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We are happy to announce that Google is sponsoring the Agile Methods and Open Source Praktikum (PDF) with two Nexus One cell phones. If you are a student, please check out the materials we are making available through StudOn.

Prof. Riehle is currently in the Silicon Valley performing explorative interviews with local commercial open source firms. Goal of the research is to uncover best practices of such firms in the various business functions that make up a software firm. Currently, we are focussing on Marketing, Communi...

We will be participating in the Computing Community Consortium's workshop on the future of open source research at UC Irvine. The organizers asked participants to provide opinions on three research areas that warrant further attention. Here is our third one: 3. Decision Models for Industry Partic...

We will be participating in UC Irvine's workshop on the future of open source research. The organizers asked participants to provide opinions on three research areas that warrant further attention. Here is our second one: 2. Improved Open Source Process and Tooling Quantitative analyses of ope...

We will be participating in the Computing Community Consortium's workshop on the future of open source research at UC Irvine. The organizers asked participants to provide opinions on three research areas that warrant further attention. Here is our first one: 1. Quantitative Analyses of Actual Pro...

Please help the open source research group by taking this survey on code contributions in open and closed source projects! /surveys/index.php?sid=58638&lang=en Update 2009-12-30: We enhanced the survey based on your feedback and are keeping it open now until Jan 15, 2010. Please help out! T...

Novell, provider of the community open source project openSUSE and the commercial open source product SUSE Linux Enterprise (Desktop/Server) is sponsoring the Open Source Research Group of the University of Erlangen Nuremberg. We are very happy to receive the gift which will support half a Ph.D. stu...

Red Hat, provider of the community open source project Fedora and the commercial open source product Red Hat Enterprise Linux is sponsoring the Open Source Research Group of the University of Erlangen Nuremberg. We are very happy to receive the gift which will support a Ph.D. student (as a research ...

SAP AG, the world's third largest software vendor, held its first (mostly internal) open source summit on Nov 11-12. Prof. Riehle as an invited speaker presented his analysis of "why open source is hard for closed source vendors." (The linked to presentation is a generic one without anything specifi...

The survey results are in. Thanks to all 106 participants who contributed! A bit of background. Let me first say that the survey obviously was not comprehensive. There were a lot of good books that we missed. However, it was not the purpose to judge book authors but rather I wanted to feel confid...