47 Degrees joins the Scala Center!

Author: heathermiller

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+layout: blog
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+by: Heather Miller
+title: 47 Degrees Joins the Scala Center Advisory Board!
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+Today, the Scala Center is very proud to welcome [47
+Degrees](http://www.47deg.com/), an independent functional programming
+consultancy and certified Lightbend Partner, as an advisory board member. You
+might know 47 Degrees as the folks behind the popular [Scala
+Exercises](http://scala-exercises.47deg.com/), an interactive, web-based
+collection of Scala Koans, which are small bite-size lessons that build up a
+full understanding of Scala. Scala Exercises will go v2 this year, and with it,
+it will bring better support for saving progress on exercises across devices,
+more koans, better evaluation, and the ability to write exercises. We hope to
+work with 47 Degrees to make efforts like Scala Exercises a first-class, go-to
+educational offering for new newcomers to Scala.
+
+“Providing valuable open sourced content to the  Scala ecosystem has always been
+a priority for our company,” said 47 Degrees CEO [Nick
+Elsberry](https://twitter.com/nickelsberry). “The opportunity to work alongside
+the Scala Center gives us the ability to hone our efforts and focus our
+contributions on projects that will be most beneficial to the evolution of the
+language and its growing user base.”
+
+[Raúl Raja](https://twitter.com/raulraja), co-founder and CTO of 47 Degrees,
+will represent 47 Degrees on the Scala Center advisory board.
+
+As the folks behind important efforts focused on the benefit of the entire Scala
+community like Scala Exercises, 47 Degrees truly embodies the “for good of all”
+spirit at the core of the Scala Center’s mission. We’re thrilled to have them on
+board to share this journey with us.
+