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Sophie2 Overview
About Sophie
- 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 here
- License
Sophie2 uses Educational Community License, Version 2.0, which is a modified Apache 2.0 one. Its full text is placed in the License section.
- Requirements
Sophie2 runs on Windows, Lunux and MacOS. Since it is written in Java, in order to run the platform independent libraries, you need Java installed. The hardware requirements can not be precise until a more advanced phase of development. What is known for now is written in the Requirements section of the Wiki.
- Editions
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.
- Development
This page is not intended to contain information about developing Sophie2. Most of the important documents are located in Developers' Home. However, the Development Overview page might be what you need.
Schedule
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.
Documentation
Documentation is not available yet. Coming soon :)
