(This is a guest post by Tony França) Hi all, my name is Tony, I’m the creator of (FreedomSponsors) and today I want to talk how Jenkins has inspired me to build it. Before starting, I’d like to thank the Jenkins crew for letting me publish this guest post in their blog. On top of that, thank you for maintaining Jenkins as well - I’m a big...

Just like the last year, we are running a survey this year, to get some objective insights into what our users would like to see in the project. Obviously, the developers in the project deal with individual bug reports and feature requests all the time, but sometimes those day-to-day issues distract you from a bigger picture. This year, we kept some of the questions the...

Because the dinner looks popular, here’s another last minute gathering for JUC San Francisco. We’ll have a small drink-up Saturday night at 21st Amendment (563 2nd Street), like from 6pm to whenever. If you are coming from out of town, you probably are around, so why not join us! At least abayer, majost, and kohsuke should be there, and hopefully more. If you are coming, please...

It’s the JavaOne season again in San Francisco. This year, there are whopping 6 sessions that discuss Jenkins (including myself, which is the very first session in Monday!) Unfortunately some of them happen in the same time, but I for one am looking forward to seeing the mobile app test talk from Intuit. CON6256 - Large-Scale Automation with Jenkins (Monday 8:30am, Hilton) Jenkins is the most...

+ Jenkins User Conference 2012 San Francisco is this weekend! Based on the experience from the last year, we are going to make a reservation for a dinner after JUC. If you are interested in joining us, please RSVP. We haven’t decided where to go, but we’ll place a reservation somewhere (and if you know a good place to go, please tell us, too!), so that...

As you may or may not know, the Jenkins project has a bi-weekly IRC meeting where we discuss and decide on things necessary to keep the project running. Next Sunday, we’ll bring this project meeting live to Jenkins User Conference San Francisco. Since this is an unique opportunity to engage people who don’t normally come to these meetings, I’d like to encourage everyone to propose agenda...

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...

This article was originally posted on my personal blog Last week, praqma was organizing in Copenhagen a "Jenkins User Event". A User Event, compared to JenkinsConf, is a lighter meeting with (supposed to be) reduced costs organized by volunteers. Praqma got sponsorship from both CloudBees and Programing Research so that they can book a high quality conference room and prepare a nice meeting with all...