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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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FAU Finishes ACM’s ICPC 2010 as a Leading European Team

February 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Announcement, Presse

FAU’s (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) entry to the 2010 International Collegiate Programming Contest in Harbin, China, tied for 36th place out of 93. This makes the FAU team the best German team, a leading West European team, and places it far ahead of many other well-known universities who tend to score higher in international research and [...]

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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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Fall-out after Red Hat Press Conference

November 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Announcement, OSBF, Presse

As part of Red Hat’s sponsorship for the research group, we held a press round table, attended by a handful of selected and respected open source journalists. Some of their summaries appeared last Friday. Here is the current run-down, more to come (in German): Der Standard: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg erforscht Open Source (PDF) Linux Magazin: Dirk [...]

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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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Open Source Research Group Featured in German Business Newspaper Handelsblatt

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Announcement, Presse

The open source research group at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg was recently featured in the leading German business newspaper “Handelsblatt.” The article by Nuremberg-local journalist Ilona Hörath (in German) provides a short description of the group’s research agenda, with a focus on the business relevant aspects: Do practical research, create startup firm options, support German [...]

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City of Nuremberg Welcomes Open Source Research Group

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Announcement, OSBF, Presse

The city of Nuremberg welcomes our new research group: „Stärkung für den Open-Source-Standort Nürnberg“ – Fleck begrüßt erste deutsche Open-Source-Professur Mit Beginn des aktuellen Wintersemesters hat eine Open-Source-Forschungsgruppe unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Dirk Riehle an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg ihre Arbeit aufgenommen. Diese Professur ist die erste ihrer Art in Deutschland. „Die Stadt Nürnberg hat [...]

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OSR Group Mentioned on Heise Open

September 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Announcement, Presse

We are happy to report that Heise Open picked up the OSBF newsletter presentation of our group and posted their own short summary, see here: Heise Open: Open-Source-Forschungsgruppe an der Uni-Erlangen If this post led you here, please feel welcome to review our open source research agenda as well as to take a look at [...]

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