Great news!
Congratulations & Best Wishes! :)

Regards.
Sanket Oswal.

On 11/16/13, Nitika Tandon <nitika@cis-india.org> wrote:
> This is great. Cheers to all those who made this happen!
>
> Regards,
> Nitika
>
>
> On 15-Nov-2013, at 6:16 PM, Pranav Curumsey wrote:
>
>> Congratulations, this is wonderful!
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Gautam John <gautam@akshara.org.in>
>> wrote:
>> Wow! That's an amazing win! More power to you.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Gautam
>> ________
>> http://www.akshara.org.in/
>>
>>
>> On 15 November 2013 18:10, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > 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 majors points in
>> > our
>> > interest yesterday
>> >
>> > 1. SCERT is improving Book printing infrastructure by shifting from
>> > Adobe 's
>> > softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licesned fonts.
>> >
>> > 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 repotrt 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 standards
>> >
>> > Myself, Hrishikesh K.B and a team from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
>> > (http://smc.org) are working closely with SCERT from last 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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