This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong, who runs the Jenkins Area Meetup program and is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc. I am excited to announce the agenda for Jenkins World 2017. This year’s event promises to have something for everyone - whether you are a novice, intermediate, or advanced user…​you are covered. Jenkins World 2017 consists of 6 tracks, 60+ Jenkins and DevOps sessions, 40+ industry speakers, 16+ training and workshops. Here is a sneak peek at Jenkins World 2017: Show 'n Tell It’s all about that demo. These sessions are technically advanced with some code sharing, heavy on demos and just a tad bit of slides. Plugin Development for Pipeline Extending Blue Ocean How to Use Jenkins Less: How and Why You Can Minimize Your Jenkins Footprint Jenkins Pipeline on your Local Box to Reduce Cycle Time War Stories These are first-hand Jenkins experience and lessons learned. These stories will inspire your innovative solutions. Pipelines At Scale: How Big, How Fast, How Many? JenkinsPipelineUnit: Test Your Continuous Delivery Pipeline Codifying the Build and Release Process with a Jenkins Pipeline Shared Library Jumping on the Continuous Delivery Bandwagon: From 100+ FreeStyle Jobs to Pipeline(s) - Tactics, Pitfalls and Woes Trainings and Workshops (additional fees apply to certain trainings/workshops) Introduction to Jenkins Introduction to Plugin Development Let’s Build a Jenkins Pipeline! Fundamentals of Jenkins and Docker The Jenkins World agenda is packed with even more sessions, it will be a very informational event. Convince your Boss We know that attending Jenkins World needs little convincing but just in case you need a little help to justify your attendance, we’ve created a Justify your Trip document to help speed up the process. Register for Jenkins World 2017 with the code JWATONG for a 20% discount off your pass. Hope to see you there!

The largest Jenkins event, Jenkins World is coming to San Francisco, California on August 28 - 31, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis. This conference will feature two days of hands-on training, workshops, and certification exams followed by two more days with five tracks of technical sessions from Jenkins and DevOps experts from around the world. Inspire your peers and colleagues by sharing your expertise and experience as one of the Jenkins World speakers. The Call for Papers is open, last day for submitted a proposal is March 5th, 2017. Compared to Jenkins World 2016, what’s new for 2017? Two tracks are now dedicated to "show and tell." These sessions are technically advanced with code sharing, heavy on demos, and only a few slides. If you are like most of us - driven to learn, share, and collaborate…​we’d like to hear from you! Looking forward to your amazing proposal(s)! Submit your proposal here!

As we near the end of the year, the number of November JAMs show that the Jenkins community isn’t slowing down for holiday season. We had a number of excellent events hosted around the world this November with plenty of great stories and presentations shared by the various members of the world-wide Jenkins community. Melbourne, Australia JAM Melbourne JAM leaders, Raisa and Bhuva hosted Blue Ocean for the inaugural meeting. Attendees learned the values of Blue Ocean, a project that rethinks the user experience of Jenkins, modeling and presenting the process of software delivery by surfacing information that is important to development teams with as few clicks as possible, while still staying true to the extensibility that Jenkins always has had as a core value. Thank you James Dumay for stopping by to take part in the inauguration. Singapore, Singapore JAM One of the members who had several years of experience using Jenkins (since Hudson days in fact) to present some basics on Continuous Integration with GitHub. It was targeted at new members who are starting out with Jenkins. We understand that we cannot always serve advanced topics to cater to the experienced users and neglect the newbies so this session was targeted to help give new users an introduction to Jenkins. It went well with about 15-20 attendees and we hope to run some hands-on workshops in 2017. Some members were looking forward to freebies like stickers and T-shirts too! Moscow, Russia JAM Moscow JAM leaders, Kirill Tolkachev and Oleg Nenashev led the inaugural meeting with a packed full agenda. Oleg began the meeting with an update on Jenkins 2 what improvements users can expect and what enhancements are in the works within the Jenkins project. Following Oleg, Kirill shared how his team in Alfa Laboratory used Jenkins to improve CD/DevOps in their projects (with Jenkins Pipeline, Job DSL and Blue Ocean), the problems they experienced and how they fixed them. Then Oleg talked about Jenkins Pipeline internals, main features and recent changes in the ecosystem. It was followed up by a discussion of large-scale Jenkins instances at the after-party. The recording of the event can be found on YouTube. Milan, Italy JAM The first meetup was a great opportunity to meet local Jenkins fans to learn and share Jenkins experiences at a local cafe. San Francisco, California JAM R. Tyler Croy performed a 30 minutes live Pipeline coding demo to a relatively novice audience (though all had used Jenkins). A good amount of questions from the audience which conveyed an appetite for the content being presented. Ryan Wallner, presenter from ClusterHQ, also gave a demo based around Pipeline talking about ClusterHQ’s "Fli" integration with a delivery pipeline. Washington, DC JAM There was a fantastic 90% showup rate at this month’s meetup - 58 RSVPs and 52 in attendance was pretty impressive. All this may be due to Fannie Mae’s story - the success of how they used Jenkins for CI/CD as part of their DevOps adoption. Afterwards, there was a lot of interests and further discussions taking place. Next month’s host will be Freddie Mac. Seattle, Washington JAM Long time Jenkins community member and Seattle JAM leader, Khai Do showed how OpenStack uses "Jenkins Job Builder" to manage and run thousands of Jenkins jobs per day in their multi-controller CI/CD system. He also compared Jenkins Job Builder with other Jenkins "Infrastructure-as-code" technologies - Jenkins Pipeline and Jenkins JobDSL. It was followed by an in-depth Q&A and discussion session. Dallas/Forth Worth, Texas (DFW) JAM The November DFW JAM was the most strongly attended of the year! DFW JAM leader, Eric Smalling discussed the benefits of dynamic build agents and demonstrated various ways to implement them such as the EC2 and Docker plugins. There was a lot of interest and discussion, especially around Docker and the ability it provides to have ephemeral agents with very little provisioning time. The recording can be downloaded from Gooel Drive. Links Start a JAM in your city if there isn’t one already. Become a JAM member. Become an online JAM member Be a JAM speaker or sponsor. Let us know jenkinsci-jam@googlegroups.com Become a Jenkins project contributor

