Author: Dirk Riehle

  • Register now for Forum Open Source 2017

    On June 20th, the the 2017 Bitkom Open Source Forum will take place in Berlin. In my opinion, this is the best vendor-neutral opportunity in Germany to meet and listen to open source experts and how open source is shaping the German and international software industry. I will present my main blockbuster talk on why…

  • Open Data is Moving, Slowly but Surely

    I’ve been participating in various workshops and working groups on open data now. It is hard scrabble, but things are moving. Today I participated in a workshop of the open data task force of Bitkom which I am a member of. The highlight of the day was the participation of Saskia Esken who explained some…

  • From a Student Business Plan

    In PROD, my course on software product management, students can choose to develop a business plan for a software product. Not all of my students seem to take this as serious as I wished. Here is the opening sentence of the exec summary from one of the teams: With a total loss of 388,987.50 Euros…

  • Entrepreneurship Panel at IT-Gipfel Göttingen #itgipfelgoe

    A few days ago, I participated in a panel on entrepreneurship in the beautiful but small city of Göttingen, Germany. While a university town, it isn’t exactly the Silicon Valley either, much like my current home town of Erlangen. Thus, on the panel, I ran into the usual German morals on what makes a good…

  • Startupinformatik at IT-Gipfel Göttingen #itgipfelgoe

    I just returned from a presentation (and panel discussion) about entrepreneurship and Startupinformatik, my structured approach to creating student startups from a computer science Master’s program. Below, please find the slides of my presentation. [slideshare id=72790387&doc=startupinformatik-170303233054]

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