Doc Sprint Hall of Fame

Doc Sprint November 2011

On 8th and 9th November the Atlassian technical writers and thirteendevelopers combined forces in a doc sprint. The aim? To develop plugin tutorials that will help people use the upcoming JIRA 5.0 Java APIs. The result is 11 shiny new tutorials and plenty of updates to existing pages.

Doc Sprint November 2010

The sprinters were Atlassians, partners, community developers and people who use our products. The target was user-focused quick start guides. We ran the doc sprint concurrently in Sydney and San Francisco on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th November. There were also a number of people working remotely, as far flung as Israel and Moscow. As you can imagine, the word “concurrently” is a bit fuzzy, with all those time zones involved!

Doc Sprint February 2010

These are the dudes who were at the first Atlassian Doc Sprint.

Sprinter	Trophy	Distinguishing Features
Richard Wallace	Plugin tutorial - Writing an Admin Configuration Screen	Rich "90% Cocoa" Wallace Integration developer at Atlassian
Jonathan Doklovic	Plugin Tutorial - Creating Custom Workflow Elements for JIRA	Jonathan "Choco Taco" Doklovic Developer at Sysbliss
Matt Doar	WebWork sample plugin for JIRA Plugin and Gadget Gotchas	Matt "Galaxy" Doar Principal at Consulting Toolsmiths Winner of the Chocolate Haiku Competition - February 2010 with his masterpiece: Brown and then sticky But the answer is not "stick" It is chocolate. (For those who don't have young kids: "What's brown and sticky?", "A stick!")
Jonathan Nolen	Overhaul of the Developer Network	Director of developer relations at Atlassian
Andrew Lui	Internationalising your Plugin	Andrew "Polly Waffle" Lui Technical writer at Atlassian Entry in the Chocolate Haiku Competition - February 2010: The last piece lingers Velvet cocoa sweetness calls It's mine, not sharing
Andreas Knecht	Plugin Tutorial - Writing Integration Tests for your JIRA plugin How to search in a plugin	Andreas "Ferrero Rocher" Knecht JIRA developer at Atlassian
Ben Speakmon	Overhaul of JIRA plugin documentation	Ben "Smarties" Speakmon Developer Relations at Atlassian
Erik van Zijst	Plugin Tutorial - Scheduling Events via SAL Plugin Tutorial - Creating a New JIRA Custom Field Type	Erik "Chocolate Salty Balls" van Zijst FishEye/Crucible Developer at Atlassian
Chris Kiehl	Plugin Tutorial - Creating a JIRA Report	Chris "Lindor" Kiehl Confluence developer at Atlassian
Ed Dawson	Plugin Tutorial - Adding your own Menu Items to Confluence	Ed "Jaffa" Dawson Technical writer team lead at Atlassian Entry in the Chocolate Haiku Competition - February 2010: We are the Doc Sprint Chocs and mashing keyboard rage Plugin XML! And another one: Choc, O Choc, in fridge What is your identity? You all seem tasty.
Andrew Prentice	Plugin Tutorial - Writing a Confluence Macro that Uses JSON	Andrew "Chokito" Prentice QA team lead at Atlassian
Tom Davies	Plugin Gadget Tutorial - Using the FishEye REST API to Write a Gadget to Monitor Recent Changes	Tom "Compounded" Davies FishEye/Crucible developer at Atlassian
Mark Halvorson	Standalone Gadget Tutorial - Writing a JQL Gadget	Mark "m&m" Halvorson Chief Imagineer at Atlassian
Giles Gaskell	Plugin Tutorial - Adding a custom action to Confluence	Giles "Cherry Ripe" Gaskell Technical writer at Atlassian Entry in the Chocolate Haiku Competition - February 2010: I like Cherry Ripes, But sometimes they go gooey, An esky might help. And another one: Keep thinking of choc- 'o-late Haikus - must get back to writing my tute!
Tim Moore	Plugin Tutorial - Persisting Data in Confluence	Tim "Dragon Fruit" Moore Developer at Atlassian
Sarah Maddox	Plugin Tutorial - Adding your own Menu Items to JIRA	Sarah "Mint Crisp" Maddox Technical writer at Atlassian Entry in the Chocolate Haiku Competition - February 2010: I'm bad at poetry But hey, who needs to be good When there's chocolate
Matt Ryall	Plugin Tutorial - Writing Unit Tests for your Plugin	Matt “Hershey Bar” Ryall Confluence technical lead at Atlassian
Daniel Kjellin	Plugin Gadget Tutorial - Developing a Complex Gadget in Stages	Daniel "Dark chocolate" Kjellin Confluence developer at Atlassian
Tracy Chan	Plugin Gadget Tutorial - Writing a Gadget that Displays the Days Left in a Version	Tracy "Orange Intense Lindt" Chan Junior developer at Atlassian
Shannon Krebs	Plugin Tutorial - Defining a Pluggable Service in a Confluence Plugin	Shannon "Creme Egg" Krebs Developer at Adaptavist The awesome post-sprint sprinters: Working with James McGivern, Shannon finished the sprint in a blaze of glory, albeit a week and a half later than the rest of the field.
James McGivern	Plugin Tutorial - Defining a Pluggable Service in a Confluence Plugin	James "Harlequin" McGivern Developer at Adaptavist The awesome post-sprint sprinters: Working with Shannon Krebs, James finished the sprint in a blaze of glory, just a week and a half later than the rest of the field. OK, so they started more than a week later too.
Lachlan Hardy	Improved AUI documentation and examples	Lachlan "Turkish Delight" Hardy Design engineer at Atlassian
Matt Jensen	Updated Plugin Tutorial - Writing REST Services	Matthew "Rocky Road" Jensen Senior Confluence developer at Atlassian

More Photos

Here's a link to the above Doc Sprint photos on Flickr.