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Abstract: The importance of Linux in industry increases continuously with the ascending variety of products running Linux based software. Use cases are not only limited to consumer applications but also high-performance computer and business-critical control technology. The usage of software in...

Abstract: A commenting functionality is an essential part of social media platforms and broadly used in the modern internet. However, some collaborative platforms like e.g. Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, are still missing an effective communication channel. This thesis analyses existi...

Abstract: Wikis enable the maintenance of a collective knowledge base on the Internet and although they already have some prerequisites for collaborative work, they lack essential functions for the productive handling of shared articles.The web-based collaboration platform Sweble uses the so-called...

Abstract: Software vendors need to manage the dependencies of the open source components used in their products. Without this management, license compliance would be impossible, export restrictions could not be maintained, and security vulnerabilities would remain unknown to the vendor. The managem...

Abstract: Companies without expertise in software development can opt to form consortia to develop open source software to meet their needs, as an alternative to the build-or-buy decision. Such user-led foundations are little understood, due to a limited number of published examples. In particular,...

Abstract: The thesis is targeting the question to predict a room's occupation status without help of intrinsic sensors such as motion sensors or noise. Based on quantitative information about air composition, several machine learning algorithms are supposed to decide whether a meeting is terminated...

We, the Open Source Research Group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, are actively involved with the InnerSource Commons - a group of practitioners and researchers working on and with inner source. Inner source is the use of open source software development practices and the estab...

The 2020 German Perl/Raku Workshop will be held at the technical faculty of FAU next week.

On Monday, February 3rd, student Benjamin Fischer presented their final project, Democracy App. This app is built on the JValue Open Data Service developed by our professorship. We use open data to provide a valuable service to the public. In this case, the main data sources were Bundestag and Abge...