Category: 3. Research and Teaching

  • Workshop on Open Source, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

    The Chair for Economic Policy (Prof. Andreas Freytag) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University and the Max Planck Institute of Econonics, Jena, Germany, are organizing a workshop on “open source, innovation, and entrepreneurship.” It takes place next week, on Jan 14, 2010. It used to be a private, invitation-only workshop, but the organizers decided to open it up…

  • Up and Coming Conference Calls for Papers

    If you are interested in open source and software engineering, please take a look at these upcoming events: 27.12.2009: (F/L)OSS 2010, research program call for papers 11.01.2009: SSE 2010, a workshop on social software engineering 25.03.2010: OOPSLA 2010, research program call for papers 31.03.2010: Fourth F/LOSS Workshop Disclaimer: Except for the last one I’m on…

  • My Open Source Research Agenda (as of 2009)

    As you may seen in an earlier blog post, I’m starting in a new position as a professor of software engineering focussing on open source software at the University of Erlangen. In this post, I’m laying out my abbreviated research agenda as of September 2009. The overarching goal of my group’s research is to comprehensively…

  • Professor for Open Source Software at University of Erlangen

    After 12 years of working in the high-tech industry, I’m changing gears. I left my prior industry job and am starting today, September 1st, as the “professor for open source software” in the computer science department of the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. This is a free (not tied to a chair)…

  • Call for Papers: Empirical Research Free/Libre Open Source Software

    Call for papers: Special issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) Empirical Research on Free/Libre Open Source Software Important dates Deadline for articles 15 October 2009 Initial decisions by 15 January 2010 Revisions due 15 April 2010 Final decision by 15 July 2010

  • Call for Papers: Onward! 2009

    For your information, the call for papers for Onward! 2009. I’m on the program committee (and was last year’s chair). ONWARD! 2009 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS The conference for new ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on everything to do with programming and software. Co-located with OOPSLA 2009 Orlando, Florida October 25-29 2009 http://www.onward-conference.org Sponsored by ACM…