While we are gearing up for FOSDEM 2016 early next year in Brussels, I wanted to remind the Jenkins community about our Travel Grant Program. We’re a little late on mentioning it, but the board has allocated the money to help Jenkins contributors travel to Brussels to participate in FOSDEM and the Jenkins Contributor Summit which we will be hosting the day after, Feb...

Next week in the US we have a national holiday where, generally speaking, lots of turkey gets converted into left-over turkey sandwiches. For many software developers the Thanksgiving holiday also represents a lull in project schedules, freeing up some time to hack on pet projects or even contribute to open source projects. Taking a cue from the Adopt a Plugin program that Daniel wrote about...

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...

Last week, the first Jenkins Area Meetup (JAM) took place in San Jose, CA on Wednesday, Sept 23. What a way to kick off the first JAM other than to have Docker, John Willis as our guest speaker. John talked about immutable infrastructure and its benefits and role of containers. Kohsuke discussed Jenkins Workflow, the motivation behind the same and latest features of Jenkins Workflow...

A few years ago, the Jenkins community announced the Jenkins CIA program - the Continuous Integration Ambassador initiative to spread the word of Jenkins. As of recently, there hasn’t been as much activity, so this program needs to be revived! There are over 120,000 active Jenkins installations now and that number just keeps climbing and climbing. It’s important to bring all of us together through...

Uday made a blog post yesterday that he is looking at organizing a regular Jenkins meet-up in the Silicon Valley Bay Area dubbed "Bay Area Jenkins Area Meetup (JAM)." As a first step, he wants to have a kick-off meeting, to get more insights and opinions about what the topics could be and what people want to hear. I’m really looking forward to it as...

_ Guest post by Yury V. Zaytsev and Abigail Morrison. To download the PDF file of the journal article mentioned below, click here!_ As recently exemplified by several reports on this blog, automation tools such as continuous integration servers, that help to defuse the exploding complexity of software under the ever-increasing pressure to deliver, are steadily gaining well-deserved mindshare in the industry. However, it is not just...

Earlier this year we participated in FOSDEM 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. Overall the event was a major success and we’re very happy we were able to take part in it! For FOSDEM 2013, we’ll be back in Brussels and participating in a major way. The first day of FOSDEM (February 2, 2013) will be the 2nd birthday for the Jenkins project, and seems appropriate that...

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...