Author: Dirk Riehle

We have a full-time Ph.D. position (German Mitarbeiter position at TVL-E13 level) available on the topic of open source governance. In this research project, the new team member will build and evaluate a theory on what constitutes good open source governance and license compliance at companies wh...

Welcome to the 2017 (year-end) letter to stakeholders of the Professorship of Open Source Software at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg! (Download as PDF.) Highlights In 2017, we continued our successful work from prior years, focussing on existing projects. Revenues kept growing ...

Abstract: Open Source communities are largely people centric and work on customized software processes created by people while trying to solve a problem. Hence, most Open Source projects do not have formal processes or do not follow software engineering best practices. But at the same time, they are...

Wir werden am Freitag, 2017-12-08, um 11:30 Uhr, am Senior Design Day des Startup-Inkubators der FAU teilnehmen. Unser Beitrag sind die folgenden drei Vorträge resp. Demos (jeweils nur wenige Minuten). Das Event ist kostenfrei; Tickets gibt es hier. Das Uni1 / AMOS Projektkonzept für Industriei...

We designed a new and simplified grading scheme for final theses, replacing the old one. A thesis still has to pass some basic checks like completeness of declaration of materials built on, relevant topic, no plagiarism, etc. However, this is a binary decision and does not affect the grade directly...

Yesterday and today we hosted the 2nd GI AK workshop on microservices and DevOps at SUSE, in Nuremberg. We had 37 registrations, 26 people showed up, and about half of them were from industry. Thank you SUSE, for having us!

We kicked off our teaching of elective courses this week. Winter semester teaching comprises ADAP, NYT, PROD, and AMSE. Below please find a photo impression from PROD, our course on software product management.

Sivantos (former Siemens audiology) is looking for a Werkstudent to continue the AMOS SS17 project, in which it developed software for a Raspberry Pi as a user agent for testing hearing aids. Please see Sivantos career opportunities at Werkstudent (m/w) im Bereich Softwareentwicklung / Single Board ...

img.floatRight { float: right; margin:0px; padding: 0px } We are organizing a meeting of the GI AK on microservices and devops on October 19-20th in Nuremberg. Suse has generously offered their event space for the workshop. The workshop is free and open to the professional public. The agenda...

We will be talking about open source user consortia at the Tag der Technischen Fakultät of FAU on Nov 17, 2017. Please find our poster depicted below.