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Browse SpaceWelcome to the December Atlassian newsletter!
December Newsletter? Actually you are not hallucinating. We have been
remiss in sending a Newsletter for quite some time. But we're back, we
hope you enjoy, and we welcome ideas and comments.
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In This Issue
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JIRA 3.4 Release
Confluence 2.0 Release
Blogs of the Month
NEW Atlassian Developer Network
NEW US Operations
Product Suggestions
Jobs at Atlassian
Open Source & Non-Profit Contributions
Prehistoric Wiki Discovered
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JIRA 3.4 Release (Now available with wiki goodness)
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JIRA 3.4 delivers over 120 individual improvements driven by extensive
customer feedback. Per-project issue types, wiki notation support,
'cloneable' portlets, new plugin types, improved RSS support, RPC
enhancements and a Czech language pack are just some of the
improvements included in this new release.
Performance and speed are greatly improved with customers using JIRA to
manage over 50,000 issues.
Only 3 months since its last major release, JIRA 3.4 continues
Atlassian's commitment to frequent, quality software updates.
You can see the complete 3.4 release notes here:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+3.4+and+3.4.1+Release+Notes
Or download JIRA 3.4 here:
http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/try.jsp
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Confluence 2.0 (now available)
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This new release introduces over 200 improvements including the
industry's most comprehensive round-trip WYSIWYG editor, a highly
requested labelling capability and much more. See the complete list
of changes:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Release+Notes+2.0
And check out the new RSS Builder feature at:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/dashboard/configurerssfeed.action
Confluence now has over 700 customers, and is now clearly the
world-wide leader in enterprise wikis. Try Confluence 2.0 today:
http://atlassian.com/software/confluence/try.jsp
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Blogs of the Month
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Got a Java Blog? Are you desperately seeking a more righteous blog
community? Check out java.blogs:
http://javablogs.com/Welcome.action
And in the personal-blog category, take a look at Jonathan Nolen's
blog -- http://www.jnolen.com. Jonathan is the brand new Atlassian who
will be leading our Developer Network from the SF office. And it was
his blog that helped us find him! Here's the story:
http://www.jnolen.com/blog/2005/08/blogging_got_me.html
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NEW Atlassian Developer Network
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In the next month we are starting the Atlassian Developer Network to
facilitate the exchange of customer and partner customizations and
plugins. Many of you have done some most excellent hacking, and the
time has come to build a community around this worthwhile work. Soon we
will be announcing more information about the network. Speaking of our
new SF office...
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NEW US Operations
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OK, so our website said New York City briefly, but what about this San
Francisco office you may have heard about? With best intentions, we
planted the Australian Flag in the Big Apple, but soon discovered that
the technical talent we needed was a bit scarce for us. No surprise, we
quickly shifted to San Francisco where we are building a US-based
support group to better cover the globe and deliver the legendary
service we strive for.
For anyone local, we are (very) south of Market at:
375 Alabama Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tel: 415. 701.1110
We welcome visitors, dogs, freshly baked pies, and of course, any handy
stray plugins.
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Product Suggestions
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Recognizing other useful products and companies is something we should
do more of. Two you might take a look at are...
Cenqua -- cenqua.com -- whose products include FishEye, a unified view
of your source repository that provides easy navigation, powerful
search, historical reporting, configurable file annotation and diff
views, change-set analysis, RSS feeds, and integration with your issue
tracker. We are serious FishEye Fans, and suggest you take a look.
Contegix -- contegix.com -- If you need J2EE hosting - we can't say
enough good things about them! These guys understand support and love
off-the-wall questions.
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Jobs at Atlassian
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Should you be within driving distance our Sydney or San Francisco
office, or perhaps you own an AirScooter II -- airscooter.com -- then
visit the Jobs section of atlassian.com. We *always* need wonderful
hackers, and right now we need support engineers and customer service
folks. Visit...
http://atlassian.com/about/jobs.jsp
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Open Source & Non-Profit Contributions
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In two years we've granted 786 open source or non-profit licenses to
various organisations around the world as our way of giving something
back. Do you know a good Open Source or non-profit project that could
benefit from JIRA or Confluence? Let us know!
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Pre-Historic Wiki Discovered
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Last month in a remote area of Australia, prehistoric cave dwelling
inscriptions were discovered by a University of Sydney archealogical
dig team and were found to be the earliest forms of an Analog Wiki.
Suspected for some time by Open Source historians, the Analog Wiki even
included a crude symbol language that served as an Analog Toolbar.
Researchers said... Oh forget it, we're just kidding. We will sink to
any level to get you to scroll down this far.
Well that's it for now - we hope you enjoyed reading this, and we'd
love any feedback you have:
http://www.atlassian.com/about/contactform.jsp.
Thanks for reading!
Cheers,
The Atlassian Team