Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1. Software Industry

  • A key capability German car manufacturers are still missing

    A key capability German car manufacturers are still missing

    My first project as a professor with a German car manufacturer was in 2013, and our industry partner kicked off the first project meeting with the words: Ich bin ein Blechbieger und verstehe von Software nicht so viel.(I bend sheet metal and don’t know much about software.) I think he already was behind the times…

  • Ten years of student startups

    Ten years of student startups

    A main reason why I became a professor is to create and guide student startups, in general, and from my research projects in particular. It has been a bumpy ride, to say the least, but I guess, every learning curve is. Data points (startups) are still not plenty, but I can nevertheless discern some learnings.…

  • The ecosystem of openKONSEQUENZ, a user-led open source foundation (video)

    The ecosystem of openKONSEQUENZ, a user-led open source foundation (video)

    Today, Nikolay Harutyunyan presented some of our work on openKONSEQUENZ, a user-led open source consortium that develops software for local energy distributors. Below, please watch the talk (local copy); the talk is based on the same-name research paper.

  • The innovations of open source article republished in IEEE Computing Edge’s April 2020 issue

    The innovations of open source article republished in IEEE Computing Edge’s April 2020 issue

    IEEE’s Computing Edge magazine is a practitioner-oriented publication that republishes particularly popular content from other IEEE publications. In the April 2020 issue, they republished last year’s The Innovations of Open Source article that I wrote to open IEE Computer magazine’s bimonthly open source column. Best of all, it is free! (Original version, local copy.) I…

  • Single-vendor open source firms [Computer Magazine]

    Single-vendor open source firms [Computer Magazine]

    I’m happy to report that the seventh article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Single-Vendor Open Source Firms Keywords Open Source, Single-vendor Open Source, Commercial Open Source Authors Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg Publication Computer vol. 53, no. 4 (April 2020), pp. 68-72 Abstract: This article present a particular business…

  • Managing episodic volunteers in free/libre, and open-source software communities [TSE Journal]

    Managing episodic volunteers in free/libre, and open-source software communities [TSE Journal]

    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…