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Upcoming meetings of the KW Non-Profit System Administrator's group:
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Software Testing
- Date
- Monday, 8 April 2019 Year from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/260073069/
- Location
- Room 1300 -- Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo, Ontario Map
If you work in software development, how much of your job involves testing? If you're a project manager, do you work closely with the testers to keep an eye on their results and bug reports as a project progresses? If you are a developer, do you do your own unit testing and work with testers on test plan reviews and fix the bugs they find when they do integration and regression testing? If you are a software tester, how do you balance the need to be thorough with the need to deliver on time? How does that affect writing test plans? When a project team has to deal with a lot of changes in the middle of development and testing, how do you cope with updating test plans with limited time? Since you should be considerate when reporting bugs in software, especially when people have worked hard on it, how can you do this tactfully? How do testers work with people like technical writers who use test plans as a reference when writing documentation like user manuals?
Nicholas Collins, a long-time member of KWNSPA and a professional software tester will give us an overview of the deep art of testing software.
--Bob Jonkman & Marc Paré
Education
- Date
- Monday, 13 May 2019 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm iCal
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/255614075/
- Location
- *** Room 1300 *** -- Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo, Ontario Map
Is your Non-Profit an educational organization? As its main function? Or is teaching one of many services you offer? What do you teach? How do you teach it? Do you have classrooms? With computers? What software do you use for teaching in the classroom? Do you have online courses? What online software do you use online? How do you establish your curriculum? How do you perform evaluations? How do you track student progress? Do you work with other educational institutions? Other certifying agencies? What constraints to they impose on your teaching programs?
We'll have a demonstration of Moodle by Marc Paré and perhaps a representative from KW's Desire To Learn. And, of course, we'll have a Round Table discussion on how each of us are managing our organizations education needs.
--Marc Paré & Bob Jonkman
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
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