Open Knowledge 1.0: publish what you know

The first version of Open Knowledge is out — an open-source, MIT-licensed application that turns curated knowledge into a course library anyone in the world can study. No accounts required to learn. No personal data collected. No platform in the middle.

What ships in this first version:

• A public course catalog with search, language and category filters, and cover-art-first course cards.
• An immersive study mode: careful long-form typography, Markdown, audio and video materials in a deliberate pedagogical order, visual progress, and continue-where-you-left-off — like a book that remembers your page.
• Exams that teach: explanatory feedback after every answer, and question pools that draw a random subset per attempt.
• Thirteen interface languages, with courses declaring their own language and the catalog filtering by it.
• Two deployment modes: a fully static mode where your content lives in a public git repository and the app is stateless (this very site runs that way), and a database mode with pseudonymous TOTP identities, cross-device progress, server-graded exams, shareable certificates with PDF download, a full visual admin panel, EPUB/PDF course export and one-click environment backups.
• Mobile first, light and dark themes, and an interface that gets out of the way of reading.

The two courses in this library tell the whole story: where the philosophy comes from, and exactly how to run a library of your own.

Open Knowledge is a gift, not a business. If you have knowledge worth sharing, deploying your own library takes a few minutes.