Happy Holidays! A special shout out to all JAM leaders who continue to keep local activities going in December. Online JAM December 14 | Live Demos: Pipeline, Git, and Blue Ocean North America December 7 | Seattle JAM: Jenkins at Microsoft December 14 | Los Angeles JAM: Jenkins Days December 14 | Guadalajara JAM: Jenkins & Docker Australia December 14 | Melbourne JAM: Meeting at AWS Office Links Start a JAM in your city if there isn’t one already. Become a JAM member Become an online JAM member Speak or sponsor at a JAM. Contact us at jenkinsci-jam@googlegroups.com Become a Jenkins project contributor

November is packed full of meetups and events. If you are in any of the areas below please stop by to say "Hi" and talk Jenkins over beer. North America November 15 | SF JAM: Let’s Talk CI/CD and DevOps with ClusterHQ and Jenkins November 15 | DC JAM: Jenkins and Fannie Mae November 30 | Albuquerque JAM: Learn About Blue Ocean November 30 | Guadalajara JAM: Jenkins Install and Setup Europe November 10 | Amsterdam JAM: Jenkins and Docker - Multiple Uses for Containers and Jenkins November 10 | Milano JAM: Meet and Greet Australia November 15 | Melbourne JAM: Blue Ocean - A New User Experience Asia November 17 | Singapore JAM: CI Using Source Code on GitHub Links Start a JAM in your city if there isn’t one already. Become a JAM member Become an online JAM member Speak or sponsor at a JAM. Contact us at jenkinsci-jam@googlegroups.com Become a Jenkins project contributor

October has proven to be a busy month within the Jenkins Area Meetup groups. Below is a recap of topics discussed at various JAMS in the month of October. Dallas Forth Worth, Texas (DFW) JAM James Dumay took time out of his vacation to present Blue Ocean, a project that rethinks the user experience of Jenkins, modeling and presenting the process of software delivery by surfacing information that is important to development teams with as few clicks as possible, while still staying true to the extensibility that Jenkins always has had as a core value. See recording HERE. San Francisco, CA JAM Andrey Falko from Salesforce shared how he and his Diagnostics team used Jenkins to deliver software securely and reliably to production within Salesforce. See videos HERE and HERE. Boulder, CO JAM This was a meetup with CA Technologies and included Mark Waite, maintainer of the Jenkins git plugin and a director at CA Technologies in Fort Collins. Tyler did a great presentation about Jenkins Pipeline and Blue Ocean and showed off how the community is using Blue Ocean to build Jenkins. Barcelona, Spain JAM At this meetup, there were plenty of engaging discussions surrounding the Jenkins Certification and DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Continuous Deployment with Jenkins and Docker Swarm. Guillem Sola shared his Jenkins certification experience HERE while Viktor Farcic presented his thoughts on the aspects of building, testing, deploying, and monitoring services inside Docker Swarm clusters and Jenkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs1ED_y5mUc. Lima, Peru JAM October’s meetup was a joint effort with collaboration from Perú JUG, and Docker Lima. The first talk was an Introduction to Docker Ecosystem, second was Building and Testing Apps with Docker and Arquillian Cube and the last one was CI/CD using Docker and Jenkins Pipelines. We had a full house at the meetup. Now, everyone in the room has a Mr. Jenkins branded on their laptop :) Special thanks to Mario Inga and Héctor Paz for their collaborations during the last meetups. Links Start a JAM in your city if there isn’t one already. Become a JAM member. Become an online JAM member Be a JAM speaker or sponsor. Let us know jenkinsci-jam@googlegroups.com Become a Jenkins project contributor

