Andy Gladstone Community Champion

I've been home all week, sick with some of the kids. It got me thinking about what sick days looked like when I was a kid. It was an endless day of TV while curled up on the couch with a blanket. Morning Shows like Live with Regis and Cathy Lee led into the mid-morning to afternoon game shows, which brought me to the most…

A Hands-on Cloud-Migration Workshop to Prepare for Server End of Support 🦅 The NYC ACE is excited to be hosting an in-depth discussion with Atlassian Cloud Migration Team members @Hnisha Patel, @Noel Tanner and @Ryan Weinstein at the Atlassian NYC offices on December 6 @ 5:30PM. 🖐 This will be a hands-on workshop with…

Jira and Confluence Administrators Roundtable The NYC ACE chapter is excited to post our next in person event that is taking place on November 29 at Atlassian NYC Offices! This will be a round-table session where we will be open, honest and vulnerable about our experiences and challenges administering Jira/Confluence and…

Did you know that on this day in 1886 one of the most iconic beverages was invented? That's right, Coca-Cola, the number one soda beverage sold and consumed throughout the world (Water is the #1 beverage), was created on May 8, 1886. Atlanta Georgia based pharmacist John Stith Pemberton is credited with creating the…

Wait? What? Miscellaneous Monday on a Wednesday? And Welcome Wednesday was published on Monday??? Seems @Jimmy Seddon and I need to go back to school to learn the proper order of the days of the week! It's a good time for us to go back to school since it's been Jobs and Careers month on the Community, and we…

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G'day App Central! I'm @Andy Gladstone , an online Community Leader and overall ambassador and enthusiast for Atlassian products and culture. On any given day my wife, children and Confluence vie for the top spot on my greatest loves list! I'm here to present some tips that I personally have seen help Marketplace Partners,…

It's Labor Day weekend here in the United States. Labor Day is an oddly named holiday though - since almost no one is actually 'doing labor' on that day. It's roots are in the late 1800's when activists pushed for a federal holiday to recognize the contributions that workers and laborers have made to the US economy and…

We had a last minute cancellation for Miscellaneous Monday, but the show must go on! This post is an ode to @Thomas Schlegel and his Holiday themed collaborative story posts of the past, and to @Meg Bailey who had an amazing Confluence Holiday Workshop Mad Lib in 2021. Here is the text for each of you to fill out in your…

Happy Friday Atlassian Community! For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, this is the first weekend of the summer. (Sorry Atlassian's Down Under, but you already had your summer - it's our turn now) As the song goes, School's out for Summer! The kids are home, trips are being planned and in general we are getting more…

It is Monday, let us all rejoice! This weekend my wife and I took our five children to the Spyscape Museum in NYC. The two of us had been there in 2020 (remember that dumpster fire?) and always wanted our kids to experience it. The magical confluence of Passover, Easter and Ramadan meant that the museum were open and the…

It's MONDAY. That fateful day that can determine the direction of your week. I spent most of my day Sunday preparing for Monday - by waiting in an airport. The story of the day looked a bit like this. It was one of those days when flights from where I was departing had no good explanation for why they were being cancelled.…

It's Monday, the day after Sunday, the day before Tuesday (the best day of the week IMHO). I've been pondering the Global Village effect that the Atlassian Community has had on me. The term was coined in the 1960's by Canadian theorist Marshall McLuhan. He stated in his work The Gutenberg Galaxy: The new electronic…

This past Wednesday night the NYC ACE chapter held an in-person meetup at the Atlassian offices in NYC to recap the key announcements from Team '23, learn how Atlas can lift up the OKRs for an organization and experience the findings from the Atlassian State of Teams report first hand. The NYC Community spirit was present…

If you're like me, any social feed you follow has blown up this past week with Atlassian Team '23 content. From the amazing guest keynote speakers James Cameron and Van Jones, to the product announcements that will shape the next year of the Atlassian roadmap, there was a ton packed in to the April 18-20 conference. If you…

Hi Everyone! I'm @Andy Gladstone a Community Leader here in the online community. Most of my focus is in Confluence, Jira and Trello. I have dabbled in JSM, but it is not currently) part of the install base at my company. With the upcoming Team '23 and the focus on BSM, I am sure this space will explode with content and I…

Everyone is excited about the Bash theme at Team '23 - Early 2000's! Ahhh, the turn of the the century... A new millennium... Such promise with the 20xx calendars replacing the boring old 19xx dates... We beat Y2K! Celebrate!!! (Little did we know then what the 2000's would crank out) But let's focus on the Early 2000's.…

Did you ever bury a time capsule? During my elementary school years I distinctly remember my 2nd grade class burying a time capsule deep (well likely no more than 2ft) beneath the tulip beds in front of the school. The time capsule contained letters to our future selves, news articles from 1985, small toys and keepsakes…

Happy Monday Everyone and welcome to the first official Miscellaneous Monday post in The Watercooler! Watercooler Moments are the moments that used to fill the gap in the workday. According to Urban Dictionary a watercooler moment is a significant moment in television history that is discussed the next day in the…

Happy Monday Atlassian Community! In the United States, today is a federal and state holiday - Presidents' Day. It was enacted to serve as a day to honor all of those that have served as President of United States, of which there have been 46 since the founding of the United States in 1776. Thinking about the past…

Today is Labor Day in the United States and Labour Day in Canada. IN North America these days are always heralded as the end of the summer. Even if global warming has temperatures in the 90's still in September, school year and summer will never mix. So today I am a bit nostalgic for the care-free summers of my youth... I…

Happy Monday to all those that celebrate! 😁 (As many of you know, I am not a big Monday fan!) I couldn't let a Monday go by without a Miscellaneous Monday post, and I know that @Fun Man Andy has been busy folding his Speedos (do they even need folding?) and getting them ready for Team '22. So I'm jumping in to fill a gap…