Open Source Research Group

The Website of the Professorship for Open Source Software at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

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AMOS Project Concept Summary

August 27th, 2010 · Announcement, Industry, Teaching

The AMOS project is the flagship class taught by the Open Source Research group. It is a combined lecture + programming course in which students learn about and experience an agile software engineering process. It combines agile methods (Scrum, XP) with open source practices while aiming to deliver real software that fills a real need for a customer.

We are always looking for people who are willing to engage with us on a project level and be our customers. See our post on the 2010 AMOS Project to get an impression of what this means. If you are interested, please contact Prof. Riehle. You may want to read the AMOS Project Concept slides which will give you an initial idea of how the project works.

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Student Thesis: Continuous Deployment

August 2nd, 2010 · Announcement, Offene Themen, Research

Summary: Continuous deployment is the name of an engineering practice where a commit to a project’s code repository is put into production without any intermediate human intervention. It is the next step after continuous integration and it is all the rage in agile methods circles and for web applications. This (Studien/Diplom/Bachelor/Master) thesis reviews the current practice of continuous deployment and applies it to the Open Source Research Group’s software projects.

Read more on http://osr.cs.fau.de/fun or contact Prof. Riehle

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AMOS Praktikum Says Thank You to Google

July 23rd, 2010 · Announcement, Teaching

The 2010 AMOS Praktikum development team says thank you to Google for sponsoring the Praktikum! If you would like to know more about the AMOS Praktikum (project) please contact Prof. Riehle.

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AMOS Praktikum Shipped DosIS 1.0

July 23rd, 2010 · Announcement, Teaching

The OSR Group’s Agile Methods and Open Source (AMOS) 2010 Praktikum concluded this week with the delivery of DosIS 1.0 to its customer. DosIS is a web application + mobile app for collaboratively editing and quality-assuring a dosage information database used by practicing pediatricians. We call it (the technology for) a Wikipedia of Dosage Information. You can find the source code at dosis.sourceforge.net.

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AMOS Praktikum to Present in MedIS (IMI) Kolloquium

July 14th, 2010 · Announcement, Teaching

Die Studenten des AMOS Programmierpraktikums werden am 20.07.10 im Kolloquium des Instituts für medizinische Informationssysteme vortragen (und vorführen!).

Titel: Eine Wikipedia zur gemeinschaftlichen Entwicklung und Qualitätssicherung von Dosierungsinformationen für praktizierende Ärzte

Zusammenfassung: MyDosIS ist ein medizinisches Informationssystem für Dosierungsinformation fuer praktizierende Kinderärzte. Der Ansatz gleicht Wikipedia: Ärzte erarbeiten und diskutieren Dosierungsinformation kollaborativ und stellen die Qualität sicher. Die unterstützende Software wurde dieses Semester in der Informatik an der FAU entwickelt unter Mitarbeit eines Kinderarztes des Uni-Klinikum Kölns. Die Software besteht aus einem ueber das Internet nutzbaren Webdienst sowie einer auf Android-Handys verfügbaren App, welche den mobilen Einsatz unterstützt. Das Projekt nimmt jetzt den Betrieb auf. In diesem Vortrag berichten wir über das studentische Projektkonzept, den Wikipedia-ähnlichen Ansatz hinter MyDosIS, und die Anforderungen an das System. Zum Schluss wird die Software von den Studenten vorgeführt.

Das Kolloquium steht für alle interessierten Personen offen.

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Early Visit to TechFak Summer Fest

June 24th, 2010 · General Interest

Two photos from today’s TechFak Sommerfest; the OSR Group went there right after it opened, and we are expecting music all day long (while working… :-))

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Funding for Research Project “Reengineering Wikitext”

June 22nd, 2010 · Announcement, Research

The Bavaria California Technology Center has awared our group some funds to move forward with our “Reengineering Wikitext” project. Below please find a short research project summary (in German).

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Linda Rising on Retrospectives in AMOS Praktikum

June 17th, 2010 · Teaching

On June 16, 2010, Linda Rising visited the Agile Methods and Open Source (AMOS) Praktikum at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Linda is an agile method experts of world renown, and she taught a lecture on project retrospectives. She also led an actual retrospective exercise for the AMOS Project. The AMOS project is the OSR Group’s staple programming course. This semester, it is developing the DosIS open source software project, a medical information system for pediatricians.

Linda Rising lecturing

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Another Ferienakademie (in German): Mobil und Global. Kommunikationsformen im Wandel

June 8th, 2010 · Announcement, Research, Teaching

Auch dieses Jahr möchten wir Sie wieder auf die vom 15.-17. Oktober 2010 stattfindende Ferienakademie in Tutzing aufmerksam machen und auf diesem Wege herzlich bitten, interessierte Studentinnen und junge Wissenschaftlerinnen über das vielseitige Angebot der Akademie im malerischen Ambiente des Tutzinger Schlosses am Starnberger See zu informieren.

Die diesjährige Akademie trägt den Titel “Mobil und Global. Kommunikationsformen im Wandel” und beschäftigt sich gemäß des berühmten Zitats “Man kann nicht nicht kommunizieren” von Paul Watzlawick mit Fragen nach den Folgen, technischen Möglichkeiten und sozialen Beschränkungen des Kommunikationswandels.

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The German Ph.D. System Explained in One Post

June 8th, 2010 · Dissertationen, Research

In Germany, today (2010), primary and secondary education take 12 school years and when finished successfully, allow you to enter college. College provides three main degrees you can achieve, a Bachelor, a Master, and a Ph.D. At the University of Erlangen, the Bachelor degree typically takes three years and the Master degree takes an additional two years. You can achieve them only one after another, and they replace what used to be the German “Diplom.”

The Ph.D. title is also called the doctor title and upon successful completion, you’ll be allowed to carry the prefix “Dr.” in front of your name (rather than a trailing “Ph.D.”) If you see a “Dr.” in front of a name it does not imply a medical degree but could be a degree of any science. My department, the technical faculty of the University of Erlangen provides a traditional “Dr. Ing.” which is a doctor of engineering.

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