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!
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.
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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...
