Welcome to the September
Newsletter! This month... we've aquired a single sign-on application (yea!), JIRA 3.6.5 released, a cool RSVP plugin
for Confluence is created, and much more. Happy
reading!
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 Finding a good single
sign-on solution has been a goal for many organisations
looking to simplify user management. It has been one of ours and that's why we're happy to have
recently announced the acquisition of Minneapolis-based Authentisoft, a company that creates IDX, a single sign-on Java EE
solution.
Over the next few months, we'll be working on the application to make it more
Atlassian-like. Today, however, IDX
is fully functional and works natively with JIRA and Confluence. You can check it out now on the Authentisoft website. Stay tuned for additional
announcements!
Continue reading this
entry and the full press release...
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 JIRA 3.6.5 has just been released. Check out the bug fixes and improvements that make this application more efficient than before. If you have a
current JIRA
maintenance license, you can download this version here. And, if you haven't tried the popular issue tracker yet, you can download a free 30-day evaluation
whenever you want.
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 Have you been in the
following situation? You've been wondering what to do on
the weekend, then it hits you... let's go and watch Snakes on a Plane
with a few mates on Friday night. You send out an email to 8 friends and within an hour you received 20
emails. Some people are coming, some are not, some will bring
friends, some will want to bring a couple rattlesnakes
along. The bottom
line is that you'll have to start organising the booking, which could get complicated. All you can think
is 'I wish I could just point people to a page where
they could click a button if they wanna come along.'
Hold on... that sounds like something a Confluence plugin could easily do. So I started writing
one for our San Francisco Atlassian outing
to Alcatraz. Very simple, only for registered users and a one button click to subscribe. I spent a
few hours the last weekend to pick up that idea and make it a
little bit more useful.
Now version 1.0 is ready for prime time. Take a look at the documentation,
the plugin screenshots, then download it and give it a
try.
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Atlassian and Tangosol
are working
closely to release the next generation enterprise
wiki. While currently only available as a developer's release, the general release of Confluence Massive (v2.3), will be announced in a few
weeks. Wikis for the enterprise have grown in
popularity. Many of our customers have watched Confluence spread in their organisations from one group
to dozens, from dozens of users to thousands (check out our case studies). With Tangosol, the equation can
be multiplied many times over. Organisations will be able to cluster Confluence for tens of thousands of
users.
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We're city-hopping this fall.
If you'll be attending any of these events or if you're in the area, let us know so we can meet up.
- We're sponsoring a HigherEd Symposium event, Creating an
Online
Campus, taking place October 3-4 in Worcester, MA. We have a demo area
at the symposium and Stewart Mader, a Confluence user and blogger
at Using Wikis in Education, will be speaking at
the event.
- The first Office 2.0
Conference is taking place in San Francisco, October 11-12. We're sponsoring and Atlassian
co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes will be speaking. Given all of
the very interesting blogs of late about Office 2.0 and collaboration, this should be a really
interesting conference.
- We'll be demoing in the "wiki
hotspot" at the Gilbane
Conference in Boston on November
29-30.
We just had an Atlassian User Group event thanks to our great partner and sponsor, IntelliObjects. We'll share more about it in next mont's issue.
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 The National Constitution Center in
Philadelphia celebrates National
Constitution Day using our wiki, Confluence, for educational knowledge sharing. (They've done a
fantastic job re-skinning Confluence!) C-SPAN, USA Today, the National Archives, the Annenberg Foundation, and Scholastic have
provided most of the content on the Constitution Day wiki.
Educators are collaborating on lesson plans, classroom activities, books, and other educational
resources.
Both the Center and the idea of celebrating
the US Constitution on a specificed day are new. The Center is a two-year old museum near Independence
Hall in Philadelphia, and this September 17 was the first
National Constitution Day.
Continue
reading this entry about the National Constitution Day wiki... |
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In the San Francisco office we all take turns answering the phones partly because we don't
have a receptionist and partly because it's
incredibly valuable for everyone to talk to customers and people evaluating our software. I've had some
really interesting conversations with customers about how
they're using our products, what they like
and don't like, and how we can improve. Last week, I picked up the phone and found on the other end a
customer who was less than pleased with the purchasing
process.
The issue in question was with a customer whose company owns several licenses of JIRA already. He was
calling to purchase a brand new license. He had
gone through the process of generating an invoice on our website and getting the necessary purchase
order from his accounting department. He wanted us to give him a
license; afterall, he had the PO and they were a customer with a great track record.
Continue reading this entry. Also, feel free to
comment -- we'd love to hear your thoughts to this question...
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Here are a few
blogs and sites that we've been sharing around the office:
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We have some talented new folks joining our company this month:
First off, we're
happy that Flanagan Tay is our first "official" human resources expert. Right now
she's holding down the whole HR department, which is
important because we're busy hiring (see just below). Rosie Jameson is connecting
customers to our products with her technical writing skills.
She's focusing her time on JIRA documentation and user guides. Steve Smith is our
Systems Administrator and is already busy helping all us
Atlassians out. Anthony Rethans, OEM expert, has joined our growing San Francisco office to
look for places to expand our reach.
By the
way, we're always looking for talented folks to join Atlassian. (Hint, hint). :)
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Dextrus Prosoft, Inc., an
open source services and solutions company based in Calgary, Alberta, has joined the Atlassian Partner Program. Dextrus Prosoft
will resell, implement and provide consulting solutions for Confluence and JIRA for
the North American (Canada & USA) and Asian (India & China) markets. We're very happy to have them as our
partner.
Continue reading this entry and the press release
about our latest partner...
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Thanks for reading the September issue. As we always say, we love hearing from you. If you
have any special topics
you'd like covered, just send it along. We'd also like to say thanks, once again, to IntelliObjects
for sponsoring the Atlassian User Group event last week in
the D.C. area.
Until next month,
Your mates at Atlassian
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