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
Sorry for the typos** earlier
Dear all ,1. SCERT is improving text book printing infrastructure by shifting from Adobe 's softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licensed fonts.
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
2. 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 .
3. 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-set-school-textbooks-in-Kerala/articleshow/25781341.cms
The Change will be applicable to all newly publishing books from now Starting from Malayalam Text books in 5, 7, and 11th standardsMyself, 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.~ regardsAnivar AravindSecretarySwathanthra Malaalam ComputingPh. 09448063780
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