The Jenkins Contributor Summit brings together current and future contributors to the Jenkins project. We’re hosting an online summit this year to encourage contributors from around the world to meet, discuss, and plan for the future. The Contributor Summit will be Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 through Thursday, February 25, 2021. The summit brings together community members to learn, meet, and help shape the future of Jenkins. In the...

With the mentor summit and the project retrospectives finished in October, now we can call Google Summer of Code 2020 officially over in the Jenkins community. On behalf of the Jenkins org team, we would like to thank all participants: students, mentors, applicants, and dozens of other contributors who participated in the project this year. Google Summer of Code would not be successful without the active participation...

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a program where students are paid a stipend by Google to work on a free open source project. Students work on the project for three months (June to August). Prior to the coding phase, there is a month of community bonding, to welcome students to the Jenkins community and acquaint them with the projects processes for communication and collaboration. Mentors are actively...

The annual DevOps World, formerly known as DevOps World | Jenkins World is next week - Sept 22-24, with workshops on Sept 25. Just like other events this year, DevOps World pivoted to a virtual event but that doesn’t mean there is a shortage of sessions or networking opportunities. There will be over 50 Jenkins/open source sessions and opportunities to virtually connect with over...

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...

Google Summer of Code is much more than a summer internship program, it is a year-round effort for the organization and some community members. Now, after the DevOps World | Jenkins World conference in Lisbon and final retrospective meetings, we can say that GSoC 2019 is officially over. We would like to start by thanking all participants: students, mentors, subject matter experts and all other contributors...

FOSDEM 2020 is coming and with it, a lot of great folks come in town. It’s always a great moment to meet Jenkins community members, share stories and get inspired. I hope that this year will be as great as it always been and for that, we organize a few things Things we’ll do During the whole event, we’ll be virtually on the Gitter On the Thursday 30 of...

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is as program where students are paid a stipend by Google to work on a free open source project. Students work on the project full-time for four months (May to August). Mentors are actively involved with students starting at the end of February when students start to work on and submit their applications. (see the timeline) We are looking for project ideas and mentors...

DevOps World | Jenkins World San Francisco was August 12 - 15, 2019. The event was delivered in vivid colors starting with flowing banners hung from street lamp posts to the big screens in breakout rooms, to the expo hall. The energy and enthusiasm in the Moscone convention center made the colors even more vibrant, thanks to the people attending the conference. Here’s a recap of the...

I was fortunate enough to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2019 as a mentor and org admin. This was great and I wanted to share in hopes of encouraging more people to join. You can learn more about the Google Summer of Code here: https://jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/ Community Bonding The first phase of the project is the community bonding phase. This is where the student and other mentors...