This is the second part of this article. On the Part 1 I discussed the role of the USER, the AUG Leader, the importance of the Atlassian Partners and our AUG Online Group. In this Part 2 I will go over other angles of the Atlassian User Groups sharing our own experiences during last year, our members Service project and the end of the year social event. As I mentioned before the main objective of this article is to sparks some ideas and initiatives for your local AUG. Be involved and make it strong!
About our last year events. A year to remember!
I had the fortune to work in a company that supports our efforts and that embraces our passion by providing a place to run our meetings. In addition, great co-leaders able to help and support our initiatives engaging local companies like DSS, Inc, NextEra and Modernizing Medicine providing alternative venues so we can rotate our presentations. Last year we did 20 events (we already did 3 this January, a good start), our events were on regular evening meetings, virtual presentations, lunch and learn sessions, breakfasts and weekend training workshop. Attendance varies based on the topic and they were from 2 or 3 to more than 40. Topics also varies from Atlassian specifics, book authors, marketplace add-ons, service project to best practices and more. We did it alone, just with the Atlassian sponsorship, and engaging partners that allowed us to have a great end of the year social event, right when we need it!, Special thanks to Atlassian, DSS, Inc, Service Rocket, Isos Technology, Automation for Jira and Praecipio Consulting, you rock! and our Palm Beach AUG members really appreciates the bowling evening we had, it was amazing!
Presentations and Presenters spotlight
The content presented in our meetings is based on our users needs and here are some details about presented topics and participants (including the first 3 for this year) and three more for the other AUG that I run, Temecula Valley, CA. For those that shared their knowledge, a big round of applause, thanks for helping us, it was great to have you there with us (in person and remotely), it takes a lot of courage and passion to share knowledge and each one of us, as recipient, really appreciate it. We know it takes time to prepare and present a topic and we hope you had a great time with us. Of course, 2019 is just starting and we would love to have you back.
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Jan 29, 2019
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Cross Company Issue Tracking - issue synchronization | Automated Report & Release notes generation
Presenters: @francis | @Fabian A_ Lopez _Community Leader - Argentina_ Florida_ California_
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Jan 25, 2019
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Introducing the Atlassian Agile Corner and Building the Palm Beaches into a Tech Hub
Presenters: @Fabian A_ Lopez _Community Leader - Argentina_ Florida_ California_ | Joe Ruso
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Jan 24, 2019
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Unflipping the Table with Portfolio for Jira and Automation for Jira
Presenters: @Amanda {Praecipio} | Andres Knecht
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Dec 13, 2018
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End of the Year Event... Let's get the ball rolling!
Sponsored by: Atlassian | DSS, Inc. | Service Rocket | Praecipio Consulting | Isos Technology | Automation for Jira
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Nov 07, 2018
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Essentials of Agile User Story Mapping + Agile Marketing & FREE BOOK!!
Presenters: Nick Muldoon | @Bill Cushard
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Oct 23, 2018
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Scaling the Atlassian Stack and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: It Came from the Admin Side
Presenters: @Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority | @Rachel Wright
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Oct 15, 2018
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Virtual - Outlook Calendars for Confluence
Presenters: Andreas Schmidt
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Oct 11, 2018
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Bridging the gap between Confluence and SharePoint - SharePoint Online Connector for Confluence
Presenter: Dirk Roehrborn
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Oct 03, 2018
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Agile Release Management | Atlassian Developer Tools - Better Together
Presenters: @[deleted] | @Thomas Laussermair
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Sep 27, 2018
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Virtual - Mastering massive changes in Jira Projects
Presenter: David Garcia
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Sep 11, 2018
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Atlassian and Isos Technology are in Town - Join Us! AUG + Happy Hour
Presenters: @Fabian A_ Lopez _Community Leader - Argentina_ Florida_ California_ | @Mike McGreevy | @Larry at Isos
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Aug 29, 2018
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Summit Presentation: One Queue to Rule Them All Monitoring with Jira
Presenter: @Lisa Reilly
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Jun 22, 2018
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Introduction into Bitbucket and how it fits into the SDLC
Presenter: @Thomas Behlau
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May 30, 2018
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Asset management in Jira with Insight and Insight Discovery
Presenter: @Zihni Saglam
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May 09, 2018
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AUG Lunch - Canned Response and TFS4JIRA
Presenter: @Pawel Mazur
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May 08, 2018
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Atlassian Team in Town! - Learn about DevOps and Applications for the Enterprise
Presenters: @aileen | @Mike McGreevy
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May 07, 2018
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AUG Lunch - Manage a tree of pages as one unit of content in Confluence – a Document!
