We are happy to announce that Jenkins project has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2018. This year we invite students and mentors to join the Jenkins community and work together on various initiatives: core, plugins, development tools and infrastructure. Our mentors have already created some project ideas. For example, you are welcome to work on the new Configuration-as-Code initiative or to help creating standard API for Code Coverage...

This year the Jenkins project is interested in participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC). As in 2016/2017, we are looking for mentors. So yes, we are looking for you :) What is GSoC? GSoC is an annual international program which encourages college-aged students to participate with open source projects during the summer break between classes. Students accepted into the program receive a stipend, paid by Google, to work on well-defined projects to...

At Jenkins World last month, we continued the tradition of "lunch-time demos" in the Jenkins project’s booth which we started in 2016. We invited a number of Jenkins contributors to present brief 10-15 minute demos on something they were working on, or considered themselves experts in. Continuing the post-Jenkins World tradition, we also just hosted a "Jenkins Online Meetup" featuring a selection of those lunch-time demos. I would like...

On behalf of the GSoC Org Admin team I am happy to announce that we are going to apply to Google Summer of Code (GSoC) again this year. In GSoC high-profile students work in open-source projects for several months under mentorship of organization members. We are looking for mentors and project ideas. So yes, we are looking for you :) Conditions As a mentor, you will be asked to: lead the...

Happy Holidays! A special shout out to all JAM leaders who continue to keep local activities going in December. Online JAM December 14 | Live Demos: Pipeline, Git, and Blue Ocean North America December 7 | Seattle JAM: Jenkins at Microsoft December 14 | Los Angeles JAM: Jenkins Days December 14 | Guadalajara JAM: Jenkins & Docker Australia December 14 | Melbourne JAM: Meeting at AWS Office Links Start a JAM in your city if...

November is packed full of meetups and events. If you are in any of the areas below please stop by to say "Hi" and talk Jenkins over beer. North America November 15 | SF JAM: Let’s Talk CI/CD and DevOps with ClusterHQ and Jenkins November 15 | DC JAM: Jenkins and Fannie Mae November 30 | Albuquerque JAM: Learn About Blue Ocean November 30 | Guadalajara JAM: Jenkins Install and...

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,...