Archives for the tag: codegeist

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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Codegeist is Back! Atlassian’s Developer Competition Returns

Codegeist: The Next Generation Codegeist, Atlassian's add-on development competition, is back on! The seventh iteration of the world's best development competion began February 1 and goes until May 31. What's at stake? $65,000 USD in prizes for members of the Atlassian ecosystem, both new and old. This time, we're giving out a prize for each month of the contest. That means the prize haul looks like this: Best Add-on of the Month ($10,000 x 4): One prize for the best add-on submitted during

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Atlassian Inspires UK Testing Startup – Behave for JIRA

Hindsight is a start-up company focused on building intelligent testing software that supports agile practices such as acceptance testing.  Using the Atlassian Marketplace to enable rapid development of their first tool, Behave for JIRA, they had a platform to quickly deliverer a valuable product to a large number of software teams around the world.  Atlassian competitions such as Codegeist showed Hindsight how easy it was to get started with plug-in development with JIRA and inspired the team

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Codegeist Submissions are Closed, Bring On the Votes

Yesterday was the last day to submit a plugin to Codegeist, our plugin coding competition. But the contest isn't over just yet! You still have time to get votes! Get Votes and Win Cash Three of the four prize categories will be chosen by Atlassian judges, based on usefulness, creativity, elegance, and completeness. The judges have 60 entries to go through, so they'll use votes to help them sort through the entries. The fourth prize category, the Community Prize, will be given away to the highest

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The latest gadgets, a ticket to Google I/0, and $15,000 cash

Did you get your wiki on last week? Were you one of the thousands of Confluence fans looking to win a Boxee Box and TV? What about an Xbox Kinect and Kindle? Maybe you were after an iPad 2 or a Nikon DSLR? For the geek in all of us, perhaps you wanted that golden ticket to Google I/0? You name it, we gave it away. If you didn't win we're giving you the chance to win $15,000 in cold hard cash so you can buy all of these gadgets and more!

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Codegeist: One Week Remains to Hack for Cash

Codegeist, Atlassian's plugin coding competition, has been quite exciting so far. In just a few weeks we've seen thousands of contest visits, lots of excellent entries, and some exciting Twitter chatter. But time is running out to get your submission in! Get hacking: one week remains to submit to Codegeist On Monday, May 16th, at 11:59pm PDT, Codegeist will be closed to submissions. You have a little over one week to hack together a plugin and enter it for a chance to win one of several cash

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