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Author Archives: Marc
2020-01 Marking Up Text for Structured Documents
Location: Room 1301 — Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N. · Waterloo, ON N2L 3G6 (bottom floor, in the hallway that connects the main building to the Chapel-Residence building)
Date: Monday, 13 January 2020
Time: 7:00-9:00PM
In October 2017 we discussed markup languages used by some members of the KWNPSA. In this iteration of the topic, long-time member Steve Izma discusses his use of markup languages in “real-world” circumstances throughout his professional career in publishing. Where documentation requires the need of serious structure, markup languages may be the right fit for the job.
Suggested Topics
If you have any topic suggestions, don’t be shy … let us know about them.
- Collaborative Work Space field trip
- Risk Management
- Event Management
- Contact Management Software
- Donors and Donations, eg. CiviCRM
- Optical Character Recognition – Document archiving, crowd sourcing
- Finding Things – Search strategies and tools
- Document Management
- Encryption
- Fallout from data breaches
- Network Security
- Presentation software
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2020-02 Colocation — Visit to DataCity – Waterloo Data Center
Location: DataCity – Kitchener Waterloo Data Center, 440 Phillip Street, Waterloo
Date: Monday, 10 February 2020
Time: 7:00-9:00PM
*** Attendee limit: 20 members ***
Note: This month’s meeting is a “field-trip” held off-site at DataCity at its Waterloo Center. Location: DataCity – Kitchener Waterloo Data Center, 440 Phillip Street, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 5R9
Where are your servers? Is that really safe? Have you thought about professional hosting at a colocation site? What’s a colocation site? Who offers colocation services? What services do colocation sites offer? How much will all this cost? Can I still come visit my server when it’s been placed in a colocation site?
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2020 Content Management
Location: TBA
Date: TBA
Time: TBA
Description: TBA
— Bob, Steve and Marc
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2020 Enterprise Resource Management
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— Bob, Steve and Marc
2019-12 — Social — CANCELLED
KWNPSA end-of-year social has had to be cancelled due to unexpected events. We will organize an alternative social sometime in the first half of 2020.
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2019 11 — Friendica
Location: Room 1301 — Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N. · Waterloo, ON N2L 3G6 (bottom floor, in the hallway that connects the main building to the Chapel-Residence building)
Date: Monday, 11 November 2019
Time: 7:00-9:00PM
With all of the recent issues going on with social media giants, and, of particular with Facebook, we look to open source solutions where securing data and the sharing of personal data is of primary concern.
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2019 10 — October Meeting CANCELLED
After much deliberation, we regret to inform you that our next KWNPSA meeting slated for October 21st is cancelled. We had contemplated putting it on, however, the fact that the date falls on voting day for our federal election just complicated matters too much.
Our next meeting will then take place on the evening of November 11th. Although, this falls on Remembrance Day, we could take a couple of minutes at the meeting to recognize those who have and are helping Canada in times of strife, and, in peace.
Our next topic will be posted soon as we are doing a bit of re-jigging of topics.
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2019 09 The Linux Desktop — A Sensible Alternative to Windows Desktop
Location: Room 1301 — Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N. · Waterloo, ON N2L 3G6 (bottom floor, in the hallway that connects the main building to the Chapel-Residence building)
Date: Monday, 16 September 2019
Time: 7:00-9:00PM
As of the last count for February 2019, NetMarketShare estimates that
Windows’ desktop market share sits at 87.56% worldwide, the rest of the
desktop market share is divided up between macOS – 9.65%, Linux – 2.14%,
Unknown – 0.32%, ChromeOS – 0.32% and BSD – 0.01%.
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2019 08 Presentation Software
Location: Room 1300 — Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N. · Waterloo, ON N2L 3G6 (bottom floor, in the hallway that connects the main building to the Chapel-Residence building)
Date: Monday, 19 August 2019
Time: 7:00-9:00PM
Are you a visual learner? Are you a visual presenter? Is a picture worth a thousand words? What’s an infographic, anyway? Do you use images to convey ideas? Bullet points? Wall of text? What’s the best way to get your message across? And what do you use to get your message across?
We’ll explore some of the different software available to create presentations.
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