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By Dirk Riehle, on September 23rd, 2011
The Open Source Research Group is trying to understand what precisely open source companies are selling to their customers. To that end, we are undertaking a survey aimed at commercially viable product features of open source products and services. We would be thankful if you could take the survey and help us validate our results. All survey participants will receive a summary of the survey results before the general public will learn about it through our publications.
The survey: http://osr.cs.fau.de/surveys/index.php?sid=22369
Thank you!
By Dirk Riehle, on September 13th, 2011
Update 2012-04-23: Die unten genannten Fragen sind nicht mehr aktuell; der neue Plan ist hier: PM by Case.
Kurzfassung: Wir würden gern von Ihnen hören, wenn Sie von interessanten Fallbeispielen wissen, von denen unsere Studierenden mittels Case-Methode lernen können.
Langfassung: In der Softwaretechnik können wir häufig Lehrinhalte mit “harten” Konzepten und Fakten in Vorlesungen gut vermitteln. Geht es aber um weniger technische Fragen von Geschäftsstrategie und -taktik in der Softwareindustrie, geraten reine Vorlesungen schnell an ihre Grenzen. Besser wäre es, mit konkreten der Praxis entlehnten Beispielen Studierenden Material an die Hand zu geben, anhand dessen sie sich die relevanten Konzepte erarbeiten können. In der Vorlesung wird dann diese Eigenarbeit vertieft und diskutiert. Diese Lehrmethodik nennt sich auch die “Case-Methode”, und sie wurde bereits vor ca. 100 Jahren an der Harvard Business School eingeführt und hat sich seitdem in der Lehr- und Lernpraxis bewährt. Je größer die Unsicherheit in der Entscheidungsfindung in einer Berufssituation, je “weicher” die fachlichen Konzepte, desto besser funktioniert die Case-Methode als Vorbereitung der Studierenden auf ihre Berufspraxis.
Continue reading Aufruf zur Unterstützung berufsnaher Lehre für die Softwareindustrie mittels Case-Methode
By Dirk Riehle, on August 17th, 2011
OpenSUSE Conference 2011, free of charge!
Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 11:27:37
From: Henne Vogelsang
To: opensuse-announce@opensuse.org
Community, Friends, People!
The third openSUSE Conference, osc11, kicks off on Sunday September 11,
2011 in Nuremberg, Germany. Under the motto RWX³ all Free and Open
Source Software enthusiasts are invited to come together for four days
to learn, hack and to have a lot of fun. The program will cover a
variety topics with an emphasis on interaction between participants. The
event is free of charge and open to anyone!
The conference is the yearly get-together of the openSUSE community to
give its people a chance to meet face to face, talk to and inspire each
other. Having the chance to chat on the hallway, to quickly throw some
ideas together on a whiteboard or to watch over each others shoulders
while hacking can easily substitute endless chat sessions, thousand-mail
threads on a mailing list and tiresome telephone calls. Being together
in one room, even in this day and age, beats every other collaboration
method and is what forges cohesion and friendships. That is why the
openSUSE Project tries to get together this conference every year for
its contributors. But not only for them, the conference is also for
anyone using, working with or taking advantage of the project. No matter
if you use our technology, if you are one of our many friends from free
and open source upstream projects or if you contribute to another
GNU/Linux distribution this conference is for you.
Find more information about the conference, the program and the location
at http://conference.opensuse.org
And don’t forget to register now!
The OSC11 Team
By Dirk Riehle, on August 10th, 2011
Bearingpoint Consulting has teamed up with the Open Source Research group and is providing a survey on the use of open source software in the automotive industry. Bearingpoint is a leading European strategic management consulting firm. Martin Helmreich, one of our graduates, recently started to work at Bearingpoint. You can find the survey on the Bearingpoint website. It is currently open and we hope you will take it!
By Dirk Riehle, on August 4th, 2011
JDownloader, an open source project started by students of the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (hey, that’s us!!) is a huge success story. With more than 15 million active users, it is widely recognized and used software. Appwork, the company behind JDownloader, is hiring. This is your chance to get in at the ground level into a hot start-up.
Appwork is looking for an (experienced) Java developer with knowledge in web technologies and file serving and sharing. Both playfulness and hard work attitude are a must. Agile methods experience (like our class on agile methods and open source :-)) is an added benefit. The office is in Fürth and you’d be joining a small but growing team. For more information check out their website or contact us.
By Dirk Riehle, on August 4th, 2011
Die DATEV ist eine der großen Nürnberger Erfolgsgeschichten in der Softwareentwicklung. Sie ist auf der Suche nach neuen kompetenten Mitarbeitern. Folgende Email/Anfrage erreichte uns:
- Bei Stelle 1 geht es um App-Entwicklung für mobile Endgeräte. Hier suche ich einen DV-orientierten Wirtschaftsinformatiker, möglichst mit Kenntnissen in HTML 5, sowie Libraries für mobile Endgeräte wie phonegap, senzatouch inkl. nativer Gestensteuerung. Objektive C-Kenntnisse wären nicht nötig, unser Ziel ist es mobile Applikationen möglichst plattformunabhängig zu bauen.
- Bei Stelle 2 handelt es sich um die Weiterentwicklung unserer MS-/Open-Office-Schnittstellen. Hier bräuchte ich einen Wirtschaftsinformatiker der sowohl fachlich (Konzepte und Last-Level-Support) unterstützen kann, aber auch Kenntnisse in der Programmierung (C#, .NET) mitbringt um uns vor allem bei der QS-Automatisierung voranzubringen.
Bei Interesse wenden Sie sich an uns oder direkt an die DATEV.
By Dirk Riehle, on July 19th, 2011
Today, Dr. Gerald Pfeifer and Holger Dyroff, Director of Product Management and VP of Business Development at Attachmate’s Suse business unit, respectively, presented about open source product management in the PROD seminar. Focus of the talk and the engaged discussion with students was open source as a collaborative software development effort, as well as how to build a business on top of it. Below, please find some photo impressions from the class. To Herrn Pfeifer and Dyroff we would like to say a big thank you for teaching us!
Continue reading Impressions from Suse Product Management Talk by Gerald Pfeifer and Holger Dyroff
By Dirk Riehle, on June 28th, 2011
Today, in PROD, the product management seminar, Anja Schwarz of Sophist GmbH reported about her life as a requirements engineer (including roles, practices, and techniques of requirements engineering). Below, you can find some photo impressions. Thank you, Frau Schwarz, for your presentation!
Continue reading Impressions from Anja Schwarz’s Talk on Requirements Engineering
By Dirk Riehle, on June 22nd, 2011
Today, Michael Kircher, department manager at Siemens Healtcare, introduced “scaling agility” (read: large-scale distributed Scrum) to the students of the 2011 AMOS Project class. Students were listening and questioning attentively. Some impressions below. Thank you, Michael, for teaching us!
Continue reading Impressions from Michael Kircher’s AMOS Talk on Scaling Agility
By Dirk Riehle, on January 3rd, 2011
Table of Contents
- Year-end Summary
- Mini Symposium
- More Information
1. Year-end Summary
The Open Source Research (OSR) Group was founded in Sept 2009, so it has been 16 months since inception. We hope to be writing a year-end summary every year, available to anyone interested. FAU is the university, CS is the computer science department, “we” is the group, and “I” is Dirk Riehle.
Continue reading 2010 Year-End Letter to Stakeholders
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