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==For System Administrators for Non-profit Organizations who would like to bounce ideas off  others==
 
  
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This is the landing page for the Non-Profit System Administrators mailing list. It will have more content shortly.
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For System Administrators for Non-profit Organizations who would like to bounce ideas off  others
  
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The 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 organications (lower pay, low budgets, dependence on free/cheap resources...)
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Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 16:27:31 -0400
 
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From: Paul Nijjar mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca
 
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Subject: Nonprofit sysadmin meetup: Monday, May 11, 7pm
 
  
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As promised, we are making this nonprofit meetup thing real. If you
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We hold monthly meetings, currently held on the second non-holiday Monday of the month. Meetings consist of discussions about a particular themes.  
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are involved with system administration for nonprofits and would like
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to bounce ideas off of others (or you are just interested in the
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Meetings begin at 7pm. They are currently held at:  
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topic), then please join us:  
 
  
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7pm
 
 
The Working Centre
 
The Working Centre
 
58 Queen Street South
 
58 Queen Street South
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Kitchener
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=== Keeping in Touch ===
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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):
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* Announcement List: http://thinkers.org/mailman/listinfo/npsa-ann_thinkers.org
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* Meetup Group: http://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/
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We also have a discussion list, which consists of free-ranging discussion around nonprofit sysadmin topics:
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* Discussion List: http://thinkers.org/mailman/listinfo/npsa_thinkers.org
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=== Upcoming Meetings ===
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2015-07-13 (Monday, July 13): Keeping remote systems connected.
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2015-08-17 (Monday, August 17): VoIP
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=== Past Meetings ===
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2015-06-08 (Monday, June 8): Keeping computers up to date. [[mtg2015-0608|Meeting notes]]
  
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I am thinking this will be a less formally structured group than
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2015-05-11 (Monday, May 11): Introductions and planning
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KWLUG, although I am hoping that each meeting will have a theme. At
 
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the inaugural meeting we will work out logistics and structure, decide
 
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upon themes for future meetings, and introduce ourselves and our
 
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nonprofity situations.
 
  
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It is very likely that we will be talking about a mix of proprietary
 
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and free software (and software as a service) approaches to IT in this
 
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group, so free software purists might want to take precautions
 
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(antihistamines?).
 
  
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- Paul
 
  
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http://pnijjar.freeshell.org
 
  
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Bob Jonkman mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com
 
Bob Jonkman mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com
  
 
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==Meeting notes==
 
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*[[mtg2015-0608|Meeting of 2015-06-08]]
 

Revision as of 03:01, 18 June 2015

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For System Administrators for Non-profit Organizations who would like to bounce ideas off others

The 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 organications (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. They are currently held at:

The Working Centre 58 Queen Street South Kitchener

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):


We also have a discussion list, which consists of free-ranging discussion around nonprofit sysadmin topics:


Upcoming Meetings

2015-07-13 (Monday, July 13): Keeping remote systems connected.

2015-08-17 (Monday, August 17): VoIP

Past Meetings

2015-06-08 (Monday, June 8): Keeping computers up to date. Meeting notes

2015-05-11 (Monday, May 11): Introductions and planning



Bob Jonkman mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com

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