wherever the lights are on and a Hacktoberfest tag has been left like a creature of darkness between the curious and the candy. It is good, but is it great?
    Links
    • Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.org
    • Our GitHub Org https://github.com/InnovateForVegas
    • Project-ACT on GitHub https://github.com/Project-ACT
    • Hacktoberfest 11 https://hacktoberfest.com/
    • Example GitHub Topic Search https://github.com/topics/hacktoberfest
    • Example GitLab Topic Search https://gitlab.com/explore/projects/topics/hacktoberfest
    • Not Everything is Code https://github.com/readme/featured/open-source-non-code-contributions
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    50 mins