Navigating a Decentralized Future
Meeting for the week of May 02, 2022 - May 08, 2022
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Navigating a Decentralized Future
Speaker: Maxi Bustos
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from our Club President.
Members and guests,
Welcome to this week’s meeting of the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
During April, the focus for Rotary is Saving mothers and children, which is one of Rotary’s 7 causes. According to Rotary International, nearly 6 million children under the age of five die each year because of malnutrition, poor health care, and inadequate sanitation - all of which are preventable. To address this, Rotarians are helping expand access to quality care, so vulnerable mothers and their children can live and grow stronger. Examples of these initiatives include mobile prenatal clinics in remote areas of Haiti; a mobile cancer screening unit for breast and cervical cancer in India; and a five-year pilot program to prevent injuries and deaths during home deliveries in Nigeria.
Visit the Rotary website to learn more (Saving Mothers and Children | Rotary International) and make a donation to The Rotary Foundation (Donate | My Rotary) to help support these efforts.
As a reminder, Rotary is responding to the crisis in Ukraine, with many Rotary Clubs taking swift action and providing food, water, medical equipment, and shelter for Ukrainian refugees. According to Rotary International, the war in Ukraine is having devastating consequences on civilians as families flee their homes. According to the United Nations, more than 3.5 million people, most of them women and children, have sought refuge in neighboring countries and across Europe, while about 7 million more people have been displaced within Ukraine.
You can learn more about Rotary’s response (Rotary responds to Ukraine crisis) and how Rotary and Rotaract Clubs throughout Europe are providing humanitarian support (Rotarys network enables rapid humanitarian relief for Ukrainian refugees). The Rotary Foundation has designated its Disaster Response Fund as the main avenue for contributions (The Rotary Foundation creates channel for direct humanitarian support in Ukraine region), which you can support by making a donation here (Disaster Response Fund | My Rotary). Donors who contribute to the Disaster Response Fund will receive full recognition for Paul Harris Fellow, Paul Harris Society, and / or major donor status (however, those donations will not count toward Club or District Annual fund achievement). Your contributions will enable Rotary, Rotarians and Rotaractors in the region to Serve to Change Lives.
Brett Sham
President, Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley
president@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Guests, we are happy to have you join us this week!
As we see it, our flexibility as an online, asynchronous club allows a special type of service to Rotarians around the world: we make it easier for anyone to strive for and maintain 100% attendance. That keeps you engaged with Rotary's events and ideas, and provides a moment of inspiration for devoting your creativity, talents, and resources to good causes.
You are certainly not required to pay anything in order to attend our meetings. However, if you would like to make a small contribution to our service efforts, you are welcome to do so in our secure Happy Dollars section down the page. This could be what you normally pay at your own club's meetings for lunch, for example. Any amount is welcome, but first and foremost, we're happy you've joined us, and hope you will share with others who we are and what we do to help inspire Service Above Self.
And don't forget to fill out our attendance form so you get an email you can pass on to your club's secretary!
The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Weekly Funny with Shags.
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Steven "Shags" Shagrin !
Married the Longest
At my granddaughter's wedding reception, the DJ polled the guests to see who had been married longest. It turned out to be my husband and me. The DJ asked us, "Tell me, Grandma, what advice would you give to the newly married couple?"
I said, "The three most important words in a marriage are, 'You're probably right.'"
Everyone then looked at my husband. He said, "She's probably right."
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we share a short video highlighting innovation, education, entrepreneurship, or whatever we think might inspire you to see the world in new ways.
How might one combine trash and dance? Not a question just everyone asks, but perhaps a good way to think about the following movie trailer, which can prompt questions of art, poverty, race, respect, and more.
Through a Rotarian's Lens
Sometimes a photo can capture an amazing moment. In this section Member Keith Marsh shares his incredible photography!
If you'd like to submit a photo for this section please contact Keith.
The images coming out of Ukraine are heart breaking. This one by Vadim Ghirda catches some of the sadness for the refugee children and their mother as they most likely are leaving their father behind to fight.
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and aims to teach our members and guests something new, fun, and useful! If you have any ideas on a fun trick or skill you'd like to share please contact Shags.
35+ Useful Car Hacks To Make Life Easier
Another link to an interesting webpage with great tips for those who own a car.
Relay for Life
Hello, everyone!
Well, Saturday has come and gone, and we're now gathering up all our info about what we did. Thanks again to everyone in the club who took part with messages, walking, and/or donations! Here's our team:
Alexandra, Ange, Angelica, Brett, Cecelia, ChrisM, Ferheen, Heather, Keith, MarkB, Martina, Maxi, MikeK, Nick, Olukunle, Raj, Rushton, Sarah, Shags, Tatiana, Terri, and Tzviatko, along with friends of the club Paul Boehm and Tanya Martin
We'll get a more detailed report to you later this month, but in the meantime, here are some pictures from the event:
Delivering food and washing up in the snack shack:
Our 2022 walking team:
Service Report
Tell us about service you’ve done recently in your community.
Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! The section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
Upcoming Events:
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
District 5170 Events
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
More events coming soon! All events are open to guests, unless otherwise mentioned. Feel free to join us! If you ever have questions, please email inquiries@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Happy Dollars: Do Good by Sharing Something Good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)
Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated in the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Program: Navigating a Decentralized Future
Speaker: Maxi Bustos
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others.
The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley seeks to explore perspectives on service from across the world. The views of the speakers in our programs are their own, and unless stated otherwise, are not necessarily reflective of the views of our eClub nor Rotary International.
If you have an idea for a cool speaker, please feel free to reach out to them directly or submit THIS FORM so our Program Committee can contact them!
Maxi Bustos is originally from Argentina and moved to the United States seven years ago. He is the CTO of Futureswap, a Silicon Valley crypto-startup working on decentralized finance using blockchain technologies. Previously, he was a Staff Software Engineer at Google, where he led the Gmail Web Infrastructure team. Maxi has been a member of Rotary for almost 15 years, starting with Interact, then Rotaract, and currently in the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley, where he is an active member, including having chaired the Rotary Foundation committee.
Blockchain is a topic that is regularly mentioned, but rarely understood. Maxi will explain how blockchain has the potential to change many aspects of our lives, especially as a driving piece of the financial system. In this presentation, we will explore some of these innovations and get a better understanding of what these changes mean for our future.
Members and guests, please welcome our own Maxi Bustos!
Upcoming Program Recording Schedule
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
Our online video conference room link for these recordings is always http://zoom.siliconvalleyrotary.com/. You are welcome to join us! Please note the timezone listed for all recordings is US Pacific Time (San Francisco, California, USA).
If you can’t join the live recording, please send your questions for an upcoming speaker to programs@siliconvalleyrotary.com.
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