Open-Sankoré

Open-Sankoré is a free and open-source interactive whiteboard software compatible with any projector and pointing device.

Open-Sankoré
Open-Sankoré 1.4 running on Windows 7 in full screen
Developer(s)Sankoré
Initial release2003 (2003)
Final release
2.5.1 / May 1, 2013 (2013-05-01)
Written inC++, HTML, Javascript, QT
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Available inFrench, English, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
TypeInteractive whiteboard
LicenseGNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License
Websitehttp://open-sankore.org

Open-Sankoré development stopped but the fork OpenBoard remains active.

History

Open-Sankoré is based on the Uniboard software originally developed at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. The software started to be developed in 2003 and was first used by the teachers of the University in October 2003. The project was later spun off to a local startup company, Mnemis SA. It was subsequently sold to the French Public Interest Grouping for Digital Education in Africa (GIP ENA) which bought the intellectual property of the software in order to make it an open source project[1] under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).[2] The DIENA was founded to share the software in African countries and develop free educational material[3]

Since September 2014 OpenBoard,[4] a fork based on Open-Sankoré 2.0[5] is developed by the educational administration of Geneva (Swiss). This lighter version works better on Mac OS. A new version based on Qt 5.5 should solve existing bugs.

Since November 2015 neither DIENA[6] nor Open-Sankoré[7] respond to emails. The source of Open-Sankoré was last changed in January 2015.[8] A new version should be developed for 2017.[9]

Fork

In 2013 The GIP ENA would be dissolved.[10] Since 2013 the Open-Sankoré support, contact, bug report[11] don't answer. The DIENA responsible for the project don't answer.[12]

In September 2014 a fork, OpenBoard,[13] is developed by the education administration of Geneva, écoles-médias (SEM). It's based on Open-Sankoré 2.0 version 2.0 with Qt4, better for Mac OS X. The source code of Open-Sankoré was developed until September 2015 but bug appears on Mac and Windows.

It should be an Open-Sankoré 2.5.2 in 2017[14] (current version 2.5.1). The French education administration is building a new concept until June 2016[15] with the Direction du numérique pour l'éducation[16] (DNE).

Innovations

Open-Sankoré is the first feature-complete open-source interactive whiteboard. In contrast to other similar software, its file format is text-based and uses a W3C web standard, allowing to be displayed in a modern web browser and enabling lessons to be distributed online without additional software. Second, the software can be extended using W3C-compliant widgets, allowing user flexibility.

Impact

The French government has set up an Interministerial Delegation for Digital Education in Africa (DIENA) and a Public Interest Grouping for Digital Education in Africa (GIP ENA) in order to implement a multi-year program for developing digital education in many African partner countries. Open-Sankoré is one of the strategies of this group to try to achieve the Millennium Development Goals for education in Africa, an initiative of the United Nations.[17]

See also

References
  1. https://github.com/Sankore/
  2. "History". Open-Sankoré. Archived from the original on 1 February 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  3. Administrator, Administrator. "Sankoré - WebHome". planete.sankore.org. Archived from the original on 2016-05-07. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  4. http://edu.ge.ch/sem/equipement/outils/openboard-logiciel-libre-denseignement-numerique-interactif-1223
  5. "OpenEducationFoundation/OpenBoard". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-11-20. Retrieved 2016-03-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. http://open-sankore.org/fr/node/7
  8. https://github.com/Sankore/
  9. "Logiciels libres". adte.ca. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  10. Arrêté du 22 août 2013 portant approbation de la décision de l'assemblée générale de dissolution anticipée du Groupement d'intérêt public pour l'éducation numérique en Afrique, retrieved 2016-04-26
  11. http://bugs.open-sankore.org Archived 2013-08-14 at the Wayback Machine
  12. "Education numérique pour tous". www.educationnumeriquepourtous.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-20. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  13. http://edu.ge.ch/sem/equipement/outils/openboard-logiciel-libre-denseignement-numerique-interactif-1223
  14. http://adte.ca/logiciels-libres.html
  15. https://twitter.com/sankore2015/status/705392691710980097
  16. "Direction du numérique pour l'éducation [DNE]". Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (in French). Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  17. "How did the program come about?". Sankoré. Archived from the original on 1 February 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
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