9 General

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...

The 2020 German Perl/Raku Workshop will be held at the technical faculty of FAU next week.

The 2020 German Perl/Raku Workshop will be held at the technical faculty of FAU in March.

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...

As a reminder: Despite UnivIS currently telling you otherwise, we welcome students of computer science, IIS, and many other degree programs to our courses.

Many students use UnivIS to design their schedules for a semester. Currently, UnivIS has a glitch: It claims under "Verwendbarkeit des Moduls" (applicability of modul) that ADAP and PROD cannot be taken by computer scientists. This is of course wrong: Computer scientists are welcome and one of the main target groups of our lectures.