Presenter: @Tobias Anstett (K15t)
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May 03, 2018
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Turbo Charge Jira for Success with Turbo Kit for Jira and what is on the Atlassian pipeline for 2018?
Presenters: @Jillian Flook | @Fabian A_ Lopez _Community Leader - Argentina_ Florida_ California_
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Apr 05, 2018
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AUG Breakfast, Automated Release Notes + Confluence Workflows
Presenters: @Anand Inamdar_Amoeboids | @Simon Gatto
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Apr 03, 2018
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Team Tour, Outlook+Jira and Scriptrunner for Non coders
Presenters: Andreas Schmidt | @Evan Golden
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Feb 27, 2018
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Gliffy Project ,Turning Visual Plans into JIRA and Why supporting Waterfall Planning is a great idea
Presenter: @Miles Faulkner | Steven Valencia | @Mary Nielsen
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Jan 24, 2018
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Show and Tell & Lean Coffee
Presenters/Moderators: @Fabian A_ Lopez _Community Leader - Argentina_ Florida_ California_ | @Christopher Heritage
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Jan 20, 2018
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New to Confluence?... Ask me about Confluence or show us what you have (hands on workshop-training)
Presenter: @Fabian A_ Lopez _Community Leader - Argentina_ Florida_ California_
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Feb 13, 2018
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Temecula Valley – Jira Service Desk in Action - Warfighter Made Help Center
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Jan 12, 2018
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Temecula Valley – Confuence and Jira in action - Workshop and Training
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Jan 5, 2018
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Temecula Valley - Confluence Workshop and Training - Warfighter Made
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M0Zayn2zi8
Warfighter Made - Adapt to the Injury, Customize to the Soul
Disabled veterans organization Warfighter Made will run on Atlassian thanks to the AUG members of Palm Beach, FL and Temecula Valley Atlassian User Groups and partners like Isos Technology ( @Thad West), Adaptavist ( @Evan Golden), Refined Wiki (Genevieve Blanch) and Praecipio Consulting ( @Christian Lane ). To learn more about this project please read our series of articles about this project and watch the video to learn more about this organization.
The goal is to share on this series of blog-posts how we are building the new collaboration platform for Warfighter Made. So AUG members will learn some new tricks ad they help this organization. See below the list of completed blog posts.
Watch this Video to Learn more about this Organization.
The Palm Beach AUG end of the year Social Event
I have to acknowledge that I mentioned the event multiple times already but let me share with you some of our best moments and how it was done.
The Venue
One of the AUG co-leaders ( @Jennifer_Weser ) mentioned that Revolution Rock and Bowl place at West Palm Beach, FL downtown could be a good fit for our target event, so I visited the place and I found a wonderful location for an evening full of great activities but the best of all, a place where we can have a good time with our friends, finally a non-technical meeting where we can have some fun!. After contacting Atlassian partners that helped us to make this a reality we started inviting our members. We had a good turn out and the first hour was dedicated to pizzas and pool tables while we waited for our bowling lanes.
The Teams
We had 5 teams and the ball started rolling as well as our well-deserved dinner, of course with exclusive swags sent by Atlassian and partners, including a coffee mug designed just for this event. The winner team got special swags and we ended a good evening with a smile in our face and getting ready for a great 2019.
The winners’ score!
The winner team: @Thomas Laussermair @Fabian A_ Lopez _Community Leader - Argentina_ Florida_ California_ @Isaiah Rodriguez @Andrew Bilukha Collin
Next steps.
We are already surfing another great year, don’t miss the opportunity and join us as participant, presenter or sponsor. We have a place for you and if you are not in the area, look for the Atlassian User Group near you. For a completed list of cities visit this page.
See you soon!
