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Last week we hosted our first Hacksgiving event, a two-day virtual hackathon with a number of recorded sessions and plenty of pull requests submitted, I would say it was a success! I would like to thank everybody who took the time to watch, chat and present in the Hacker Hangout. Now that everybody has had time to recover from the turkey and travel, we have some videos of the sessions sliced out and ready for publication. In addition to the recorded sessions, there were a number of notes captured with useful links associated with practically each session. You can find those notes at the bottom of the Hacksgiving page. The following videos are all available in this YouTube playlist Intro to the Jenkins project This session was hosted by rtyler and meant to provide a cursory overview of where to get started with contributing to the Jenkins project Intro to Plugin Development Workshop This session was given both days of Hacksgiving by schristou and does a really great job of introducing the viewer to getting started with developing a Jenkins plugin with Java. Workflow Q&A and Demo Session This session was not originally scheduled, but some folks on the Jenkins IRC channel had some Workflow questions and Jesse Glick jumped into the Hacker Hangout to help us out! Internationalization Live Coding / Q&A Another impromptu session, this time with danielbeck hosting. In this session Daniel walks through a plugin he was working on for Hacksgiving and adds internationalization support while answering a few questions here and there. Intro to the new static site Kicking off day two of Hacksgiving, rtyler hosted a session on the new statically-generated Jenkins site. The new site will dramatically lower the barrier to entry for contribution to Jenkins documentation and blogs, by pushing everything through GitHub. Plugin Developer Open Q&A This was the last session of Hacksgiving, hosted by abayer and ended up being more like a casual discussion of the current status and future work in the plugin development ecosystem.

It is great to see the pick up of local activities through hosted JAMs. In October, the Jenkins community hosted Atlanta JAM and Bay Area JAM. Many thanks to our sponsors: Ericsson, CloudBees, Blazemeter, NetRoadShow. Here’s a summary of what was discussed: Atlanta JAM - Jenkins workflow and Docker to reduce friction in DevOps efforts. Bay Area JAM- Performance testing strategies, incorporating performance tests into Jenkins workflows and the metrics that matter most for troubleshooting and diagnosing issues. A look forward to November and December: Hacksgiving Barcelona, Spain JAM Toulouse,France JAM As usual, if you’re interested in becoming an organizer or sponsor, here’s how to get started. If you’ve heard of a great Jenkins talk out there, shoot us an email with speaker info to jenkinsci-jam@googlegroups.com so we can invite him/her to our next meetups.

+ image:https://jenkins-ci.org/sites/default/files/images/Seville-JAM_logo_1024px_0.png[image] + + + There’s been some active discussions and planning around Jenkins Area Meetups (JAMs) specifically in the following cities: Rennes, France Seville, Spain Seattle, Washington Barcelona,Spain Raleigh, North Carolina Atlanta, Georgia + + I wanted to gauge Jenkins interests in these cities, so let us know at jenkinsci-jam@googlegroups.com if you live in one of these areas, and if you would be interested in becoming a member or be involved in JAM one way or another! + + Of course, if the city you live in currently does not have a JAM and you’re interested in paying it forward, here’s HOW YOU can become a JAM organizer.

+ image:https://jenkins-ci.org/sites/default/files/images/Screen%20Shot%202015-09-30%20at%202.15.54%20PM_0.png[image,width=320] + + + Last week, the first Jenkins Area Meetup (JAM) took place in San Jose, CA on Wednesday, Sept 23. What a way to kick off the first JAM other than to have Docker, John Willis as our guest speaker. John talked about immutable infrastructure and its benefits and role of containers. + + Kohsuke discussed Jenkins Workflow, the motivation behind the same and latest features of Jenkins Workflow like multi branch support followed by docker use cases. The highlight of the meetup was definitely Kohsuke breaking the news about Jenkins 2.0 and his vision and motivation behind it. + + The next Bay Area JAM is slated for Oct 21. Be sure to check HERE for the agenda. We’d love to have you join us if you’re in the area. If you’re interested in speaking, or become a food & bev, venue, or recording sponsor please send email to the organizer or events@lists.jenkins-ci.org.

A few years ago, the Jenkins community announced the Jenkins CIA program - the Continuous Integration Ambassador initiative to spread the word of Jenkins. As of recently, there hasn’t been as much activity, so this program needs to be revived! + + There are over 120,000 active Jenkins installations now and that number just keeps climbing and climbing. It’s important to bring all of us together through big events like the Jenkins User Conference, but not everyone can get there. That is why Meetups and smaller Jenkins events are crucial. + + To support this effort, CloudBees has announced that they will be sponsoring the kickoff of the CIA revival/https://jenkins-ci.org/content/bay-area-jenkins-area-meet-looking-you[JAM] to help the Jenkins community host these Meetups! + + To kick this off, the first Jenkins Area Meetup (JAM) is in the San Jose CloudBees office on Sept 23. We are shooting to have a JAM everything 3rd Wednesday of every month to consistently bring the community together.

We’re currently setting up a program to support community members' travel to Jenkins community events. Our goal is to enable more members of the community to meet each other and exchange ideas in person. We’re still hashing out the details, but it’ll be available to every Jenkins community member. Apply, telling us what Jenkins-related event you’d like to attend and how awesome you are, and we may support your travel with up to 500 USD. For details on how this will work, see the current draft of the travel grant program. The first person to be supported in this way is Pradeepto Bhattacharya from Pune, India. He was a speaker at this year’s JUC Europe in London, and will give two talks at JUC US West next week—​and we help him get there! He asked us a few weeks back whether the Jenkins project could support his trip to the US. We came to the conclusion that this would be a good idea—​so good in fact, that we decided to build a regular program from it. Are you planning to attend a JUC or similar event, but worry about the cost of travel? We may be able to help you out!

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_preserves[image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Welovejam_blenheim_apricot_jam.jpg[image]] + + + + A week ago https://jenkins-ci.org/content/bay-area-jenkins-area-meet-looking-you[we reported that Uday is looking at organizing a regular Jenkins meet-up in Silicon Valley]. This has made a progress since then, and this evening we'll get together to figure out logistics for the first meet-up: + + Time August 5th, Wednesday 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Location Starbucks, 750 Castro St, Mountain View, CA 94041 + + + The agenda is: + + Determine the date for the first meet up Speakers for the second slot. Kohsuke will be presenting first. Future topics of interest for JAM Sponsors / Volunteers Ideas to make the JAM relevant and interesting for the extended community to participate and share their implementations Q & A + + + Uday and I will be there, and Uday told me that he heard from another guy who will join us. If you are around and is willing to come over, we'd love to see you. If you are interested, I'd also encourage you to join http://lists.jenkins-ci.org/mailman/listinfo/jenkins-events[the Jenkins events list], where a discussion is happening.

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_preserves[image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Welovejam_blenheim_apricot_jam.jpg[image]] + + + + Uday made a blog post yesterday that he is looking at organizing a regular Jenkins meet-up in the Silicon Valley Bay Area dubbed "Bay Area Jenkins Area Meetup (JAM)." + + + As a first step, he wants to have a kick-off meeting, to get more insights and opinions about what the topics could be and what people want to hear. I'm really looking forward to it as a means to build a local network, so I signed myself up as a speaker of the first meet-up. + + + If you are in the Peninsula, South Bay, East Bay, etc., please send some encouragements to him by posting a comment, or better yet, come to the kick-off meeting.