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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...

(Deutsche Übersetzung weiter unten.) Survey on agile methods and open source literatur We would like to understand which books you found helped you best in understanding agile and open source software development. (This is in preparation of our upcoming "Agile and Open Source Software Dev...

For now, we are using Google Groups to communicate. The following lists are available: Public Access Lists osr-announce: For announcements by the group (low traffic, announcement-only) osr-discuss: If you would like to comment on announcements (open for all, but on topic only) Rest...