The Mac Admins Foundation is proud to announce the addition of four new members of the Board of Directors. After a search process featuring more than 50 applicants, the Board of Directors voted to expand the number of seats available from two to four new seats given the quality of the applicants.
Read MoreAs 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.