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Maximilian Capraro, a member of our research group, wrote his Master Thesis based on work he performed at Boston-based start-up Black Duck Software (BDS). At BDS Max worked on the ohloh.net open source data service, specifically bug-tracker-based metrics gathering and reporting. That work has now go...

Abstract: Global software development projects are rapidly increasing due to the globalization of the software industry. However, 69% of cross-regional projects fail completely or partially, because of the lack of cross cultural understanding. This thesis presents a qualitative study of the impact o...

This post is joined at the hip with the prior post on University Job vs. Dissertation (Ph.D.) Work. If you haven't read that one, please do so first. This post mostly applies to the German system. Depending on who you ask, you will get different answers. A professor may say: "You can get a Ph.D. ...

Updated 2020-04-03 for better reading. To understand the German Ph.D. system, it is helpful to understand the difference between a university job and doctoral (dissertation) work. Many confuse the two; they are orthogonal (but do interact). A university job is just that: a job. You are em...

At https://www.fau.de/einrichtungen/presse/publikationen/ you can find FAU's guidelines for open access publishing.

Would you like to get inspired by Master student Bilal Zaghloul? Then read his fascinating report about his Master Thesis work in Beijing, China! "When it came to my mind to travel to China...", Bilal writes, "...I had a little idea about the life in China. However, I knew that Chin...

Die Professur für Open-Source-Software betreibt sog. Lehrprojekte, in denen Studierende sich definierte Lerninhalte an realen Projekten erarbeiten. Diese Lehrprojekte werden von Industriepartnern vorgeschlagen und in Absprache mit der Professur definiert. Das Feedback unserer Studierenden ist durchw...

Folgend, eine Pressemitteilung unsers Industriepartners Univention. Preisgelder in Höhe von 3.500 Euro für Abschlussarbeiten mit Open Source Fokus Bremen, 18. Februar 2014. Das Bremer Softwarehaus Univention wird auf dem LinuxTag 2014 in Berlin zum siebten Mal den Absolventenpreis für hera...

With the move to project work in most of our courses, we are introducing TEAM, a one-day workshop that sensitizes students to the challenges of teamwork. In TEAM, you will learn essential tools of teamwork. The workshop will take place on April 4th, 2014, 9:00-17:00 Uhr, for the first time. The r...

Our group maintains close connections with professors from Beijing-based Universities (Peking University, Tsinghua University), Hong Kong-based Universities (HK University of Science and Technology, City University of HK), and MMU (Multimedia University, Malaysia). While no easy exchange program exi...