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Wiki Symposium at Queensland University of Technology
I’m in Brisbane, Australia today and tomorrow to visit Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and participate in their Wiki Symposium tomorrow. The symposium is organised around three themes — Learning and Teaching, Research, and Business Support — and is intended to bring QUT’s wiki community together to share examples, case studies, and ideas. I’ll give […]
Atlassian Translations
With this week’s release of Jira 3.9.3 we have for the first time bundled complete professional translations, in French and German, with the product. From the Jira 3.9.3 Release Notes: The French and German language packs have been completely rewritten and are much more comprehensive than ever before. The administration sections of Jira are now […]
How do you grow wiki adoption? – 11 July 2007, Sydney, Australia
Wikis are the future of enterprise collaboration, so improving adoption and effective use in your organization is key to realizing benefits like reduced email, fewer meetings and less time spent in meetings, and faster knowledge generation. Want to know more about how to achieve this? Atlassian invites you to a presentation on enterprise wiki adoption […]
Atlassian Girl in Tech
Atlassian sponsored Girls in Tech, the second gathering of a business networking and social group for women in Silicon Valley. Our own Donna McGahan was there sporting her Support Diva shirt and talking about Atlassian products. Great job, Donna! If you missed it, Donna also blogged about Atlassian on iPhone today on our Developer Blog.
Jira 3.9.3 Released
We have just released Jira 3.9.3 today, which includes 7 bug fixes and new German and French translations. The French and German language packs have been completely rewritten and are much more comprehensive. The administration sections of Jira are now completely translated thanks to the help of a professional translation company. Where to next? Complete […]
Jira: Flex This
CustomWare recently published a case study on their work with Adobe in creating a public bug tracker (using Jira, of course) for Flex, an Adobe product for creating rich Internet applications that has just been open sourced. It’s not everyday that a global software company open sources a key product and needs a live, public […]
Wikipatterns at AusWeb07
I’m in Coffs Harbour (in New South Wales, Australia) for AusWeb07, the Australasian World Wide Web Conference. In the afternoon poster session today, I’ll be talking about Wikipatterns.com and its role as a universal, community-built set of tools for wiki users. On the left is a small image of the poster accompanying my presentation. (click […]
iPhoned Atlassian
Admittedly, I am a gadget girl. Over the years, I’ve been known to make a variety of smart phone purchases— some better than others, some that still cause me to wake sweat-soaked and screaming in the dead of night. Friday, June 29th, 7:12 p.m.— gadget nirvana. After four hours of sidewalk napping, waking only to […]
User Group Recap
More photos from the Palo Alto user group! Yesterday’s Palo Alto user group was a great success. Of the 80 RSVPs, a little over 60 people attended, and in addition there were a dozen folks from Atlassian there. The presentations from Sony Computer Entertainment, Polycom, Apple, Consulting Toolsmiths and Gliffy were first rate and had […]
Social Network Analysis of Wikipatterns.com
Wiki consultant James Matheson performed a social network analysis of Wikipatterns.com, and recently wrote about his findings. He looked at the relationship between contributors based on common page editing, and the relationship between pages themselves based on the volume of edits and number of editors. The report observed that the home page is frequently edited, […]
Scott Talking about Entrepreneurship and Atlassian
Not to be outdone by Ben’s video, Scott Farquhar, co-founder and CEO at Atlassian, was part of a BRW panel on entrepreneurship. His presentation touches on the founding of Atlassian and the business model that makes the company tick. Scott’s presentation is the first part of the video, he’s followed by presentations from other CEOs. […]
Palo Alto User Group Tomorrow
Hope to see you at our Palo Alto user group tomorrow at the Stanford Faculty Lounge! The meet up is open to customers, partners, and anyone interested in Atlassian software. Presentations and birds-of-a-feather go from 1 to 5pm, then we’ll serve food and drinks and hope folks can stick around to socialize a bit. Speakers […]
Parleys.com Streams Video on Confluence Wiki
45,000 people in 3 1/2 months have visited Parleys. Are you one of them? If not, you’re missing out — Parleys is a website that streams video, allowing visitors to watch and vote on various informational, technical talks. Built on Confluence(!), Parleys is a really cool and innovative way to use and customise the wiki. […]
Crowd Now Supports OpenID
Today we’re announcing a new version of Crowd, our single sign-on and identity management software. Crowd 1.1 contains a whole host of new features targeted at implementing OpenID, along with dozens of core updates to the Crowd Administration Console. Justen summarised well the growing support for OpenID on the Developer Blog: OpenID is currently a […]
New Case Study: JavaPolis Site Runs on Confluence Wiki
Last year’s JavaPolis site had 92,000 unique visitors and 20,000 registered website users. Even better — JavaPolis.com is actually Confluence re-designed and, every year, a new JavaPolis site with a new look is developed. Stephan Janssen, the mastermind behind this annual Java conference and the website itself, shares insight into both in this JavaPolis/Confluence case […]