As the Northern Hemisphere’s Autumn arrives, my mind turns to my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving. A big table, as many people as we can fit around it, and everyone has brought something to share with their family and friends. As we prepare to set our own table this year, I want to reflect on the state of the Mac Admins Foundation, share some news about our current moment, and of our future plans.
Read MoreThis week board members Emily and Chris presented a session at this year’s virtual MacSysAdmin conference. In the session they recapped the journey that lead to the Mac Admin Foundation’s creation, some recent news, and programs currently in progress.
The session is available to view on-demand at MacSysAdmin.se. The session listing includes a video with AI generated closed captioning, and we’ll provide a full transcript of the session on this post soon.
Thank you Patrik and team for having us onboard for this year’s conference. We hope to see you all in person next year in Gothenburg!
JNUC 2022 San Diego
We’re happy to announce that the Mac Admins Foundation will be in attendance at this year’s Jamf Nation User Conference in San Diego, CA. If you’re attending this year’s JNUC, we have a few things we wanted to let you know about while you prepare your schedule for the week.
Please join us after the end of Tuesday’s keynote address in the Sails Pavilion at the San Diego Convention Center for a group photo. Jamf’s social media team will help us take some pictures; thank you Jamf! Please come on Tuesday wearing your favorite Mac Admins Foundation gear. Please wait for the room to begin to clear before making your way up to the stage for the photo.
One of the most requested items we’re asked to add to our online store are stickers. Unfortunately, the Bonfire platform does not include stickers, and as a result we don’t have a good way to make them generally available yet. But we still want to get stickers out there for all of you!
For supporters in San Diego this week we’ve printed a special run of 2” Mac Admins Foundation logo holographic stickers.
Come find myself or @rtrouton at #JNUC2022 next week for a little something special… 🌈 pic.twitter.com/GMbuag2YB0
— Dr. K 🎃🍂☕️ (@emilyooo) September 22, 2022
Look for board members Emily Kausalik-Whittle (Twitter | LinkedIn) and Rich Trouton (Twitter | LinkedIn) to grab a free sticker.
Emily and Rich will be attending JNUC all week. Keep an eye out for them after the Keynote on Tuesday for the group photo session, as well as at the following sessions:
“Running Jamf Pro at Scale, from SAP with ❤️” is being presented by Rich and his colleague John Woll from SAP on Tuesday, September 27th, at 1:30pm PDT in Sapphire IJMN.
Emily will be hosting multiple sessions on Wednesday, September 28th, in the Sapphire AE session room. These sessions include “Managed macOS Updates with Jamf” at 9am PDT, “Managed BYOD Macs with Jamf Pro for Remote Work and Business” at 10am PDT, “Creation of Google Classes from Jamf Pro Classes through API and GAM” at 2:30pm PDT, and “Automatic Zoom Room Deployment on macOS/iOS with Jamf Setup and Workato” at 3:45pm PDT.
You can also keep an eye out for Rich and Emily at various evening events including the party at the USS Midway on Wednesday evening.
If you’re not sure how to track down Emily or Rich throughout the week, please join us in the #jnuc channel on the Mac Admins Slack and we’ll do our best to say hi and make ourselves visible.
We’re so thrilled that Jamf is giving us space to share more information and spread the word about the Mac Admins Foundation. We also want to express our gratitude to Jamf for joining the Mac Admins Foundation as a major sponsor.
If you’re sharing VoiceOver shirts you spot in the wild on social media, or are attending virtually , please tag your posts with hashtags #jnuc2022 and #mafatjnuc on Twitter (and elsewhere). We love your support and would also love to reshare your content on our social channels as well.
We’re excited to announce the kick-off for planning and the formation of a working group to build a Mac Admins Mentorship program!
Photo by Headway on Unsplash
The goal for the mentorship program is to create a community-driven program that is able to meet as many of the Mac Admins community mentorship needs as possible. To help us get this program off the ground, we need volunteers who are able to dedicate time to being on the working group, and to help get the first iteration of the program ready to help our community.
