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Upcoming meetings of the KW Non-Profit System Administrator's group:
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SysAdminDay Dinner 2018
- Date
- Friday, 27 July 2018 from 6:00pm to 10:00pm iCal
- Location
- Abe Erb Restaurant at The Tannery, 151 Charles Street West, Kitchener, Ontario Map
Note that this is not a regular KWNPSA meeting!
Every year, the last Friday in July is System Administrator Appreciation Day, or SysAdminDay for short (we SysAdmins are efficient — why waste syllables?)
System Administrators manage the networks, configure the servers, and make backups for their users. On System Administrator Appreciation Day those users have the opportunity to appreciate their System Administrators by gifting them with chocolate cake and ice cream. But just in case that doesn’t happen, the SysAdmins in Waterloo Region take themselves and their spouses, friends and relations to dinner. Remember how SysAdmins make backups?
Join us at the Abe Erb Brew Pub and Restaurant again this year on Friday, 27 July 2018 from 6:00pm to 10:00pm, meet with other SysAdmins, share funny PEBKAC stories, and have some dinner and a beverage.
You don’t have to be a SysAdmin to come to the SysAdminDay Dinner — Everybody’s welcome! Non-Profit SysAdmins, For-Profit SysAdmins, SysAdmins-In-Training, Retired SysAdmins, even people just curious to know what an array of SysAdmins looks like. Bring your friends and family!
- What: System Administrator Appreciation Day Dinner
- When: Friday, 27 July 2018 starting at 6:00pm iCal
- Where: Abe Erb Restaurant at The Tannery Location: 151 Charles Street West, Kitchener, Ontario Map
- RSVP: http://bob.jonkman.ca/blogs/2018/07/06/sysadminday-dinner-2018-at-abe-erb-in-kitchener/
Leave a comment on my blog to RSVP if you’re coming, so I can make a reservation at Abe Erb:
See you Friday!
--Bob.
Scripting Languages
- Date
- Monday, 20 August 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm iCal
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/253044847/
- Location
- Room 1301 -- Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo, Ontario Map
- Event Announcement
- Scripting Languages/Announcement 2018-08-20
Do you need to do the same thing again and again? Have you automated those repetitive tasks? What software tools do you use? Keyboard macros? Programmable keyboard macros? A scripting language? Which scripting language? What makes a scripting language different from a programming language? Is a scripting language Turing-complete? Can't you just do everything in PowerShell or Bash?
Let's talk about what can be solved with scripting languages, and what can't. Bring your laptop to give a demonstration of your favourite scripting languages, and maybe we can help solve some of your most annoying repetitive problems.
--Bob Jonkman & Marc Paré
Purchasing and Procurement
- Date
- Monday, 17 September 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm iCal
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/253047725/
- Location
- 4th Floor, 121 Charles Street West, Kitchener, Ontario Map
- Search for Danielle McCormack on the iPad through Envoy
- Event Announcement
- Purchasing and Procurement/Announcement 2018-09-17
Does your organization buy things? Do you go to the local store? Or do you issue Requests for Information, Quotes, or Proposals? How do you evaluate those RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs? How do you find suppliers? Contractors? Vendors? Does your organization have minimum standards for vendors? How can you ensure vendors making bids meet these standards? Isn't there some software that can help with all this?
Yes! Local company Bonfire creates purchasing and Procurement software. Special guests Danielle McCormack and Ethan Driedger will will give us an overview of what a Non-Profit organization should look for in purchasing and procurement software, and will give us a demonstration of the Bonfire software.
--Marc Paré & Bob Jonkman
Training
- Date
- Monday, 15 October 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm iCal
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/253049800/
- Location
- The Parlour in First United Church, 16 William Street West, Waterloo, Ontario Map
- Event Announcement
- Training/Announcement 2018-10-15
How complex is your Non-Profit organization? Does your newly hired staff need training on your policies and procedures? On your products and services? On your software and hardware? What happens when you change procedures, get new products, update your software? Does your existing staff need training? How do you supply the training? On the job? In the classroom? Online learning courses? And how do you manage the training administration? Keep track of results? Determine who is eligible for additional training?
At this months' round table discussion let's talk about our experiences in providing training to staff, or receiving training to be better SysAdmins. How can the Non-Profit SysAdmin help deliver and track training for our organizations' training requirements?
In a future session we'll discuss providing education to the clients of our organizations; this month let's focus on internal training.
--Bob Jonkman & Marc Paré
Colocation
- Date
- To Be Determined
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/237779027/
- Location
- To Be Determined. This may be a field trip to a colocation site!
Where are your servers? Is that really safe? Have you thought about professional hosting at a colocation site? What's a colocation site? Who offers colocation services? What services do colocation sites offer? How much will all this cost? Can I still come visit my server when it's been placed in a colocation site?
Bob and Marc have questions, and ---- of ---- will provide the answers!
See you at the meeting!
--Bob and Marc
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