Say hello and tell us: what's on your desk?
tl;dr: Click here to introduce yourself!
We want this community to be just as much about making connections as it is about learning. Introduce yourself by telling us who you are and what brought you here – a picture of your desk is optional but encouraged.
So snap a photo of your desk and say hello!
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Also, be sure to read through the blurbs of other members to find users like you. (On your homepage feed, enter the tag first-post.)
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I'm Philippe - I'm Head of Online Community, which means that for once, they truly have let the inmate run the asylum. Enjoy it while it lasts. :-) . It also means that I get to serve as overlord for @Monique vdB and @Community Manager - if only in my own mind.
What I'm working on: most of every day is spent plotting or dreaming of ways to get more people to join this community. That takes a lot of meetings.
My desk, as anyone who works with me will tell you, is a disaster. Here it is: you can rejoice in the knowledge that you're spared from working next to me, because @Monique vdB has to do that.
- Photos of my parent's home in New Mexico.
- Pics of my critters.
- A mug and plush that were given to me by someone on my team at Reddit and Wikipedia - she was my staff anthropologist (another team member there gave me a broadsword. That one doesn't go on my desk.)
- A bottle of Clearly Canadian, because heaven.
- Business cards.
- A custom coffee mug given to me by Sue Gardner, the former Wikipedia E.D., which says "Today, he did fantastic work. He also said: 'I hope you all get your heads chopped off, honestly.'" It's a long story...
- A copy of Radical Candor, by Kim Scott.
- And a super sweet pair of headphones.
Hi, I'm Nic Brough (Rhyme it with "rough", before you ask)
I've been here a while. My first Jira install was a 2.7.3 needing an upgrade when 3 was released, and I had 3 weeks to learn it, then merge a Jira version 1 into the new one.
At that time, I got a LOT of help from the community, and when I realised that I had absorbed stuff from people like Neal Applebaum and Matt Doar, I started to contribute back. I've kept going, through four incarnations of the community software (Jive, OSQA-based thing, Confluence Questions and now Lithium).
I now work for Adaptavist in the UK, an Atlassian Solution Partner who are one of the oldest, and largest, and focussed almost entirely on Atlassian stuff.
I work mostly from home, and because of that, I have my own room to hide in when needing to concentrate or have conference calls. Also, it's the only place in the house where I'm allowed to be untidy. This thread has also made me notice that while office desks tend to be personalised, my desk here isn't. The personalised stuff is mostly on the walls (well, bookcases).
As I have space, I spread out a bit. I've got two desks next to each other, and swap between them depending on what I'm doing.
The second photo is probably familiar to some of you, if you've been on conference calls, it's a step back from the camera on the laptop.
I'm Thomas and I'm a system administrator at HanseMerkur, an insurance company in Germany. I take care of servers, applications, users, implementing training courses. My main areas of responsibility are
- Jira & Confluence
- Powerbuilder (for the younger ones of you: this is a programming language, we still use a lot)
- Versioning and Build Automation
I also started years ago, reading in Atlassian's questions and answers platforms. I think, I started with this OSQA-thing, Nic mentioned in his post. Later, I didn't only read and ask but also answered questions and still do this, if my work leaves enough time for it.
I love board games. Meeting with friends and playing is one of my favorites. I own about a hundred board games and many more card games... But I also like reading, going to the theater, meeting friends for a beer and talk the whole night long...
Here is a picture of my working place (a part of). It's the more interesting part of my desk. Memorabilias of awesome moments, an ugly but funny owl (it's christmas decoration actually), coffe mug (of course, who can work without coffee?). At the moment I'm fixing a problem with an old Powerbuilder application I've written more than ten years ago. Trying to understand my old code... :-)
I'm Zack. I'm a systems administrator at Trifecta. We are a custom software company that focuses on custom Salesforce implementations. Right now, I'm working on plans to upgrade our JIRA and Confluence instances in the next week. I'm also prepping to take the ACP-400 exam in December.
My desk is an assortment of tools and knickknacks that I've picked up at various conferences and events over the years. Those two VMware robots are going to turn on me eventually, I just know it. Within the last 6 months my desk has seen a MASSIVE upgrade in the form of pictures of my new twin daughters (and my patriotic pup, of course!) So while I am certainly working on all that stuff I mentioned before, I'm mostly working on surviving the the first year of being a new twin dad.
