This is a guest post from Markos Rendell, a Senior Manager at Accenture. + I am very much looking forward to the Jenkins User Conference in Berlin next week which I will be attending with a three other members of my team. We are all very passionate about automation, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management and of course… Jenkins. My team and I specialize in implementing continuous delivery for large...

+ We’re getting excited about the Boston and Berlin JUC’s in the next two weeks! Here’s a preview of Forest Handford’s upcoming JUC-US East Lightning Talk on June 18…​ When MEDITECH migrated to Subversion from a home-grown first generation version control system we needed a way to get the code compiled and sent to the running server. We selected Jenkins as our build server, with the...

Following right on the heels of our US-East Jenkins User Conference in Boston, we have JUC Europe in Berlin on June 25. Like the East Coast conference, the Berlin one is almost full, so sign up while you can. Our venue in Berlin is KOSMOS, a building with a fascinating history. The building was inaugurated as a cinema in 1961. With 1001 seats, it was...

Jenkins User Conference (JUC) season is upon us! It’s a busy year for the Butler — he’s hosting conferences all over and looking for sponsors to help: Boston — June 18 Berlin — June 25 Herzelia, Israel — July 16 Bay Area (California) — October (date TBD) Mr. Jenkins and the JUC Organizing Committee want to invite you and your company to sponsor a JUC this year. Show your support for the Jenkins community and help keep costs low...

The latest edition of Continuous Information is out for your reading pleasure. Highlights: Health Check-up for Jenkins: Kohsuke’s Tips on Keeping Jenkins Happy Jenkins continues to take over the world, with more than 65,000 active installations and more than 800 plugins Events: Jenkins User Conference – 10/23 in Palo Alto, CA (use discount code BEE-JUC); Jenkins Scalability Summit 10/24; and more Jenkins made the SD Times 2013 Top 100! What’s...

Seize the opportunity to join the Jenkins community! Just like last year, the Scandinavian Jenkins Conference will be in Copenhagen, Denmark, hosted by Praqma and sponsored by CloudBees, Sony, Switch::Gears, and PRQA. The open source community will gather on September 6th for a full day of networking and knowledge sharing at The Department of Computer Science at The University of Copenhagen. Based on last year’s success,...

Your favorite Butler will visit Israel on June 6 for the Jenkins User Conference Israel. More than 200 people have already registered to hobnob with other Jenkins users and eat like kings. The agenda is up here. You’ll find a great list of speakers from Israel, Europe and the US to compliment a plethora of treats. There will be an ice cream break, fruits break,...

Volume 4 of Continuous Information came out last night. It contains insights and highlights from founder Kohsuke, the latest growth stats, upcoming event info, Jenkins resources, and more. Highlights: Jenkins has nearly 20,000 more active installations than it had last June, up from 43,500 to more than 61,000 Nearly 100 plugins have been added since late last Fall when we did the last Jenkins survey. Now there...

This year, the West Coast Jenkins User Conference will be in Palo Alto rather than San Francisco. If you’re nearby — or even if you’re not — join Kohsuke and other fellow developers for a solid day of Jenkins. The Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 The Venue: Palo Alto Jewish Community Center Details Register The Call for Papers is open until June 9 (scroll to bottom of page for form). JUC will be...

and be a Jenkins CIA agent too! If you’re interested in building an active local Jenkins community, read on to learn how. Really, we can sum it up in one simple step: Just Do It! Admittedly more detailed guidelines can be useful, so hopefully these steps will give you a roadmap and some ideas: + Find an organizer or two. This is probably you. If you can draft...