Google Summer of Code is as program where students are paid a stipend by Google to work on a free open source project like Jenkins, at full-time for four months (May to August). Mentors get actively involved with students starting at the end of February when students start to apply (see the timeline). We are looking for mentors and project ideas to participate in the 15th edition of the...

This year, the Jenkins organization participated in the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit at the Google office in Sunnyvale on Oct 12, 13 and 14, 2018. The GSoC Mentor Summit is where mentors of all organizations participating in the GSoC program are invited each year to learn and network with mentors from other organization, and make GSoC a better program. This is the second time Jenkins mentors...

The Jenkins Contributor summit is where the current and future contributors of the Jenkins project get together. This summit will be on Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 in Nice, France just before Jenkins World. What should those planning on joining expect at the event? Earlier this year in September we had a contributor summit in San Francisco which gave us a pretty good outline of what to expect. First...

It has been a while since the last blogpost about Google Summer of Code in Jenkins. GSoC 2018 has officially finished on August 23, and we had a Jenkins Online Meetup where we had final presentations of the GSoC projects. It is never late to provide more context, so I would like to summarize the results and provide updates of what was happening in Jenkins GSoC...

Traditionally there are a lot of events happening in the Jenkins organization in Autumn. I would like to share some information about the upcoming hackathons. Online Event: Hacktoberfest As you probably know, there is an ongoing Hacktoberfest event. The Jenkins project is participating in it and everybody is welcome to contribute to Jenkins as a part of this event. The event lasts from October 01 to October 31, and you...

The Jenkins Contributor summit is where the current and future contributors of the Jenkins project get together. This summit will be on Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 in Nice, France just before Jenkins World. The summit brings together community members to learn, meet and help shape the future of Jenkins. In the Jenkins community we value all types and sizes of contributions and love to welcome new participants. It...

The Jenkins Contributor summit is where the current and future contributors of the Jenkins project get together. This summit will be on Monday, September 17th 2018 in San Francisco, just before DevOps World | Jenkins World. The summit brings together community members to learn, meet and help shape the future of Jenkins. In the Jenkins community we value all types and sizes of contributions and love to...

Last week I participated in the Jenkins & Java 10 Online Hackathon. It was my first Jenkins hackathon and I roped in Jonah Graham to do some pair-programming. The hackathon featured JDK Project Jigsaw committers Mandy Chung and Paul Sandoz, as well as Jenkins creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi. It was a great opportunity for me to learn a lot about Jenkins and Java 10. Why Java 10? With the Java 8 EoL data looming, the...

This week we have a Jenkins & Java 10 Online Hackathon. This is an open online event, where we work together on Jenkins core and plugins in order to find and fix compatibility issues, share experiences and have some fun. Everybody is welcome to join, independently of their Jenkins experience and amount of time they have available. After the kick off on Monday Jenkins contributors have been working on Java...

On behalf of the Jenkins Events Team, I would like to invite you to the “Jenkins & Java 10 Online Hackathon” which will take place from June 18th to 22nd. We will be working together on Jenkins core and plugins in order to find and fix compatibility issues, share experiences and have some fun. Everybody is welcome to join, independently of their Jenkins experience and amount of time...