I'm currently a developer consultant in State College, PA. I formerly did mobile application development consulting as Woodchuck Apps and now my brother and I do all sorts of consulting as Woodchuck Studio, from web development to small business IT solutions to board game design.
Right now my home office desk has been taken over by a farm animal stock tank that we've made into a terrarium for the newest member of our family, Ptolemy, a 15-year old Russian tortoise we adopted. I will get my desk back once I build the terrarium a floor stand.
Oh, hey! My name's Erica, and I'm one of the community managers here at Atlassian, working alongside @Monique vdB and @pb — but not physically because I'm based in New York and they're in SF. Thankfully, trolling transcends geography, so there's still plenty of that.
I spend my days figuring out how to further empower the Community Champions we already have, and how to bring even more awesome humans into the group.
My interests include theater (ask me about my favorite show, Dear Evan Hansen, which I have seen seven times), music (the poster near my desk was inspired by one of my faves, Betty Who), social media (I've been known to close an app, only to reopen the same app seconds later) and exploring New York (I've got my eye on a new cocktail bar that just opened, The Aviary, which features a "coffee-tinged old-fashioned served inside a plastic bag filled with everything bagel-scented air.")
Feel free to say hi. 😄
I'm Daniel and a JIRA / Confluence / plenty-of-other-things administrator at JSTOR.
Given that I'm working from home today, here's my rather untidy basement desk. My laptop stand is a screwed together set of IKEA cabinet doors (clearance) that together with hardware cost ~$6. I'm pleased that it's surprisingly sturdy (almost better than my laptop arm at the office) and easily converts to "sitting" if needed (just put the laptop down at desk level and take away the keyboard tray, also an IKEA piece).
Given a few days, this will be tidy again as I repair some old PCs on my desk's side arm and get various handwritten notes into their proper places digitally. There's a few things like Community article ideas that need to not be on paper anymore ;)
Off to the right of my desk is a tower (originally designed for DVDs it looks like) where I stage AUG swag before events. My user group meets twice in one month, so I set all the swag up and split it between the two events based on the RSVP lists. Some things like stickers tend to stick around for several months, so it's nice to keep them organized between events. If you're an AUG Leader, you can see that tower in the AUG collection.
Other things I like doing:
- Cooking (lots of cookbooks on the bookshelf behind me)
- Playing with my 11-month-old daughter - once the basement is cleaned up, she can hang out with me while I type stuff!
- Playing jazz music with my friends from college - I play flugelhorn and trumpet, and we do a small casual combo that plays a "real" gig (i.e. outside of our houses) about once a year
- That's about all I have time for at this stage in life - did I mention I have an 11-month-old :)
Hej @all
this hairy thing you can see below is obviously not me. Who can tell what it is? My daughter wants me to let it watch me while working.
Just a very brief introduction: i am working at demicon for Mr. Batman. We are an Atlassian Solution Partner with locations in Stuttgart, Hamburg and Berlin. Job title would be something like Principal Consultant / Head of Sales and Marketing. While scaling the business and being absolutly agile at the same time this might change any time ;-)
Coming originally from the nothern part of germany (reference to my name) i am living in Berlin for almost 20 years now. I still move my old bones twice a week to play in a famous (notorious) football club in Kreuzberg called Pulmon Negro. Being manager (not coach) of that team we won the leisureish amateur tournament in Amsterdam at WV-HEDW (Wilhelmina Vooruit - Hortus Eendracht Doet Winnen) 4 times. @[deleted]: can you manage to set up a team from your HQ? I can arrange your participation. (See: I try to bribe you to get the swag). Btw: we are looking for a new striker. Any ideas?
What else to say... If you come to Berlin stop by at our office for a chat in Krausenstraße 9. Any questions? And any suggestions what sort of animal you see on the photo?
Hi, I'm Erwan, and I'm QA manager at Whaller, a company that is creating private social networks for everyone.
There is still a mess on my desk, and I have a clear view on my dashboard.
Books are on the left, but not visible on the picture !
