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After an amazing three months of development period in the summer of 2019 with Jenkins Project, I was a better developer, loved open source, met passionate people and had fun at work. Jenkins is not just a community, it is a family. When GSoC period was over, we received swags from Jenkins. Natasha Stopa (one of the students in GSoC 2019) was invited to attend DevOps World | Jenkins World San Francisco. It was nice to see her enjoy there. But guess what? Jenkins also invited three other students (Abhyudaya, Long and me) to DevOps World | Jenkins World Lisbon. I was super psyched when Marky Jackson (one of my project mentors) broke the news to me. The trip to Lisbon required to sort a few things like flight tickets, hotel booking, passport, visa etc. Oleg Nenashev had scheduled meetings to discuss and help us with arranging everything for our travel. Thanks to him. :) From India to Lisbon (Dec 1) Abhyudaya and I boarded our flight from Indira Gandhi Airport (New Delhi) to Lisbon on December 1, 2019 morning at 0500 hours (local time). It was a fine trip with an hour layover in Istanbul Ataturk Airport. We arrived in Lisbon at 1500 hours (local time). The weather in Lisbon was terrific. A mild cold but strong sea breeze was the starting point of me falling in love with the place. We arrived at our hotel (Novotel Lisboa) in an Uber. Oleg met us at the lobby to help us with check-in. It was great to finally meet him in person after months of knowing and working together. We had a good chat about the event, what to expect and other sightseeing areas. After a short time of refresh, Long who traveled from Berlin a day before met us at the restaurant. We had a brief chat knowing each other, had our food and went to bed. The next day was Hackfest. We hit the bed after that as we had to reach Centro de Congressos de Lisboa (CCL) where the event was organised by 0900 hours. Day 0 (Dec 2) I woke up early for a short jog in the streets. Lisbon is a city made on hills. The streets have beautiful mosaic styled pavements. It was nice to see around the city. Then Abhyudaya and me went for breakfast and reached CCL in an Uber at 0815 hours. There was a round table sitting arrangement in an auditorium. It was like a meet-and-greet event to interact with other developers (some known and some new). Everybody had to figure out their problem statements and work on it. There was milk, juice, sandwiches which gave us energy throughout the day. I took a small break to come out of the building to go to the other side of the road which was on the banks of Tagus River. From there you could have very close view underneath the Ponte 25 de Abril (looks strikingly similar to Golden Gate Bridge). You can also see The Sanctuary of Christ the King on the other side of the river (again looks similar to Christ the Redeemer in Rio, Brazil). It was great to kick off the event with Hackfest. At the end of Hackfest some of us presented our work. Later, we went to a nearby restaurant to have burgers which apparently was the best burger I ever had (could be because I hadn’t tried too many burgers before :P). We talked and interacted with people from other parts of the world for about an hour and a half then went back to our hotel rooms. Day 1 (Dec 3) The conference officially began on this day. Abyudaya and me had breakfast and took the shuttle to CCL. We collected our t-shirts and IDs. The event managing team made an app for DevOps World | Jenkins World (DWJW) Lisbon with all schedules and other informations which was incredibly convenient for all attendees. There were multiple sessions/events on different topics related to Jenkins or DevOps in general. I attended the Jenkins and Jenkins X contributor summit. Had a nice lunch and went around to explore Lisbon. I went to Padrao dos Descobrimentos and the beautiful Belem Palace. Had some Pasteis de Belem (a popular Portuguese desert). Took a tram to Praça do Comércio. It is Lisbon’s most important square. You will find lots of tourists, street bands, sea food restaurants, shops for every budget, the famous pink street and so much more. Later that evening we had a party hosted by EURODOG (European DevOps Group) at Lisboa Marriott. It was a nice party to network with developers over casual wine and beer. We later head out to a nearby Indian restaurant for Kebab and rice. Day 2 (Dec 4) The second day began with the opening keynote. Later went to the Jenkins X Introduction, Deploying K8s with Jenkins on GCP, Build top mobile games by King in that order. Also occasionally hitting the sponsors booth to have a chat and collect some swags. In the evening there was the superhero themed party, sponsored by Sonatype. It was probably the most fun event in the entire conference. The expo hall had an entirely different look with the party lights on, people wearing capes, fun events going around. There were artists dressed in a Bumblebee, a Batman, a Superman, a Supergirl, a Thor and more superhero costumes! I was previously made aware of the interesting parties at Jenkins World but the experience was very different. People from all over the world had come together to celebrate the 15 years of success of an open source software. After partying from 5 to 7 we went back to the hotel. I spent some time to prepare the slides for the next day’s presentation and went to bed. Day 3 (Dec 5) The third and final day of conference began with Jenkins World Fun Run. I missed the keynote for being late and other setup required for the presentation. My laptop was broken so had to do all the setup for demo on a friend’s laptop. The situation felt like a Jenkins admin under fire for a production bug. After being under pressure for a while, took a break to admire the developer comics and had a chat with the graffiti painter. During lunch it was time for the GSoC presentation at the Jenkins community booth. All our presentation went well and we also interacted with real users. Then we had the GSoC Team pic at the Jenkins community booth. Later Abhyudaya and me gave our presentation at the lightning talks as well upon Mark Waite’s request. The event concluded with emotional goodbyes. All GSoC Students were invited for dinner at Corinthia Lisboa’s Soul Garden restaurant. The party comprised of Oleg, Mark and his lovely wife, Liam, Tracy, Alyssa and Olivier. We had a very nice conversation and I had a very delicious Bacalhau (cod fish) dish. Then bid final goodbye to everybody. It was a wonderful experience in a wonderful country among wonderful people. Hats off to the management team lead by Alyssa Tong and co. An event this big was carried out without any hiccups! Everybody contributed their part to the event which made it very interactive and fun. Checkout some of my swags: A big shout out to the Jenkins project and CloudBees for sponsoring this trip. Also thank you Jenkins and Google Summer of Code for support. :)

