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More Smart Phones for AMOS Project

September 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Announcement, Industry, Teaching

After Prof. Riehle paid a visit to the Googleplex in Mountain View, the Android and Educational Outreach folks at Google got so excited about the AMOS Project that they donated two more smart phones on the spot. These are Motorola Droids, see below. These are not GSM phones, however, they have WiFi capability and should [...]

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AMOS Project Concept Summary

August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · 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 [...]

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OSR Group Engages in German OpenSAGA Project

April 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Announcement, Industry, Presse

OpenSAGA is an open source implementation of the German eGovernment standard SAGA (Standards und Architekturen für E-Government-Anwendungen). It is due to be launched May 1st, 2010. The project was initiated by the Dortmund-based software vendor and project house Quinscape GmbH and their partner Balvi GmbH.

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14th Erlanger Technikgespräch on Social Media

April 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Announcement, Industry, Presse

The University of Erlangen-Nürnberg together with Siemens AG, is organizing the 14th Erlanger Technikgespräch, this time on Social Media with Lars Hinrichs (founder OpenBC, now XING) and Klaus Eck, Kommunikationsberater. It promises to be a popular and engaging event; within hours of the announcement today, registration crossed the 400 person mark. So, if you are [...]

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Dissertation on “Going Open Source” Case Study

March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Announcement, Dissertationen, Industry, Offene Stellen, Research

Update 2010-03-31: The company in question is WeWebU; read more about its open source strategy in their recent press release. Also, the company would like to hire the person described below directly, as an employee. A potential dissertation then has become a separate matter. If you are interested, please direct your resume directly to the [...]

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Open Source Best Practices Research February 2010

February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Announcement, Industry, Research

Prof. Riehle is currently in the Silicon Valley performing explorative interviews with local commercial open source firms. Goal of the research is to uncover best practices of such firms in the various business functions that make up a software firm. Currently, we are focussing on Marketing, Community, and Engineering management. Stay tuned and feel free [...]

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2009 Year-end Summary and Review

December 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Announcement, Industry, OSBF, Presse, Research, Teaching

Summary It has only been a bit more than three months since we started the open source research group at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, but we are off to a good start. We settled on two main projects, open source software forges and Wikipedia technology. We filled one of the three open researcher (Ph.D. student) [...]

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Survey on Commits in Open and Closed Source Projects

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Announcement, Industry, Research, Surveys

Please help the open source research group by taking this survey on code contributions in open and closed source projects! http://osr.cs.fau.de/surveys/index.php?sid=58638&lang=en Update 2009-12-30: We enhanced the survey based on your feedback and are keeping it open now until Jan 15, 2010. Please help out! The survey consists of 10 (+4) questions. We will publish the [...]

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Novell Sponsors Open Source Research Group

November 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Announcement, Industry, OSBF, Presse, Research

Novell, provider of the community open source project openSUSE and the commercial open source product SUSE Linux Enterprise (Desktop/Server) is sponsoring the Open Source Research Group of the University of Erlangen Nuremberg. We are very happy to receive the gift which will support half a Ph.D. student (as a research assistant) for three years. The [...]

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Red Hat Sponsors Open Source Research Group

November 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Announcement, Industry, OSBF, Presse

Red Hat, provider of the community open source project Fedora and the commercial open source product Red Hat Enterprise Linux is sponsoring the Open Source Research Group of the University of Erlangen Nuremberg. We are very happy to receive the gift which will support a Ph.D. student (as a research assistant) for half-a-year. The sponsorship [...]

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