Introducing the Scala Center

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New not‑for‑profit based at EPFL launches to fund education and ecosystem work, reporting 400,000+ MOOC registrations and a 19.2% completion rate for the original Scala course. Immediate outputs include a four‑course Coursera specialization (starts May 23) with SBT‑based automated grading, and a crawled‑Maven package index now called Scaladex package index showing reverse dependencies and SBT install snippets; release aims for Scala Days Berlin after Bintray cooperation. Governance runs via an advisory board funded by charitable donations to ensure vendor neutrality.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:19Why Scala
3. 4:28Scala is growing
4. 6:39Stakeholders
5. 8:01Education
6. 10:55Coursera
7. 13:24MOOCs
8. 15:49Big Data Analysis
9. 16:49When will they start
10. 17:30Open Source
11. 20:27Working Together
12. 21:34How Does This Work
13. 24:02Corporate Members
14. 27:27LightBin
15. 28:35Package Index
16. 29:33Scala Decks
17. 31:07Demo
18. 31:49Current Status
19. 35:09Pom Files
20. 41:28Scala Days Berlin
21. 49:50Conclusion
22. 50:05Summary
23. 52:27Companies
24. 53:34Sipslip

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