Free/Libre, and Open Source Software (5-ECTS) (OSS-FLOSS)5 ECTS
(englische Bezeichnung: Free/Libre, and Open Source Software (5-ECTS))
(Prüfungsordnungsmodul: Wahlpflichtbereich Informatik)

Lehrveranstaltungen:

• • Free/Libre, and Open Source Software (VUE)
    (Vorlesung mit Übung, 4 SWS, Dirk Riehle, Di, 9:00 - 12:00, KS I)

Inhalt:

This course teaches students engineering, product management, and business practices of open source.

It takes the classic form of a lecture with associated weekly exercises.

The topics of the lectures are:

• Introduction to open source

• Open source and intellectual property

• Open source project communities

• Open source software engineering

• Corporate open source governance

• Strategic corporate open sourcing

• Open source developer foundations

• Open source user foundations

• Open source distributors

• Single-vendor open source firms

• Open source labor economics
  

More details can be found in the course syllabus at http://goo.gl/gEjk2.

Students of computer science (Informatik) should note that this is course is less about technology and more about economics and the software industry.

The course combines weekly lectures with homework. Homework typically involves reading materials and summarizing these readings in short one-page documents.
The overall schedule can be found at http://goo.gl/V6gYj . Please sign up for the course on StudOn (link accessible through schedule spreadsheet) as soon as possible.

Lernziele und Kompetenzen:

• Understand how open source projects work

• Understand key aspects of the software industry

• Understand how open source is changing it

Literatur:

• http://goo.gl/D8qnu

Verwendbarkeit des Moduls / Einpassung in den Musterstudienplan:

1. Computational Engineering (Rechnergestütztes Ingenieurwesen) (Master of Science): ab 1. Semester
   (Po-Vers. 2013 | TechFak | Computational Engineering (Rechnergestütztes Ingenieurwesen) (Master of Science) | Wahlpflichtbereich Informatik | Wahlpflichtbereich Informatik)

Studien-/Prüfungsleistungen:

Free/Libre, and Open Source Software (5-ECTS) (Prüfungsnummer: 532135)

(englischer Titel: Free/Libre, and Open Source Software (5-ECTS))

Prüfungsleistung, mehrteilige Prüfung, benotet

Anteil an der Berechnung der Modulnote: 100.0 %

weitere Erläuterungen:

• Exercise participation

• Homework assignments

Erstablegung: SS 2018

1. Prüfer:

Dirk Riehle