| Written by Nikos Vaggalis |
| Tuesday, 16 July 2019 |
Finland's educational system is famous for three reasons: its pedagogical outlook, its technological excellence and its openness to the world.
Sticking to the latter, University of Helsinki's "Full Stack Open 2019" which familiarizes students with the basics of modern web application development, initialy taken in Finish only, has been made available in English too, under the permissive Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license:
“We wanted to make the course available in English as a way to offer Finnish university education for free to an international audience”
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It's about infrastructure as well, something that although not attracting the limelight, is as important as the open source software it hosts. Today the stewards of the largest open source registries in the world have issued an open letter demanding urgent reform in how open source infrastructure is funded, maintained, and operated. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/18334-open-source-is-not-just-about-software.html
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