Learning at Cisco Event

 

 

Cisco has teamed up with influential think tank, The Meeting of the Minds, and the IoT Talent Consortium to bring you Episode II in the free webcast series “Talent for Cities: The Catalyst for a Digital-Ready Workforce in a Digital Economy.”

 

We invite you to attend this live stream talk show, which will explore the intersection of digital transformation, future smart cities, and human capital. We’ll explore how cities, businesses and education can collaborate and innovate to accelerate the path to a Smart-City Workforce. How can we disrupt the current model to help future digital cities to innovate, grow, and thrive?

 

Co-hosts Gordon Feller  and Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn  will engage in a provocative and practical dialogue with three influential guests:

• Tim Draper, Founder of Draper University and Draper Associates/DFJ venture capital firm
• Scott Mauvais, Head of Microsoft Civic Innovation
• James Weinberg, CEO, FUSE Corps

Join us on Wednesday, February 1st, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

Register Now

 

Why are we doing this? We aim to bring together business leaders and influential change-makers in government and education who have the desire and power to disrupt the status quo, bring fresh thinking to the table, and ultimately find new and innovative ways to build the digital-ready talent we need to thrive and create new jobs and new opportunities.

 

Imagine what digitally connected cities can accomplish! But the “elephant in the room” is this: Who will build, prepare, and continuously innovate these digital cities for the future? Even with massive investments in new technology, infrastructure, and urban development, without a robust pipeline of digitally ready talent, how will cities realize their full potential?

 

Whether it’s a digital analyst working in urban development, an IT director for a local utility, or a developer designing new applications to better serve the health of urban citizens, talent will be the critical success factor for future connected cities.

 

This webcast will explore the public and-private-sector nexus and the role of cities (and citizens) in talent-based economic development.

 

Join us! Join the movement!

 

 

Register Here

 

Best Regards,

Learning@Cisco

SUPERBOWL LI

 

 

 

 

Superbowl 51: Sun, Feb 5, 2017 NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas at 6:30 PM ET on FOX

Home of the Superbowl

 

Social Events are the best places to lose devices, so protect yourself with these great tips:

Security Tips

Here's an Idea...

Restaurants have created a price based on the amount of ingredients they use for their entrees...

Now, there are more costs involved obviously, like cost overhead and employees salaries, but food is itemized and valued by how many and what items are added to that meal...

An example is mushrooms, people usually remove mushrooms from an item for one reason or another, either because of taste or allergy or because the type of mushroom they use and of course the care the restaurant uses when it comes to mushrooms...

Sometimes it's a multitude of items that are excluded, like green peppers, onions and mushrooms...

The point being is that the price should reflect the removal of an ingredient from the item to reduce the price of the entrée...

You have starving coders out there that would love to create an algorithm to add to your database that subtracts the value of the item from the entrée...

Sometimes people like to substitute ingredients and the market prices could vary depending on what ingredient is replaced, but it wouldn't matter because the software would add/subtract the value or even swap the ingredient if there is no price difference...

Even though the 15.00 movement is working and wages are becoming fair for the employee doesn't matter because the market has responded by raising prices by 20% to compensate...

The employee is hugely undervalued and we have seen the quality of work and work ethic drop exponentially due to companies REFUSING to pay their employees a livable wage...

Since this is an epidemic of international proportions that people are struggling to make ends meet and value every penny they have should have the right to save money regardless of them going out to eat...

Just recently a poll was taken that 6 out of 10 Americans don't even have 500 dollars in their bank account to cover an emergency situation..

 

So yeah, it matters that we should get a discount for removing the items from our entrée because every penny counts...

The Affordable Care Act is the most expensive health insurance our nation has ever had...

People are paying 800 dollars a month just for 2 people with prescription prices rising 500-1000% for the benefit of shareholders alone...

800 dollars a month just in Health Care alone, not to mention, Car Insurance, Renters Insurance, Rent, Car payments, Food Costs, Clothes, Dental expenditures, School supplies, etc etc etc...

800 dollars a month just for Health Care and a 2500-5000 dollar deductible...are you F*king kidding Obama, and you want to keep that Sh*t...

 

Oh yeah, and here is another idea: for the Table Nose Blowers...STOP!!!

Blowing your nose at the table is the rudest and most disgusting, disrespectful act you can do at a table of food, especially breakfast...

Think about it Eggs yellow, burgers, yellow...it's disgusting, so excuse yourself from the table to blow your nose...

5hVnz Song of the Month...

The Devil went down to Georgia they were looking for a soul to steal they were in a bind and way behind and willing to make a deal...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnepPZChA5U

 

Atlanta Falcons 36 / Seattle Sea-Nots 20

 

Goodnight Seahawks, now you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here...and that's a fact!

LinuxFest Northwest 2017...

LinuxFest Northwest 2017: The Mechanics of Freedom:

 

LinuxFest is celebrating 18 years of service to the Free and Open Source community. Please join us by presenting at one of the largest, technically diverse, educational, and fun open source conferences in the Pacific Northwest. The conference had 1850 attendees last year, and this year promises to be even bigger.

 

When

May 6th and 7th, 2017

9am - 5pm

 

Where

Bellingham Technical College

3028 Lindbergh Avenue

Bellingham, WA 98225

 

Call For Presentations:

This year we’re looking for presentations around the theme ‘The Mechanics of Freedom’. Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things are becoming even more integrated in the lives of regular citizens. Along with these changes comes concern over the trade-offs between convenience and privacy. We would like to see talks that bring together pieces of this larger puzzle.

For example: Privacy in the age of relentless online tracking, How bots can help you onboard new community members, Training driverless vehicles, How the Internet of Things took down DNS

 We’re looking for 60 minute and 90 minute talks. The theme is not mandatory but highly encouraged. See more info about this years tracks, including one for expert topics: http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2017/submit-session

 

Tutorials Track:

Tutorials are hands-on labs which can run 90 minutes or two and a half hours, and be held in the tutorium, a computer lab with capacity for 24 people.

Papers Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2017 at 11:59pm PST.

Acceptance Notification: March 10th, 2017

http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2017/add/training

 

Open Source Project Collaboration Space:

We have a few rooms available for projects who are interested in hosting a sprint or other mini-conference at LinuxFest Northwest. Please include as much information about your project, how you plan to advertise the sprint, and expected attendance.

Previous uses of these spaces have been PostgreSQL talks, Django Girls tutorials, Drupal code sprints, KDE days, LibreOffice dev sprints, and a Fedora user track. You can reserve a room for sessions, code sprints, or unconferences.

http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2017/call-community-tracks

Community Tracks Deadline: March 8th, 2017 at 11:59pm Pacific Time.

 

Sponsorship

We are also seeking sponsors. If you are interested in sponsoring our event and reaching nearly 2000 technically minded individuals please visit:

http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2017/sponsor/packages

 

Visit the 2017 linuxfestnorthwest.org site to submit your session, tutorial, or community collaboration room. If you've attended in the past, your existing user details should work.

Keep updated with us:

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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/lfnw

 Site: http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016