Monthly Archives: January 2006

Spread the word about Codegeist

Help us spread the word about Atlassian Codegeist! While it may slightly lower your odds of winning first prize, you'll make up for it by having more new plugins that will make your life easier in the future. Isn't that worth it? If you are a member of any technical user-groups (JUGs, LUGs, MUGs and the like) please mention the contest where it's appropriate. And you can publicize the contest to your co-workers, colleagues and fellow students with these flyers we've posted. Print them out and tack

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The Occasional Ray of Light

Still, it's depressing sometimes, spending most of your time looking at your creation through a distorting lens that shows only its flaws. It's very easy to forget that the reason people are reporting problems, and the reason people are thinking of more things they'd like the product to do is because they're using it.

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Codegeist Submissions

Just a quick note to plugin developers: don't forget to submit the plugins you're working on now to Codegeist. You can publish them, share and collaborate (up to 3 developers) and let the community download and use them. And you can still submit them to the Codegeist Competition. Any plugin that was first released after to the announcement of the contest (Jan. 19th) is fair game. You don't have to keep it secret if you don't wish to, and you don't have to announce it in the Codegeist space. You do

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Announcing Atlassian Codegeist

Win up to $5,000; 8 weeks to build the coolest plugin That's right, people. It's time to show us your stuff. We're announcing Atlassian Codegeist: our first, official plugin competition. We're giving away fabulous cash and prizes to the person or team who comes up with the coolest, most useful, most elegant plugin for either JIRA or Confluence. You have eight weeks from today. You can compete individually or in teams of three. And you can enter as often as you like. So start your IDEs. There are

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An Easy $10,000 for Java Developers

Atlassian Software Systems announced their first annual "Codegeist" plugin competition. $10,000 USD will be given away in prize money. The coolest, most useful, most elegant plugins will win fabulous cash and prizes. All plugins submitted to the contest will be added to the Plugin Library for others to use and expand in the future. Sydney, Australia (19 January, 2006) - Atlassian Software Systems, the makers of JIRA professional issue tracking software and Confluence enterprise wiki software,

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