Common i-Whiteboard Format
Becta have appointed RM to develop an interoperable standard for i-whiteboard content formats following a tender process. This aims to solve the issue of resources being locked into particular brands of whiteboard. The consultation has just started, and will deliver the first phase - the file specification. The second phase is to be a viewer application with supporting documentation to allow software publishers to use the standard in their own applications.
The plan is to publish as Open Source on the SourceForge website by the end of June 2009. I think this is about time, and at last seperates the hardware platform from the software. This in turn will open up a market for open source i-whiteboard applications ... well done Becta!.