4 Theses

About two years ago, a company local to the Nuremberg area had to make a decision whether to open source their closed source enterprise software. This is a difficult decision: Does open sourcing mean you'll lose your bread-winning revenue streams? Or will you open up new markets and win big? In this...

Some software firms move some or all of their software development to foreign nations to take advantage of lower labor costs in those other countries. One example are German firms performing joint software development projects with firms located in China. While financially attractive, such projects ...

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...

Abstract: When using mailing lists as a collaboration tool, (open source) software developers are following various usage patterns. In order to improve the efficiency of open source collaboration, this thesis tries to identify these existing patterns by analyzing the mailing lists of popular op...

Wir möchten hiermit zwei Forschungsthemen ausschreiben für Softwareentwickler, die gern nebenberuflich promovieren möchten. Die zwei Forschungsgebiete sind: Gamification von Geschäftsoftware. Fragestellung: Wie sieht die Benutzungsschnittstelle der Geschäftssoftware der...

Hier zwei beispielhafte Ausschreibungen für mögliche Abschlussarbeiten (Bachelor-, Diplom-, Master-Arbeiten) für Informatiker bei der Open Source Research Group der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg: Continuous Deployment Mydosis Gamification Weitere Optionen (StudOn) Wie immer freuen wir uns auch ü...