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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 first one: 1. Quantitative Analyses of Actual Pro...

Summary It has only been a bit more than three months since we started the open source research group at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, but we are off to a good start. We settled on two main projects, open source software forges and Wikipedia technology. We filled o...

Please help the open source research group by taking this survey on code contributions in open and closed source projects! /surveys/index.php?sid=58638&lang=en Update 2009-12-30: We enhanced the survey based on your feedback and are keeping it open now until Jan 15, 2010. Please help out! T...

As part of Red Hat's sponsorship for the research group, we held a press round table, attended by a handful of selected and respected open source journalists. Some of their summaries appeared last Friday. Here is the current run-down, more to come (in German): Der Standard: Universität Erlange...

I just finished the first release of the agile methods lectures of the Agile and Open Source Software Development class that I'm teaching this semester. Please find the slides at /lehre/ws09/auos. Any feedback is welcome, including from the general public. This first iteration may still be a bit rou...

Novell, provider of the community open source project openSUSE and the commercial open source product SUSE Linux Enterprise (Desktop/Server) is sponsoring the Open Source Research Group of the University of Erlangen Nuremberg. We are very happy to receive the gift which will support half a Ph.D. stu...

Red Hat, provider of the community open source project Fedora and the commercial open source product Red Hat Enterprise Linux is sponsoring the Open Source Research Group of the University of Erlangen Nuremberg. We are very happy to receive the gift which will support a Ph.D. student (as a research ...

The open source research group at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg was recently featured in the leading German business newspaper "Handelsblatt." The article by Nuremberg-local journalist Ilona Hörath (in German) provides a short description of the group's research agenda, with a focus on t...

SAP AG, the world's third largest software vendor, held its first (mostly internal) open source summit on Nov 11-12. Prof. Riehle as an invited speaker presented his analysis of "why open source is hard for closed source vendors." (The linked to presentation is a generic one without anything specifi...

The city of Nuremberg welcomes our new research group: „Stärkung für den Open-Source-Standort Nürnberg“ – Fleck begrüßt erste deutsche Open-Source-Professur Mit Beginn des aktuellen Wintersemesters hat eine Open-Source-Forschungsgruppe unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Dirk Riehle an der Friedrich-A...