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Die Open-Source-Forschungsgruppe an der FAU betreibt empirische Forschung, in der mathematische Modellbildung der untersuchten Phänomene eine wichtige Rolle spielt. Deswegen sind wir auf der Suche nach mathematischer Kompetenz für Bachelor und Master-Arbeiten. Idealerweise mögen Sie auch Open Source...

You may have been reading Matt Aslett's analysis of the trend to permissive licensing as well Gordon Half's discussion of this trend. I enjoyed reading them and agree with the overall trend. I don't quite agree with the predicted downfall of Copyleft licenses, though, and I love the irony of it. ...

Our offer to the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedia (technical) community is this: Come up with a new and better Wikitext and use the Sweble Wikitext parser to convert old Wikipedia content to that new format. Naturally, the new Wikitext format should work well with visual editors etc. We have s...

CrystallBall is our parser demo so that you don't have to get down to code to check out the parser. It is a simple and easy way to see how we interpret Wikitext. The general Sweble Parser documentation is on the wiki, naturally. Here are a few examples, though, for the hurried among you. Please not...

We are happy to announce the general availability of the first public release of the Sweble Wikitext parser, available from http://sweble.org. The Sweble Wikitext parser can parse all complex Wikitext, incl. tables and templates produces a real abstract syntax tree (AST); a DOM will follo...

Finally, our Sweble project site has launched! And with it one of our first projects is going Open Source: The Wikitext Parser, developed at the Open Source Research Group at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg. The Sweble project develops and provides libaries and components for a MediaWiki compati...

Some upcoming research conferences with submission deadlines in 2011. Software Engineering ESEC/FSE 2011 - research papers due March 11th OSS 2011 - research papers due April 8th OOPSLA 2011 - research papers due April 8th ICSE 2012 - research papers due September 29th Collaborative ...

After Prof. Riehle paid a visit to the Googleplex in Mountain View, the Android and Educational Outreach folks at Google got so excited about the AMOS Project that they donated two more smart phones on the spot. These are Motorola Droids, see below. These are not GSM phones, however, they have WiFi ...

The Bavaria California Technology Center has awared our group some funds to move forward with our "Reengineering Wikitext" project. Below please find a short research project summary (in German). Zusammenfassung: MediaWiki ist die Software, auf deren Basis Wikipedia betrieben wird. MediaWiki ...

In Germany, today (2010), primary and secondary education take 12 school years and when finished successfully, allow you to enter college. College provides three main degrees you can achieve, a Bachelor, a Master, and a Ph.D. At the University of Erlangen, the Bachelor degree typically takes three y...