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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...

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...