We're happy to announce that the first in our series of Atlassian User Groups will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area at Stanford University on Thursday, May 1st, 2008!

This user group will focus largely on JIRA and Atlassian's development tools.

Here's a closer look at the speaking lineup:

Atlassian News and Update
Presented by Jeffrey Walker, President of Atlassian

JIRA 4.0: A Sneak Preview
Presented by Nick Menere, Atlassian JIRA Developer

Introducing JIRA Studio, the Complete Hosted Development Solution
Presented by Jens Schumacher, Atlassian JIRA Studio Developer

Using JIRA as a hub for the tool set of Administrative Systems at Stanford University
Presented by Claudia Dencker, Dir. of Quality Assurance, Administrative Systems, Stanford University

JIRA Multisite and Clustering
Presented by Matt Doar, Consulting Toolsmiths

The user group will also include Birds of a Feather as well as a networking session where you can meet us Atlassians, talk to fellow developers and have your burning questions answered. We'd love to see you there!

Space is limited! Get all the details and sign up here.

We'd like to thank Stanford University and WANdisco for helping us to host this event.

Atlassian is holding a series of User Groups around the world. For a list of dates and locations, please visit this page.