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...

Over the past three years, the Jenkins User Conference is held annually in the Bay Area with a few events in different locations around the world. The Jenkins User Conference has established a reputation as a focal point for the Jenkins community to come together to share new ideas and best practices. Each year we have experienced the growth and expansion within the Jenkins...

FOSDEM is probably the biggest open-source developers' conference in Europe. This year will be the 3rd year for us to be present in FOSDEM. There will be a bunch of community people, handing out flyers and stickers, showing Jenkins, and generally be available to talk to people! This year, we’ll bring some Jenkins T-shirts to sell, and hopefully some bobble heads as well. So please...

I’m going to visit Sao Paulo once again this weekend to attend the second annual Jenkins users meet-up. It’s a whole day free event Saturday full of Jenkins goodness. You’ll hear from a number of active Jenkins folks, and I’ll be presenting about what CloudBees (where I currently work) has contributed to the Jenkins project, including recent new OSS plugins and some services. I’m also...

It’s been a month now, but I realized that I’ve never posted a wrap-up post of JUC 2013. So in the spirit of "better later than, never", here it goes. First of all, I wanted to thank everyone who came. More than 400 of you came, and another 600 signed up for live streaming of events (and I know some people watched those live streams...

This is a guest post from Alyssa Tong, who drives JUC organizations around the world. If you missed JUC Palo Alto on Oct 23, 2013 the videos are now available. We are off to planning JUC 2014. It is hard to believe this will be the 4th annual JUC in the Bay Area. The growth in the Jenkins community since the first JUC is astounding. Every year...

+ The day after Jenkins User Conference, we held a smaller meet-up of serious large-scale Jenkins users dubbed as "Jenkins Scalability Summit". In this Open Space Technology style event, we went over war stories from users. Just to show the degree of seriousness, some of those people run 1500+ agents, and others run Jenkins in HA configuration with a data center fail over! We then picked...

(This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong, the lead coordinator of Jenkins User Conference) Our 3rd annual Jenkins User Conference in the Bay Area being held next Wednesday in Palo Alto is booked fully to the capacity and we couldn’t be more excited for this event! It’s going to be an amazing day of learning, talking to technology experts, networking with other Jenkins users,...

(This is a guest post from Owen B. Mehegan aka autojack) The Jenkins User Conference - Palo Alto is coming up on October 23rd! The schedule for talks is full, but we’ve been looking for a way to give other members of the Jenkins community some visibility. There are many people who have contributed to the project in various ways, whether it’s contributing to core,...

(This is a guest post from Gareth Bowles, a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.) Jenkins has been a central part of the Netflix build and deploy infrastructure for several years now, and we’ve been attending and speaking at JUC since it started in 2011. It’s a great opportunity to meet people who are as passionate about build, test and deployment automation as we are -...