Hi,all, Now, Bluesky project calls for a new mentor to guide us to complete the release work of 4th version.
BlueSky is an e-learning solution designed to help solve the disparity in availability of qualified education between well-developed cities and poorer regions of China (e.g., countryside of Western China). BlueSky is already deployed to 12 + 5 primary/high schools with positive reviews.BlueSky was originally created by Qinghua Zheng and Jun Liu in September 2005. The BlueSky development is being done at XJTU-IBM Open Technology and Application Joint Develop Center, more than 20 developers are involved. And it entered incubation on 2008-01-12. BlueSky is consisted with two subsystems -- RealClass system and MersMp system, both of which contains a set of flexible, extensible applications such as "Distance Collaboration System", "Collaboration player", "Collaboration recording tool", "Resources Sharing and Management Platform " and Access of mobile terminal, designed by engineers and educators with years of experience in the problem domain, as well as a framework that makes it possible to create new applications that exist with others. Currently,Bluesky project has evolved into the 4th version system with more flexible applications and stabilities. We had developed the core applications of bluesky system with QT to support both Windows and Linux. What's more important, the new version system has the feature of integrated applications, which means that user can record a video during the interactive process and then play it in VOD method.The third advancement is that the 4th version sysytem supports Android platform and we can further advance Blursky in the mobile domain. We propose to move future development of BlueSky to the Apache Software Foundation in order to build a broader user and developer community. We hope to encourage contributions and use of Bluesky by other developing countries with similar education needs. Currently, the new version of BlueSky system is already handy to release.We really need to add an enthusiastic and responsive mentor to help us to complete full cycle of successful release.So we hope that with the help of developers all around the world, the system could become more powerful and functional in education area. We appreciate your attentions to Bluesky project. Best regards.
