9 General

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.

Abstract: Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities are composed, in part, of volunteers, many of whom contribute infrequently. However, these infrequent volunteers contribute to the sustainability of FLOSS projects, and should ideally be encouraged to continue participating, even if t...

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. We are happy to forward to you the call for presentations for the InnerSource Co...

In an AMOS project, students program an open source software with an industry partner as the provider of the idea and feedback. Effectively, the industry partner acts like a customer in a Scrum project. Students love our AMOS projects because it teaches something needed by industry (agile methods a...

The main stages of science are (a) problem identification, (b) scientific collaboration, (c) problem solution, (d) celebration, and (e) communication. (We wished there were more women in those photos too.)

Today, in FLOSS our course on open source, Peter Ganten talked about the open source distributor business model. Peter is the founding CEO of Univention, a Bremen-based provider the Univention Corporate Server, a Linux distribution. Thank you, Peter, for teaching us about open source business models...

Abstract: Die­ses Pro­jekt­kon­zept schil­dert, wie Hoch­schu­len mit Unter­neh­men Pro­jekte mit Stu­die­ren­den zu beid­sei­ti­gem Gewinn durch­füh­ren kön­nen. Unter­neh­men pro­fi­tie­ren durch Recruit­ing, Out­sour­cing und Inno­va­tion („ROI“), wel­che sich durch die Pro­jekte erge­ben. Hoch­s...