Monthly Archives: August 2008

At your service

The number of customers we support has doubled every year since Atlassian started just over six years ago. Today, we support 12,000 customers. That's a lot of legendary service. To ramp things up to meet the demands of small 5-person teams to mega customers, we took a number of steps: Increased the number of support engineers in Sydney (we still have developers rotate through support, too) Opened an office in San Francisco to better support US and European customers Manage an office in Kuala Lumpur

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Inaugural Plugin of the Month Webinar

Just a quick reminder that this coming Tuesday marks our first ever 'Plugin of the Month' webinar by renowned plugin developer extraordinaire Dan Hardiker of Adaptavist. The webinar has been rescheduled for 12pm PST. Dan is a Chief Technical Architect and founding member of Adaptavist.com (running on Confluence!), a company that does Confluence customisation, hosting, support and bespoke development. He has many years of Java expertise, as well as almost 2 decades of experience with unix and networking

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It's hard to believe that my first day at Atlassian as the new event coordinator was just two weeks ago. I was impressed by the beautiful new office space. Located in the Mission District of San Francisco, this renovated warehouse has lots of space, natural light, and, when you've had enough of your desk, there are some great places to lounge with you laptop. So when I found I would be helping to plan an open house party, I was obviously stoked. On September 18th at 5pm, Atlassian is inviting all

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Introducing the Atlassian Integration Guide. Do you have JIRA and Confluence, and you want to make them play together? Did you know that JIRA, Confluence, FishEye and Crucible can get intimate with each other, and Subversion can join the party too? Do you ask yourself, what else do the Atlassian applications get up to when they're all together? You just may find the answers in the Atlassian Integration Guide. At the moment, this documentation is a work in progress. But watch this space. The

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Atlassians in the City to Surf Fun Run

The City to Surf race in August 2008 was awesome.

Sydney City to Surf, 2008

We ran in a moving crowd of 70,000 people through 14 kilometres, witnessing many strange and hilarious costumes. Almost all finished the race in under two hours.

As a team, we donated money to the Shepherd Centre, a charity that helps kids with cochlear implants. Together we donated $974, and Atlassian matched our donations, creating a total donation of $1,948.

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Today's an auspicious day for Confluence fans - Confluence 2.9 is out in the wild, with a gaggle of new features, 140 resolved issues and two wickedly cool plug-ins: the Office Connector, which lets users edit Confluence pages with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice clients (free for all customers), and the SharePoint Connector, which allows SharePoint and Confluence to share content and generally get cozy with each other (available as a for pay add-on). New in 2.9 Confluence 2.9 has a few important

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