Atlassian User Groups – London, Frankfurt, Antwerp

By Mike Cannon-Brookes|Uncategorized|2 Comments

Following on from the success of our Virginia user group earlier this year, we’ve have two more scheduled for Europe in December!
What happens at a user group?
We’re still evolving them, but first and foremost it’s a chance for Atlassian customers to meet each other and exchange ideas. I missed our first in “Virginia”:http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AUG/2006-09-19+Falls+Church%2C+VA last September – unfortunately you can’t be everywhere on this little marble – but Scott was there and he still raves about the customer connections he witnessed.
Beyond that, there will be a few short presentations (don’t worry – it’s not a slide night, very informal) about upcoming releases (JIRA 3.7 and Confluence 2.3 – both huge releases), demos of “Bamboo”:http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO, Crowd and some of the cooler new plugins.
For visuals, you can see the “presentations and photos”:http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AUG/2006-09-19+Falls+Church%2C+VA from the last event online.
Oh, and because of a rare freak of timing, the planets are aligned that week so both Scott _and_ I will be at all the meetings. That’s right, *you get to meet us both* – quel horreur – come along!
(Trust me, we’re rarely in the same city for long together anymore so hanging out in Europe for a week chatting to customers sounds like fun to me!)
I believe most likely Dave Loeng and Matt Ryall (both from the Confluence team) will be at both too, so you get to meet a little more of the team.
As Jonathan said in his “post to our Developer Blog”:http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/2006/11/atlassian_user_groups_head_to.html:
bq. Just like last time, these meetups are open to anyone interested in Atlassian and our products: developers, customers, or potential customers!
h2. Event Locations
For the concrete dates, see:
* “London, UK – User Group”:http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AUG/Atlassian+User+Group+in+London%2C+UK – December 12th (kindly sponsored by our partner “Headshift”:http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/APW/Headshift)
* “Frankfurt, Germany – User Group”:http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AUG/Atlassian+User+Group+in+Karlsruhe%2C+Germany – December 18th (kindly sponsored by our sponsor “Pix Software”:http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/APW/Pix+Software) – 5 people signed up today, including a _special guest_ in Jens Schumacher (another Confluence developer) who will be in Germany anyway visiting his family for Christmas.
* “Antwerp, Belgium – Meetup”:http://www.javapolis.com/confluence/display/JP06/Atlassian+Users+meetup – Less formal than the other two, this is really just an excuse to drink spectacular Belgium beer with customers at “Javapolis”:http://www.javapolis.com/confluence/, the fav Atlassian Java conference of the year!