At Jenkins World 2016 on September 14-15, stop by the "Open Source Hub", located in the Partner Expo hall at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The Open Source Hub will have many Jenkins contributors, committers, JAM leaders, and officers from the governance board under one roof, so there will be plenty of knowledge and talents on hand to share. We hope you’ll join in on the festivities. Ask the Experts The setup that is waiting for you: white boards, monitors and lots of brain power to help answer those Jenkins questions that have been keeping you up at night. Jenkins experts can help with beginner questions to the more advanced ones. All you need to do is bring your laptop and your questions; the experts will help answer them! Register for Jenkins World in September with the code JWFOSS for a 20% discount off your pass. Live Demos Sometimes seeing is believing, there will be plenty of demos in the "Open Source Hub" during the lunch hours on Wednesday September 14th, and Thursday September 15th in the expo hall. Jenkins experts will be show-casing their favorite Jenkins features, plugins and projects. Grab your lunch, take a seat in the open source theater to learn about: Pipelines for Building and Deploying Android Apps by Android Emulator plugin maintainer Chris Orr Git Plugin - Large Repos, Submodule Authentication, and more by Git plugin maintainer Mark Waite Docker and Pipeline by Jenkins infrastructure contributor R Tyler Croy Extending Pipeline with Libraries by Pipeline plugin maintainer Jesse Glick Blue Ocean in Action by Blue Ocean contributor Keith Zantow External Workspace Manager plugin for Pipeline by Google Summer of Code student Alexandru Somai And many more Jenkins Mural Jenkins World participants will take part in the realization of a giant collaborative mural painting with the CommitStrip team. Thomas, the writer and Etienne, the cartoonist, teamed up with a few Jenkins contributors to design a 5m x 2m mmural which will be drawn live! Brushes and colors will be available for all attendees who wish to help paint this one of a kind piece of Jenkins art. Sticker Swap Jenkins World attendees will have a chance to swap stickers. There will be a table where attendees are welcome to place/take stickers. Bring your cool stickers to share with others and take stickers that interest you. After Dark Reception Sponsored by CloudBees After Dark reception will be from 6-8pm on Wed Sept 14 in the Partner Expo. Enjoy cocktails, appetizers, mingle, and dance to a live band. A big THANK YOU goes out to CloudBees for their generous contributions! See you at After Dark! Contributor Summit - Tuesday, September 13 If Blue Ocean, Pipeline and Storage Pluggability sounds interesting to you, join the interactive discussions surrounding these topics. The Jenkins project is also looking to hear use-cases, war stories, and pain points. The objective of the summit is to work towards improving the Jeknins project. Seats are limited. Don’t forget to register; I look forward to seeing you at the conference! Links Jenkins World 2016 Acknowledgements Special thanks to CloudBees as the premier sponsor and BlazeMeter, Microsoft, Red Hat and all the other sponsors who have made this event possible.

Join us in Santa Clara, California on September 13-15, 2016! We are excited to announce the Jenkins World agenda is now live. There will be 50+ sessions, keynotes, training, certifications and workshops. Here are a few highlights of what you can expect: High level topics Continuous delivery DevOps Microservices architectures Testing Automation tools Plugin development Pipeline Best practices And much more Additionally, Jenkins World offers great opportunities for hands-on learning, exploring and networking: Plugin Development Workshop Due to its popularity in previous years, we are bringing back the plugin development workshop. This workshop will introduce developers to the Jenkins plugin ecosystem and terminology. The goal is to provide a cursory overview of the resources available to Jenkins plugin developers. Armed with this information, Jenkins developers can learn how to navigate the project and codebase to find answers to their questions. Birds of a Feather Sessions BoFs, as they are usually known, will be a new addition to Jenkins World this year. Sessions will be curated on various technical topics from DevOps to how enterprises are integrating Jenkins in their environment. Discussions will be lead by the industry’s brightest minds who have an influence in shaping the future of Jenkins. Ask the Experts Got a Jenkins question that’s been keeping you up at night? Need to bounce ideas off somebody? Or you just need someone to fix your Jenkins issue? This is your chance to get connected with the Jenkins Experts. Experts will be on hand to help with all your Jenkins needs on Sept 14th & 15th. Prepare for Jenkins Certification The objective of this session is to help you assess your level of readiness for the certification exam - either the Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE/open source) certification or the Certified CloudBees Jenkins Platform Engineer (CCJPE/CloudBees-specific) certification. After an overview about the certification program, a Jenkins expert from CloudBees will walk you through the various sections of the exam, highlighting the important things to controller ahead of time, not only from a pure knowledge perspective but also in terms of practical experience. This will be an interactive session. Hope to see you at Jenkins World 2016! Don’t miss out on Super Early Bird Rate $399. Price goes up after July 1. Links Start a JAM in your city if there isn’t one already. Become a JAM member. Become an online JAM member Be a JAM speaker or sponsor. Let us know jenkinsci-jam@googlegroups.com Become a Jenkins project contributor