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Bamboo 2.2 - Instant scalability using the cloud |
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I am excited to announce the release of Bamboo 2.2. This release introduces a unique new feature to our continuous integration server that could change the way you build software.. we call it Elastic Bamboo.
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Community contributions in Atlassian documentation |
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Two small changes appeared on the Atlassian documentation wiki. They're small changes, but with big ambitions:  1) Documentation is licensed under CC-by The first change is the appearance of a Creative Commons Attribution license on the documentation pages. Except where otherwise noted, content in this space is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia License. Customers have often asked us whether they can incorporate our documentation into their own training material or other documentation sets. Our reply has always been a bit vague, along the lines of "Sure, no worries. Just credit us by linking to the documentation wiki." Now it's official. 2) Community authors are invited to contribute to the documentation You may not even notice the second small change, unless you go looking for it! But for us, and especially for the technical writing team, this one is even more exciting than the CC-by. There's a new page called Atlassian Contributor License Agreement, with its accompanying Author Guidelines.
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From Startup to $100 Million |
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It's hard to believe that only seven years after Atlassian was founded, we hit $100 million in all time sales. It's been quite a ride. One of the things that impressed me most when I joined a year-and-a-half ago was how different Atlassian was from other companies I had worked for and other startups I had read about. These differences have helped hurdle us over this rad milestone, and in these uncertain economic times, I think they'll get us over the next one.
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Studio 1.6 - Add comments directly to Activity Stream |
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With the recent upgrade of JIRA Studio, customers will see a new and improved Activity Stream on the dashboard. Some improvements are visible, but many more are behind the scenes, making Streams more configurable and better-performing. The biggest addition to the Activity Stream is direct commenting, meaning that you can select issues or wiki items in the feed, and add a comment directly in-line. The comment will be added to the wiki page or issue you've selected, and even better, if you are commenting on somebody else's comment, your comment will be threaded in the conversation, exactly as you would expect.
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Confluence WebDAV plugin 2.0-beta2 released |
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 For those interested in the Confluence WebDAV plugin, we just posted the 2.0-beta2. We've solved quite a few issues since the last major release. If you are running Confluence 2.10 or later, please give it a try. We'd love to have any feedback you can provide. We consider this build quite stable, and it will probably be the last Beta release, so we would really appreciate any real-world testing that you can do. Thanks in advance.
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Comparing SharePoint to Confluence? |
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Last week Martin Seibert at Seibert Media wrote an interesting blog post where he evaluated SharePoint as an enterprise wiki. He posed the question: is SharePoint really a good alternative to a fully developed company wiki? He draws his conclusion early and then presents a list of compelling arguments as to why SharePoint is not a good wiki alternative. He cites many feature-specific examples like 'it cannot be implemented as a an extranet wiki because it only supports Internet Explorer.' Martin's post is a must-read for anyone considering using SharePoint in place of an enterprise wiki.
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Universal Wiki Converter - Now with SSL Support |
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We recently released version 3.3.0 of the Universal Wiki Converter (full release notes), a content migration platform that helps users get their content into Confluence. Along with the miscellaneous bug fixes and minor improvements, there are two new features that I'm excited we can support now. First, we now have a Trac Converter module, compliments of Stefan Gybas. I'm pleased it's finally public. Secondly, the long-awaited SSL Support feature is finally available.
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Support Earth Hour and Turn Off The Lights! |
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For the past three years, Earth Hour has used a free community license of Confluence to galvanize people, cities and countries to turn off their lights for one hour in support of saving our planet from the effects of global warming. In preparation for Earth Hour 2009, several Atlassians with the help of the Atlassian Foundation took an active role in helping Earth Hour revamp their wiki.
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Events |
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We have lots in store for you in the upcoming months. We hope to catch you at any of the following events:
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Newsletter Survey |
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We have been sending the same newsletter, this newsletter, with the same design and format for about three years now. It is time for a refresh. Would you mind taking a few minutes to answer some questions regarding our communications with you?
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Our Reading List |
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Here are some sites and blogs we've been tagging in the office:
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Thanks for Reading |
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Thanks for reading this month's newsletter. Don't forget, March 17th is St. Patrick's Day, and the 28th is Earth Hour!
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