Thank you to Netflix for sponsoring the yummy burrito bar and offered up their brand new auditorium to host Jenkins Developers and Users Meetup group on Dec 16. We had 96 RSVPs which was impressive. Our speaker for the evening was Akshay Dayal, Software Engineer at Google. Akshay’s session was about Scaling Jenkins - how and why Google decided to scale their existing Jenkins cluster (OSS) to meet their security/availability...

It is great to see the pick up of local activities through hosted JAMs. In October, the Jenkins community hosted Atlanta JAM and Bay Area JAM. Many thanks to our sponsors: Ericsson, CloudBees, Blazemeter, NetRoadShow. Here’s a summary of what was discussed: Atlanta JAM - Jenkins workflow and Docker to reduce friction in DevOps efforts. Bay Area JAM- Performance testing strategies, incorporating performance tests into Jenkins workflows...

+ image:https://jenkins-ci.org/sites/default/files/images/Seville-JAM_logo_1024px_0.png[image] + + + There’s been some active discussions and planning around Jenkins Area Meetups (JAMs) specifically in the following cities: Rennes, France Seville, Spain Seattle, Washington Barcelona,Spain Raleigh, North Carolina Atlanta, Georgia + + I wanted to gauge Jenkins interests in these cities, so let us know at jenkinsci-jam@googlegroups.com if you live in one of these areas, and if you would be interested in becoming a member or be involved in JAM one way or...

+ image:https://jenkins-ci.org/sites/default/files/images/Screen%20Shot%202015-09-30%20at%202.15.54%20PM_0.png[image,width=320] + + + Last week, the first Jenkins Area Meetup (JAM) took place in San Jose, CA on Wednesday, Sept 23. What a way to kick off the first JAM other than to have Docker, John Willis as our guest speaker. John talked about immutable infrastructure and its benefits and role of containers. + + Kohsuke discussed Jenkins Workflow, the motivation behind the same and latest features of Jenkins...

We have some exciting news to share with you! We have finalized most of the dates and locations for the 2015 Jenkins User Conference (JUC) World Tour. + + Save the date(s): + + US East (Washington DC): June 18-19 Europe (London): June 23-24 Israel: July 16 (ETA) US West (Santa Clara): September 2-3 + + The big news? The JUC agenda has been expanded this year to cover two days! That means you get twice...

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballot_box[ + image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Cardboard_ballot_box_-_Smithsonian.jpg[image,width=200]] + + + + The Jenkins User Conference 2015 is https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-user-conference-call-papers[seeking submissions] that reflect the latest innovations in Jenkins usage. This is your chance to educate, share and inspire the community with stories of how you've used Jenkins to continuously build that amazing project or how you developed that popular plugin that everyone is using. + + + If you're gamed, here are some suggestions to...