That is a great news Anivar, wish all the states follow in footsteps of Kerala. SCERT. Congratulations to you and the team who was working closely with them
Kind Regards, Dhaval On 15 Nov 2013 13:03, "Anivar Aravind" anivar.aravind@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry for the typos** earlier
Dear all ,
Some happy news for all of us .
The School curriculum steering commitee of Kerala Govt's SCERT(State Council Educational Research and Training) decided 3 major points in our interest yesterday
- SCERT is improving text book printing infrastructure by shifting from
Adobe 's softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licensed fonts.
- They will shift from ASCII to Unicode . This will also help in
universal access for differentially abled via technologies like Text to Speech even in Malayalam Language .
- The books will be licensed under CC-BY-SA .
Official Order is still pending. But I am posting this since it is already in media reports.
Read a report in TOI http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Now-free-software-to-...
The Change will be applicable to all newly publishing books from now Starting from Malayalam Text books in 5, 7, and 11th standards
Myself, Hrishikesh K.B and a team from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing ( http://smc.org) are working closely with SCERT from last few months to help them in initiating this change process.
Thanks to Dr. P.K Thilak, Research Officer SCERT , Director SCERT, and Biju Prabhakar IAS (Director of Public Instruction, Govt of Kerala ) for initiating this Change.
~ regards Anivar Aravind Secretary Swathanthra Malaalam Computing http://smc.org.in Ph. 09448063780
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