It is hard to believe that the first half of 2016 is almost over and summer is just around the corner. As usual, there are plenty of educational Jenkins events planned for this month. Below lists what’s happening in your neck of the woods: Online JAM June 14: Plugin Development - Basics North America JAMs June 14: Pipeline in a Windows Environment - Boston, Massachusetts June 15: Open Source Jenkins 2.0,...

Recently, the Jenkins project announced the release of Jenkins 2.0, a first major release after 10 years and 655 weekly releases. This has been a major milestone for Jenkins and its growing community of developers, testers, designers and other users in the software delivery process. With its rising popularity and wide adoption, the Jenkins community continues to grow and evolve into the millions. Jenkins community meetup activity has risen to an...

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong. Alyssa works for CloudBees, helping to organize Jenkins community events around the world. Jenkins World 2016 will be the largest gathering of Jenkins users in the world. This event will bring together Jenkins experts, continuous delivery thought leaders and the ecosystem offering complementary technologies for Jenkins. Join us September 13-15, 2016 in Santa Clara, California to learn and explore, network...

Over the past few months, I’m happy to say, the number of Jenkins Area Meetups (JAMs) has grown tremendously! The excitement around JAMs has gotten us thinking about something larger, something more globally focused. That led us to create vJAM, an online Jenkins Area Meetup, where we can share what we’re learning together. The effort will be spear-headed by long time Jenkins contributor, R. Tyler Croy. The key goals for the...

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong. Alyssa works for CloudBees, helping to organize Jenkins community events around the world. Planning is underway for Jenkins World, a major Jenkins event for developers, release engineers and others interested in automation. The conference will be held from September 13th to 15th in Santa Clara, California and is being organized and sponsored in part by CloudBees. Just like the "Jenkins User Conferences" before it,...

The first Jenkins meetup in Saint Petersburg, Russia took place on December 9th. The event has been organized with the help from Yandex and CloudBees. In total there were about 80 attendees at the meetup. In addition to meetup.com the event has been promoted by Yandex so we quickly reached capacity limit. There were 3 talks conducted, speakers from Yandex, ZeroTurnaround and CloudBees. We discussed the current open-source project state,...

Although December is a short month due to the holidays, there has been a good amount of local Jenkins activities that took place regardless of holiday obligations. Today and tomorrow I will be doing a series of posts to summarize December JAM World Tour. Special thanks to the JAM organizers and co-organizers who made it all happen in these cities: Lima, Peru St.Petersburg, Russia Toulouse, France Bay Area, CA On December 9 Lima...

Thank you to Netflix for sponsoring the yummy burrito bar and offered up their brand new auditorium to host Jenkins Developers and Users Meetup group on Dec 16. We had 96 RSVPs which was impressive. Our speaker for the evening was Akshay Dayal, Software Engineer at Google. Akshay’s session was about Scaling Jenkins - how and why Google decided to scale their existing Jenkins cluster (OSS) to meet their security/availability...

It is great to see the pick up of local activities through hosted JAMs. In October, the Jenkins community hosted Atlanta JAM and Bay Area JAM. Many thanks to our sponsors: Ericsson, CloudBees, Blazemeter, NetRoadShow. Here’s a summary of what was discussed: Atlanta JAM - Jenkins workflow and Docker to reduce friction in DevOps efforts. Bay Area JAM- Performance testing strategies, incorporating performance tests into Jenkins workflows...

There’s been some active discussions and planning around Jenkins Area Meetups (JAMs) specifically in the following cities: Rennes, France Seville, Spain Seattle, Washington Barcelona,Spain Raleigh, North Carolina Atlanta, Georgia I wanted to gauge Jenkins interests in these cities, so let us know at jenkinsci-jam@googlegroups.com if you live in one of these areas, and if you would be interested in becoming a member or be involved in JAM one way or another! Of...