Author: Dirk Riehle

We are happy to facilitate your (student) final thesis. There are basically three main options: a research thesis a startup thesis an industry thesis Let's look at these options in turn. Research Thesis FAU is a research university and it relies on you to carry the flame. Writi...

The OSR Group's Product Management seminar, an innovation in teaching product management to computer science and information system students, would like to say thank you to the product managers who helped us run another great course. We would like to thank the following people and their supporting c...

Below, please find some impressions from Google Germany's own Andreas Türk talking about product management at Google in particular his experience as the initiating product manager for YouTube mobile, the second largest video streaming service on the web (after YouTube proper). Thanks, Andreas, for ...

Das Netdosis-Team, Betreiber der Website http://netdosis.de für vernetztes Wissen bei der Medikation von Kindern, erhält weitere öffentliche Fördermittel. An die ursprüngliche EXIST-Förderung schliesst sich demnächst die vom bayrischen Staat gewährte FLUEGGE Förderung an. Herzlichen Glückwunsch ans ...

The Open Source Research Group uses Black Duck Software's Ohloh.net service to perform empirical research on open source projects. Below, you can see how the black duck landed for Gottfried Hofmann, who recently finished his thesis on open source license growth. His empirical finding that permissive...

We will host an industry talk (free and open to the public) by: Andreas Türk, Google Germany GmbH about: Produktmanagement bei Google: Die Entstehung von YouTube Mobile on: July 3, 2012, 10:30 Uhr at: Rm 0.154-155, Cauerstr. 7-9 (Uni Südgelände) as part of: PROD Abstract: Anh...

Abstract: Although open source and the related processes have become an inherent part of the computer industry, companies and other contributors are often reluctant when it comes to active involvement and participation. The reasons are manifold. Strong ones are that most open source projects ar...

Prof. Riehle visited Prof. Bai of Tsinghua University, who is leading the Chinese side of the joint project "distributed agile methods" that we are undertaking with the AMOS lab course this semester. The project is being sponsored by German publisher DPunkt and their U.S.-based partner RockyNook. Be...

Die Professur für Open-Source-Software an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg verfügt über signifikante praktische Erfahrung im Management von Open-Source-Communities und ist international in der Erforschung dieses sich in rasanter Entwicklung befindlichen Themas als führend ausgew...

Abstract: What license to choose or change? That's a question many open source projects will face at least once. Besides philosophical reasons to favor one type of license over another there is the concern whether the chosen license has an impact on the project's success. But does the license r...