I had the privilege of being invited to DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 for presenting the work I did during Google Summer of Code 2019. What follows is a day-by-day summary of an amazing trip to the conference. Day 0: December 1, 2019 I am an undergraduate student from New Delhi, India and had traveled to Lisbon to attend the conference. I had an early morning flight to Lisbon from Delhi via Istanbul. At the Airport, I met Parichay who had been waiting there from his connecting flight. After flying 8000 km, we reached Lisbon. We took a taxi to the hotel and were greeted there by one of my Google Summer of Code mentors, Oleg. After four months of working with him on my GSoC project, meeting him was an amazing experience. Later that day, after stretching our legs in the hotel, we met Long for an early dinner, who came to the hotel after exploring much of Lisbon. Day 1: Hackfest, December 2 Next morning, we all met for breakfast where we all got to taste some Pastel de Nata. We then took a cab to the Congress Centre for attending the Jenkins and Jenkins X hackfest. At the Hackfest, I met Mark, Joseph, Kasper, Andrey and other Jenkins contributors. I also met Oleg, this time together with his son and his wife. After our introductions, and a short presentation by Oleg, I started hacking on the Folder Auth plugin and made it possible to delete user sids from roles. The best part of hacking there was to get instant feedback on what I was working on. More and more people kept coming throughout the day. It was great to see so many people working hard to improve Jenkins. At the end, everyone presented what they had achieved that day. Having skipped lunch for some snacks, Oleg and others tried hard to get some pizza delivered without much success. After the Hackfest, everyone was hungry and most attendees including me went looking for nearby restaurants. Since it was early and most restaurants were not open yet, we all decided to have burgers. It was a great learning experience listening to and talking about Jenkins, Elasticsearch, Jira, GitHub and a lot of other things. After that, we took a taxi back to the hotel and I went to bed. Day 2: Contributor Summit, December 3 We had the Jenkins and Jenkins X contributor summit the next day. Me and Parichay took the bus to the Congress Centre in the morning. After registration, I got my ‘Speaker’ badge and the conference T-shirt. The contributor summit took place in the same hall as the Hackfest, but the seating arrangement was completely different and there were a lot more people. The summit started with everyone introducing themselves. It turned out that there were a lot of people from Munich. There were presentations and talks about all things Jenkins, Jenkins X and the Continuous Delivery Foundation by Kohsuke, Oleg, Joseph, Liam, Olivier, Wadek and others. I had no experience with Jenkins X which made the summit very interesting. After lunch, the talks were over, and everyone was free to join any session discussing various things about Jenkins. I attended the Cloud Native Jenkins and the Configuration-as-Code sessions. While some of the conference attendees were in the Contributor summit, the others were going through certifications and trainings. At around 5 o’clock in the evening, the summit and the trainings all got over and the expo hall was thrown open. On the entrance, there was a large stack of big DWJW bags. I did not realize why those bags were kept there. Since everyone was taking one, I took one as well. As soon as I went into the hall, I realized that those bags were for collecting swag. I had never seen anything like this where sponsors were just giving away T-shirts, stickers and other stuff. There were snacks and Kohsuke was cutting the extremely tasty 15 years of Jenkins cake. After having the cake, I went on a swag-collecting spree going from one sponsor booth to the other. This was an amazing experience, not only was I able to get cool stuff, I was also able to learn a lot about the software these companies made and how it fits into the DevOps pipeline. After the conference got over, me, Long and Parichay went to the Lisbon Mariott Hotel for the Eurodog party. After collecting another T-shirt, I went to the nearest restaurant (McDonald’s) with Andrey who I had earlier met at the Hackfest. Day 3: December 4 This was the first official day of the conference and it began with the keynote. There were over 900 people in the keynote hall. It was amazing to see so many people attending the conference. After the keynote got over, I went to several sessions throughout the day learning about how companies are using Jenkins and implementing DevOps tools. In the evening, we had the Sonatype Superparty which was a lot of fun. There were neon lights, arcade machines, VR experiences, superheroes and more swag. There was a lot of good food including pizzas and burgers and hot dogs. Superhero inspired desserts were very interesting. I was able to talk to Oleg and Wadek about the security challenges in Jenkins. During the party, I also got a chance to meet the CEO of CloudBees, Sacha Labourey. Day 4, December 5 This was the last day of the conference and it began with another keynote. After the keynote, I attended a very interesting talk on how the European Observatory built software for large telescopes using Jenkins. After that, I prepared for my talk on the work I did during Google Summer of Code 2019. I had my presentation in the community booth during the lunch time. Presenting in front of real people was an amazing experience and very different from the ones we had on Zoom chats for our GSoC evaluations. In the evening, I got another chance to present my project at the Jenkins Community Lightning Talks. After that, the conference came to an end and I went back to the hotel. After relaxing for some time, me, Parichay and Long were invited by Oleg to a dinner at Corinthia Hotel with Kohsuke, Mark and his wife, Tracy, Alyssa, and Liam. Unfortunately, Long couldn’t attend the dinner because he had the flight back earlier that evening. After the amazing dinner, I thanked everyone for such an amazing trip and said goodbye. DWJW was the best experience I’ve ever had. I was able to learn about a lot of new things and talk to some amazing people. In the end, I would like to especially thank Oleg for helping me throughout and making it possible for me to attend such a wonderful conference. I would like to thank my other mentors Runze Xia and Supun for their support in my Google Summer of Code project. I would like to thank Google for organizing Google Summer of Code, everyone at Jenkins project for sponsoring my travel, and CloudBees for inviting me to the conference. Looking forward to seeing you all again soon!