Jimmy Seddon Community Champion

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Today is National Avocado day and since I'm a big fan of guacamole this seemed like the perfect topic for today. Some interesting things to note about avocados is that, like tomatoes they are actually a fruit not a vegetable, they are considered heart healthy, and they have more potassium than…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Honestly, trying to come up with a unique (and hopefully engaging) topic every single week can be challenging at times. That’s why you will see me reuse some topics form time to time, when it makes sense to bring them back again. For this week, I’m drawing a blank. I’ve been thinking about ideas…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! You will have seen a number of post Team '24 events happening in various cities around the world. Some of them are in person only, while others are hybrid or virtual. If you are interested in finding a local chapter near you, be sure to check out ace.atlassian.com. Community Events leaders are…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quInTukKn50 Hello Everyone! It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! It’s been a while since we had a pet photo thread (February if my post history is accurate), so let’s bring them out! Today, someone is 14 years old! We got her from the humane society when she was 2 and from the first day we had her she has had many health complications that we were told would…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Back on June 10th I had the pleasure of being one of the first outside Atlassian to announce the new process for renewing certifications. At that time, it wasn’t quite ready for people to start using it. It’s been live for a couple of weeks now for you to start taking advantage of it. My question…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! I am officially moving today! Yes this has been scheduled ahead of time. My wife and I have been in our current place for almost 15 years. We are moving to a smaller community in between both of our families so that we are only a few minutes away instead of a few hours away. This week I don’t have…

Hello Everyone, We are in the process of trying out Jira Data Center in Azure, we currently have a hosted Jira Software (single server instance). We have deployed using the Azure Markteplace template which worked without issues, we are now in the process of trying to edit some of the things done in the template to bring it…

This guide will walk you through the process of configuring User Provisioning with a Third-Party Identity Provider for your Atlassian Cloud organization. For your convenience, there is a video version of this guide at the bottom of this article this will show you how to follow these steps. Also, each of the headings are…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! I’ve had a number of people ask me where/how I came up with my avatar. So, I dug up this blast from the past from four years ago. If you still have Animal Crossings you too can get your very own Atlassian Swag for your character. To make things a little easier I have provided to codes as text…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cDAgvy-mec Hello Everyone! It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! I’m finally getting settled into the new place, and I thought this was a great time to do some introductions again, since there are a number of new faces in the Community! Let’s keep things simple: * What’s your name? * Where are you from? * What do you enjoy doing outside of work (and the…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Tomorrow is my son’s last day of school before summer vacation. He’s looking forward to being able to spend some time with his cousins over the break. My question for you this week: If you could have two months off right now, what would you want to do? Personally, I’m really looking forward to…

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Happy Wednesday Everyone! One of my favorite posts each week is the Friday Fun posts! The main reason for this is because it’s something that all Community members can sign up for and share something fun for all users to interact with. In addition to this, you can earn a “fun“ kudos badge for your participation. Did you…

Happy Monday Everyone! To all my fellow Canadian members, Happy Canada Day! I love keeping to the roots of Miscellaneous Monday and provide you all with some random facts that you never knew you wanted to learn. I could go on about how unlike our neighbors to the south, the “Dominion of Canada“ while a country as of 1867…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Atlassian’s officially announced how to renew your certifications, which I covered in detail on Monday’s Live Learning session about Getting Started with Certifications. In case you missed it, you can watch the recording here: https://youtube.com/live/HNVCyQnItPM My question to you this week: How…

I have had the great honour of being a part of Atlassian’s Certification SME program for a while now, which has given me a greater insight and understanding of the entire process that is required to produce a single certification to the public. With approval from the Atlassian Certification team I thought this would be a…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Stealing the catch phrase from my favorite Throw Back Thursday author… Today is one of those special times of the year when every Canadian Atlassian Community Events chapters get together to take part in a combined virtual event. Not Canadian? No Problem! We are more than happy to have anyone join…

Hello Everyone! Everything I have found so far indicates that I should probably talk to support about this, but I thought I would ask directly just in case someone knows the answer. My company is looking to upgrade our Confluence Cloud Premium to Enterprise. However, this exists on the same site as our Jira Software & Jira…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! There are a number of moments that you can identify as major milestone moments in your life: * Graduating school * Your first job * Getting married * The birth of a child My wife and I have recently made another one of those milestone moments by making the decision to buy a new house and move. One…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZLIuI7690s Hello Everyone! It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! A couple of weeks ago, I jumped back into playing Pokémon Go, and my son as started enjoying it as well. Since the weather has been getting better (and the days are getting longer) we have been doing more evening walks and playing Pokémon Go at the same time. My question for everyone this week: Do…

It has officially been two weeks since my return to office mandate started. I feel enough time has passed that I can make a fair opinion about the state of things. Let's talk about how things are going. The Good I want to start by talking about the few things that are going well: * First, my company has done a great job of…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! It was about this time two years ago we did this same topic, I thought it was about time we did it again. Why? For two reasons: * For anyone new to have a chance to show their pets to the rest of the community. * So that we can see how your pets have grown in the past year. Getting things started,…

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