The document discusses the concept of a Village Council to represent neighborhoods in San Tan Valley, Arizona. It proposes forming a coalition of community groups, businesses, and individuals called the San Tan Valley Neighborhood Coalition to advocate for shared community values and standards. The coalition would be modeled after similar successful programs in other cities and counties that establish neighborhood villages with representative councils. This would provide residents with a united voice and give neighborhoods formal representation in decisions by county agencies.
Connecticut Civic Ambassadors are everyday people who care about and engage others in their communities by creating opportunities for civic participation that strengthens our state’s “Civic Health.” Civic Health is determined by how well diverse groups of residents work together and with government to solve public problems to strengthen their communities. Read more below on how you can be an agent of change in your own community by joining the team.
Connecticut Civic Ambassadors are everyday people who care about and engage others in their communities by creating opportunities for civic participation that strengthens our state’s “Civic Health.” Civic Health is determined by how well diverse groups of residents work together and with government to solve public problems to strengthen their communities. Read more below on how you can be an agent of change in your own community by joining the team.
WRNSW Partnership for Strategic Planning Project WomensportNSW
Presented by WRNSW Vice President, Amanda Spalding, this project loos at participation in access and equity for women and girls at local council controlled sporting facilities. The project focuses on group one and two councils and looks at where sport and recreation is placed in their current strategic plans. The project seeks to align Councils with sport and recreation as a healthy, active lifestyle component and tackles issues surrounding the gender imbalance in access and equity.
Creating a Shared Vision for a Community, presented by Marsha Murrington, And...craigslist_fndn
To create a vision for the future and long-term change in a community, it’s essential to have a strong, well-conceived community engagement plan and process that allows the voices within the community to be heard. Having outsiders and experts apply their values and preconceived notions of what a community needs is a recipe for failure. This session is led by three skilled change agents, with experiences working across boundaries in a variety of communities. They share their insights, stories, and approaches for bringing people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and generations together to envision what they want their neighborhoods and communities to become, determine priorities, address problems and issues, and take greater responsibility for where they live, work, and play.
Community Partners in the Central Corridor, by Carol Swenson. From the Minnesota Campus Compact convened, "How Can Colleges Support Central Corridor Neighborhoods?" - December 7, 2011, at Bethel University.
WRNSW Partnership for Strategic Planning Project WomensportNSW
Presented by WRNSW Vice President, Amanda Spalding, this project loos at participation in access and equity for women and girls at local council controlled sporting facilities. The project focuses on group one and two councils and looks at where sport and recreation is placed in their current strategic plans. The project seeks to align Councils with sport and recreation as a healthy, active lifestyle component and tackles issues surrounding the gender imbalance in access and equity.
Creating a Shared Vision for a Community, presented by Marsha Murrington, And...craigslist_fndn
To create a vision for the future and long-term change in a community, it’s essential to have a strong, well-conceived community engagement plan and process that allows the voices within the community to be heard. Having outsiders and experts apply their values and preconceived notions of what a community needs is a recipe for failure. This session is led by three skilled change agents, with experiences working across boundaries in a variety of communities. They share their insights, stories, and approaches for bringing people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and generations together to envision what they want their neighborhoods and communities to become, determine priorities, address problems and issues, and take greater responsibility for where they live, work, and play.
Community Partners in the Central Corridor, by Carol Swenson. From the Minnesota Campus Compact convened, "How Can Colleges Support Central Corridor Neighborhoods?" - December 7, 2011, at Bethel University.
Presentation to the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) North America Conference in Winnipeg on the design assistance progress, it's adapted models, and how it applies to a variety of community settings.
Focusing Development on Communities of Concern: Smart Growth and its Impact o...Urban Habitat
This panel is part of the Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute's (BCLI) Current Issues Series of Urban Habitat.
Plan Bay Area, approved in July 2013, moves the region's growth towards communities in the urban core within so called Priority Development Areas. These PDAs are typically developed communities throughout the Bay Area's 101 jurisdictions with existing and/or planned transportation and service infrastructure, but they are also existing communities where low-income people and communities of color are currently living.
As Plan Bay Area shifts 70% of future growth into these existing PDA areas, significant resources will be poured into historically dis-invested areas such as East San Jose, most of San Francisco and Oakland, and various other urban core communities throughout the Bay Area.
Who benefits from these investments? Will these resources support existing residents or displace them? Will regional planning create neighborhoods that disproportionately benefit newer, more affluent residents who will be lured by transit-rich, thriving urban communities?
Includes slides from featured speakers:
Vu-Bang Nguyen, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Jennifer Martinez, Peninsula Interfaith Action
Dawn Phillips, Causa Justa::Just Cause
First annual economic inclusion update 031716 final (2)Harry Black
Progress report on the operationalization of the City's Department of Economic Inclusion and the recommendations of the Economic Inclusion Advisory Council.
RV 2014: Predicting the Future: Sustainable Support for TransitRail~Volution
Predicting the Future: Sustainable Support for Transit AICP CM 1.5
How do you build and maintain support for future transit investment? How do you rally business leaders, riders, policymakers and opinion leaders behind your cause? Explore three approaches from three areas: Minneapolis-St. Paul's Corridors of Opportunity Innovative Engagement Models, created by a grassroots coalition; Washington state's Transportation Choices Coalition's successful proactive campaigns; and TriMet Portland's regional transit agency's use of field organizing strategies to engage riders and opinion leaders.
