Discussion Idea: Should We Have a Global Atlassian Community Virtual Meetup? 🌍

[Shubham Yahoo]

I’ve been thinking about an idea that could bring even more value to the Atlassian Community.

What if we hosted a monthly global virtual community event where Atlassian users, admins, developers, partners, and Community Leaders from around the world could come together to collaborate, learn, and share ideas?

Imagine the possibilities:

• 🌎 Learning how teams across different countries solve similar challenges.
• 💡 Sharing best practices for Jira, Confluence, JSM, Rovo, Forge, Cloud migrations, and more.
• 🤝 Connecting with professionals from different industries and cultures.
• 🎤 Community-led lightning talks, demos, and open Q&A sessions.
• 🚀 Building stronger global relationships within the Atlassian ecosystem.

Each country and region brings unique experiences and perspectives. A global forum like this could help us learn from one another while strengthening collaboration across the worldwide Atlassian Community.

I’d love to see a monthly event where anyone, regardless of location, could join, contribute, and exchange ideas. I’d even be excited to help host or organize sessions if there’s enough interest.

What do you think?

• Would you attend a monthly global virtual meetup?
• What topics would you like to see covered?
• How could we make it valuable for attendees across different time zones?

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and seeing if this is something we could build together!

[Jason Krewson]

I would attend though it does sound like it would be chaos with so many people on one call all trying to talk so I would probably bring some popcorn lol.

[Shubham Yahoo]

😂 I’ll make sure the agenda is better organized than the popcorn queue! I was thinking of a format with a host, guest speakers, lightning talks, and breakout discussions so everyone gets a chance to contribute without it turning into chaos.

[zoltanersek _outpostlabs_dev_]

That sounds like a good idea, i would enjoy seeing showcases were people present problems and how they solved them

[Shubham Yahoo]

That was my actual intentions behind collab with global teams to know how differently they do work or resolve real world problems! 

[Shanelle Boluyt]

I would love to attend if my schedule permits.

[Giuseppe Torraco]

I like the idea and would definitely join. For some of us, myself included, the main challenge might be the language. I'm not very confident speaking English, and I sometimes struggle to follow everything when people talk quickly. Still, I think it would be a great initiative and a good opportunity to learn from each other.

[Shubham Yahoo]

Hope the language barrier can be taken care by some translator tools, and it’s good to learn some new words from different languages and culture!

we can start this and see the response how it goes!

I hope it really helps for Atlassian engineers to learn from around globe which is currently scoped and limited to local groups or local at country level!

[Kristin Lyons]

I would be interested but I do agree the different time zones might be tricky

[Barbara Szczesniak]

I often think that a problem with our standard ACEvents is that the people who aren't presenting only get to type their comments and questions in the chat. Sometimes I miss what the presenter is saying while I'm typing. It would be nice to be able to speak with people directly. 

HOWEVER, this could be chaos, as @Jason Krewson mentioned. A raise your hand and have someone grant you access to talk system would cause a lot of delays. 

Besides the time zone issues, what platform do you use that could support a potentially huge group of people.

I think there would need to be a published agenda/general topic for the week so that people can know whether the discussion will be relevant to them.

[Shanelle Boluyt]

Maybe some topic-oriented breakout rooms?  

[Brita Moorus]

I agree with your thoughts, @Barbara Szczesniak. Idea itself is good but definitely needs some thinking through & planning. Perhaps sessions divided timezone-wise could help? 💙