It is hard to believe that the first half of 2016 is almost over and summer is just around the corner. As usual, there are plenty of educational Jenkins events planned for this month. Below lists what’s happening in your neck of the woods: Online JAM June 14: Plugin Development - Basics North America JAMs June 14: Pipeline in a Windows Environment - Boston, Massachusetts June 15: Open Source Jenkins 2.0, What’s New? - Washington, DC June 22: Continuously Deploying Containers with Jenkins Pipeline to a Docker Swarm Cluster - Seattle, Washington Europe JAM June 14: Jenkins 2.0 - London, United Kingdom June 22: Pipeline As Code - Toulouse, France 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 Take advantage of the super-early-bird price to Jenkins World 2016 Become a Jenkins project contributor

Recently, the Jenkins project announced the release of Jenkins 2.0, a first major release after 10 years and 655 weekly releases. This has been a major milestone for Jenkins and its growing community of developers, testers, designers and other users in the software delivery process. With its rising popularity and wide adoption, the Jenkins community continues to grow and evolve into the millions. Jenkins community meetup activity has risen to an all time high since the first Jenkins meetup which was established on August 23 2010, in San Francisco. Over the last six months the number of Jenkins Area Meetup (JAM) Groups has grown from 5 to 30, with coverage in Asia, North America, South America and Europe. That’s an average growth of 4 new JAMs per month. As of today, there are over 4,100 Jenkins fans within the Jenkins meetup community. This is the result of contributions from community JAM leaders who have volunteered their time to provide a platform for learning, sharing and networking all things Jenkins within their local communities. For anyone who has not organized a meetup before, there are many moving parts that have to come together at a specific location, date and time. This process takes significant effort to methodically plan out. From planning the food and beverages to securing speaker(s), a venue, audio/visual setup, technical logistics and of course promoting the meetup. It does takes a level of passion and effort to make it all happen. Many THANKS to the 55 JAM leaders, who share this passion - they have successfully organized over 41 meetups within the past six months in North America, South America and Europe. That’s about 6 meetups a month! There are still plenty of opportunities to be a JAM organizer. If there is not a JAM near you, we’d love to hear from you! Here’s how you can get started.

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong. Alyssa works for CloudBees, helping to organize Jenkins community events around the world. Jenkins World 2016 will be the largest gathering of Jenkins users in the world. This event will bring together Jenkins experts, continuous delivery thought leaders and the ecosystem offering complementary technologies for Jenkins. Join us September 13-15, 2016 in Santa Clara, California to learn and explore, network face-to-face and help shape the next evolution of Jenkins development and solutions for DevOps. Registration for Jenkins World 2016 is now live. Take advantage of the Super Early Bird rate of $399 (available until July 1st). And don’t forget, the Call for Papers will be ending on May 1st. That’s 2.5 short weeks left to get your proposal(s) in. We anxiously await your amazing stories.

Over the past few months, I’m happy to say, the number of Jenkins Area Meetups (JAMs) has grown tremendously! The excitement around JAMs has gotten us thinking about something larger, something more globally focused. That led us to create vJAM, an online Jenkins Area Meetup, where we can share what we’re learning together. The effort will be spear-headed by long time Jenkins contributor, R. Tyler Croy. The key goals for the Virtual Jenkins Area Meetup are: Connect the global Jenkins user and developer community. Help spread the latest and greatest best practices. Support other JAMs by offering another, broader, audience for speakers and organizers vJAM, originally inspired by Virtual JUG, will supplement local JAMs but nothing virtual can replace the value of talking with other Jenkins users over pizza and drinks. We’re currently working on the agenda for the first vJAM, which will be posted to this Meetup group, so be sure to sign up if you’re interested in participating! If you’re interested in creating your own local Jenkins Area Meetup, read this page for more details.

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 User Conferences" before it, this year’s event will feature many experts from the Jenkins community that help make Jenkins the most popular open source automation server on the planet. We’ve found that we outgrew the popular multi-city one-day Jenkins User Conferences, so unlike previous years Jenkins World will be a three-day event in one place with an incredible amount of great content. The goal of the event is to bring Jenkins contributors and users of all levels together, from around the world, to discuss, share and learn from one another. Starting today we’re opening the call for proposals . As a global event, users from all over the world are encouraged to submit a talk between now and May 1st, 2016 (11:59pm PST). We look forward to receiving your amazing submission, and seeing you in Santa Clara this fall. Submit a proposal today!

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 and failover requirements and how heavy automation played an important role in this effort. The second talk was about how Google worked with Jenkins to read config data externally. Slides are listed below. The video will be posted on the meetup page) once it becomes available. Slides for the talks are linked below: Scaling Jenkins External Project Check out where Jenkins Area Meetups (JAMs) are located in the world. Don’t see a JAM in your area? why not start your own, here’s how.

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, CA On December 9 Lima JAM hosted their first Jenkins meetup in Lima, Peru. There were attendance from various roles of DevOps: Dev, QA, and Ops. There was also a good mixture of different levels of Jenkins users, some were new and just starting to use Jenkins while others had extensive Jenkins experience. The group has been invited by Docker and Ansible meetup organizers for a joint event in January to showcase technologies from Jenkins, Docker, and Ansible. Congrats to Lima JAM group. Slides from the meetup can be found here. Additional shared resources used in the Lima JAM can be found here. Check out where Jenkins Area Meetups (JAMs) are located in the world. Don’t see a JAM in your area? why not start your own, here’s how.

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 current open-source project state, ongoing activities in the community, Jenkins-powered CD case studies from ZeroTurnaround and Jenkins plugin development approaches. Intro slides [ru] Who is Mr. Jenkins? Current State, common usage issues and trends in the community [ru], by Oleg Nenashev - [ video ] English version Jenkins beyond CI. ZeroTurnaround’s experience [en], by Sergei Egorov - [ video ] When to write your own plugin and when not to [ru], by Kirill Merkushev - [ video ] Q&A Session [ru], all speakers - [ video ] Check out where Jenkins Area Meetups (JAMs) are located in the world. Don’t see a JAM in your area? Why not start your own, here’s how.