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What's Next? Free Beer, That's What's Next! Atlassian is proud to have partnered with Zenika to host the drinking official party at the What's Next conference in Paris, France. If you are going to be in or near Paris next week Thursday 26th - Friday 27th May, then let it be known that we have a bunch of 2-day conference passes (valued at €300 each) to give away! The Speakers: A Rich Java Brew The organisers, Zenika, a group of Paris based experts on open source technologies and agile

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Hello Europe, we’re hiring

We're hiring locals all across Europe! If you live in Europe, we're hiring in a city near you. We're on the hunt to hire in-country Atlassian Ambassadors throughout Europe. We're looking for people who have a combination of engineering-savvy, marketing know-how, and a little pizzaz to represent Atlassian in their countries. Read the Ambassador job description to see if this role fits you or someone you know. Our recruitment drive for Ambassadors leverages our (inventive) Atlassian "32" campaign

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Mercy Ships wins Atlassian 2010 Community Award

We had nearly twenty submissions for our first ever Atlassian Community Award — a competition to recognize and reward our Community License holders for their outstanding work. The winner will receive a $10,000 donation from the Atlassian Foundation. All of the entrants are charities or foundations helping local and international communities improve through education, awareness, medical assistance and more. The hardest thing about awards, especially this kind, is that its really, really, really

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What a difference $500,000 makes

So what has been the impact of all the monies raised from Atlassian's cause marketing Starter License program? Where has all that money gone? One of the things that we love about Room to Read is their transparency and accountability. As a partner we can see exactly how we are contributing to a solution. Cambodia 1 local language reading book in Khmer 16 Reading Rooms, including the Constructed Library at Mepring Primary School 68 Scholarships for girls (year long) 'Where is the Sun?' —

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On the back of Atlassian's attendance at Google I/O 2010, this is our second guest blog post highlighting Android based JIRA clients. This post comes from Sena Gbeckor-Kove of ImKon. If you missed it, you may also be interested in the first JIRA Android guest blog post. JIRA Mobile (Android) Those of you who have been following the JIRA Mobile project may have noticed a recent hiatus. We've been concentrating on a number of other projects but we've turned our attention back to JIRA Mobile to add

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Bug tracking comes to your Android based smartphone

On the back of Atlassian's attendance at Google I/O 2010, this is one of two guest blog posts highlighting Android based JIRA clients. This post comes from Chris N. Diaz of PuguaSoft. PocketJIRA adding support for Android PocketJIRA is an application that lets you access JIRA issues on your mobile device, including the BlackBerry and now Android. With PocketJIRA, you can work on your JIRA issues from practically anywhere. PocketJIRA for the BlackBerry has been out for a few months now and a port

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