OpenBoard explained

OpenBoard
Logo Size:200px
Logo Alt:OpenBoard logo
Latest Release Version:1.7.0
Programming Language:C++, Qt
Operating System:Linux, Windows, OS X
Platform:x86, x86-64
Size:160MB
Language:Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish
Language Count:14
Genre:Interactive whiteboard software
License:GPL-3.0-only[1]

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

It was originally forked from Open-Sankoré in 2013[2] with the intention to focus on simplicity and stability. The license was upgraded from LGPL-2.0-only to GPL-3.0-only. Since version 1.3 it is using the more recent QT 5 framework instead of QT version 4.

History

OpenBoard is [3] a fork of the project based on Open-Sankoré 2,0.[4] Open-Sankoré itself is based on the Uniboard software originally developed at the University of Lausanne (UL), Switzerland. The software started to be developed in 2003 and was first used by the instructors of the UL 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[5] under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL-2.0-only).[6]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: COPYRIGHT . Github . 6 September 2021.
  2. Web site: first try on linux after changing name · OpenBoard-org/OpenBoard@907c084. . 12 February 2017.
  3. Web site: OpenBoard, logiciel libre d'enseignement numérique interactif - Boite à Outils SEM. 12 February 2017. 24 February 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160224192705/http://edu.ge.ch/sem/equipement/outils/openboard-logiciel-libre-denseignement-numerique-interactif-1223. dead.
  4. Web site: OpenEducationFoundation/OpenBoard. GitHub. 2016-04-26.
  5. Web site: Claudio Valerio. . 12 February 2017.
  6. Web site: History . https://web.archive.org/web/20120201063949/http://open-sankore.org/en/history . dead . 1 February 2012 . Open-Sankoré . 26 April 2012 .