4.3 Finished Theses

Abstract: What license to choose or change? That's a question many open source projects will face at least once. Besides philosophical reasons to favor one type of license over another there is the concern whether the chosen license has an impact on the project's success. But does the license r...

Abstract:  The ability to increase the engagement of a social software platform’s users is a key influencing factor for the platform’s competitiveness and growth. In this context “gamification” is a major topic. This bachelor thesis deals with the formation and validation of a theory on the ef...

Abstract: Although Scrum is relatively new to the academic world, there is a rising awareness to apply agile methods, not only in the professional software industry but also as part of the software engineering curriculum. The agile practices of Scrum were, in the context of this thesis, adopted...

Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht 18 Executive Summaries, welche in der Lehrveranstaltung „The Firm“ an der Professur für Open Source Software in den Jahren 2010 und 2011 entstanden sind. In der Analyse werden die Leitfragen des Handbuchs zur Businessplan-Erstellung des netzwerk nordb...

Abstract: Although open source software has developed from a negligible phenomenon to an integral part of today’s business world, there are still companies which cannot see its commercial viability. As a consequence, these companies keep on ignoring this wide-spread trend, therefore missing pos...

Abstract: Creating a flourishing volunteer-driven community portal is a hard task, even if the underlying social cause is good and motivating. Community founders need to reach out and market the portal, they need to seed the portal and attract volunteers, and they need to keep and grow the volu...

Abstract: The MediaWiki software has a built-in parser for parsing Wikitext, however, its capabilities are limited and it only performs a conversion to HTML . The OSR group has successfully developed an alternative Wikitext parser called Sweble which is able to parse Wikitext into a high-level ...

Abstract (from introduction):  Diese Bachelorarbeit soll sich der Aufgabe annehmen, Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede von Open-Source-Vereinigungen in einem Vergleichsschema zusammenzuführen. Hierfür werden zunächst sechs Open-Source-Vereinigungen analysiert und daraus relevante Vergleichsdimens...

Abstract: Open source software offers great chances in software development through cost savings and shorter time to market. Open source software is used by companies - in some cases consciously, in others unconsciously, which puts its implications on the business. This thesis deals with these ...

Abstract: Die Wikipedia hat das Ziel, eine global verfügbare, freie Informationsquelle in Form eines Online-Lexikons zu erstellen. Freiwillige aus der ganzen Welt erstellen und kategorisieren kollaborativ neue Artikel, prüfen, aktualisieren und verbessern bestehende Artikel. Diese Änderungen er...