Posts from August 2006

Jon Silvers
Wired journalist Ryan Singel recently created a story about wikis with the intention of seeing how citizen journalism will help shape the article. Seems as if many of the wiki vendors...

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Jon Silvers
In the San Francisco office we all take turns answer the phones partly because we don't have a receptionist and partly because it's incredibly valuable for everyone to talk to customers and...

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Jon Silvers
Dextrus Prosoft, Inc., an open source services and solutions company based in Calgary, Alberta, has joined the Atlassian partner program and will resell Atlassian JIRA and Confluence. You can find out more...

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Laurel Anderson

JIRA 3.6.4 Released

Laurel Anderson August 26, 2006 9:15 AM
JIRA 3.6.4 was released on August 22 and offers over 20 bug fixes and improvements. Check out the 3.6.4 release notes for details. If you're currently a JIRA customer with active maintenance,...

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Jon Silvers
Here's an excerpt from an interesting article from University Business Magazine about colleges and universities having to choose between open source versus commercial products, esp. in the United States. Larry Bouthillier of...

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Jon Silvers
Laurel just blogged about our upcoming User Conference sponsored by IntelliObjects taking place in Virginia. In addition, you can find us sponsoring, demoing, and generally wandering the floors at a number of...

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Robyn Munro

Mission Atlassian

Robyn Munro talks about life at atlassian August 22, 2006 4:22 PM
The end of financial year is a good opportunity to celebrate team success. This year we did so with an adventure race around Sydney, solving clues in teams and having a great...

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Laurel Anderson
Mark your calendars for a new Atlassian User Group meeting! Meet our customers, developers, and people interested in JIRA and/or Confluence. Also learn how JIRA and Confluence can work in an Agile...

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Jon Silvers

Confluence for Non-Profit

Jon Silvers talks about foundation August 17, 2006 3:35 AM
From the Sacramento Java Users Group blog: At the last SACJUG meeting we debated over what wiki/content management system to use and eventually settled on Confluence. The feeling was as a java...

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Jon Silvers
We keep all our household information in Confluence (bills, expenses, etc.), so the system needs to be available at all times to both of us on the network. Confluence got personal with...

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Jonathan Nolen
Zoli Erdos posted a brief mention about Atlassian Taking On the World: I've recently had a chance to meet Mike and Jonathan in Atlassian's San Francisco offices, and frankly was blown away...

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Jon Silvers

Confluence vs. Basecamp

Jon Silvers August 15, 2006 9:25 AM
Comparing Confluence with Basecamp is interesting because, as the blogger points out, while the two product's features overlap somewhat, they really serve two different needs. MediaWiki and Twiki are also mentioned in...

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Laurel Anderson
A mate of ours first brought it to our attention -- JIRA, our issue tracker, is the new requested "be familiar with" or "have expertise with" program. He forwarded along a job...

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Jon Silvers
Check out this short clip of Atlassian founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes being interviewed at the Ernest & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award ceremony on YouTube (we've asked E&Y for...

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Laurel Anderson
In the spirit of being transparent, here's a library managers blog with a good discussion about Confluence, other wikis, and pricing... Yes, [Confluence is] not free, but we've found that it's well...

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Jon Silvers

Using Wikis in Education

Jon Silvers August 9, 2006 12:33 PM
A short while ago, Stewart Mader interviewed a couple of us Atlassian folks for his blog, Using Wikis in Education. The interview, conducted via Campfire (very cool product), is now available here....

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Jon Silvers

Cenqua and JIRA

Jon Silvers August 8, 2006 11:15 PM
While visiting our Sydney office this week, I had some time to grab a coffee with with Pete Moore, one of the founders of Cenqua, and Bruce, his terrier (who spent his...

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Laurel Anderson
As for Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, I tip my hat to them. At 26 years-old they have built a technology powerhouse that spans across 3,900 customers in more than 61...

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Laurel Anderson
Atlassian founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar have received top honours at the Ernst & Young Eastern Region Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards....

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Jon Silvers

Benefits of Wikis

Jon Silvers talks about buzz August 4, 2006 8:56 AM
The recommended Wiki (Confluence by Atlassian in this case), allows for Wikis within a Wiki (Spaces) so that multiple entities such as teams, departments or organizations can be served within one Wiki...

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Jon Silvers
From the AnyWare Development Consulting blog, a really interesting suggestion for grouping tasks in JIRA by tagging that other JIRA users may want to check out. Component field settings ARE tagging but...

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Jon Silvers

Bugs and other features...

Jon Silvers talks about buzz August 1, 2006 6:13 PM
JIRA is briefly mentioned on Clouds of Heaven where the real topic is the question of bug tracking itself. We've been moving from a free, fairly basic system.... to a much more...

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