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This event is over, thanks a lot to all contributors! Please the event page for results. On behalf of the Jenkins User Experience, Documentation and Advocacy and Outreach special interest groups, we are happy to announce the online UI/UX hackfest on May 25-29! Everyone is welcome to participate, regardless of their Jenkins development experience. The goal is to get together and work on improving Jenkins user experience, including but not limited to user interface and user documentation. We also invite you to share experiences about Jenkins and to participate in UX testing. The event follows the Jenkins is the Way theme and the most active contributors will get special edition swag and prizes! Event plan This hackfest is NOT a hackathon. We do not expect participants to dedicate all their time during the event timeframe, but hop-in/hop-out as their time allows. Everybody can spend as much time as they are willing to dedicate. Spending a few days or just a few hours is fine, any contributions matter regardless of their size. Jenkins development experience is not required, we have newcomer-friendly stories for those who want to start contributing to the project. We will also have a 24/7 jenkinsci/hackfest Gitter chat for Q&A and coordination between contributors. There will be 3 main tracks : User Interface - Improve look&feel and accessibility for Jenkins users, work on new read-only interface for instances managed with configuration as code, create and update Jenkins themes, and many other topics. This track is coordinated by the UX SIG. User Documentation - Improve and create new user documentation, tutorials and solution pages. Also, there is ongoing documentation migration from Wiki to jenkins.io and plugin repositories. This track is coordinated by the Documentation SIG. Spread the word - Write user stories for Jenkins Is The Way site and the Jenkins blog, post about your Jenkins user experience and new features, record overview and HOWTO videos, etc. This track is coordinated by the Advocacy and Outreach SIG. We are working on publishing project ideas and issues for the listed tracks. The current list can be found on the UI / UX hackfest event page, this list will be finalized by the beginning of the hackfest. You are welcome to propose your own projects within the User Experience theme. During the event, we will organize online meetups and ad-hoc training sessions in different timezones. All these sessions will be recorded and shared on our YouTube channel. There are no mandatory sessions you must attend, you are welcome to join ones remotely or watch the recordings. After the event we will invite participants to demo their projects at online meetings or recorded sessions. Registration This event is over, thanks a lot to all contributors! P.S: Note that the registration form has a question top 3 things we could change in Jenkins to improve your user experience. We would appreciate your response there! Contacts Please use the following contacts to contact organizers: Gitter chat Mailing list Resources Event Page Registration form. Project ideas (work-in-progress). The full list will be published by the beginning of the event. Frequently Asked Questions Contributing to Jenkins Code of Conduct Swag and Prizes Thanks to our sponsors ( CloudBees, Inc. and Continuous Delivery Foundation), we are happy to offer swag to active contributors! 50 most-active contributors will get an exclusive "Jenkins Is The Way" T-shirt and stickers Active contributors will get Jenkins stickers and socks We are working on special prizes for top contributors, to be announced later Acknowledgements We thank all contributors who participate in this event as committers! We especially thank all reviewers, organizers and those who participated in the initial program reviews and provided invaluable feedback. In particular, we thank User Experience, Documentation and Advocacy and Outreach SIG members who heavily contributed to this event. We also thank sponsors of the event who make the swag and prizes possible: CloudBees, Inc. and Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). In addition to swag, CloudBees donates working time for event hosts and reviewers. CDF also sponsors our online meetup platform which we will be using for the event. .

One of the things we loved about going to developer conferences was meeting Jenkins users — newbies and old-timers alike — who are excited to talk about their projects and share tips on how to move forward using Jenkins. Since the coronavirus pandemic, we’re learning to rely more on new ways to gather, and it’s happening via Jenkins online meetups, GitHub collaborations, and Twitter threads, to name a few. It’s a significant change. But what hasn’t changed is the need to share stories about the things users have built, the solutions they’ve developed, and the excellent results they’re getting from some really innovative Jenkins implementations. Then we wondered, why isn’t anyone collecting these user stories and sharing them with the Jenkins community. Introducing Jenkins is the Way So we took the first step to record and archive all the great stuff everyone in our community is building with Jenkins. This way, Jenkins users old and new can come to an archive and search for Jenkins solutions for inspiration. We foresee a vast library of solutions from all around the world, solving a wide array of challenges in every industry imaginable. We decided to call this archive " Jenkins Is The Way" and host it at https://JenkinsIsTheWay.io. To aggregate all these stories, we built a simple online questionnaire so that Jenkins users can submit their own experience using this leading open source automation server. With so many plugins to support building, deploying, and automating your projects, we expect to see a vast collection of stories. We’ve already received a handful, including stories that illustrate how Jenkins Is The Way : to code your own release pipelines to cast magic of continuous delivery to understand and simplify your software lifecycle to accelerate automation in the cloud to facilitate day-to-day work Add your story. Show your Jenkins pride. Get our T-shirt Be an inspiration to the Jenkins community by sharing your Jenkins story. Just go to this link and fill out the form. We’ll ask you about your project’s goals, the technical challenges you overcame with Jenkins, and the solutions you created. It should take no more than 20-30 minutes to complete. We’ll clean it up for clarity and publish it on https://JenkinsIsTheWay.io. Once it’s part of our archive, we’ll send you our new 2020 Jenkins Is the Way t-shirt. And since the more, the merrier, please share this blog post with peers and colleagues. We want to hear everyone’s stories about the clever ways Jenkins is used to automate all that we need to do. Thanks and Acknowledgement Special thanks to abConsulting for creating and managing the https://JenkinsIsTheWay.io site and for reviewing, editing, and publishing the submitted stories. Thanks to the Jenkins Advocacy and Outreach SIG for their reviews and feedback. Thanks also to CloudBees for sponsoring the " Jenkins is the Way" program.