Moderator: Jennifer Harmening Thiede, Communications Associate & Member Engagement Manager, Transit for Livable Communities, St. Paul, Minnesota
Repa Mekha, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nexus Community Partners, St. Paul, Minnesota
Diane Goodwin, Manager of Public Affairs, TriMet, Portland, Oregon
Andrew Austin, Policy Director, Transportation Choices, Seattle, Washington
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
2. Joining together to create a neighborhood coalitionwith a strong, united voice for San Tan Valley residents
3. San Tan Valley Neighborhood Coalition The San Tan Valley Neighborhood Coalition (STVNC) is an alliance of community groups, businesses and individuals that brings together San Tan Valley neighborhoods which share common interests. The STVNC is a division of, and sponsored by, the Pinal County Taxpayers’ Association (PCTA), a non-profit [501 (c) 4 ], non-partisan volunteer organization.
19. completed Verde Valley Regional Land Use Plan (2006)General Advisory on quality of life topics and intercommunity cooperation Judy Miller, resident of unincorporated Cornville, Arizona, was a key figure in forming what many believe to be a prime example of grassroots citizen coalition in the State of Arizona. She remarked that "The one big thing that our regional effort recognized was that unincorporated places should have a 'say' too." Meetings when needed, based on issues, concerns or opportunities as they arise
22. now moved into implementation and building phasesGeneral Advisory on mutual concerns among neighborhoods including transit and trail connectivity, infrastructure, as well as redevelopment efforts “Each project has a unique flair that will draw people to their community and inspire the building of other Villages throughout the city” predicted Planning Director Gail Goldberg. Meetings held as necessary
25. outlying Villages include members from adjacent, unincorporated communities General Advisory on planning, growth, economic development, infrastructure Vineetha Kartha, Planner, reported that three of the Village groups are moving forward in their Plans. Organization structure is informal, emphasizing outreach to each Village’s various stakeholders (e.g., mostly homeowners; businesses and residential; State Land/County/ adjacent communities). Informal monthly meetings
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27. Phoenix, Arizona 15 Neighborhood Villages first nine villages organized at the same time successfully operating for three decades all have completed plans Case-by-Case Advisory on planning and zoning matters Regular meetings every 2-4 weeks; transmit formal recommendations to P&Z and Council Sherman Bendalin, former City of Phoenix Planning Commission Member and activist in early Urban Village organization, remarked that “the Villages have represented special, localized character of City neighborhoods for more than thirty years and are still going strong.”
33. Current Voices Pinal County Board of Supervisors Developers Lobbyists Special Interests Friends of the Board One Citizen
34. New Voices from the Neighborhood Pinal County Board of Supervisors Developers Lobbyists Special Interests Friends of the Board San Tan Valley Village Council A Neighborhood Coalition Village 1 Village 3 Village 2 Over 81,000 Citizens
36. San Tan Valley Village CouncilBoard - 5 to 7 membersOne Representative from each Village Village 4 3 to 7 members Village 3 3 to 7 members Village 5 3 to 7 members Village 2 3 to 7 members Village 1 3 to 7 members San Tan Valley Neighborhoods
38. Voices from the Neighborhood PINAL COUNTY Idea presented to County after approved by Village Council Village Representatives deliver ideas to their Villages and request feedback Council Research Sub-Committee Village Council Added research, If necessary Village Rep submits idea to Council Other Villages Village Research Sub-Committee Village 1 Committee Committee formed, if necessary Initially introduced to Village IDEA (i.e., need for a community dog park)
41. What are the benefits of a coalition? Creates a clearinghouse for everyone’s opinions Issues are publicized and openly discussed Recommended solutions are tested and tailored to fit neighborhood values of the greater community Provides advance notice of threats or opportunities The pros and cons of issues are evaluated according to merit and factual data Workable solutions are developed for community based support Recognized entity empowered to partner with County government to achieve objectives
42. Together, we will be theVoice of the Villages Shared Priorities – Articulate the concerns that are most important to the majority of residents Proposals with Broad Support and Appeal – not just a single person or HOA position A Unity of Interest – supporting or opposing major projects affecting the area
43. Where do we start? The Village Council Handbook
45. COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE:Responsible for establishing and implementing a communication system with Pinal County staff and elected officials. This Committee will ultimately be responsible for communicating the Village Council recommendations to the Pinal County Board of Supervisors and Pinal County staff. Strong communicators needed!
46. LOGO COMMITTEE:Responsible for creating a custom logo for San Tan Valley Villages Neighborhood Coalition.Creative persons wanted!
47. OUTREACH COMMITTEE: Responsible for getting information out to member HOA’s and other interested parties in each Village as well as providing notification of meetings, hearings and agenda items. For people who like to inform, be informed and email!
48. PROFILE COMMITTEE:Responsible for creating a written description of individual Villages’ unique characteristics such as demographics, history, transportation, points of pride, etc. Sample provided, writers are wanted!
49. RESEARCH COMMITTEE:Responsible for tracking Pinal County Planning & Zoning Commission and Board of Supervisors meeting agendas and determining whether or not action from the Village Council is needed. This Committee will also keep tabs on news that may affect any of the Villages.
50. New Voices from the Neighborhood Pinal County Board of Supervisors Developers Lobbyists Special Interests Friends of the Board San Tan Valley Village Council A Neighborhood Coalition Village 1 Village 3 Village 2 Over 81,000 Citizens