Vicki Sokolik refuses to be an Ostrich. Her son brought to her attention the crisis of unhoused youth — youth unhoused, not living with a parent/guardian, and not in foster care — in America, and she has been fighting to support this vulnerable population every since. Most active in Tampa Bay, Florida, Vicki is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Starting Right, Now, which removes barriers for unaccompanied homeless youth to cultivate long-term well-being and self-sufficiency. She is also the author of the new book, “If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America.” Vicki Sokolik joined host Jay Ruderman to discuss the many ways unhoused youth fall through the cracks in our society, how her organization helps them, and also how to build trust with people who could use your help. Episode Chapters (00:00) Intro (01:10) Vicki’s origin story (02:40) What is “unhoused youth?” (06:40) What should a person do if they worry they see an unhoused youth? (08:19) How have conversations around unhoused youth changed in Vicki’s 20 years working with them? (11:02) How do people get the word out and help unhoused youth? (14:55) Vicki’s new book (16:48) How Vicki builds trust (20:10) What do students receive at Starting Right, Now? (22:58) How does Vicki balance advocacy and direct support? (27:53) Starting Right, Now alumni (29:10) Goodbye For video episodes, watch on www.youtube.com/@therudermanfamilyfoundation Stay in touch: X: @JayRuderman | @RudermanFdn LinkedIn: Jay Ruderman | Ruderman Family Foundation Instagram: All About Change Podcast | Ruderman Family Foundation To learn more about the podcast, visit https://allaboutchangepodcast.com/…
Bi-weekly audio discussion about network automation with the community recorded live using Discord Stages on Thursday at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT: https://discord.gg/UTNmue2Rj9
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Guest: Marcus Hines (Google) Topics: - Kubernetes-based Network Emulation (KNE) Recorded live on 2021-10-14 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT
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014 — transforming network inventory with motherstarter, selecting the right network automation tool
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Guest: Daniel Teycheney (@danielteycheney) Topics: - Pulumi AWS Native provider: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/announcing-aws-native/ - Open Traffic Generator — common API for traffic generators: https://github.com/open-traffic-generator - motherstarter — transformation of network inventory between different formats: https://github.com/writememe/moth…
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013 — boxen, NOS in a container, network automation and web, security vs network automation controller
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Topics: - Carl's newest project — Boxen, alternative to vrnetlab, which allows to package a network operating system VM in a container - Vendors publishing native containers with their network operating system - Using web framework to power network automation - Central network automation controller vs security team Recorded live on 2021-09-16 Bi-we…
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Topics: - Carl's experience with Pulumi compared to Terraform - Converting Python scripts to Ansible playbooks - Upskilling the team on network automation Recorded live on 2021-09-02 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT
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Topics: - News about scrapligo, scraplicfg and scrapli-netconf in go - How to deal with parsing snowflake outputs - Software patterns, code maintenance and quality Recorded live on 2021-08-19 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT
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010 — NetBox 3.0, from a beginner to an advanced developer, 3D graphs for network operations
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In this episode we spent most of the time talking with the community Topics: - NetBox 3.0 - How to grow from a beginner to an advanced network automation engineer? - 3D graphs for network operations data Recorded live on 2021-07-22 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT…
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Guest: David Gee (@_ipengineer) Topics: - Juniper Terraform Automation Framework (JTAF) - Future of a network engineer - Merlin — Network automation / Infrastructure as Code project by John Capobianco (@John_Capobianco) Recorded live on 2021-07-08 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT…
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Guest: Michael Kashin (@networkop1) Topics: - should YANG be replaced? Related Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/networkop1/status/1390580547387330561 - our outage stories Book: Python testing with pytest, second edition: https://pragprog.com/titles/bopytest2/python-testing-with-pytest-second-edition/ Recorded live on 2021-06-24 Bi-weekly recordi…
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Topics: - YANG - What do you do when the management wants you to use an already purchased network automation tool? Book: Network programmability with YANG https://www.amazon.com/Network-Programmability-YANG-Structure-Automation-ebook/dp/B07RMK59YC Recorded live on 2021-06-10 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM E…
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Topics: - scrapligo has been published (https://github.com/scrapli/scrapligo) - gNMI - Differences between file formats: XML, JSON, YAML, TOML, protobuf - x2 faster CPython 3.11 (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/13/guido_van_rossum_cpython_3_11/) Recorded live on 2021-05-27 Bi-weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM…
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005 — pyATS, network testing with pytest, software upgrades, Python web frameworks, work-life balance
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Guest: Clay Curtis (@ccurtis584) Topics: - pyATS - Network testing with pytest - Programmatic software upgrades (in the podcast there was a reference to nts/ntc upgrade, it is actually pyntc - https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc) - New major releases of Flask and Jinja - Python web frameworks + recommended resources for every popular framework -…
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004 — scrapli-go, cloud compute, message queues, remote work for network automation engineers
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Topics: - Carl's progress on scrapli-go - Cloud compute options for applications - Message queues for network automation applications - Remote work for network automation engineers Recorded live on 2021-05-06 Weekly recordings with the community on Thursdays at 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT on dogehouse.tv…
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003 — YANG tooling, vendor automation solutions vs in-house automation, Google's SDN controller Orion
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Topics: - How Dmitry started with Python - Suggested tools and libraries for a specific use-case (question from the audience) - YANG tooling - Vendor automation solutions vs in-house automation - Python on Windows: WSL / VM / Visual Studio Code - Google's SDN controller: Orion (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi21-ferguson.pdf) Recorded live …
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002 — NetBox as a Source of Truth, problems with Open Source, Python type annotations
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Panelists: Jeremy Stretch (@jstretch85), Roman Dodin (@ntdvps), John McGovern (@IPvZero), Carl Montanari (@carlrmontanari) and Dmitry Figol (@dmfigol) Topics: - NetBox as a Source of Truth: roadmap, scope, RDBMS/git - Problems with Open Source: expectations, licenses, contributions, sponsorships - Network collective gNMI episode: https://networkcol…
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001 — containerlab, scrapli, asyncio, Python vs Go, Ansible vs Python
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Panelists: Roman Dodin (@ntdvps), John McGovern (@IPvZero), Carl Montanari (@carlrmontanari) and Dmitry Figol (@dmfigol) Topics: - containerlab - scrapli. Will scrapli-go exist? - Python asyncio - Python vs Go - Ansible vs Python - collaboration in network automation - should I learn Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence? Recorded live on 2021-0…
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