Alyssa Tong
Member of the Jenkins Advocacy and Outreach SIG. Alyssa drives and manages Jenkins participation in community events and conferences like FOSDEM, SCaLE, cdCON, and KubeCon. She is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc.
This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong. Alyssa works for CloudBees, helping to organize Jenkins community events around the world. Planning is underway for Jenkins World, a major Jenkins event for developers, release engineers and others interested in automation. The conference will be held from September 13th to 15th in Santa Clara, California and is being organized and sponsored in part by CloudBees. Just like the "Jenkins...
The first Jenkins meetup in Saint Petersburg, Russia took place on December 9th. The event has been organized with the help from Yandex and CloudBees. In total there were about 80 attendees at the meetup. In addition to meetup.com the event has been promoted by Yandex so we quickly reached capacity limit. There were 3 talks conducted, speakers from Yandex, ZeroTurnaround and CloudBees. We discussed the...
Although December is a short month due to the holidays, there has been a good amount of local Jenkins activities that took place regardless of holiday obligations. Today and tomorrow I will be doing a series of posts to summarize December JAM World Tour. Special thanks to the JAM organizers and co-organizers who made it all happen in these cities: Lima, Peru St.Petersburg, Russia Toulouse, France Bay Area,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
+ The Jenkins User Conference 2015 is 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 get...