Today we're happy to announce that the newest version of Crowd now includes single sign-on support for Google Apps and OpenID 2.0.

This new release extends Crowd's identity management capabilities to Google Apps, allowing a user to authenticate directly to Google Apps with the one username and password they use to log on to other enterprise applications.

In addition Crowd 1.5 offers support for OpenID 2.0 and Apple OS X Open Directory. Crowd's OpenID support gives administrators a simple, secure way to provide OpenID accounts for their users, and further centralize authentication to OpenID-supported web sites.

For all the details check out our press release below or take a look at the Crowd 1.5 Release Notes.

To take Crowd for a 30-day fully functional test drive, click here.

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We're back with a fresh round of Atlassian User Groups, designed to help you meet customers, developers and discover more about our products and the Atlassian community!

The Lowdown:

User Groups, as the name implies, are all about you. Typically we have three to four short customer presentations on an interesting implementation or use case. That's followed by several separate round table discussions on topics of your choosing (aka Birds of a Feather), where you'll meet with fellow users and work through questions, issues and ideas you have stored up, complete with food and refreshments. User Groups are completely free to attend...and don't worry, you won't have to sit through a " short" sales presentation either. This is all about you! RSVP here.

The upcoming lineup:

Sydney, Australia — September 23
Toronto, Canada — October 14
New York, NY — October 16
Berlin, Germany — October 23
San Francisco, CA — November 12
Amsterdam, Netherlands — November 26
London, UK — December 4

Meet your maker:

Best of all, Atlassians will be on hand to be showered with love, pounded with questions or just shoot the breeze. We're looking forward to meeting you there!

Calling all nerds:

Have an interesting story to tell about our products? Share it at a user group! For more info, contact me at lkhalil [at] atlassian [dot] com

To sign up for any of our user groups, please visit this page.

We have updated the New York and Toronto User Group dates. Please see above for the revised dates.

Atlassian is setting up shop in Amsterdam and we're hiring for a number of positions. We're putting together a dynamic team to become part of building Atlassian's European business.

If you're a technical superstar with a flare for sales or a mid-level or senior support engineer we want to hear from you!

And finally... why should you apply? Because this is the coolest company ever! And you'd be working with me... what more could you ask for? :D

For more information, visit our jobs page.

Introducing Balsamiq Mockups, the latest plug-in to join the Confluence plugin eco-system.

Now anyone can easily create a mockup in minutes within Confluence with Balsamiq Mockups' drag and drop functionality. This plugin allows you to bring the whole team together--everyone from product managers to designers, developers and customers-- to collaborate on one mock up before even one line of code is committed.

Created by developer superstar Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni , Balsamiq Mockups offers several snazzy features designed with the team in mind. They include:

Iteration in real-time: Teams can modify drawings easily through the course of a meeting. Explore different designs in minutes.
Scalablity: Over 50 pre-built controls allow for a variety of mock-ups, from a simple website to full-fledged application.
Focus on Functionality: Hand drawn UI means more focus on creating a great mockup and not sweat the details.

Try a live demo or simply check out this tour of Balsamiq Mockups to see how easy it is to create a mockup in just minutes:

About Balsamiq

Balsamiq Mockups was created out of the desire to design a product to enable the entire team to collaborate on mock-ups in a field where most software options where either too complex or not powerful enough to use. As Peldi explains, "In a previous life, part of my job was writing feature specifications, which always included software mockups. At the time, most people just coded the feature up so that they could take a screenshot. Then a product manager I worked with asked me for help putting her vision into a spec. Because PM's don't inherently have photoshop skills, they have no way of expressing the vision that's in their head," he continues, "I looked for a tool for her to use and couldn't find one. That's why I thought of building a UI prototyping tool that everyone could use. That was when the idea of creating Balsamiq was born."

Balsamiq Mockups for Confluence are available for a 30-day evaluation. Pricing starts at $600 for a 25 user license and includes 12 months of maintenance. For all the details, please click here.

We have tickets to No Fluff Just Stuff and we're giving them away!

NFJS is one of the best technical java and agility event series around. NFJS tours the country each year holding in-depth three day seminars for passionate developers and their teams. Learn from industry experts and your peers, see real world case studies and delve into hands-on code examples.

If you're passionate about development, this is the series for you.

For more information on NFJS and the symposium cities and dates, check out their site.

Free tickets are extremely limited and are on a first come, first serve basis.UPDATE: Tickets for Reston, Cincinnati, Boston, Calgary, Chicago, Des Moines, Columbus, St. Louis, Denver, Austin, Toronto, San Diego, Princeton, Atlanta, Orlando and Seattle are gone!

If you'd like your chance at getting a pair, please email me at lkhalil [at] atlassian [dot] com and in the Subject Line write, "I'd like NFJS tickets for [city]". I'll do my best to hook you up!