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08APR 2020
2 Research
Research Paper: Managing Episodic Volunteers in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Communities (TSE)
Abstract: We draw on the concept of episodic volunteering (EV) from the general volunteering literature to identify practices for managing EV in free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) communities. Infrequent but ongoing participation is widespread, but the practices that community managers are using to manage EV, and their concerns about EV, have not been previously documented. We […]
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08APR 2020
3 Teaching
AMOS Project: Real-time task scheduler for Cloud Foundry with DATEV
AMOS is our course on Agile Methods and Open Source. Students experience Scrum and software development in exciting industry-provided projects. Learn more about AMOS here. One of the interesting AMOS projects has the goal to build a real-time task scheduler for Cloud Foundry, together with DATEV: Today every modern software expects immediate processing of their […]
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26MAR 2020
3 Teaching
AMOS Project: Atomic Cross-Chain Swaps App with ChainSquad
AMOS is our course on Agile Methods and Open Source. Students experience Scrum and software development in exciting industry-provided projects. Learn more about AMOS here. One of the interesting AMOS projects has the goal to build an app, coming right from the blockchain topic, together with ChainSquad: The student team will develop an atomic cross-chain […]
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25MAR 2020
3 Teaching
AMOS Project: Student-Job Application App with Consileon
AMOS is our course on Agile Methods and Open Source. Students experience Scrum and software development in exciting industry-provided projects. Learn more about AMOS here. One of the interesting AMOS projects has the goal to build a cross-platform app for student-job applications together with Consileon: Filling out paper formulas at job fairs is outdated! Build […]
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24MAR 2020
9 General
Join FOSS-Responders in addressing effects of COVID-19 on FOSS
Although free software / open source is largely developed online, COVID-19 is still having an affect. For example, foundations or projects may experience financial difficulties due to having to cancel events which have already been paid for, or due to sponsors needing to withdraw sponsorship due to their own financial situation. FOSS-Responders has been set […]
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24MAR 2020
1 Group
Fight SARS-CoV-2 with your Coding Skills?
We would like to forward to you a call to action from the US-based non-profit group Code for Philly. Code for Philly and the Predictive Healthcare team at Penn Medicine are currently developing the open source tool CHIME. In the light of the current SARS-CoV-2 (“Coronavirus”) pandemic, they are searching for volunteers who want to […]
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