Say hello and tell us: what's on your desk?
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I'm Daniel and a JIRA / Confluence / plenty-of-other-things administrator at JSTOR.
Given that I'm working from home today, here's my rather untidy basement desk. My laptop stand is a screwed together set of IKEA cabinet doors (clearance) that together with hardware cost ~$6. I'm pleased that it's surprisingly sturdy (almost better than my laptop arm at the office) and easily converts to "sitting" if needed (just put the laptop down at desk level and take away the keyboard tray, also an IKEA piece).
Given a few days, this will be tidy again as I repair some old PCs on my desk's side arm and get various handwritten notes into their proper places digitally. There's a few things like Community article ideas that need to not be on paper anymore ;)
Off to the right of my desk is a tower (originally designed for DVDs it looks like) where I stage AUG swag before events. My user group meets twice in one month, so I set all the swag up and split it between the two events based on the RSVP lists. Some things like stickers tend to stick around for several months, so it's nice to keep them organized between events. If you're an AUG Leader, you can see that tower in the AUG collection.
Other things I like doing:
- Cooking (lots of cookbooks on the bookshelf behind me)
- Playing with my 11-month-old daughter - once the basement is cleaned up, she can hang out with me while I type stuff!
- Playing jazz music with my friends from college - I play flugelhorn and trumpet, and we do a small casual combo that plays a "real" gig (i.e. outside of our houses) about once a year
- That's about all I have time for at this stage in life - did I mention I have an 11-month-old :)
I'm Thomas and I'm a system administrator at HanseMerkur, an insurance company in Germany. I take care of servers, applications, users, implementing training courses. My main areas of responsibility are
- Jira & Confluence
- Powerbuilder (for the younger ones of you: this is a programming language, we still use a lot)
- Versioning and Build Automation
I also started years ago, reading in Atlassian's questions and answers platforms. I think, I started with this OSQA-thing, Nic mentioned in his post. Later, I didn't only read and ask but also answered questions and still do this, if my work leaves enough time for it.
I love board games. Meeting with friends and playing is one of my favorites. I own about a hundred board games and many more card games... But I also like reading, going to the theater, meeting friends for a beer and talk the whole night long...
Here is a picture of my working place (a part of). It's the more interesting part of my desk. Memorabilias of awesome moments, an ugly but funny owl (it's christmas decoration actually), coffe mug (of course, who can work without coffee?). At the moment I'm fixing a problem with an old Powerbuilder application I've written more than ten years ago. Trying to understand my old code... :-)
Hello there,
My name is Xavier Loaiza I'm working in Swissgas from Ecuador in the IT Department. One of my project this years was the implementation of the Help Desk in my company and this project at the moment use the Jira Service Manager with a nice results.
I'm project managment and especialist in enterprise agile also I'm Chief of IT Department but I feel me like a other collague of the company, the titles is only topics contractual ;)
In this moments mi desk looks like this picture.
HI there from New Zealand.
On my desk: cat, team and sunshine :-). And some work stuff :-D.
Cheers,
Alex
As you may be able to spot, I spend a lot of time in video conferences, like a good challenge and still take physical notes. Also, for team building we play games every once in a while.
I joined the atlassian community as I need to brush up on my JIRA skills and found help on the forum already. Keep up the good work. See you around.
Hello,
I am Dave, the new Community Leader of ACE Koblenz in Germany.
In my position as Partner Manager, I look forward to the future exchange with all of you.
Best regards
Dave
Hello, I'm Jose, from Spain, working as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach in some TIC projects in Madrid. I love reading, basketball, astronomy... and this is my desk :)
Hi everyone.
I'm Rafaela and I'm new here in the community.
I've been a scrum master for a few years, but I've been working with Jira and Confluence since January 2021.
My desk at my mother's house has a lot of stuff, including my cds (I'm old... hahaha). I have been working from home office here since the beginning of the pandemic.
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