Atlassian Announces Winners of Second Annual Codegeist Plugin Competition.40 New Plugins Developed, $21k Awarded SYDNEY, Australia -- Atlassian Software Systems Atlassian Software Systems is an Australian software company specialising in issue tracking and collaboration software. Their main products are JIRA, an issue tracking and project management system, Confluence, an enterprise wiki, Bamboo, a continuous integration system, and Crowd, today announced the winners of Codegeist II, its second annual plugin contest. The competition challenges the developer community to extend the capabilities of Atlassian's collaboration and development software. This year Codegeist drew 40 entries from around the world, each vying for a piece of the USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. $21,000 in prize money. "The Atlassian developer community continues to crank out incredibly innovative plugins for the Codegeist competition," said Jonathan Nolen, director of Atlassian's developer relations. "We were especially excited to see multiple entries, and really successful ones at that, for two of our newest products, Bamboo and Crowd." Award-winning Atlassian products include Confluence, the enterprise wiki A Web site that can be quickly edited by its visitors with simple formatting rules. Developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s to provide collaborative discussions, there are several "wiki" tools on the market for creating such sites, including www.editme.com, www.seedwiki.com, www. , and JIRA JIRA Japan Industries Association of Radiological Systems (trade organization) JIRA Japan Investor Relations Association , the popular issue tracker. Newer products include Crowd, a single sign-on An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password. solution, and Bamboo, a continuous integration server. For each product, Atlassian awarded a top prize of USD $4,000 to the entry best in usefulness, creativity, elegance, completeness and quality. The runner-up in each category received USD $1,000. Atlassian's developer teams judged the entries and considered functionality, quality of code, and documentation. This year's winners broken down by category include: JIRA First place: Links Hierarchy Reports Plugin, developed by Jean-Christophe Huet of Pyxis Technologies, allows viewing an entire hierarchy of related issues in a graphical format. Second place: Confluence Portlet A small window on a portal page. Portlet technology allows a portal page to be customized more quickly either internally by the development team or by the end user. Portlet technology can come as an adjunct to a portal server or as optional interfaces to ERP applications. for JIRA, written by Tommi Laakanen, displays any Confluence page on the JIRA dashboard, creating stronger integration between the two products. Confluence First place: Checklists Plugin, developed by Roberto Dominguez of Comala Technology Solutions, is a handy way to build data tables, construct to-do lists, or manage the stages of a project. Second place: Page Tree Search Plugin A search plugin provides the ability to access a search engine from a web browser, without having to go to the engine's website first. Technically, a search plugin is a small text file that tells the browser what information to send to a search engine and how the results are , written by Shannon Krebs, lets you search a limited hierarchy of pages. Crowd First place: Crowd JAAS JAAS Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry JAAS Java Authentication and Authorization Service JAAS Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences (China) JAAS Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society Login Signing in and gaining access to a network server, Web server or other computer system. The process (the noun) is a "login" or "logon," while the act of doing it (the verb) is to "log in" or to "log on. Module, developed by Brad Harvey, connects Crowd with applications JAAS and Spring Acegi. Second place: .Net Authenticator The device in an authentication system that physically allows or blocks access to the network. It is typically an access point in a wireless system or a network access server (NAS) in a dial-up system. See 802.1X and authentication. , written by Matthew Slater, extends Crowd's services to .Net applications. Bamboo First place: Coverage Plugin, developed by Dan Grabowski, provides tracking of, and insight into, project code coverage for Bamboo builds. Second place: NAnt Builder Plugin, written by Ross Rowe, allows configuration and execution of NAnt build files for .Net/Mono projects. This year Atlassian opened the polls to its community. Determined by popular public vote, the Community Award (USD $1,000) went to Jean-Christophe Huet's Links Hierarchy Reports plugin for JIRA, which also swept the JIRA plugin category. Codegeist II was sponsored by JetBrains, The ServerSide, Cenqua and YourKit, which donated licenses and prizes. To view all the Codegeist plugins, visit http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/h4A3AQ. The complete Atlassian plugin library is here: http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ek8C. About Atlassian Atlassian creates affordable, lightweight software that helps enterprises collaborate and develop better. For more information, visit http://www.atlassian.com |
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