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By Dirk Riehle, on February 7th, 2012
We found ourselves conducting business at Nuremberg’s new Coworking space on Jakobsplatz second time within a week, so we figured it would be good to point out how quickly this has become a hotbed of innovation and interesting people. Today, we ran into (well, worked with) the dynamic duo of the Eclipse Foundation, Mike and Ralph, a few days ago we talked to hot new startup OwnCloud, an outgrowth of Nuremberg’s own SUSE, we witnessed the birth of a new entrepreneuer, founding her venture today, and generally enjoyed the creative (and colorful) atmosphere. Please find some photo impressions below.
 
Continue reading Open Source Research at Coworking Nuremberg
By Dirk Riehle, on December 27th, 2011
The Open Source Research Group is looking back on a second successful year at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).
Overview
- Research
- Teaching
- Entrepreneurship
- Public Service
- Thank You!
- Publications
- Student Theses
- More Links
1. Research
In our open source software engineering research, empirical work is farthest ahead, with interesting results: For example, by analyzing developer work rhythms we were able to show that most open source is being developed weekdays, 9-5, on company time. No surprise, you might say, but someone had to prove it. In the same vein, we have been empirically analyzing open source programming behavior, with more interesting results on how to improve tools to be published next year.
Continue reading Letter to Stakeholders (Year-End 2011)
By Dirk Riehle, on November 14th, 2011
The chair of Geograhpy studies at LMU published an entrepreneurship ranking of German universities, see this PDF. FAU’s total score is in the top third, place 21, up from place 34 two years earlier. I’m not entirely sure how to interpret it, but one thing about FAU stands out: On the dimension of Entrepreneurship education, it scores bottom third, hurting its overall score.
I’m not sure this is a fair assessment, or maybe if it is, the question of why needs to be asked. That the recent EXIST IV funding round directed all money to Munich, Bavaria’s capital, rather than some to Nuremberg, Bavaria’s second largest city, is not going to help. But if entrepreneurship education needs improvement, the OSR Group is doing its part. With FIRM, PROD, and AMOS we are offering three entrepreneurship related classes to students.
In particular the AMOS lab course has spawned the Mydosis startup, which recently received seed stage funding of about EUR 100K. We are now working on the successor, Free Seas Ahoy! while still supporting Mydosis. From my (professorial) perspective, the ranking results support my current approach: Rather than trying to be a broad platform for many startups, I’m hands-on with exactly one startup per year.
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