Monique vdB Community Manager

We have @zack's classic JIRA as a beer inventory system article, and on the Atlassian blog, How I ran my kids like an Atlassian tream for a month. I've heard rumors of a chicken farmer in the Philippines running his chicken farm with JIRA. What other creative or fun things have you done with Atlassian products?

Following this path will make you a core part of the Atlassian family, bring fulfillment and joy to your life, and take your career to the next level and beyond. So join us, won’t you? I'm New Here Dipping Your Toe In It all starts when you join the Atlassian Community. You’ll: earn your first badge, ask your first…

What are badges? You may have visited your profile and seen a tab called Badges. If not, click on your avatar and View profile > Badges will get you there. How do I earn them? The badges available for you to earn will be grayed out on your profile. Often, there will be a hyperlink in the description (check for the…

Summit this year has gone remote, but it doesn't mean we can't have a badge challenge! You can earn this badge through the end of April by participating in some or all of the below tasks. This year you have to complete at least three of the tasks; if you're a Community Leader, you have to complete at least five. Tasks will…

We have a new tag for community contests (as you may have seen if you earned the "And the Winner Is...." badge). I wanted to let you know we have several contests ongoing right now! Win a Taco plushie by answering a question about Trello - we give one away every week! No Question Left Behind announced the prize for…

 Hey y'all! Just a few notes for today: Fixed: When browsing members of a group via the “See all” button shown below, “Load more” did not work to load more names. Now you can browse all the members of a group by clicking “Load more” to see 50 additional members each time. Fixed: The bug mentioned last time, where you would…

Hello friends! Time to share the latest and greatest goings on in another edition of community release notes. Known issue: If someone else’s answer is accepted on a question you are watching, your activity feed will give you a message saying “your answer has been accepted” even when it has not been. This does not impact…

Hello community! Time for another round of Random Acts of Community, where we celebrate the little moments and big hearts that help make this community amazing. First up is @Rachel Wright who made this awesome video unboxing her community leader swag. We recently revamped our rewards for Community Leaders, and longstanding…

I am binge watching the third season of Making It, would love to hear what kinds of things y'all make! I've mentioned before that I do watercolor; I picked up the hobby during quarantine and have especially been enjoying portraiture. Here's my before and after of John Ritter from a few months ago; I may take another stab…

Summertime is over in in my hemisphere, and wintertime is over at Atlassian HQ, which means it's time to check in again on some Random Acts of Community! We give away a cute little badge and celebrate the big and little things that our community members do to make this place amazing. Our first award definitely counts as a…

The latest thread accepting new signups is here! Yes, that says 2021. Amazing, isn't it? Get in on the Friday Fun action and earn the Friday Funmaker badge by signing up below! (Don't forget to earn Fri-Yay! by participating, too.) * You will get a reminder when it's your turn * Feel free to be as random, specific, serious…

New to Jira, New to Confluence, New to Jira Service Management and now, for the first time, we have New to Jira Work Management! If you're new, you can get gentle help to your most basic questions. If you're experienced, you can come and share your expertise with users who are brand new to the product. Your group leaders…

I was traveling this week, so spent a lot of time reading on airplanes. I read The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket, which are "new" Agatha Christies written by a different author. They were fun airplane reads but didn't hold up against the classic Christies. (Read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd if you haven't yet, and…

It's Friday at Atlassian headquarters in Sydney, so time for our Friday fun thread. Tell us about a tiny (or not-so-tiny) triumph you had recently, and let us toast to you! You can also send a toast to someone else. Cheers!

Hello again, community! What is happening? We are moving New to Jira Service Management from being a product collection to being a community group. The new New to JSM lives under Featured Groups and can be found right here. Your Group Leaders are @Dirk Ronsmans, @Mikael Sandberg and @Liam Green! All content in this…

As you probably have noticed by now, our new quarterly leaderboard rolled over today! (At the time of this writing, @Hana Kučerová is off to an early lead.) We also have new challenges to explore: I wanted to commemorate the users who made it to the top of our first quarterly leaderboard. These folks have made it to the…

For this week's Friday fun thread, I challenge everyone to post three things about themselves -- two that are true, one that is a lie. I'll get us started in the answers section and see if you can guess what I'm lying about. :) Subscribe to Friday fun by following this link and clicking "Create alert."

Hello again everyone, and welcome to another edition of your friendly neighborhood community release notes. Updated: The New to Jira collection is now a Featured Group called... wait for it... New to Jira. Group leader @Hana Kučerová and friends are there to help anyone who is looking for help learning the basics of Jira…

For today's Friday Fun, inspired by Katie from Air B&B, we are doing a treasure hunt! Below is a cropped photo of a famous location somewhere in the world. Can you guess where it is? The person who guesses right gets to go next, so get your photos ready. Thanks to @Laura for the game idea!

Welcome to Jump-in January! We're going to jump into the new year with a little bit of everything. To earn this badge, take the following actions in the month of January: * Comment on an article * Reply to a discussion * Upload an image or GIF * Upvote an answer * Post in a group * Give a like * Get a like Have fun…

Time for some more goodies in the form of community release notes, covering what's new and exciting around here in the past couple of weeks. New: Those of you who are article authors should be extra happy today! You can now easily find your draft articles by visiting the articles tab of any collection, and checking the…

 Hello again, beta participants old and new! First things first, our program overview is here! If this is your first time checking us out, you should start with the overview. You can also find all our previous beta updates here. Troubleshooting: Thank you to everyone who has reported bugs or issues! Because of your…

Hello community! This is to let you know that on October 10, we will be merging the Bitbucket and Bitbucket Piplelines collections together. Why are we making this change? * As part of a larger effort to simplify our site architecture * To streamline content moderation, as content often has to be moved in or out of the…

I know, it feels like only yesterday that we sent out the last batch of community release notes. Actually it was three days ago. 😉 However, today we're rolling out an editor update, and we've made some improvements! Take a look at the before and after: Improvements include: * Access to the HTML and Preview modes in some…