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Today at "the Firm", the seminar we teach on how software product firms work, was product presentation time. Things were led on by lecturer Stefan Probst, followed by the three student teams, each presenting an elaborated version of the business idea that made the cut earlier this semester. Please g...

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...

Our offer to the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedia (technical) community is this: Come up with a new and better Wikitext and use the Sweble Wikitext parser to convert old Wikipedia content to that new format. Naturally, the new Wikitext format should work well with visual editors etc. We have s...

CrystallBall is our parser demo so that you don't have to get down to code to check out the parser. It is a simple and easy way to see how we interpret Wikitext. The general Sweble Parser documentation is on the wiki, naturally. Here are a few examples, though, for the hurried among you. Please not...

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...

We are happy to announce the general availability of the first public release of the Sweble Wikitext parser, available from http://sweble.org. The Sweble Wikitext parser can parse all complex Wikitext, incl. tables and templates produces a real abstract syntax tree (AST); a DOM will follo...

Finally, our Sweble project site has launched! And with it one of our first projects is going Open Source: The Wikitext Parser, developed at the Open Source Research Group at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg. The Sweble project develops and provides libaries and components for a MediaWiki compati...

"Agile Methods and Open Source" combines lectures on agile methods and open source software development with a lab course that applies what is being learned. This semester, we will be developing a social networking platform for sailors, combining web services, Facebook, Android, and more. Read m...