Keynote: Introducing the Scala Center
summary
A new independent center at EPFL launches as a not-for-profit at EPFL to fund Scala infrastructure and education; it devotes one to two staff per priority project, relies on donations and MOOC revenue, and runs an advisory board with published minutes. Education continues with a Coursera MOOC specialization with capstone (four courses) and automated graders; the center already reports 63,000 learners in 3 weeks and runs Scaladex which indexes ~3,000 published Scala projects.
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chapters (32)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:54EPFL
- 1:19Why Scala
- 2:49Why Scala Center
- 5:30Mission Statement
- 6:15MOOCs
- 7:43Scala Mini Degree
- 8:37Coursera Platform
- 9:40Coursera Specialization
- 10:28Automated Grading
- 11:19Coursera Courses
- 12:17Functional Programming Principles
- 13:27Parallel Programming
- 17:16Community Development
- 19:43How we exist
- 20:54How were funded
- 21:47Donations
- 22:41Advisory Board
- 24:12Meeting minutes
- 24:27Recommendations
- 26:13Bend and Typesafe
- 27:29Node Haskell and Rust
- 28:39Scala Dex
- 34:30GitHub
- 38:45The Scala Index
- 39:47Scala Platform
- 41:58Scala Fiddle
- 42:42Scala Slip
- 43:07Scala Advisory Board
- 44:18Give back
- 45:31UI example
- 45:47Bill
