Branding/Meeting Notes 2017-03-13

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Branding

Date
Monday, 13 March 2017
Event Announcement
https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/237778855/
Location
Steve Izma's house, 35 Locust Street, Kitchener, Ontario Map

What's your brand? Do you have a brand? How do you choose a brand? Is branding important for NonProfit organizations? What is the value of a good brand? What is the cost of a bad brand? Have you ever changed your branding? How much work was it for the SysAdmins? Did you have re-do the Web site? The e-mail addresses? Business cards? Letterhead? What legal considerations are there for choosing a brand?

Bob and Marc have the questions, together all of us have the answers.

See you at the meeting!

--Bob and Marc


Branding/Meeting Notes

This meeting ended up being more about our own re-branding needs, and the business of running KWNPSA as a non-profit organization. We'll have another session in the future on Branding to discuss the experience and gather the advice of other organizations.

  • We started with a discussion on the different syntaxes used in markup languages, eg. Markdown, Mediawiki, PMWiki, MoinMoin...

Hosting Services

  • Many Non-Profit organizations are migrating from CCj/Clearline (Steph Smith, Cedric Puddy) to IndieServe (Mark Steffen)
  • Marc Paré will take over the hosting for KWNPSA
    • Marc is currently using Easy
    • Mailing Lists
    • We currently have our Discussion and Announcements mailing lists on CCj/Clearline
    • Wiki
      • Mediawiki is being used by everyone at this meeting

Sponsorships

  • CIRA - Has provided $100 for the previous and this meeting.
  • TechSoup (?) - NetSquared is an umbrella group for Non-Profit organizations' IT staff
  • Microsoft

Formalizing the KWNPSA group

  • The formal structure of the group will consist only of a Treasurer
    • Marc Paré will be Treasurer, will take care of all finances
    • Funds received from sponsorships &c. will be used for venues, hosting costs, domain name costs.
  • Bob Jonkman will ask Eli van Giessen to re-brand the meetup.com group as KWNPSA - Kitchener Waterloo Non-Profit System Administrators -- a NetSquared Group
  • Marc Paré will look after any finances received from sponsors
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