On the day prior to the hackathon, we'll host more user-oriented event with talks from various developers and users about their Jenkins stories. The event will be hosted by Zenika.

The event is free of charge, except for the dinner.

The details of the speakers and the talks:

Session 1: 8.00pm – 8.20pm
Speakers: Kohsuke Kawaguchi (Hudson creator, CloudBees)
Subject: Introduction & Surprise

Session 2: 8.20pm – 8.40pm
Speakers: Gregory Boissinot (Zenika) & Jerome Vacher (Thales)
Subject: Jenkins at Thales (Use Jenkins to instantiate a CI process for Java, C/C++, ADA and .NET) 

Session 3: 8.40pm – 9.00pm
Speaker: Arnaud Héritier (ExoPlatform)
Subject:  Jenkins at ExoPlatform (from the development phase to the quality assurance) 

Arnaud Héritier has the hat of Software Factory Manager for the ISV eXo (http://www.exoplatform.com/). His role is to provide all tools and methods for developments teams. The heart of this tooling is based on Apache Maven and Jenkins. Arnaud will show how eXo uses Jenkins from the development phase to the quality assurance.

Session 4: 9.00pm – 9.20pm
Speaker: Frédéric Camblor
Subject:  Some Jenkins plugins ( global build stats, scm-sync-config and compat-tester) in action

Frederic Camblor will give a presentation of his different contributions to the jenkins project :
- The global build stats plugin which is a mature plugin allowing to display charts on your jenkins instances global build results
- The scm sync configuration plugin which is in an alpha state. Main purpose is to keep jenkins configuration files sync'ed with an scm (for the moment, only svn, but more scm will arrive soon), allowing to provide a comment message every time a configuration screen is submitted. Incoming functionnalities will be discussed during the user meetup, too.
- Last but not the least : the plugin compattester (authentication on jenkins over jenkins needed) job allowing to generate reports on compilation & tests results of plugins against different jenkins core versions.

Session 5: 9.20pm – 9.40pm
Speaker: Nicolas De Loof (CloudBees)
Subject:  Managing GIT (features, branches and pre-merge) in Jenkins

Session 6: 9.40pm – 10.00pm
Speaker: Francois Dechery (CloudBees)
Subject:  CoudBees &Jenkins  - Delivering a commercial product and supporting the community 

Session 7: From 10.00pm
After
Dinner

For each talk: 15m + 5m for the questions