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This post is joined at the hip with the prior post on University Job vs. Dissertation (Ph.D.) Work. If you haven't read that one, please do so first. This post mostly applies to the German system. Depending on who you ask, you will get different answers. A professor may say: "You can get a Ph.D. ...

Updated 2020-04-03 for better reading. To understand the German Ph.D. system, it is helpful to understand the difference between a university job and doctoral (dissertation) work. Many confuse the two; they are orthogonal (but do interact). A university job is just that: a job. You are em...

At https://www.fau.de/einrichtungen/presse/publikationen/ you can find FAU's guidelines for open access publishing.

Would you like to get inspired by Master student Bilal Zaghloul? Then read his fascinating report about his Master Thesis work in Beijing, China! "When it came to my mind to travel to China...", Bilal writes, "...I had a little idea about the life in China. However, I knew that Chin...

Today, the Inner Source Tooling project started. It is funded by Black Duck Software. For more information, please see bit.ly/fau-oss-inner.

We are happy to announce that Black Duck Software, a provider of open source governance and related software development tools, has entered into a three-year research and development contract with our research group and will be sponsoring research into inner source, a hot upcoming software engin...

Ten years after the successful FLOSS survey with over 2500 respondents, which had an impact in the community, academia, and even politics, some researchers have decided to recreate the survey with the goal of seeing how the free/libre/open source (FLOSS) community has changed. If you are a contrib...

Die leitende Forschungsfrage unserer Arbeit lautet: Wie funktioniert "offene Zusammenarbeit" ("open collaboration"), wie wir sie in der Open-Source-Softwareentwicklung und anderen offenen Projekten erleben? Unter offener Zusammenarbeit verstehen wir Projekte, in denen Konsensbildung und gemeinschaft...

Abstract: The organic growth of wikis requires constant attention by contributors who are willing to patrol the wiki and improve its content structure. However, most wikis still only offer textual editing and even wikis which offer WYSIWYG editing do not assist the user in restructuring the wiki. Th...

Original project description for BaCaTec MediaWiki is the software that runs Wikipedia. Content is written in Wikitext, a markup and programming language that has evolved over eight years without any formal description. Its semantics is the implementation of the MediaWiki software. The open sourc...