diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..74fb495f94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+sudo: false
+
+language: java
+
+env:
+  global:
+    - CXXFLAGS="--std=c++0x"
+
+install:
+  - buildscripts/make_dependencies.sh # build protoc into /tmp/grpc-deps
+
+before_script:
+  - export PATH=/tmp/grpc-deps/bin:$PATH
+  - export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/grpc-deps/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+
+jdk:
+  - oraclejdk8
+
+os:
+  - linux
+
+branches:
+  only:
+    - master
+
+notifications:
+  email: false
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diff --git a/buildscripts/make_dependencies.sh b/buildscripts/make_dependencies.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..cf98fb7957
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildscripts/make_dependencies.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Build protoc & netty
+set -ev
+
+# If we need GCC 4.8 for C++11 support which is not available by default with travis
+# and we don't want to use sudo on travis to install it as we couldn't use dockerized travis so...
+#pushd .
+#cd /tmp
+#mkdir gcc
+#cd gcc
+#apt-get download -qq gcc-4.8 g++-4.8 cpp-4.8 libgcc-4.8-dev libstdc++-4.8-dev g++-4.8-multilib gcc-4.8-multilib
+#find . -name '*.deb' -exec dpkg --extract {} . \;
+#export CXX="/tmp/gcc/usr/bin/g++-4.8"
+#export CC="/tmp/gcc/usr/bin/gcc-4.8"
+#popd
+
+export CXXFLAGS="--std=c++0x"
+# Make protoc
+pushd .
+cd /tmp
+wget -O - https://github.com/google/protobuf/archive/v3.0.0-alpha-2.tar.gz | tar xz
+cd protobuf-3.0.0-alpha-2
+./autogen.sh
+# install here so we don't need sudo
+./configure --prefix=/tmp/grpc-deps
+make -j2
+# make check -j2
+make install
+cd java
+mvn install
+cd ../javanano
+mvn install
+popd
+
+# Make and install netty
+git submodule update --init
+pushd .
+cd lib/netty
+mvn install -pl codec-http2 -am -DskipTests=true
+popd
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diff --git a/compiler/build.gradle b/compiler/build.gradle
index 1efbe83568..744cc3503e 100644
--- a/compiler/build.gradle
+++ b/compiler/build.gradle
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ dependencies {
 
 binaries.all {
   if (toolChain in Gcc || toolChain in Clang) {
-    cppCompiler.args "-std=c++11"
+    cppCompiler.args "--std=c++0x"
     if (System.env.CXXFLAGS) {
       cppCompiler.args System.env.CXXFLAGS
     }