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We just discovered this "impediment" in one of the 2013 AMOS project's impediment backlog, properly noted by the Scrum Master on duty: Developers built features which were not required for this sprint. They did this because of their intense motivation. We are thoroughly in awe about the energy...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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