About Us

Regular visitors will have already noticed that our website design has just undergone a radical change. If you're not a regular visitor, then take a look at the old design and you'll see just how much it's changed.

We'd spent a few weeks working behind the scenes on this new theme and had originally planned to complete all aspects of it before publishing it to our site. However, we realised that even in its current state it offers a big improvement over the old design so we've gone all agile and uploaded it ahead of schedule. We'll be performing numerous iterative improvements over the coming weeks to fix minor glitches and make the theme look more polished on older browsers such as Internet Explorer.

The design was implemented using our Theme Builder and Community Bubbles plugins which enabled us to customise virtually every aspect of the wiki. We've also used the open source Metadata v2 plugin, written by Andy Armstrong and Kelsey Grant, which enables us to "nest" spaces.

If you notice any glitches, please let us know!

To celebrate the new design, all content on the site (with the exception of logos) is now released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 license so you can copy it to your own sites or wikis, even if they are commercial.

On a closing note, we know we've not been outputting much news recently - in fact the last time we posted news in this space was way back in August 2007, and that was a post about the fact that we'd not posted any news since March 2007! We've been really busy behind the scenes - the company has tripled in size in the past 18 months and we'll be making some major announcements in the coming months so stay tuned!

The site now features multiple blogs for products, services and even a few staff blogs so keep an eye out for the "Blog" tab in spaces you visit. If you want an Atom or RSS feed of all news on the site, click that handy "Feeds" icon in the menu bar above.

Adaptavist are proud sponsors of Atlassian's first ever worldwide conference - Atlassian Summit - which is being held in San Francisco CA from May 31 to June 2 2009.

The event unites customers, partners, plugin developers and technical users in the Atlassian community and features 30 sessions across 3 tracks with presentations ranging from commercial plugins to building great communities in your wiki. From overviews to under-the-hood, there's something for everyone.

So what's on the agenda?

• the future of collaboration and dev tools
• roadmaps, feature previews and demos
• how-tos on deployment, tuning and mods
• in-the-code labs on plugins and APIs
• presentations from your peers
• "meet the engineers" workshops

What will Adaptavist be doing at the Summit?

• We'll be making a major announcement during the summit!
• Presentation with Sun Microsystems showing how Confluence was customised to create a thriving 20,000+ user community on their intranet
• We're on the "10 Killer Confluence Plugins" panel, showing off some of our plugins
• and we'll be running our own System Surgery, offering our specialist advice for free!

We'll also have a stand in the pavilion so come and have a chat!

Who should come?

• Technical teams: using JIRA, Confluence and Atlassian dev tools.
• Project managers: better teamwork and processes.
• Sys admins: managing Confluence or JIRA deployments.
• Engineers: better practices using Atlassian's dev tools.
• Developers: building custom plugins and extensions.
• Partners: building commercial plugins.
• Anyone: interested in Atlassian's products.

The Basics:

For the next 5 days, get Confluence or JIRA for $5 for 5 users.

All proceeds goes to Room To Read! The Atlassian Stimulus Package.

The Goal:

To raise $25k to build 5 libraries for children in the developing world in 5 days... all whilst helping stimulate startups and small teams with kick-ass tools.

Get in quick. Tell your friends. Twitter it. Facebook it.

It's a 1 year full commercial license, to renew after a year, for just $5.

This offer is aimed at you if:

• You want to try out Confluence in your business with a small team (up to 5 people)
• You want to use Confluence as your company website
• You want to test the water with a low amount of investment, and a high amount to gain

You're not listed here? Buy it anyway it's for a good cause!
Then give Adaptavist a call to discuss your needs, we can revolutionise your business.

You can also hear more from an Atlassian Founder - help us, help Atlassian, help children read.

Atlassian Starter has been a massive success, exceeding it's $25k target in the first day of the week long run! Companies such as Customware have even commented on how this makes a refreshing change, and we agree!

We want to help Atlassian raise even more money for charity, so here's a little added bonus for anyone using a $5 license...

If you're running a 5-user Confluence license, you can now get Theme Builder and Community Bubbles for free! You'll need Theme Builder 3.3.4 (or above) and Community Bubbles 1.3.1 (or above) - we're rushing these new versions out hopefully during the next week.

Free licenses of our plugins are covered under our community support service level.

To get started, click the product icon above and follow the instructions on the download page.

If you've not booked your tickets for Atlassian Summit yet, you'd better hurry - all 300 tickets are almost sold!

Adaptavist will be at Booth 6, opposite the atrium doors (click to zoom):

We'll be taking part in the following presentations: