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Atlassian doc sprint delivers 30 tutorials for Confluence 4.3

The Atlassian technical writers and friends have just held our fourth doc sprint, and it was the biggest and best yet. We had sprinters sprinkled round the world. We worked on site in Sydney, San Francisco and Amsterdam. Remote sprinters joined us online via HipChat and the wiki. We wrote words, we wrote code, we solved chocolate anagrams. Confluence 4.3 just wouldn't be the same without our tutorials! Cool. So what's a doc sprint again? A doc sprint is an event where people get together to

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Atlassian conservation volunteers strike back on Mars

Our usual tools are wikis, issue trackers and continuous integration servers... But today we wielded long-handled loppers, secateurs and saws. The last time we used a long-handled lopper, we saved the planet. This time, we're out to save Mars! Ten Atlassians went on a bush regeneration exercise with Conservation Volunteers Australia and the National Parks and Wildlife Service. We worked in the Mars Creek area of Macquarie Park, an area of valuable native vegetation and biodiversity. Our

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Join us in a Confluence developer doc sprint

The Atlassian technical writers invite you to one of our famous choc fests – uh, doc sprints! This time we're targeting the Confluence developer documentation. Let's build some simple but lustworthy Confluence add-ons, and write them up so that other people can follow in our footsteps. A doc sprint is an event where some seriously cool people spend time together, building plugins and other add-ons, and crafting tutorials around them. This time it's happening in Sydney, San Francisco, Amsterdam,

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Atlassian Foundation helps save the planet

It's a little known fact that Atlassians have green blood. You could cut one to see, but that's probably not a good idea. Especially if the Atlassian concerned is holding our weapon of choice, the long-handled lopper. A few days ago, a group of us went out to help Conservation Volunteers Australia save the planet. Our mission: To rid (a small part of) Lane Cove National Park of the noxious weed, privet. Privet, like many other non-native plants, simples loves Australia. It's taking over

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New JIRA 5.0 tutorials from the Atlassian doc sprint

The Atlassian technical writers and thirteen developers recently combined forces in a doc sprint. The aim? To develop plugin tutorials that will help people use the upcoming JIRA 5.0 Java APIs. The result is eleven shiny new tutorials and plenty of updates to existing pages. The indomitable doc sprinters were based in Sydney, San Francisco and Gdansk. We got together in chat rooms, in video conferences and on the wiki. What is a doc sprint? A doc sprint is an event in which people get together

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How to edit the Atlassian developer documentation

The Atlassian Developers site has a shiny new look, improved tutorials and pretty pictures. Is that Confluence I see before me? Yes, and the shiny new look is thanks to the Zen Foundation theme. The Zen editing experience is a bit different to the standard Confluence themes. Here is a quick start guide. 1. Log in If you don't yet have a username and password, please sign up for the Atlassian Contributor License Agreement. Once you have a username, click the login link and follow the prompts. 2.

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