+ One of the challenges of running Jenkins User Conferences is to balance the interest of attendees and the interest of sponsors. Sponsors would like to know more about attendees, but attendees are often weary of getting contacted. Our past few JUCs have been run by making it opt-in to have the contact information passed to sponsors, but the ratio of people who opt-in is...

I’ve uploaded pictures I’ve taken during JUC Boston and JUC Berlin. JUC Berlin pictures starts with pre-conference beer garden meet-up. See Vincent Latombe gives a talk about Literate plugin. I really appreciated his coming to this despite the fact that the event was only a few days before his wedding: In JUC Boston pictures, you can see some nice Jenkins lighting effect, as well as my...

After a very successful JUC Boston we headed over to Berlin for JUC Berlin. I’ve heard the attendance number was comparable to that of JUC Boston, with close to 400 people registered and 350+ people who came. The event kicked off at a pre-conference beer garden meetup, except it turned out that the venue was closed on that day and we had to make an...

This is a guest post from Adam Henriques. On August 22nd Jenkins CI enthusiasts will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark for the 3rd consecutive year for a day of networking and knowledge sharing. Over the past two years the event has grown and this year we are expecting a record number of participants representing Jenkins CI experts, enthusiasts, and users from all over the world. The Jenkins...

Surya walked us through the dotCI source code yesterday, and a bunch of ideas about how to reuse pieces are discussed. The recording is on YouTube, and my notes are here....

I’ll be visiting London in early September, and if possible I’d love to organize some get together of Jenkins users/devs. I wonder if anyone is interested in hosting the event? I think it just needs to fit 20 or so people, so all we need is a single conference room somewhere in London. If you think you might be able to help, please drop us...

Tomorrow in Jenkins office hours, Surya Gaddipati will be going over DotCi, a package of features that integrates Jenkins closely with GitHub, configuration via .ci.yml file in source tree, built-in Docker support and MongoDB backend. I think there’s a number of interesting pieces here that could be split into individual plugins for reuse, and possible alignment with existing efforts like Script Security plugin or Literate...

+ We kicked off this year’s Jenkins User Conference world tour in Boston this Wednesday. The event was well-attended with more than 450 people registered and 400+ people showed up. So big thank you for everyone who came! Workflow plugin that Jesse presented was a big hit and lit up twittersphere, and while I was only able to listen to parts of sessions as people had...

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...

Beer_garden_sign-Germany-.jpg/160px--Beer_garden_sign-Germany-.jpg" alt="image"> There’ll be a number of active community people in the event, so let’s take advantages of that and meet up. And there’s no better place to do it than a beer garden in summer! If you are coming to JUC Berlin, I’ve just set up an RSVP page for a beer garden get together the day before, and another dinner afterward. Looking forward to seeing...