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Abstract:  "Inner source" is the application of open source methods within a company's boundaries (Capraro & Riehle, 2017; Riehle, Capraro, Kips & Horn, 2016). Every employee is able to access and contribute to any software component developed within that company. This creates an open s...

In ARCH-PROJ, our software architecture project, a student team today presented their findings from documenting, analyzing, and suggesting improvements with respect to the use of open souce code in a commercial product. The student team found various discrepancies between assumed use of open source...

Abstract: Since mid 2017 the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) has been obligated to provide its weather data to the public for free. However, anyone who wants to access it needs to click through a file system hoping to still be on the right path to the desired weather data. Due to confusing folder names...

Abstract: The popularity of open source software development (OSS) strategies is increasing among organizations. Although it is not a new approach, the number of studies which concentrate on the open source user consortia strategy is limited. The goal of this thesis is to provide an overview of this...

High-performance teamwork (TEAM) is the name of a prospective course at FAU. Its primary goal is to teach students skills and competencies of high-performance teamwork. Topics covered include communication and listening, conflict management and resolution, motivation and engagement, among others. Th...

Abstract: Successful Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects incorporate both habitual and infrequent, or episodic, contributors. Using the concept of episodic volunteering (EV) from the general volunteering literature, we derive a model consisting of five key constructs that we hyp...

Abstract: Commercial use of open source software is on the rise as more companies realize the benefits of using FLOSS components in their products. At the same time, the ungoverned use of such components can result in legal, financial, intellectual property, and other risks. To mitigate these risks,...

Abstract: Corporate use of open source in software products is on the rise. While this brings a number of technological and business benefits to companies, it also comes with potential legal and financial risks caused by license non-compliance and ungoverned use of open source components. Companies ...