KWNPSA Requested Topics

These are some of the topic ideas raised at previous meetings

• Corporate Surveillance (2016-08-15)
  • (this may not have been an actual topic request)
• Accessibility rules (2016-11-14)
• Colocation site field trip (2017-02-16)
• Collaborative Work Space field trip (2017-02-17)
  • the last two from correspondence with Calum Elliot of Open Sky Incubator https://secure.meetup.com/messages/?convo_id=409766784853282816
• Bitcoin and other digital currencies (2017-04-10) (follow-up from Blockchains)
• Creating a Web Store / Checkout Basket (2017-04-10)
• Risk Management (2017-05-08)
• Training - new staff on existing software, existing staff on new software (2016-06-05)
• Dark web, hidden services (2017-06-12)
• Social Night (2017-06-26, based on an idea from http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2017/06/15/party-time/ )
• Event Management (2017-08-21, based on running events like KW Linuxfest or KW Peace Perspectives
• Contact Management Software (2017-08-21)
• Password Management (2017-08-21)
• Gaming (2017-09-03) What value do games have in the Non-Profit sector?
• Education (2017-09-03) For NonProfits that provide instruction to their clients.
• Donors and Donations, eg. CiviCRM (2017-09-18)
• Optical Character Recognition - Document archiving (2017-09-18)

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Done

• File Formats - Open Document Format vs. proprietary (2017-09-17) Scheduled for 2018-03-12

• Document Storage Formats (ODS, etc.) (2016-11-14) Scheduled for 2017-11-13
• Markup Languages and Note Taking applications (2017-08-21) Scheduled for 2017-10-09
• Project Management Software (2017-01-16) Schedule for 2017-09-18
• Monetization - How can a Non-Profit organization raise money from their services? (2017-02-13) Scheduled for 2017-08-21
• Mail Management - how do we deal with spam, blocklists, and mail providers that don't play fair? (2017-02-16) Scheduled for 2017-07-17
  • from correspondence between Marc and Bob
• Ransomware / Malware - prevention? (2017-05-08) Scheduled for 2017-06-12
• Block chain systems (2016-11-14) Scheduled for 2017-04-10
  • Book: London Review of Books had two stories by the same author Andrew O’Hagen
  • Ethereum (a programming environment built on top of Block Chain)
• Branding - Names, logos, slogans (2017-02-13) Scheduled for 2017-03-13

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