Atlassian's Summit, and its Freebies for Open Source Developers

by Sam Dean - Jun. 04, 2009Comments (3)

Atlassian is an interesting and unusual Australian software company that some open source developers are aware of, but many more should be. As described here, the company supplies its own code and software components to open source developers for free, as long as they are working on a registered open source project with a public source code repository. Jira, Confluence, FishEye, and Bamboo are just some of the many Atlassian-based projects, and the company's plug-in framework allows developers to extend what these components do. Oliver Marks has an interesting post up about this week's Atlassian Summit, and how the company has embraced OpenSocial. Matt Asay also notes that Atlassian could make a good acquisition for Google.  Here's more on Atlassian and its conference this week.

In Oliver Marks' post, you can watch a 6-minute video showing a portion of Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brooke's keynote address at the Atlassian Summit. It illustrates how Atlassian has made good use of OpenSocial for extending applications.

Jira (shown below, with a tour online here) is Atlassian's flagship product, and is a bug and issue tracker aimed at developers. FishEye is the company's web interface into source code repositories. Bamboo automates the process of source code compiling and testing. Confluence is Atlassian's enterprise wiki and collaboration product.

Atlassian announced a huge number of partnerships at its summit, as discussed here, and there was much discussion of agile software development. If you're an open source developer who hasn't looked into the company and its free offerings, check it out.

 


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Atlassian has some pretty sweet products. I've been a long-time fan of Jira - it is extensible and we have really configured the workflow to our liking. Now, the bugs can run, but they can't hide!


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I started with using Bugzilla a few years ago, but that was a PAIN to set up and manage. Jira, though not free, was a breeze. I have not tried the hosted version of their apps, but now that we are working with some remote teams, I might check out Studio. I wonder if there is a free offering?


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MindTouch Core (free and open source) is available and connects to Jira. Moreover, MindTouch 2009 is free to open source projects too. http://mindtouch.com/Products


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