About KWNPSA

KW Non-Profit Sys Admin Group

Meeting Location: Room 1300 — Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N. · Waterloo, ON N2L 3G6
Meeting Day of the Week: 2nd Monday of the month (unless there was an earlier statutory holiday Monday that month, in which case, we would move to the 3rd Monday of the month — we coordinate our meeting dates with the KWLUG)
Meeting Time: 7:00 – 9:00pm

Our meetups focus on nonprofit systems administration. The format consists of discussions on a theme. The hope is that we learn from each other and use each other as sounding boards.

Why nonprofit systems administration? Nonprofits tend to have different systems constraints than other organizations:

  • Low technology budgets (and thus greater reliance on free/cheap hardware and software)
  • A reliance on older “hand-me-down” systems
  • More hands-on systems administration and less outsourcing
  • Different licensing constraints (eg TechSoup)

In addition to this meetup, we host other resources:

Coordinators:

Bob Jonkman
Marc Paré
Nicholas Collins
Steve Izma

* Contact info@kwnpsa.ca for more information.