[kwlug-disc] Nonprofit sysadmin meetup

[B.S.]

Budgets are budgets.

Priorities are priorities.

There are only so many hours in a day, and only so much can reasonably 
be done with the available resources.

Else is personally self-defeating leading to stress and burnout. Doing 
nobody any real good and delivering no real value.

Seems to be useful to remember to be user driven, not we can therefore 
we should (squeeze the last use out of a 386 that only the techie cares 
about). Even today we seem to build it thinking they will come, and they 
don't.

It's also easy to forget that there is an amazing amount of overlap 
between organizations, and just because you can't do something doesn't 
mean it isn't being done and available to the CM elsewhere - and 
probably being done better. (Due to the other organization's slightly 
different focus.)

Linux principles seem to apply - do one thing, and do that one thing 
exceedingly well. The Working Centre is an example of this, except, it 
does many one things very, and uniquely, well in this area.

But there are still budgets, priorities, only so many hours in a day, 
and only so much of one to go around while staying 'healthy'.


On 03/09/2015 01:39 PM, Paul Nijjar wrote:
>
> What are these other meetup.com groups that would be relevant?
>
> The constraints of doing IT for nonprofits is pretty different from
> doing IT in for-profit businesses (but maybe some of the constraints
> for very small businesses are the same).
>
> - Paul
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 03:03:07PM -0400, Bob Jonkman wrote:
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>> I'm in favour; I'd join a non-profit/small-biz sysadmin mailing list
>> or meeting.
>>
>> Where do you see the need for this? Has some other mailing list been
>> running off-topic that this needs its own mailing list? There are a
>> number of Meetup.com groups for startups and small business -- and the
>> smaller the business, the more likely that the principals will be
>> doing their own tech support, so a meetup group may already be covered.
>>
>> I think the KWLUG mailing list would welcome non-profit/small-biz
>> discussion (but maybe only about FLOSS and Linux). The KW Windows
>> Admin mailing list would welcome non-profit/small-biz discussion too.
>>   And the KWWA mailing list hasn't (yet) been overrun with
>> non-profit/small-biz traffic either.
>>
>> - --Bob.
>>
>> KWWA: http://sobac.com/kwwa
>>
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