In this super issue...

• AtlasCamp, our first ever Developer Conference
• JIRA Studio Upgrade
• Product training and customer use case webinars
• We're hiring in Amsterdam
• And more!

Join us for AtlasCamp

Atlassian is hosting our first ever worldwide developer conference, AtlasCamp! AtlasCamp is a 2.5 day user conference that takes place in in Santa Rosa, California (wine country!) and is exclusively for developers in the Atlassian community -- our engineers, external plugin developers, and partners and customers interested in developing plugins for our products.

AtlasCamp is an opportunity to come together in a casual environment for a little learning and a lot of fun. We've published a tentative schedule for the weekend. Some highlights will be sessions about Plugins 2.0, upcoming features and APIs in JIRA 4 and Confluence 3, and a roundtable about our Remote API strategy There will be time set aside for un-conference sessions, as well as a general hackathon.

• Read more about AtlasCamp
• Register for AtlasCamp

JIRA Studio upgraded with customisable tabs

The October release of JIRA Studio has been rolled out to all customers, and includes a host of new features and application upgrades, such as:

• updated projects toobar with a simplified UI
• new customisable tabs that allow you to add new application tabs, hide existing ones, or rearrange the order on a project by project basis
• A global history feature so you can skip back to issues, reviews, wiki pages etc. you've visited in the past without searching

Read more about the changes in JIRA Studio.

Office Connector milestone

In case you missed it, Atlassian announced a new, free Office Connector plugin in August. Since the announcement, the Office Connector has been downloaded more than 5,000 times!

The new Office Connector for Confluence allows you to create and edit Confluence pages using Microsoft Word (or OpenOffice). In addition to Word, users can import and display Excel and PowerPoint files. If you use Confluence and would like a tool that helps non-technical users, you may just want to give it a look.

Read more and see it in action.

Upcoming events

We're going to more conferences and producing more webinars than ever. We've created a new Events page on our website to capture it all. Check out this new page to learn about upcoming events such as:

15 October, 2008: Voice of the Customer webinar: Atlassian's customer, Patrick Coleman of Dash, will discuss JIRA, FishEye, Crucible, and Confluence integration. Learn more and register

16 October, 2008: Atlassian User Group: New York City on October 16, 2008. Learn more and RSVP

21-23 October, 2008: Web 2.0 Berlin, October 21-23, 2008. Please visit us at booth B4 where we'll be demonstrating our products.

5 November, 2008: Agile JIRA webinar: This is a practical webinar that discusses how to use JIRA and GreenHopper for Agile development. Learn more and RSVP.

More events.

Hiring in Amsterdam

We are looking for passionate people to make up the core of the new Amsterdam office!

Inside Sales Engineer
Support Engineer
Senior Support Engineer
Partner Account Manager
Customer Advocate/Office Administrator
Renewal Specialist
 

Let me tell you something we have not mentioned yet... This is going to be the coolest Atlassian home to work for and here is why.

• A month ago Atlassian officially became a Besloten Vennootschap in Netherlands. We are an "Atlassian B.V." now. Jeffrey wrote about that.
• Three weeks ago we have moved into our new office on a beautiful Herengracht canal. According to wikipedia this is the most elegant one of the major canals of Amsterdam. All you can ever want European beer and/or chocolate is just around the corner too. Josh wrote about that.
• Two weeks ago I arrived in Amsterdam to discover that Josh and Jeffrey have been busy putting together some temporary IKEA furniture. The office really feels like a startup at the moment. Three desks, five chairs, a telephone and two laptops. Days are filled with juggling all kinds of jobs to settle in a new place and make it feel like home!

Read more about our new European office. Or tell a friend about our job openings in Amsterdam

And check out all our job openings.

What we're reading

Here's a list of blog posts and news items we're sharing around the office. Enjoy!

• Dmitry Baranovskiy, a Developer on the Confluence team, was interviewed by SitePoint's Andrew Tetlaw on Atlassian 20% time
• A succinct history of the browser user-agent string
• Guy Kawasaki's must-have guide to determine if your boss is as crazy as you had imagined
• The top 20 viral videos of all time (watch them, and you'll make them even more popular! ;) )
• Hamlet for the Facebook gen
• Atlassian's San Francisco given Honorable Mention as a bicycle-friendly business

Thanks for reading

That's all for this month, but look for next month's newsletter for new product announcements, upcoming webinars, an invitation to our Amsterdam House Warming Party (if the house warming in San Francisco was any indication, it should not be missed) and more.

Cheers,

The Atlassians

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