Keeping Computers Up To Date/Meeting Announcement 2015-06-08
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From: Paul Nijjar To: npsa-ann@thinkers.org Subject: [npsa-ann] Meeting Monday: Desktop Updates (and updates) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 23:35:11 -0400 Sysadmins! Updating Desktops ----------------- You thought it would never happen again, but we are in fact holding a second Nonprofit Sysadmin meeting this Monday, June 8. As we did introductions last month I tried to collect some themes as future discussion topics. Somewhat arbitrarily, I propose that Monday's meeting be about keeping systems (specifically desktops) up to date: - What tools do you use to keep desktops up to date? (Windows or Linux, or other) - What tools do you use for third party updates (Flash? Adobe Reader? Hateful Java?) - What tools do you use to monitor and ensure that updates are happening? - How do you prevent desktops from filling up with spyware and other nonsense? - For Windows people: what are you doing about the Windows 10 upgrade offer? We will meet starting at 7pm at the main Working Centre building, 58 Queen Street South. Bill says that there is free parking kitty-corner from the Working Centre, on the other side of Charles. If you know of interested sysadmins who might be interested in our conversation, please invite them to the meeting. Logistics --------- It took a while, but I am hoping that we finally have a mailing list infrastructure that will allow everybody in our group to both send and receive email. Huge thanks go to Steph at CCj/Clearline for hosting yet more mailing lists for free. This is the announcement list, which (much like the KWLUG list) will have sporadic messages. There is also a discussion list which is open for all members. You can subscribe to that list here: http://thinkers.org/mailman/listinfo/npsa_thinkers.org In addition to our mailing lists, Bob Jonkman is hosting our wiki: http://sobac.com/wiki/index.php/Non-Profit_System_Administrators As I posted in the last iteration of our discussion list, I took a look at the NetSquared application process: http://www.netsquared.org/local/net2contract http://www.netsquared.org/contactus/netsquared-local-application These groups seem more oriented towards end users and nontechnical staff than sysadmins, but we could apply to be a part of the NetSquared network if we wanted. The main advantage seems to be that we could use Meetup.com for free. I do not want to suck up the entire meeting with logistics, but it may be worth spending time talking about these issues on Monday. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org _______________________________________________ npsa-ann mailing list npsa-ann@thinkers.org http://thinkers.org/mailman/listinfo/npsa-ann_thinkers.org
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