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Upcoming meetings of the KW Non-Profit System Administrator's group:
Contents
Social Night
- Date
- Monday, 18 December 2017 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/245086883
- Location
- Abe Erb Restaurant and Brewery, 151 Charles Street, Kitchener, Ontario Map
- Event Announcement
- Social Night/Announcement 2017-12-18
Systems Administrators are a social bunch! December is in the middle of the Holiday Season, so let's get together and socialize. I'm sure we'll talk tech, but the purpose of the evening is to eat satisfyingly good food, drink refreshingly good beverages, and have an amazingly good time.
Bring your spouses, partners, POSSLQs, friends, co-workers, and anyone else you'd like to socialize with! To maximize our enjoyment, note that we're starting an hour earlier at 6:00pm.
--Marc Paré & Bob Jonkman
- There are no Meeting Notes for a social event!
- But there is a picture!
- Sorry we missed those who arrived later!
Fundraising
- Date
- Monday, 15 January 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/245127963
- Location
- First United Church, 16 William St West, Waterloo, ON Map
From our discussion on Monetization we learned about software for fundraising. Does your organization need to raise funds? What tools are available? Desktop applications? Cloud solutions? Outsourced? Does your fundraising software integrate with your other financial software? Will it provide reminders? Follow-ups? Is it automated?
Join Non-Profit System Administrators from Waterloo Region for the first round table discussion of the new year. Everyone is welcome, you don't need to be a professional SysAdmin to join us.
--Marc Paré & Bob Jonkman
Corporate Surveillance
- Date
- Monday, 12 February 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/245128116
- Location
- First United Church, 16 William St West, Waterloo, ON Map
How do we keep our workplaces secure? Does your organization use cameras? Does it filter web content? Check for document exfiltration? Inspect e-mail? Monitor keystrokes? Is this sneaky, underhanded spying, or merely good business practice? What are the ethics of corporate surveillance for System Administrators?
Join Kitchener-Waterloo Non-Profit System Administrators at our monthly round table meeting for a technical, philosophical and moral discussion.
--Bob Jonkman & Marc Paré
File Formats
- Date
- Monday, 12 March 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/244120869/
- Location
- Upper Board Room in First United Church, 16 William Street West, Waterloo, Ontario Map
What file formats do your documents, images, spreadsheets use? Can you exchange your files with people using Macs? Linux? VMS? Will your documents survive an upgrade of your application software? Can you switch to another word processor? Image editor? Spreadsheet app? Can you still read the files from backups created years ago with different software? Can you choose the file format your application uses?
In the month of Document Freedom Day we'll look at the importance of open, well-known file formats, and compare it to closed, proprietary formats that are so prevalent today.
--Marc Paré & Bob Jonkman
Dark Web, Hidden Services
- Date
- Monday, 16 April 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/245564977/
- Location
- Upper Board Room in First United Church, 16 William Street West, Waterloo, Ontario Map
- Event Announcement
- Dark Web, Hidden Services/Announcement 2018-04-16
What is the Dark Web? Is it full of bad guys? What are Hidden Services? Aren't those illegal? Why would a Non-Profit organization want to use the Dark Web? Why should a Non-Profit organization make their online services available as Hidden Services? What software can we use to access the Dark Web and create Hidden Services?
We'll have a demonstration of Tor and I2P, and have a round-table discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of using them.
--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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