2.4 Grants and Funding

New Funded Project on Creating User-led Open Source Consortia

The DFG is sponsoring a new project of ours. Project Summary An open-source consortium is a group of organizations that agreed to collaboratively manage the development of open-source software. A consortium is user-led if the organizations are creating the software for the purpose of in-house...

New Funded Project on the Creation of Requirements Specification Using Qualitative Data Analysis

The DFG is sponsoring a new project of ours. Project Summary Avoiding errors during requirements specification creation prevents significantly higher costs in the subsequent development phase. We develop a method to guide the creation of complete and consistent requirements specification. See...

Invitation to the JValue-PML Kick-Off Meeting

We will be hosting the JValue-PML Kick-Off meeting as part of the mFUND-Programm in February 2023. This meeting is open to the public, but you need to register to receive the Zoom link the day before. The meeting will be held in German. By: Prof. Dirk Riehle, JValue Team & BMDV, mFUND Ev...

New Funded Project on Building a Data Engineering Language

The BMDV is sponsoring a new project of ours. Project Summary Data engineering is a fundamental part of any data science project that requires a large amount of work by skilled professionals. In this project, we will design a first version of a language for modeling data pipelines, a compiler...

New Funded Project on Open Collaborative Data Engineering

The BMBF is sponsoring a new project of ours. Summary Data engineering is a fundamental part of any data science project that requires a large amount of work by skilled professionals. Working with data often requires experience in software development, creating barriers to participation for d...

New Funded Project on Economic Assessment of Inner Source Software Development

The BMBF is sponsoring a new project of ours. Summary Inner Source ist die Verwendung von Softwareentwicklungsmethoden aus der Open-Source-Welt innerhalb einer Organisation. Eine Organisation, die Inner Source einführt, legt Teile ihres Quelltexts und andere Artefakte intern offen und ermögli...

New Funded Project on the Creation of Complete, Consistent, and Traceable Requirements Specifications

The BMBF is sponsoring a new project of ours. Zusammenfassung Die Erstellung einer konsistenten, vollständigen und nachvollziehbaren (traceable) Anforderungsspezifikation hat einen maßgeblichen Einfluss auf den Erfolg eines Softwareprojektes. Dennoch ist es aktuell immer noch schwer diese Qua...

New Funded Project on Microservice Integration Best Practices

The BMBF is sponsoring a new project of ours. Summary Vorreiter wie Amazon und Netflix nutzen Microservices, um skalierende und wartbare Systeme zu bauen und der nötigen Innovationsgeschwindigkeit gerecht zu werden. Eine für die Eigenschaften des Systems wegweisende Design-Entscheidung ist di...

Follow-on DFG Grant and Open Position on Inner Source Management Accounting

Our research project on managerial / economic accounting for software code flows in firm-internal software development (inner source) was awarded a follow-on grant by the DFG. Hence, we are looking for a new person to perform this research project (and possibly earn a Ph.D. along the way). You ...

Learning from Silicon Valley’s Commercial Open Source Firms

BaCaTeC is sponsoring the development of a grant proposal about commercial open source. The abstract of the grant development grant is: Commercial open source firms are companies that go-to-market by open sourcing the product they develop. The best known old example is MySQL, sold to Sun (later ...