Following our lead on the Atlassian Stimulus Package, Adaptavist is offering all 5-user Confluence customers Theme Builder and Community Bubbles for free. While Atlassian has surpassed our goal of $25,000, Adaptavist wants to increase the appeal and raise even more money for Room to Read, the charity Atlassian is supporting.

"In line with our commitment to giving back to the community, we felt that we could only follow Atlassian's lead and support the effort to help give kids in challenged countries a shot at literacy", said CTO and Miracle worker Dan Hardiker of Adaptavist. "By enhancing the Atlassian Stimulus offering with our software, we hope to see the goal reach far beyond all expectations."

At Agile 2008, Atlassian partner, Pyxis Technologies will be demoing GreenHopper, GreenPepper, JIRA and Confluence. The new release of GreenHopper 3.0 has many new and improved features including "Quick Card Creation". Stop by booth 824 for a demo.

On Wednesday, Pyxis will sponsor a Texas Hold'em poker tournament! If you are lucky, you might win a prize from Atlassian.

Also, be sure to check out VersionOne's integration with JIRA.

Join us on Wednesday, February 27 at 11 am PT, for the second free webinar hosted by GlobalLogic, an Atlassian partner, to discuss Agile development best practices. The webinar "Distributed Agile Software Development Best Practices" from Atlassian and GlobalLogic focuses on adopting Agile methods for distributed software development and the collaboration challenges with your geographically distributed software development teams.

Speaking at this free webinar are Johnny Scarborough, GlobalLogic AVP of Product Engineering and Jonathan Nolen from Atlassian.

To register for this free event, please go here.

Join us on November 1, 2007 at 10 am PT for a free webinar hosted by GlobalLogic, an Atlassian partner, to discuss Agile development practices. The webinar "Distributed Agile Development Best Practices From Atlassian & GlobalLogic" focuses on challenges and solutions of developing applications amongst distributed engineering teams.

Speaking at this free webinar will be Stuart Donovan, CTO of GlobalLogic and Jonathan Nolen from Atlassian.

This webcast will review best practices in how to:

• Overcome challenges faced in utilizing widely distributed engineering teams for Agile product development
  
• Employ flexible development process and tools frameworks to rapidly develop quality software products using distributed engineering teams
  
• Deploy innovative, state-of-the-art technologies that equip distributed engineering teams with the structure, communication and behaviors needed to incorporate user feedback early in the development cycle to deliver software products to schedule
  
• Utilize innovative global product development solutions such as GlobalLogic VelocityTM and Atlassian software to rapidly deploy quality software
  

Please join us for this free webcast by registering here.

At Agile2007, Atlassian Partner Pyxis Technologies announced the release of GreenHopper 1.2, an agile project management tool for JIRA. This plugin is great news for JIRA customers looking for a tool to increase visibility and traceability of ongoing versions. As an extra bonus, GreenHopper comes with an interactive and simple interface (AJAX-based) to manage agile projects.

GreenHopper supports card views, including a Planning Board which provides a global view of all components and unreleased versions, a Task Board that offers an overview of your workflow and your issues and a Chart Board that will help you track your progress.

Want more details? Visit GreenPepper's website, where you'll find more information on GreenHopper, including a free 15-day evaluation.