Enterprise 2.0 Call for Papers
I just signed Atlassian up to be an exhibitor at the 2007 Enterprise 2.0 Conference (the event used to be called the Collaborative Technologies Conference). It takes place this year in Boston from June 18-21. They’re are looking for additional case studies from companies using wikis and other collaborative technologies. If you’re interested in getting […]
Web SSO versus Enterprise SSO
We launched Crowd, a single sign-on and identity management solution, a few months ago. There tends to be a lot of confusion around the SSO marketplace. There are many systems that range in price from free to six figures, some of which require vast amounts of energy to install and integrate and others that take […]
Short Stories
Here are a few anecdotes from the last couple days that don’t lend themselves to a full blog each, but which I wanted to capture: A passenger on my train ride home one evening saw me proofreading the March Atlassian Newsletter. “Do you work with Atlassian?” That turned into a nice 15-minute conversation with Mike, […]
BusinessWeek’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs: Atlassian’s Mike and Scott
A nice one for the scrapbooks! Atlassian co-founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes made the cover of BusinessWeek.com as the top young entrepreneurs in technology. The article cites a VC who said “the company should be more focused on growth.” Mike’s response to that: when given an option between a focus on growth versus quality, […]
Java User Group (JUG) Sponsorships
Many companies have sponsorships for their respective user groups. In addition to Atlassian User Group sponsorship, we also support Java User Groups. Over the past few years we’ve given out over 2,500 non-profit and open source licenses, and though I don’t know the exact number, many have gone to JUGs. In addition to licenses, we’re […]
Confluence and Jira Win Jolt Awards
Great night yesterday at the SD West tradeshow. After a nice introductory presentation from Craig Newmark, awards were handed out at the 17th annual Jolt Awards and Atlassian walked away with two of them! Jira scored a hat trick by winning its third Jolt award in three years. And Confluence took top prize in a […]
T-shirts 2.0
Say ‘hello’ to the new and improved Atlassian t-shirts. They’re guaranteed to be the best way to turn heads and get attention in your office! All our customers using enterprise editions of our software receive a shirt. For our newest products, Crowd and Bamboo, shirts are already on the way for people who purchased the […]
Starting an Atlassian User Group
Last August, one of our partners, IntelliObjects, suggested the idea of holding and sponsoring a user group. Sounded like a good idea to us. We sent a few Atlassians to present and feedback was very positive (no one threw rotten vegetables at the speakers anyway, so I put that into the plus column ). Since […]
Poll: What’s the Best Polling Software
Thanks to my post yesterday, I now know what the worst polling software is. Nothing quite like the smell of napalm in the morning… except when you realize you’re the one being napalmed. Lesson learned: Next time, I’ll spend more than five minutes looking for polling software! For my penance, I’ve spent the last 30 […]
Would You Attend an Atlassian User Conference?
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…
Atlassian User Conference Survey
Should we hold a worldwide Atlassian user conference in the fall? Would you be interested and/or able to attend such a conference? I posted a poll on the Atlassian News blog earlier today to gather data on whether we there is enough interest in this type of event. If you have a minute, please vote! […]
It’s Wiki Week on BusinessWeek.com
Wikis are front and almost-center of BusinessWeek.com, and Confluence customer Sony PlayStation is mentioned in Tapping Wikis for Web Community-Building. The article is a good general overview of wikis in the corporate world. If you need to convince your boss to use a wiki, this is probably not a bad place to begin as it […]
Chatting with Bamboo
Mark Chaimungkalanont, lead developer on Bamboo, is going to be discussing our newest product on Thursday (you’re invited!), but he gave us San Francisco Atlassians a preview of it last Friday. I had seen some of it while the product was still in beta, but I hadn’t seen the latest version which includes a very […]
Randombits and Plugins for Our Products
Rob Castaneda at CustomWare emailed me with some news: CustomWare Asia Pacific has recently acquired the popular Confluence plug-ins from Random Bits. The plugins creator, David Peterson, has joined the CustomWare team. We’ve just spent a lot of time upgrading the plug-ins to be compatible with Confluence 2.3 and moved them to their new home. […]
Atlassian Nominated for “Best Vendor”
When readers suggested that I balance our “Worst Vendor of 2006” poll by asking for nominations for a Best Vendor of the year, I must admit I had my doubts that such an exercise would prove very useful. After all, this is the Gripe Line, and my readers are not all that attuned to saying […]
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