Seven weeks ago the world met Stash – a centralized solution to manage Git repositories behind the firewall. Stash 1.0 was a huge launch! Atlassian’s been deluged with great feedback and already have small agile teams and large enterprises adopting Stash for their Git development.

Yes, that's right, Codegeist, your favorite annual development competition is back! Some of you who came to Atlassian Summit will know that this year's Codegeist started June 1st and goes until July 16th. This year Atlassian's giving away $45,000 USD in cash prizes across four categories.

Here’s Atlassian’s Matt Hodges’ take on Atlassian Confluence’s best additions of 2011, which he says “paved the way for the future of online collaboration:”

Hi everyone! Thanks again for attending last week’s Central Texas Atlassian User Group (CTXAUG). We were thrilled to have 16 attendees for our second meeting – and hope to top 25 at our third! View the meeting slides here, which include Kenn North’s presentation about how his company leverages Confluence and Jira; view Nassim Massah’s presentation about Atlassian Build Pipelines here.

San Antonians, you don’t have to make the drive to Austin to get involved. We’re bringing San Antonio its first Atlassian User Group (AUG)!

Join us later this month for the first San Antonio Atlassian User Group (SATXAUG)! Expect to enjoy appetizers, speakers, and the chance to talk shop with other Atlassian users about how they use Atlassian tools.

To all Austin-area Atlassian users (we know there are lots of you) – please join us next month for the second-ever Central Texas Atlassian User Group (CTXAUG)! At our first meeting we enjoyed snacks, beer, two Jira and Confluence whizzes, and the chance to talk shop with other Atlassian users about how they use Atlassian tools.

We’re excited to announce that our primary Atlassian guru, developer, ace, bad-a… Chris Pepe, has slain a dragon. A huge, fire-breathing, metaphorical dragon.

Chris completed Atlassian’s Here Be Dragons quest, in which developers from villages worldwide are challenged with the task of fully integrating a suite of Atlassian applications. And he did it without a sword.

We’re excited to host the first Central Texas Atlassian User Group next month – a place for Atlassian users (Jira, Confluence, Greenhopper, Crucible, etc) to connect and share ideas. We’re expecting over 50 attendees, so we’ll be starting off with a bang!

We’ve talked a lot on this blog about what Atlassian Jira and Confluence are and how they can be used. We’re big fans. But some of you are already benefiting from them, and are big fans too. That’s why the Praecipio Consulting team has launched the Central Texas Atlassian User Group (@ctxaug), the first Atlassian user group in the Austin metro.