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Upcoming meetings of the KW Non-Profit System Administrator's group:
Purchasing and Procurement
- Date
- Monday, 17 September 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm iCal
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/253047725/
- Location
- 4th Floor, 121 Charles Street West, Kitchener, Ontario Map
- Search for Danielle McCormack on the iPad through Envoy
- Event Announcement
- Purchasing and Procurement/Announcement 2018-09-17
Does your organization buy things? Do you go to the local store? Or do you issue Requests for Information, Quotes, or Proposals? How do you evaluate those RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs? How do you find suppliers? Contractors? Vendors? Does your organization have minimum standards for vendors? How can you ensure vendors making bids meet these standards? Isn't there some software that can help with all this?
Yes! Local company Bonfire creates purchasing and Procurement software. Special guests Danielle McCormack and Ethan Driedger will will give us an overview of what a Non-Profit organization should look for in purchasing and procurement software, and will give us a demonstration of the Bonfire software.
--Marc Paré & Bob Jonkman
Training
- Date
- Monday, 15 October 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm iCal
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/253049800/
- Location
- The Parlour in First United Church, 16 William Street West, Waterloo, Ontario Map
- Event Announcement
- Training/Announcement 2018-10-15
How complex is your Non-Profit organization? Does your newly hired staff need training on your policies and procedures? On your products and services? On your software and hardware? What happens when you change procedures, get new products, update your software? Does your existing staff need training? How do you supply the training? On the job? In the classroom? Online learning courses? And how do you manage the training administration? Keep track of results? Determine who is eligible for additional training?
At this months' round table discussion let's talk about our experiences in providing training to staff, or receiving training to be better SysAdmins. How can the Non-Profit SysAdmin help deliver and track training for our organizations' training requirements?
In a future session we'll discuss providing education to the clients of our organizations; this month let's focus on internal training.
--Bob Jonkman & Marc Paré
Tech Wobblies
- Date
- Monday, 12 November 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm iCal
- Meetup Event
- https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/253998238/
- Location
- Room 1301 -- Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo, Ontario Map
- Event Announcement
- Tech Wobblies/Announcement 2018-11-12
Is automation taking over Systems Administration? Are highly skilled SysAdmin jobs (and their highly skilled SysAdmins) becoming obsolete? What is to become of the Non-Profit SysAdmin? Are we all going to become Mechanical Turks? Or should tech workers become Wobblies? Who are the Wobblies? Is the tech industry ready for collective action?
We're joined by special guests Sean Howard and "Wobbly Sunny" at our round table to discuss the state of the tech industry, the working conditions for tech workers, and what can be done about it.
--Marc Paré & Bob Jonkman
Tech Wobblies/Meeting Notes 2018-11-12
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