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Previous meetings of the Non-Profit System Administrators group:

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{{:KWNPSA: Social Media}}

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{{:KWNPSA: Estimating Time and Resources}}

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{{:Financial Software}}

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=== The CLOUD ===
; Monday, 11 July 2016
: Event Announcement: http://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/228739922/

Every single meeting we mention "The Cloud" but it has never been a formal topic of discussion. 

What do you trust on the cloud?

What do you not trust? Why?

How how the cloud made your life easier? How has it made it harder?

What criteria do you use when deciding to use cloud services?

Are there feasible alternatives to the cloud? What are their plusses and minuses?

Are IT admins who don't like the cloud dinosaurs who will be unemployed dinosaurs within a few months or years?

* [[KWNPSA Meeting Notes for 2016-07-11]]


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=== External Services and Consultants ===
; Monday, 13 June 2016 
: Event Announcement: http://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/226669505/

What sources do you provide in-house? What do you outsource and why? Office 365? Web services? Email? Phone services? Other things?
What are the pros and cons of hosting these services internally versus getting somebody else to do them? What factors do you consider when outsourcing a service?

How do you deal with people providing external IT services to your organization? How do you interact with consultants and other external service providers effectively?

* [[KWNPSA Meeting Notes for 2016-06-13]]


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=== Acquiring Hardware ===
; Monday, 9 May 2016
: Event Announcement: http://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/226669425/

Nonprofits tend to have different budget constraints than other organizations, and often different requirements. Let's talk about them.

What kinds of constraints do you deal with? What kinds of hardware do you purchase? How have those purchases changed with new technology (eg the Cloud?) Do you get equipment new? Used? Donated? What factors do you consider when getting new hardware? How long does hardware get used in your organization? 

* [[KWNPSA Meeting Notes for 2016-05-09]]


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=== What should we celebrate? ===
; Monday, 11 April 2016
: Event Announcement: http://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/226669161/

As a counterpoint to last month's terrifying meeting, let's discuss the ways that system administration has gotten easier and more effective. We can share tools and techniques that have made a big difference in our systems administration practices, and talk about our glorious utopian future. 

* [[KWNPSA Meeting Notes for 2016-04-11]]


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{{:What should we fear?}}

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=== Organizational Databases ===
; Monday, 8 February 2016
: Event Announcement: http://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/226669340/

Many organizations have internal data that they want to track. What tools do we use to store this data? Hateful Microsoft Access? MySQL? A web framework like Django? Complicated, brittle spreadsheets? Some cloud solution?

How do we migrate data from insane database systems to better ones? How do we back them up? What are some best practices to dealing with internal databases? What kinds of databases have you dealt with, and what approaches have worked for you?

* [[KWNPSA Meeting Notes for 2016-02-08]]


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=== Disaster Recovery ===
; Monday, 11 January 2016
: Event Announcement: http://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/226669035/

Sometimes, disaster strikes: lightning, fire, floods or other traumas can wipe out our IT infrastructure. How can we protect against losing everything?

Have you put together disaster recovery plans? Have you conducted disaster recovery exercises? What things are most important to consider? What things are trickiest? What best practices have you learned? Bring your experiences and stories.

* [[KWNPSA Meeting notes for 2016-01-11]]


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=== Out of band management ===
; Monday, 9 November 2015
: Event Announcement: http://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/223909851/

how do you manage servers when the servers are not directly accessible?

* [[KWNPSA Meeting Notes for 2015-11-09]]


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=== Data migration ===
; Monday, 19 October 2015
: Note: October 12 is Thanksgiving, so we are deferring the meeting for a week.
: Event Announcement: http://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/223909871/

* Migrating mail servers (different versions of Exchange, GroupWise -> Exchange)
* Migrating Linux to Windows and vice versa
* Migrating MS Office to LibreOffice

* [[KWNPSA Meeting Notes for 2015-10-19]]


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===Backups===
; Monday, 21 September 2015 
: Event Announcement: http://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/223908420/

* How do you test your backups? Have you worked on disaster recovery?
* How do you synchronize backups across locations?

* [[KWNPSA Meeting Notes for 2015-09-21]]


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===Keeping remote systems connected===
; Monday, 13 July 2015 
: Event Announcement: http://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/223189124/ 

* This month we will be talking about how to deal with multiple locations within an organization.  We will be discussing things like file sharing setups for more than one location, communications between locations, different router types for VPN and such, etc....

* Multiple locations may mean more than one office building, or other situations like employees who work from home or other remote locations.

* [[KWNPSA Meeting notes for  2015-07-13]]


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