Monthly Archives: November 2008

Large JIRA deployment? Attend this webinar.

We are thrilled to have Joanna Thurmann of Polycom be our next Voice of the Customer on 10 Dec 2008 at 9am PST/17:00 GMT. Joanna Thurmann is currently a systems administrator at Polycom, managing their single global JIRA instance. She has previously worked as a developer for 10 years at PeopleSoft/Oracle. Among other things, she helped design and develop their in-house bug-tracking application on PeopleTools. Joanna will touch on the following topics: Managing a large JIRA installation: best practices

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Will the Usual Suspects please line up

I got an email today from a government customer, Brandi George of Brazos County in Texas. They had been watching our very first plugin of the month webinar with Dan Hardiker. We had many problems running that webinar, beginning with Dan's late plane flight, which forced us to move the webinar back for an hour. Then there were audio problems. And the GotoWebinar admin panel was blocking part of the presentation. We felt so bad that we sent everyone who registered for the webinar an Atlassian Usual

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Technology Populism, Moral Indignation and The Rise of Atlassian

Here at Atlassian, we get quizzed by the press on a daily basis on the secrets of our success. Peter Dorfman wrote a great blog post this week about his personal experiences which really explains our success perfectly. Peter's comments about his interactions with our wiki product, Confluence, speak volumes to the following trends we see in our overall customer interactions. Technology Populism Whether you are talking about babies adopting iPhones or adults implementing enterprise software, some

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Universal Wiki Converter v50 released!

I'm pleased to announce that we just released the newest version of the Universal Wiki Converter (full release notes). We're up to version 50, and this release boasts a nice new set of user and developer features as well as improvements to existing wiki converters. The Universal Wiki Converter (UWC) is a standalone application which converts pages from other wikis to Confluence. It's also an extensible framework, allowing users with wikis that aren't currently supported to add their own converters.

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Atlassian wins Fast 50 Award, 4 years in a row

`Well, in OUR country,' said Alice, still panting a little, `you'd generally get to somewhere else -- if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.' `A slow sort of country!' said the Queen. `Now, HERE, you see, it takes all the running YOU can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!' Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll We always run at least twice as fast here at Atlassian. It's exhilarating, and well

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