I'm trying to get a read on whether we should organize a worldwide user conference. If you can take 2 seconds and let us know on this survey, it would be really appreciated. Before you vote, here are some of the details...
When and where would it be?
This fall in San Francisco, we'd probably make it into a 2-day conference.
How much does it cost to attend?
Free for all customers. I was thinking we might charge a nominal fee of $50 to get a commitment from people so we (hopefully) avoid a last minute cancellation frenzy.
Aha... the interesting stuff. These are some ideas off the top of my head of what it could be, but your comments and suggestions are welcome.
- Workshops for configuring and/or customizing the applications
- Training classes for administrators and/or users on all our products
- 7 brilliant ideas: 7 customers give 5-minute presentations each on cool things they're doing with JIRA or Confluence, then open it for Q&A
- Open sessions... similar to a birds-of-a-feather, the discussion is determined by group. Three or four agenda items are selected by vote, then people break off into the discussion that interests them.
- Atlassian Q&A: open session with Atlassian founders and developers.
- Hackathon: an evening/night event to work on new plugins
- Getting wiki buy-in: less developer-centric, this would be a session on different ways wikis are used in organizations and methods for getting your community involved in using the wiki
- Agile Development with JIRA, Confluence, and Bamboo
- Making connections: hooking up our apps with other apps, who's doing it, what are they doing, how to do it
- Plugins. Demos of new plugins and/or a workshop on building plugins and connectors
- Networking, networking, networking: aside from all the above, the whole point of this event is to meet peers and Atlassian staff. We'd make sure there's plenty of time to socialize, eat good food, and make connections.
29 Comment(s)
Are open source projects considered "customers"? ;-)
By Matt Raible at March 15, 2007 9:25 AM
Mate - definitely! I'd actually love to see the interaction between some corporate customers and Open Source customers to see what information they can learn off each other. That's always fascinating and worthwhile for everyone involved.
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By Mike Cannon-Brookes at March 15, 2007 9:52 AM
Since we are in the Web 2.0 world, one quick question is could explore methods to allow virtual/online access to this conference "virtual/online"?
By Hitesh Seth at March 15, 2007 10:31 AM
Good point. It would be valuable to webcast live some of the sessions (esp., I think, the Q&A sessions) and videotape others to stream afterwards, esp. for people in Europe or in the Asia Pacific area who wouldn't otherwise be able to participate in real time.
By Jon Silvers at March 15, 2007 10:40 AM
I'll be in just because it's in SF and I'm only 3 hours away. I love the wiki buy-in thing. We're just getting a pilot of Confluence up and need all the recommendations we can get.
I'd love to give a demo on how some people are using JIRA on campus (yes, I'm in higher ed).
I'd love to get ideas on how we could use JIRA more effectively.
Also, I think I promised Mike a beer a long time ago..
By Patrick at March 15, 2007 10:56 AM
Patrick -- I suspect we could connect you with other university wiki people from Johns Hopkins, perhaps one of several (many?) UC customers. Johns Hopkins is an early JIRA customer btw and Geoff C. there is a friend. Call me in SF anytime.
By Jeffrey Walker at March 15, 2007 3:00 PM
Great idea, long overdue.
You should also get your reseller partners together either as a "track" within this meeting or separately.
By Andrew Ogilvie at March 15, 2007 6:04 PM
Any chance for value-added product companies like us to participate, probably give a short speech?
By Igor Sereda at March 15, 2007 6:10 PM
Yes, we would find a way to get our technology partners involved, either with demonstrations or as part of our panels.
By Jon Silvers at March 16, 2007 2:56 AM
Absolutely ... but I would like to see such conference in Europe, e.g. Germany.
By Ahmad Masrieh at March 16, 2007 5:50 AM
We would be very interested.
We are a San Francisco NPO and have seen/tested Confluence via a consultant member of ours.
We are based in San Francisco and would gladly join the conference.
PS - we are still waiting for approval on our request to get an NPO license from back in 2006!
By karri at March 18, 2007 9:56 AM
Hi Karri, a couple of us saw your comment earlier this afternoon... the license will be handled asap. It's unacceptable that it's taken so long. Sorry for the delay.
By Jon Silvers at March 20, 2007 2:03 PM
Another Higher Ed site plugging in a vote for the conference.
University of Colorado at Boulder, we are just launching our Confluence Beta test for Enterprise wide deployment, and will have lots to talk/ask about by fall.
On the date, be careful on the date selection, there are a large number of conferences that hit in the fall that could conflict with this for many customers.
By Michelle at March 21, 2007 10:46 AM
Thanks for the feedback on timing for this. Am pulling together various competing conference dates now.
By Jon Silvers at March 21, 2007 1:34 PM
If you can make it time and location adjacent (no overlap!) to http://www.kmworld.com/kmw07/ I will do my utmost to attend. ;)
Martin.
By Martin Cleaver at March 27, 2007 12:00 PM
I attended the first user conference in the Washington D.C metropolitan area, held at the Fairview Marriott in VA last year and I would definitely attend another one should one be made available.
By Tony Peralta at March 28, 2007 5:37 AM
We're a 2500 person company headquartered in California. We have hundreds of users in JIRA and two instances of Confluence. We use lots of plug-ins, extensive internal mods, and integration with several home grown systems. I'd love to attend a user conference--especially in the SF Bay area.
By Steve Mitchell at March 28, 2007 11:06 AM
Opinions from a JIRA user/administrator in South America...
I would definetely like to see a Conference on JIRA, but due to the distance, webcasting would be much nicer for us...
I know that here in Brazil, several companies are using JIRA, and as far as I know, they all love it. I know I do. :)
By Fabio Yamaia at March 29, 2007 5:46 AM
Yes - I would certainly be interested in attending. We are currently using Confluence to migrate our product documentation. The S.F. area is a good location for this!
-Greg
By Greg Miller at March 29, 2007 4:25 PM
If you hold this please do inform me.
By Dean Trent at March 30, 2007 10:21 AM
Yes, I'd be interested in attending something on the SF bay area
By davids at April 13, 2007 7:25 AM
I'd be interested in something like this. It would be easier to justify if there was an alternate one in Europe though.
By Simon Rose at April 18, 2007 10:29 PM
Has it been reduced to the 1/2 day event as shown on http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2007/05/boston_user_gro.html?
Thanks.
By Sim at May 18, 2007 7:54 PM
The user groups in Boston and San Francisco won't replace a 2-day user conference, however, we want more time to plan the user conference so we get it right! Please join us for the Boston and/or San Francisco user groups! http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AUG/Atlassian+User+Group
By Jon Silvers at May 19, 2007 3:17 AM
I am based in Singapore. It does not make economical sense for me to join a short session. Is there any AUG in the region?
By Sim at May 25, 2007 3:24 AM
ABSOLUTELY! We're starting to use JIRA very seriously here and we need all the information and knowledge we can get. Please!
By Bob Zasuly at November 9, 2007 9:32 AM
I would enjoy attending an Atlassian conference! Any chance of running one in the UK?
By alan Lewis at November 23, 2007 8:07 AM
I can get to a conference anywhere in the US and possibly in Europe. We're just getting into setting up our Confluence wiki and we could use workshops, training, whatever you have to offer. Thanks!
By Edith Maxwell at December 11, 2007 4:08 AM
Please Consider something in Europe.
By Mustafa Abusalah at March 8, 2008 5:44 PM