The Mac Admins Foundation will be providing support for the program, but it will be shaped initially by the working group of volunteers and then by the feedback from the wider community.
If you have experience creating a mentorship program, being a mentor, or some other skills you think may be valuable to the working group, please get in touch with us by filling out this Google Form. To participate please submit your information no later than August 31st, 2022.
You asked, and we’ve answered: the Mac Admins Foundation Store is back and bigger than ever. We’ve relaunched our shop on Bonfire with a wider selection of items, and quite a few of them are based on your feedback!
First things first, we’ve relaunched the popular designs from our first campaign that many of you have written in about to make available again. This includes the knockout logo, the horizontal two-tone logo, and two-tone mug. We’ve added new options for these, including a women’s v-neck top and crewneck sweatshirts.
Next up, and what we’re particularly excited about, are all the brand new items we’ve added! We worked with our fantastic logo designer Molly Eckard to come up with some options that we think will look great printed on shirts and other items.
Many of you asked “where is the full-color logo?” Fair question! We didn’t include one to start because we weren’t confident that a direct-to-garment (DTG) printing process would translate the colorful gradient in the logo into a design that would come out well on fabric. But you all kept asking so we got some test prints made and put together a selection of items that we think will work best with the full color gradient logo.
The rainbow gradient logo collection includes logo tops, kids and baby wearables, a stainless-steel travel mug, a stainless-steel water bottle, and a hardcover journal. For the wearable items with this logo, note that the direct-to-garment print isn’t quite as bright and defined on the fabric as a traditional screen printed option would be (like our earlier items). But we’ve found that the prints still look great, are very wearable, and wash well. I (Emily) absolute love the logo on a crewneck sweatshirt (size up for extra cozy factor).
We also came up with a logo option that does work with traditional screen printing that we’re calling a color-block logo. This option is great if you prefer a traditional screen printed look but want a more colorful logo option.
Quite a few of you asked about hats or other accessories, so we took our knockout logo and added it to some great new items like baseball hats, can holders, and beanies.
And last but not least… an option that isn’t just something with our logo blasted on it (as much as we love doing that).
If you know, you know. And don’t worry, the Mac Admins Foundation logo is on the back of the shirt for anyone that doesn’t get it.
The support we’ve gotten with our merch options in our last campaign have been truly instrumental for the Mac Admins Foundation and is helping us pay for things like operational costs that are critical to supporting the programs we’re building (like the training scholarships, which we’ll have an update on very soon!).
But before I ask you all to run to the store to buy new merch, I’ll cover a few things of note:
Why are the shirts more expensive this time around?
Yes, the base t-shirt has gone up two dollars ($2). Why? We wanted to add women’s cut options but the lowest amount we could charge for those was $27. Rather than making those people pay a $2 tax for a women’s cut shirt we decided to make the base t-shirt cost the same for everyone.
What about work attire (button-ups, polo shirts) and stickers?
We really want to offer options like button-ups, polos, and stickers, but Bonfire doesn’t currently offer those in their catalog. We don’t currently have a place to do warehousing, or any personnel to handle order fulfillment and shipping, to make those options possible yet. We’ll get there! Stickers are something we really want to make available and we’re working on logistics for that.
How long does it take items I order to ship?
Campaigns run for 15 days so that Bonfire can produce everything in batches to cut costs and maximize fundraising! Each item page outlines when orders are anticipated to ship and your account on the Bonfire site will show information on tracking once it’s available.
As a thank you to everyone that has ordered so far, and expressed interest in new items for the shop, take 10% off eligible items on orders placed through August 15th, 2022 with promo code THANKS10.
Y’all are the best and we love you. Stay tuned for more updates in the fall on the work happening behind the scenes and please tag us when you get your swag! We love to see it!