2.1 Research Information

I previously described why it is difficult being an external Ph.D. student. One of the aspects is that you have to convince me that you can prevail, even though I have much less opportunity to advise you than I'd have with a "wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" (TA/RA position funding Ph.D. studies) tha...

Within my short time of being a professor at a German engineering university, I've raked up quite a number of requests from folks to become an "external Ph.D. student" of mine. In the German system, this is someone who is enrolled in the Ph.D. program but not funded by the university, i.e. is self-s...

Die Professur für Open-Source-Software an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg verfügt über signifikante praktische Erfahrung im Management von Open-Source-Communities und ist international in der Erforschung dieses sich in rasanter Entwicklung befindlichen Themas als führend ausgew...

We found ourselves conducting business at Nuremberg's new Coworking space on Jakobsplatz second time within a week, so we figured it would be good to point out how quickly this has become a hotbed of innovation and interesting people. Today, we ran into (well, worked with) the dynamic duo of the Ecl...

Teaching The AMOS Project (AMOS) The AMOS project is our annual lab course used to teach agile methods and open source. It is also our incubator for new software startups, see the AMOS project concept (in German). Product Management (PROD) Product management is a key business function of sof...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...