Author: Dirk Riehle

Update 2010-04-28: The Ferienakademie is only available to students of Bavarian universities mentioned on the site. We would like to draw your attention to our class at the 2010 Ferienakademie http://www.ferienakademie.de/ titled "Serious Games". The Ferienakademie is a free two week vacati...

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 Bal...

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 announcemen...

We are happy to announce that Google is sponsoring the Agile Methods and Open Source Praktikum (PDF) with two Nexus One cell phones. If you are a student, please check out the materials we are making available through StudOn.

Please join us for the Erlangen Computer Science Day (Tag der Informatik). More information (in German) to be found on the Tag der Informatik website. Prof. Riehle will give a main lecture, his "Antrittsvorlesung" that day. Original Invitation (in German) Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, ...

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, p...

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, Communi...

The Open Source Research group, as part of the research and teaching alliance Applied Software Engineering, will be leading the following classes and seminars in the coming summer semester 2010: Agile Methods and Open Source Course (Programmierpraktikum) Nailing Your Thesis The Firm You ...

Update 2010-06-19: Descriptions of the theses can now be found on StudOn. Check them out! (If you don't see them, you are not logged in.) Topics crossed out below have been picked up by students already.  We just updated our set of open source theses topics. They cover technology, software p...

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 wh...