On October 14, 2017, classes on “Programming - competence of the future” were held in Kursk as part of the MEET and CODE initiative and the European programming week. They were attended by schoolchildren and students of the South-Western State University. Classes were conducted by the director of the Trionics Foundation Anton Kartamyshev and programmer Mikhail Semakhin .

On October 9 and 10, 2017, master classes on the basics of programming as part of the European Magistry Week and MEET and CODE initiative were held in the Safonov orphanage of the Smolensk Region. Classes were conducted by specialists of the children's programming school Coddy . At the first master class, children 7-9 years old were taught to use algorithmic thinking.

Open code projects are becoming more popular among ordinary users. This is sure of the general director of NEXTGIS , a specialist in the field of open technologies, Maxim Dubinin . In an interview with the greenhouse deputy editor, Natalya Baranova, the expert spoke about trends, the best examples and explained why Russian developers are not so actively participating in the joint development of open code at the international level.