Next KWNPSA Meeting TBA

Posted on 6 February 2023 by Marc

Location:TBA
Date: TBA
Time: TBA

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2022 04 – Meet João Cortez, PreSales Engineer at NextCloud

Posted on 6 April 2022 by Marc

Location: ONLINE EVENT [https://bbb.parentreprise.com/b/mar-nve-weo-7co]
Date: Monday, 11 April 2022
Time: 7:00-9:00PM

João Cortez, PreSales Engineer at NextCloud has experience with Infrastructure and Architecture for Unix and Linux Environments since 1997. His main challenges at Nextcloud is to build instances and guide our customers to get their installations working, in single or clustered formats.

Worried about cloud data security? NextCloud is your answer. Self-host your own cloud site and own your data. NextCloud is ready for business or personal deployment instances and able to share files and data across other NextCloud servers through its Federated Cloud.  This month, João Cortez will discuss general aspects regarding the All-in-One Nextcloud Installation in what will be an interesting insight of the NextCloud platform.

See you at the meeting at the following online location:
https://bbb.parentreprise.com/b/mar-nve-weo-7co

(* No entrance code necessary as of 1/2hr prior to the 7:00PM meeting time.)

Marc Paré
marc.pare@kwnpsa.ca

KWNPSA Coordinators
Bob Jonkman
Marc Paré
Nicholas Collins
Steve Izma

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2022 03 – Meet Michael Hall from the GetTogether Dev Community

Posted on 10 March 2022 by Marc

Location: ONLINE EVENT [https://bbb.parentreprise.com/b/mar-l6h-4fv-lkz]
Date: Monday, 14 March 2022
Time: 7:00-9:00PM

Michael Hall, lead developer at GetTogether, gives an overall view of the Get Together open source event manager, its goals and discussion of code contribution.

Looking for an open source option to MeetUp? Then this is the event where you get the right information from the right person.

Sign up and be part of the discussion of the GetTogether event wave!

See you at the meeting at the following online location:

https://bbb.parentreprise.com/b/mar-l6h-4fv-lkz

(* No entrance code necessary as of 1/2hr prior to the 7:00PM meeting time.)

Marc Paré
marc.pare@kwnpsa.ca

KWNPSA Coordinators
Bob Jonkman
Marc Paré
Nicholas Collins
Steve Izma

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2021 10 – PiKVM

Posted on 17 October 2021 by Marc

Location: ONLINE EVENT
Date: Monday, 18 October 2021
Time: 7:00-9:00PM

This month the topic of discussion is KVM and more importantly PiKVM. PiKVM is developed by Maxim Devaev and produced in collaboration with PiShop.us (New Castle, DE). A KickStarter was created to provide financial support for the concept and it finally garnered around $800,000 when the actual goal was $45,000. A sign of large interest from many supporters.

Why is this interest so large? This is where this month’s speaker steps in to speak of PiKVM and of its applications. Some reviews of the product have made their rounds on social media sites with all of them with glowing reports. A lot is being made of its applications for sys admins and managing servers.

“Pi-KVM is an open source project to provide a KVM over IP primarily based on the Raspberry Pi device. The project consists of kvmd, the main Pi-KVM daemon using ustreamer as a MJPG-HTTP streamer. It also provides a prebuilt OS image based on Arch Linux.” (Wikipedia)

The speaker this month is Martin Boissonneault, co-lead of the technical department for HiPi Industries/PiShop.ca (formerly BuyaPi.ca)/PiShop.us/HiPi.io. He will walk us through some of the ins and outs of PiKVM and handle a Q&A after the presentation.

See you at the meeting.

Online Link: KWNPSA Webconference Room
Access Code: No access code needed at 7PM

Marc

KWNPSA Coordinators
Bob Jonkman
Marc Paré
Nicholas Collins
Steve Izma

* Contact info@kwnpsa.ca for more information.

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2021 07 – *** Meeting CANCELLED

Posted on 12 July 2021 by Marc

Location: ONLINE EVENT *** CANCELLED ***
Date: Monday, 12 July 2021
Time: 7:00-9:00PM

Last minute cancellation! Sorry about that! We are not holding a meeting in August but will return on September 13th.

NB: KWNPSA meetings are usually scheduled for the second Monday of the month, 7:00-9:00PM.

See you at the September 13th meeting.

Marc

KWNPSA Coordinators
Bob Jonkman
Marc Paré
Nicholas Collins
Steve Izma

* Contact info@kwnpsa.ca for more information.

