The upcoming Agile Methods and Open Source lab course (AMOS) just got even better with the arrival of a Google TV device shown below. Thank you Google!
We found ourselves conducting business at Nuremberg's new Coworking space on Jakobsplatz second time within a week, so we figured it would be good to point out how quickly this has become a hotbed of innovation and interesting people. Today, we ran into (well, worked with) the dynamic duo of the Ecl...
Teaching
The AMOS Project (AMOS)
The AMOS project is our annual lab course used to teach agile methods and open source. It is also our incubator for new software startups, see the AMOS project concept (in German).
Product Management (PROD)
Product management is a key business function of sof...
The Open Source Research Group just received a generous grant from Google (specifically the open source office at Google). The purpose of the grant is to support the Sweble research project. Thank you Google, for the continued support of our work!
The Sweble project develops user-friendly wiki-li...
Google has been a generous sponsor of the AMOS lab course in the past and just doubled, well, ten-folded down: After a trip I found this boatload of Nexus One phones on my desk. It will be very helpful to students to actually experience and experiment with the phones on campus rather than being (mos...
The Open Source Research Group is trying to understand what precisely open source companies are selling to their customers. To that end, we are undertaking a survey aimed at commercially viable product features of open source products and services. We would be thankful if you could take the survey a...
Bearingpoint Consulting has teamed up with the Open Source Research group and is providing a survey on the use of open source software in the automotive industry. Bearingpoint is a leading European strategic management consulting firm. Martin Helmreich, one of our graduates, recently started to work...
We will be presenting our paper on the design and implementation of the Sweble Wikitext Parser at the WikiSym 2011 conference! The conference will take place in Mountain View, CA in October.
For those of you who want to take a peek before the conference, we've put a pre-print version of t...
Wikipedia is a rich encyclopedia that is not only of great use to its contributors and readers but also to researchers and providers of third party software around Wikipedia. However, Wikipedia's content is only available as Wikitext, the markup language in which articles on Wikipedia are written. U...
SUSE, an Attachmate division these days, donated to our Product Management class a boatload of SUSE coffee mugs. SUSE, a leading Linux distributor, is an outgrowth of this university and a sponsor of the Open Source Research Group. Thank you!
