Monthly Archives: March 2009

CC license and community contributions in Atlassian documentation

Two small changes appeared on the Atlassian documentation wiki yesterday. They're small changes, but with big ambitions. Documentation is licensed under CC-by The first change is the appearance of a Creative Commons Attribution license on the documentation pages, like this: Except where otherwise noted, content in this space is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia License Customers have often asked us whether they can incorporate our documentation into their own

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How Wikis Create an Opt-In Culture

Stewart Mader was kind enough to let me post on his blog today. In the post I explore the concept of an opt-in corporate culture and how an enterprise wiki is integral to achieving an opt-in culture. Here's a tiny snippet: ...In an opt-in culture, employees contribute to conversations where they gain the most satisfaction and have the largest impact. They look beyond their tiny fiefdoms and seek out situations where they can add value and offer their expertise. Throughout the post I cite numerous

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Aussie Entrepreneurs Defy GFC – From Startup to $100 Million Company

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On March 4, 2009
SYDNEY (BUSINESS WIRE) — Australian owned and based software company Atlassian reached a significant milestone in its short history when February 2009 it reached $US100 million all-time sales. Atlassian remains a profitable privately-owned company that has expanded through organic growth, not venture capitalists; and continues to expand in a receding economy, recently opening its European HQ when others are downsizing. Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, two university friends, established

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Video: Balsamiq Mockups

Last week we ran a Plugin of the Month webinar with Peldi Guilizzoni, founder and sole owner of Balsamiq. Peldi had Oren Teich of Replicate Technologies and Adam Wride of Big Brass Band give guest presentations on how they use Balsamiq. See the video: I want to thank all presenters for giving such great information regarding this useful JIRA and Confluence plugin. I'd also like to thank Atassian's own Partner team, Todd and Trish for running it on our end in my absence! Please visit our Events page

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Studio 1.6 – Add comments directly to Activity Stream

With today's upgrade of JIRA Studio, customers will see a new and improved Activity Stream on the dashboard. Some improvements are visible, but many more are behind the scenes, making Streams more configurable and better-performing. The biggest addition to the Activity Stream is direct commenting, meaning that you can select issues or wiki items in the feed, and add a comment directly in-line. The comment will be added to the wiki page or issue you've selected, and even better, if you are commenting

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