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Bosch Sondermaschinenbau (special machine construction) in Nuremberg writes to us about a student job opportunity: Wir schreiben eine PreMaster Stelle bei uns aus ab nächstem Jahr. Die Ausschreibung richtet sich an Studenten, die beabsichtigen ein Masterstudium anzufangen. Vorgelagert würde dan...

Although free software / open source is largely developed online, COVID-19 is still having an affect. For example, foundations or projects may experience financial difficulties due to having to cancel events which have already been paid for, or due to sponsors needing to withdraw sponsorship due to...

We would like to forward to you a call to action from the US-based non-profit group Code for Philly. Code for Philly and the Predictive Healthcare team at Penn Medicine are currently developing the open source tool CHIME. In the light of the current SARS-CoV-2 (“Coronavirus”) pandemic, they are se...

Ann Barcomb presented a talk "Best Practices for Managing Episodic Volunteering" based on the research included in her dissertation at the German Perl/Raku Workshop 2020 on 4 March. A recording of the talk is available online. Engaging with the community to share our work is an important pa...

We, the Open Source Research Group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, are actively involved with the InnerSource Commons - a group of practitioners and researchers working on and with inner source. Inner source is the use of open source software development practices and the estab...