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Welcome, Fawad! This community is certainly the right place for you then :) 

Welcome, Shannon! Where in Central Oregon do you live? I live in Portland! If you're interested in bringing together Atlassian users in your local community you should apply to become a Leader here! Cheers :)

Welcome, Sonja! Summit is the highlight of our year :) Tell us more about your week on this thread!

Welcome, Jon! Happy to have you here. How was your first Summit? Tell us about it on this thread! 

Welcome, Bella!! Happy to have you here. Lots of Jira & Confluence Cloud experts on this community that can help you out. @Meg Holbrook and @Jack Brickey to name a few :) 

@Marc Kilgus Welcome :) Good to see you this week! Did you get some extra Industry Group badges for your upcoming automotive event? Cheers!

Welcome, Katie! Happy to have you here. How was Summit?

Welcome, Cody! Glad you had fun at your first Summit. What was your favorite session? 

Welcome! Happy to have you in our community :)

Welcome, Judy! There are Community Events in Austin, sometimes at the Atlassian office. You should try to attend! Great way to meet other admins from your own city. https://aug.atlassian.com/austin/

OMG @Alex Gallien you would be an excellent Community Leader! Great seeing you this week, friend :) 

Welcome, Norma! We're happy to have you here!

Welcome, Eduardo! Congrats on getting your certification. I'm sure you'll be able to help out some of our new Jira users then! :) 

Welcome to the community, Kathy! Glad you had fun. What was your favorite session?

Welcome, Gini! Glad you enjoyed Summit :) Are you all hosting a post-Summit event in Arkansas? Lots of great content to share!

Welcome! Great advice. Did you have fun at Bash?

Welcome to the community, Brandy! What have been some travel highlights? Got any favorite places?

Welcome, Vimal!

Welcome Shannyn! Did you have fun at Summit? What was your favorite part?

Hi @Karen O'Keefe! While I have not flown a plane nor have I piloted a boat, I live in Portland, too! Did you know we have a Portland Group on this community and a Portland User Group that has meet-ups around the city?? Perhaps we will meet in person one day! Nice to meet you and welcome :)

@Stephen_Sifers__DFW_ @Do Not Use @Sebastien Jacques @[deleted] FYI in case any of you are interested in a trip to Austin! :) 

Hello and thanks for posting! Noobs are very welcome here :) We have an Atlassian User Group in Paris and it looks like they're meeting soon (October 10): https://aug.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-paris-presents-aug-paris-10-octobre-2018 You should go if you can! Another excellent resource.

Hey Mark! Thanks for bringing this topic up. I'm not based in San Diego but saw this thread and it's very relevant to me nonetheless :) My core team is distributed across Portland, SF/the East Bay, and New York, with additional members of the extended team in Austin and Amsterdam. One thing we have had positive outcomes…

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@Jay- your favorite ('G + R') made the short list!

I got a new lens for my 35mm camera (Canon AE-1). It's a macro lens. I spent the holiday break up in Portland and we got some unexpected ice/snow. So, I took some great shots with my new lens of plant life encased in ice! Will share once they are developed :)

On the seventh day of Christmas, my boss gave to me, Seven automated workflows, Six new Stride pings, Five Confluence Spaces, Four Jira Admins, Three Trello boards, Two founders and a Bitbucket Repository!

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