And We're Off! Charlie made his way around the office and a few spots in San Francisco.  We caught up with him at Lombard Street which is the most crooked street in the world!  He then stopped in at the Atlassian office in San Francisco for RoadTrip. Our first stop for RoadTrip connected us with some great customers in San Francisco, including Build.com, Kixeye, Charles Schwab, and Broadcom. We even met with 7 CS students from Belgium who want their university to start using Atlassian tools

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Announcing JIRA Jr.: It’s Fun-tastic

Software is eating the world. And nobody's hungrier, or youngrier, than our kids. The technology landscape is quickly being reshaped by code-writing hipsters barely out of college. Case in point: just last week, Yahoo! acquired Summly, a company whose CEO still has to go to prom. So it's perplexing: even though entrepreneurs are getting younger, the tools used to build great products remain out of reach for our youngest budding innovators. That changes today. We're stoked to announce JIRA Jr.,

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Meet Confluence Blueprints: Best Practices Made Easy

We weren't kidding when we said the all-new, redesigned Confluence was just the beginning. Confluence 5 laid the foundation for Blueprints - the key to driving Confluence adoption across your entire organization.   Try Confluence Blueprints Now Already using Confluence?  Download Confluence and upgrade today! OnDemand Customers You've been auto-upgraded to Confluence Blueprints! Content is the New Platform Content brings people and teams together, driving them toward a

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On February 1, we launched the latest addition of Atlassian's add-on development competition, Codegeist. We invited developers everywhere to build add-ons for JIRA, Confluence, Stash, and our developer tools, with the promise of $65,000 in cash prizes and the opportunity to sell their add-on commercially on the Atlassian Marketplace. This year's prize format is a little different–we're awarding a prize for the best add-on submitted during each month of the competition. That means $10,000 each

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For every every dollar up to $500,000 donated to Room to Read's Checkout Challenge, Atlassian will match it. That's right - Atlassian will turn half a million dollars in donations into a million. Atlassian's matching funds will specifically support the creation of school libraries and new books in Cambodia. We've been a proud supporter of Room to Read's projects in Asia since 2009, donating almost $2 million through sales of our $10 starter licenses and impacting the lives of over 80,000

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Atlassian is taking off to one of the UK's leading software development conferences, QCon London, from Wednesday March 6th to Friday March 8th. We hope London locals can come join us and share a beer at the Atlassian Opening Party after the first day of talks! Want to know more? Read on :)   Speakers Galore! This year, QCon has awesome talks across 7 full-day tracks. Some of the most well known speakers are: Ward Cunningham, who developed the first wiki and co-author of the

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