| 4 | | '''Sophie is an all purpose tool for dealing with media. It allows users to easily create books that can contain any sort of media on hand – text, images, sounds, videos, animations. Sophie does for media what a physical book does for text and images: with Sophie, authors can create multimedia books. Sophie allows the easy construction of documents that are designed to live on a network and use multimedia and time in ways that are currently difficult, if not impossible. Sophie transforms the way people go about reading and writing in screen-based environments. Sophie’s goal is to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of people and institutions. |
| 5 | | Sophie runs on Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems.''' [[BR]] |
| 6 | | You might want to read more about history of Sophie2 or about Astea solutions. If so, click [wiki:SCS_SITE_DESIGN/About here] |
| | 4 | * '''Sophie''' is an all purpose tool for dealing with media. It allows users to easily create books that can contain any sort of media on hand – text, images, sounds, videos, animations. Sophie does for media what a physical book does for text and images: with Sophie, authors can create multimedia books. Sophie allows the easy construction of documents that are designed to live on a network and use multimedia and time in ways that are currently difficult, if not impossible. Sophie transforms the way people go about reading and writing in screen-based environments. Sophie’s goal is to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of people and institutions. You might want to read more about history of Sophie2 or about Astea solutions. If so, click [wiki:SCS_SITE_DESIGN/About here] |
| 14 | | == Platform Structure == |
| 15 | | Sophie2 has three editions: Author, Reader ad Server. Each of them is separated in its own module (modules are development issue, so they are explained in "Development Overview" paragraph below). [[BR]] |
| 16 | | The platform has currently two structures: source and runtime. Both of them can be observed in [wiki:PLATFORM_STRUCTURE]. [[BR]] |
| | 12 | * '''Editions''' [[BR]] |
| | 13 | Sophie2 consists of a set of modules (each one defines some functionality itself). There are 3 different subsets of it, called editions: Author, Reader ad Server. |
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| | 15 | * '''Development'''[[BR]] |
| | 16 | This page is not intended to contain information about developing Sophie2. Most of the important documents are located in [wiki:SCS_SITE_DESIGN/DevelopmentHome Developers' Home]. However, the [wiki:DEVELOPMENT_OVERVIEW Development Overview] page might be what you need. |
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| | 18 | == Schedule == |
| | 19 | Sophie2's development process will take about 1 year. This period is split into 12 shorter ones, called "iterations" (each iteration lasts about a month). The first five iterations' names begin with PRE, and this is the time when the project structure and its core are formed. The next 3 iterations begin with ALPHA, the next 3 with BETA, and then is the FINAL release. During this 1 year are scheduled totally 2000 tasks, which are rather part of the development process. |
