Kitchener Waterloo Non-Profit System Administrators
KWNPSA
For System Administrators for Non-profit Organizations who would like to bounce ideas off others.
The KW Non-Profit System Administrators group (also known as NetSquared Kitchener-Waterloo) is a group for sysadmins of nonprofit organizations. Nonprofits have different technical and social constraints on IT than many other types of organizations (lower pay, low budgets, dependence on free/cheap resources...)
We hold monthly meetings, currently held on the second non-holiday Monday of the month. Meetings consist of discussions about a particular themes.
Meetings begin at 7pm. Meeting location is in flux; stay tuned for the next meeting location.
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Keeping in Touch
To get announcement about upcoming meetings, you can join our announcement list, or sign up for our Meetup.com group (you only need to subscribe to one):
- Announcement List: http://thinkers.org/mailman/listinfo/npsa-ann_thinkers.org
- Meetup Group: http://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/
We also have a discussion list, which consists of free-ranging discussion around nonprofit sysadmin topics:
- Discussion List: http://thinkers.org/mailman/listinfo/npsa_thinkers.org
Also:
- Twitter: @kwnpsa
- Wiki: http://sobac.com/kwnpsa
- Blog: http://kwnpsa.org/
KWNPSA Upcoming Events
- (KWNPSA Upcoming Events)
- (KWNPSA Past Events)
- (KWNPSA Meeting Notes on one page)
- (KWNPSA Requested Topics)
Upcoming meetings of the KW Non-Profit System Administrator's group:
Agile vs. Waterfall
- Date
- Monday, 10 June 2019 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm iCal
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/261791510/
- Location
- Room 1301 -- Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo, Ontario Map
Do you manage projects? Software development projects? Are they big projects or small projects? Are there many or few developers? Is it complex software or easy to understand? Are you developing for external customers or your own organization? Are there many opportunities for testing or only a few? Can you develop new code while testing, or is development dependent on test results? Are transient coding errors tolerated or not? Do you need Agile or Waterfall Development?
Let's discuss different coding methodologies with Darcy Casselman and Eric Gerlach, Senior Director at Oracle/Netsuite. We'll have our regular Round Table discussion, where we can all contribute our expertise.
--Marc Paré, Steve Izma & Bob Jonkman
LibreOffice User Group
- Date
- Monday, 15 July 2019 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm iCal
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/261987213/
- Location
- Room 1300 -- Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo, Ontario Map
Does your organization write documents? Work with spreadsheets? Create graphics? Make presentations? Do you use an Office Suite of applications? Do you need support for your Office Suite? Do you use Free/Libre and Open Source Software? Would you like to put all this together?
Welcome to the Inaugural Meeting of the LibreOffice User Group!
KWNPSA/NetSquaredKW will host a LibreOffice representative to discuss plans for establishing a local LibreOffice community group. Then Marc Paré, a long-time member of KWNSPA who also works for the LibreOffice Foundation will make a presentation about the LibreOffice organization and member-based meritocracy.
Together we'll establish a common monthly date and place where members would meet so the LibreOffice User Group can get underway for August.
And, of course, we'll have our round-table problem-solving discussion on all things related to LibreOffice and User Groups.
--Marc Paré, Steve Izma & Bob Jonkman
Resources
Home | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Fun Project - Fantastic People
Presentation Software
- Date
- Monday, 19 August 2019 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm iCal
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/263753701/
- Location
Room 1300 -- Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo, Ontario Map
Are you a visual learner? Are you a visual presenter? Is a picture worth a thousand words? What's an infographic, anyway? Do you use images to convey ideas? Bullet points? Wall of text? What's the best way to get your message across? And what do you use to get your message across?
We'll explore some of the different software available to create presentations.
- Marc Paré will offer a quick demonstration of LibreOffice Impress
- We need someone to demonstrate Microsoft Power Point -- any volunteers?
--Steve Izma, Bob Jonkman & Marc Paré
Resources
Marking Up Text for Structured Documents
- Date
- Monday, 13 January 2020 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/267870637/
- Location
- Room 1301 -- Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo, Ontario Map
In October 2017 we discussed markup languages used by some members of the KWNPSA. In this iteration of the topic, long-time member Steve Izma discusses his use of markup languages in “real-world” circumstances throughout his professional career in publishing. Where documentation requires the need of serious structure, markup languages may be the right fit for the job.
This discussion will be a preliminary look at how logical document structure not only improves communication but also becomes an important archival format, allowing more programmable access to the content of documents over a variety of future contexts. While structured documents can be quite complex, markup systems allow for much simpler ways of creating and editing structured text. We will talk about how to keep the writing environment as uncluttered as possible so that the writer can concentrate on content creation and organization.
Steve, Bob and Marc
Enterprise Resource Management
- Date
- xxxxx Weekday, nn Month Year from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- Meetup Event
- xxxxx URL to meetup.com
- Location
xxxxx Description goes here.
--Bob Jonkman & Marc Paré
Resources
Collaborative Work Space
- Date
- Monday, 8 April 2019 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm iCal
- Meetup Event
- xxxxx URL to meetup.com
- Location
- *** Room 1300 *** -- Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo, Ontario Map
xxxxx Description goes here.
--Bob Jonkman & Marc Paré
Resources
- (KWNPSA Upcoming Events)
- (KWNPSA Past Events)
- (KWNPSA Meeting Notes on one page)
- (KWNPSA Requested Topics)
There are meeting notes and summaries of KWNPSA Past Events.