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2021 06 – *** Meeting CANCELLED

Posted on 14 June 2021 by Marc

Location: ONLINE EVENT *** CANCELLED ***
Date: Monday, 14 June 2021
Time: 7:00-9:00PM

This month’s meeting is cancelled as we are still in the process of re-organizing to the GetTogether platform. We hope to be back at our regular meeting time July 12th. NB: KWNPSA meetings are usually scheduled for the second Monday of the month, 7:00-9:00PM.

See you at the July 12th meeting.

Marc

KWNPSA Coordinators
Bob Jonkman
Marc Paré
Nicholas Collins
Steve Izma

* Contact info@kwnpsa.ca for more information.

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2021 05 – General Meeting

Posted on 8 May 2021 by Marc

Location: ONLINE EVENT
Date: Monday, 10 May 2021
Time: 7:00-9:00PM

We invite those of you who would like to sit in on a general meeting where we will discuss our move to the GetTogether platform, our reasons for the move as well as plans for the upcoming meetings. Feel free to add your voice to our discussion and help contribute to discussion theme suggestions or of any suggestions for the KWNPSA group.

We will meet on our new BigBlueButton webconferencing platform at the following link. The room will be open as of 6:45PM (Toronto time) to test your microphone and video before the start of the meeting – no code needed. [https://bbb.parentreprise.net/b/adm-4ry-zpd-zne]

Be aware that we are no longer on the Meetup platform and have moved to the GetTogether event management platform which is quite similar to the Meetup. We hope you will also register with the KWNPSA GetTogether site which will keep you informed of any upcoming KWNPSA meeting or projects. [https://gettogether.community/kitchener-waterloo-non-profit-sys-admin/]

See you at the meeting!

Marc

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2021-03 3NWeb, the Promised Land

Posted on 21 February 2021 by Marc

Location: ONLINE EVENT
Date: Monday, 08 March 2021
Time: 7:00-9:00PM

Internet and web brought a promise of more freedom and liberation. Yet, today most people live in a digital feudalism. Others wait for Linux phone. Can we fulfill this promise?

Unlike physical space that was here already, we’ve been creating digital realm. Everything is created by us. Of course, disrespect towards users is not a technical phenomena, but it is made possible by certain architectural choices. We’ll talk about architectures and 3NWeb that gives a practical architecture for spaces that users own, where it is safe to build one’s life, the promised land. <pinky-swear>We’ll have demos.</pinky-swear>

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2021-02 Search Strategies and Tools – Part II

Posted on 8 February 2021 by Marc

Location: ONLINE EVENT
Date: Monday, 08 February 2021
Time: 7:00-9:00PM

How well do you keep files and documents from past years/weeks/days on your systems? Do you follow an organizational plan in your file creation process where you plan on easy retrieval, or, do you adhere to a growing trend in “file management chaos” where there is no plan and depend solely on good file retrieval tools? Is there still a need for creating hierarchical stacks of folders and documents to make file retrieval more like a well-organized filing cabinet? Do you follow policy on file creation and file location?

In this second-round-table talk, we take stock of our file retrieval strategies from two members of our KWNPSA team and try to examine efficiencies they have observed from real world experiences — what worked and did not work — old-school or new school … you be the judge.

To join in on the meeting, RSVP to marc.pare@kwnpsa.ca. A couple of days before the event, you will be sent a link to our web conferencing platform.

See you at the meeting!

Marc

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2020-11 Search Strategies and Tools – Part I

Posted on 11 November 2020 by Marc

Location: ONLINE EVENT
Date: Monday, 16 November 2020
Time: 7:00-9:00PM

How well do you keep files and documents from past years/weeks/days on your systems? Do you follow an organizational plan in your file creation process where you plan on easy retrieval, or, do you adhere to a growing trend in “file management chaos” where there is no plan and depend solely on good file retrieval tools? Is there still a need for creating hierarchical stacks of folders and documents to make file retrieval more like a well-organized filing cabinet? Do you follow policy on file creation and file location?

In this round-table talk, we take stock of our file retrieval strategies and try to examine efficiencies in production settings. What tools are used or do we depend more on the more traditional folder/file directory and sub-directories model.

To join in on the meeting, RSVP to marc.pare@kwnpsa.ca. A couple of days before the event, you will be sent a link to our web conferencing platform.

See you at the meeting!

Marc

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