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(a)akshara.org.in>
wrote:
Wow! That's an amazing win! More power to you.
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
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http://www.akshara.org.in/
On 15 November 2013 18:10, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind(a)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…
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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