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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...

The Open Source Research group would like to say thank you to the following sponsors and friends of our research and teaching work: GfK SE Quinscape GmbH Univention GmbH WeWebU Software AG

From a visit to one of our sponsors, just for fun. Enjoy!

My university, the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) is a renowned general university with a strong engineering faculty and tradition. While highly attractive from an educational point of view, it has remained hard to attract sufficiently large numbers of students to this bea...

Prof. Riehle is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Open Commons Region Linz. From the appended press release: Eine Vorreiterrolle im europäischen Raum hat die Stadt Linz mit dem 2009 gestarteten Projekt „Open Commons Region Linz“ übernommen. Sein Ziel ist unter anderem, Daten via I...

FAU's segFAUlt team won the German Collegiate Programming Contest (2011) last weekend. Congratulations to the team coached by Tobias Werth! Also, three more FAU teams scored seats among the top ten of 43 contenders. This is the third year in a row that FAU beat the so-called "elite" universities lik...

Two photos from today's TechFak Sommerfest; the OSR Group went there right after it opened, and we are expecting music all day long (while working... :-))

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...