Linux Journal: Finland Works on an Applied Linux Institute

“An old saying posits that a prophet is never recognised in his
own home or time. Helsinki, however, is trying to all that wrong.
To start, the city is planning an institute that would play an
important role in promoting FLOSS across the globe, specifically in
developing countries. It’s a nice way of remembering that it was in
this city that a college student once contributed the kernel of a
new idea about how software is developed and shared across the
globe.

“The whole idea of the Applied Linux Institute began about six
months ago, following a seminar organized by KePa, a Finnish
development network that recently put together the study ‘FLOSS
(Free/Libre and Open Source Software) in the Developing World.’ One
common thread was how significant the ideas of FLOSS were to the
countries of Asia, Latin America and Africa. To Seppo Koskela, one
of the two people involved in taking this concept forward, ‘The
idea is simple: to get together the small Finnish Linux activities
(from) here and there and, when we are strong enough, to start to
cooperate and to help South-to-South FLOSS efforts…'”

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