I really like the diversity of the professional backgrounds people in this group have. That is the best way to learn and to re-evaluate your habits. The different solutions presented by Tillmann and Hayati are the best example for this.
I am really looking forward attending the next meeting ( btw. 21.03.2012 Karlsruhe).

Hope to see you there (and anyone reading your blog who would like to attend)
Steffen

thanks for your feedback. The $10/month licenses are just great. However, the licensing of TeamCalendar and GreenHopper is tied to the licensing of JIRA / Confluence, which means that we would have to purchase a 50 user license of GreenHopper and 100 user license of TeamCalendar – the $10/months edition won’t work for us.

In case you are not aware, Atlassian provides a pricing package for companies with less than 10 users the entire suite for only $10/mo.

http://www.atlassian.com/software/starter/overview

This should save you literally hundreds of dollars per month.

You’re welcome

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/06/jobs-focus-is-about-saying-no/

I do remember sitting next to you at the rightmost aisle of the audience, halfway between stage and back. I vaguely remember the questioner being someone we didn’t recognize more center and behind us.

But when I watched the clip the other day, that initial question “What about OpenDoc?” sounded vaguely like me, i.e. some guy with a perfect California non-accent. I listened several times, and the follow-up of “there’s a lot of people working on it, and it makes me sad” — well, that sure isn’t a way I’d phrase anything .

There are a few things he said here that are factually inaccurate, and then bringing in the whole San Jose Mercury thing, as if the OD team or the developers like us were out doing that. Well, anyway, I was permanently disillusioned that day. I pick and choose my Apple products. Still use MBPs as main computer, had an iPhone, switched to Android, really like the latter a lot better.

Let’s just say this about Steve. He was combative, he was entertaining, and he had a very interesting vision and focus on detail. But things sucked if you were in his line of fire. I really feel for the Flash folks and the Samsung folks today.

Overall, it seems that based on your specific needs you made the right choice. Good luck, and keep us posted on your Jira experience.