GreenHopper Drinkup – San Francisco, May 24

Calling all GreenHopper Gurus in San Francisco! Shaun Clowes of the GreenHopper team in Sydney is visiting San Francisco for Atlassian Summit. He'd love to buy you a pint. Or three. Join Shaun, myself and other GreenHopper Gurus on Thursday May 24 from 6pm at Thirsty Bear. Find us in the Billar Room. Shaun and I are keen to learn how you are using GreenHopper. We are happy to chat all things Agile/Kanban/Scrum/DevOps and we will also have time to answer any GreenHopper questions you

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RIP FedEx Day, Meet [Your idea here] Day

Since 2005, we've been holding quarterly internal "innovation" days - our unique blend of a hack day and Google's 20% time. Seven years later, we've done 19 of these events, featuring more than 500 projects from developers, IT ninjas, and even marketing folks. The name for the event was inspired by the one company that "ships" more than anyone - FedEx - and their commitment to ship something in 24 hours. We liked the idea of applying that "ship in a day" concept to these internal innovation hack-a-thons,

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Atlassian Summit 2012: It’s gonna be huge

Atlassian Summit is just two weeks away. Here's a taste of what you have to look forward to! If you haven't bought a ticket yet, now's your chance to seize the moment! Six awesome marquee speakers Jeff Atwood (codinghorror.com), Michael Lopp (randsinrepose.com), Pamela Fox (indie dev), Eric Ries (Startup Lessons Learned), Dave Thomas (Bedarra Research) and Jeff Ma (MIT Blackjack Team and entrepreneur) will be sharing their secrets to software development on high producing teams. In addition, the

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Atlassian SF – a great place to bike

Atlassian and five other stellar companies -- AirBnB, Veritable Vegetable, Rackspace, Levi's and Zynga -- were recognized for making it easy for their employees to bike to work, and in doing so, attracting high-quality employees. It was all part of a San Francisco City Hall press conference today for the annual Bike to Work Day where the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and Mayor Edwin Lee awarded the first-ever Bicycle-Friendly Business Awards. Read all about the award on the SF Bicycle Coalition website. Looking

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Announcing Atlassian Stash – DVCS management for the enterprise

Distributed version control systems are not just the future, they're now, and Git has emerged as one of the most popular code version control systems out there. A plethora of online services emerged (including our own Bitbucket) to help early Git adopters share, manage and collaborate their code. For the open source community and many startups, these services have been nothing short of terrific for encouraging code collaboration. But for companies that want to host Git behind the firewall, there

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The Top 8 Reasons to Come to Summit

Only a handful of tickets remain for Atlassian Summit. Need tips for customizing Confluence, scaling JIRA, or perfecting Agile? With Seven tracks, over 70 speakers, 8 training sessions, you'll be able to tailor the event to meet your specific goals.  Hosted at the beautiful design center in San Francisco it will be the largest Atlassian event ever. A whopping 92.3% of last year's attendees said the 2011 conference did an excellent job of meeting their objectives. We're going for 100% this year! Summit

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