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...

We’re currently setting up a program to support community members' travel to Jenkins community events. Our goal is to enable more members of the community to meet each other and exchange ideas in person. We’re still hashing out the details, but it’ll be available to every Jenkins community member. Apply, telling us what Jenkins-related event you’d like to attend and how awesome you are, and...

A week ago we reported that Uday is looking at organizing a regular Jenkins meet-up in Silicon Valley. This has made a progress since then, and this evening we’ll get together to figure out logistics for the first meet-up: Time August 5th, Wednesday 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Location Starbucks, 750 Castro St, Mountain View, CA 94041 The agenda is: Determine the date for the first meet up Speakers for the...

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...

We have some exciting news to share with you! We have finalized most of the dates and locations for the 2015 Jenkins User Conference (JUC) World Tour. Save the date(s): US East (Washington DC): June 18-19 Europe (London): June 23-24 Israel: July 16 (ETA) US West (Santa Clara): September 2-3 The big news? The JUC agenda has been expanded this year to cover two days! That means you get twice...

In preparation for Jenkins 100K celebration, I’m going to record a one-time podcast with Dean Yu, Andrew Bayer, and R. Tyler Croy. My current plan is to go over the history of the project, how big the community was back then, how we grow, where we are now, and maybe a bit about future. But if you have any other suggestions/questions that you’d like us to...

+ The Jenkins User Conference 2015 is seeking submissions that reflect the latest innovations in Jenkins usage. This is your chance to educate, share and inspire the community with stories of how you’ve used Jenkins to continuously build that amazing project or how you developed that popular plugin that everyone is using. If you’re gamed, here are some suggestions to get your creative juice going: Scaling Jenkins...

+ The usual suspects, such as CloudBees, XebiaLabs, SOASTA, PuppetLabs, et al are doing a Jenkins-themed continuous delivery event series called "cdSummit." The event is free, has a nice mix of user/vendor talks, and has an appeal to managers and team leads who are working on and struggling with continuous delivery and automation. I’ve spoken in the past events, and I enjoyed the high-level pitches from...

There’ll be several talks that touch Jenkins. The first is from me and Jesse called Next Step in Automation: Elastic Build Environment [CON3387] Monday 12:30pm. Then later Tuesday, there’s Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Gradle and Jenkins [CON11237] from Benjamin Muschko of Gradleware. Thursday has several Jenkins talks. One is The Deploy Factory: Open Source Tools for Java Deployment [CON1880] from Bruno Souza (aka the...

As was discussed some time ago, the workflow summit is being organized, and it’s open for RSVP. Due to the overwhelming demand, I’ve increased the capacity this time to 50, but this is an unconference where everyone needs to participate, which means we really cannot have too many people without changing the dynamics of the event. So please make sure you are willing to participate, as...