Archives for Laura Khalil

I was pleasantly surprised to find Stewart Mader visiting Atlassian's offices today and chatting with our Confluence Marketing Dude, Bill Arconati. As some of you may remember, Stewart was our very own wiki evangelist before going out on his own and starting his full time consulting practice, Future Changes. He's doing really well and blogs regularly over at futurechanges.org I sat down to catch up with Stewart and chat about what he sees going on and the future of wikis. Here's what he had to say: How's

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Confluence Case Study: Mambo Foundation

As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, we have a variety of customers using our products in interesting and different ways. One such example is the Mambo Foundation. Mambo is an open source full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Lynne Pope, has been the core developer for Mambo since 2006 and is currently president of the Mambo Foundation, Inc. Tell us a bit about your organization: The Mambo Foundation

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JIRA Rocks the LincVolt!

Last week I spent a fair amount of time running between JavaOne and Summit, and on one of those runs I had the good fortune to meet Paul Perrone, head of Perrone Robotics and Project Manager on the LincVolt. The LincVolt is a project pioneered by Neil Young and it's his goal to turn his 1959 Lincoln Continental into a green car. They're converting it to an electric vehicle, have thrown a bunch of technology into the car (some part of it are now powered by Java) and the goal is to get it to 100mpg.

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Atlassian Summit got off to a roaring start on Sunday! Yesterday on the blogs, we announced a bunch of news relating to our work and strategy over the past year. Follow all the excitement: Twitter: #atlassiansummit Flickr: atlassiansummit Today, we like to share the major announcements that our partners made at Summit: Adaptavist announced that they are making their commercial plugins, Theme Builder and Community Bubbles, completely free. Appfire introduces Fireball, the new turnkey appliance built

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Today Atlassian is proud to announce the acquisition of GreenHopper for JIRA from GreenPepper Software. With over 700 customers globally, GreenHopper for JIRA adds key agile project management capabilities to JIRA, including release planning, task management and burn down charts. agile@Atlassian Atlassian is already well known by agile software development teams for providing tools that complement agile practices, including Continuous Integration (Bamboo), Code Reviews (Crucible), and Code Coverage

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San Francisco is bubbling with more than 300 Atlassian customers, who descended upon the Palace Hotel this morning to hear Mike Cannon-Brookes' keynote at our first ever worldwide user conference -- Atlassian Summit. This morning Mike unveiled a variety of powerful news and strategy that's been brewing inside Atlassian for the past year. Highlights include: Confluence 3.0 released: the most widely-used enterprise wiki in the world now includes new features to help users create richer content and

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