Good Luck, Gautam.
Regards
Theo
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Gautam John <gautam(a)prathambooks.org>wrote;wrote:
Dear Wikimedians:
I realise that this email is off-topic, and apologise in advance for it,
but wanted to share it with you because it has a few elements that are of
interest to this community - in particular, openly licensed content and
fostering indic languages. I used to work at Pratham Books and remain an
advisor to them - this is what I worked on over the last five years. [More
here:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Pratham_Books]
I'd very much appreciate both your inputs and comments, and if you find
the project deserving, your vote.
Thank you for your time.
Best,
Gautam
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http://prathambooks.org/ <http://www.akshara.org.in/>
Pratham Books is a finalist in the Google Impact
Challenge<https://impactchallenge.withgoogle.com/india2013#/prathambooks… in
India. Your vote will help them take the joy of reading to the children who
need them the most.
Pratham Books <http://www.prathambooks.org/> will use this award to
amplify their existing work by creating an open source platform that will
encourage the creation of new stories, remixing of our openly licensed
content and translation of all these stories in local languages. Every
creation, new or remixed, will be shared, resulting in a large repository
of stories available in various digital formats for free use. All content
will be released under Creative Commons licenses.
Pratham Books has been a front-runner in adopting a Creative Commons
licensing
framework<http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Pratham_Books>
and
in the last 5 years they have released over
400<http://www.scribd.com/collections/2300329/Creative-Commons-Originals…
stories <https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nnlaspmnivrikvt/skJqw4GutK> and hundreds
of
illustrations<http://www.flickr.com/photos/prathambooks/collections/7215…
under
a CC-BY <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> or
CC-BY-SA<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>
license.
Since these are provided free of cost and under open licenses, their
larger community has created multiple derivative works ranging from iPad
and iPhone
applications<http://blog.prathambooks.org/2010/05/our-first-ipad-applica…ml>,
to porting their works to OLPC
laptops<http://blog.prathambooks.org/2009/07/pratham-books-reaches-nepal…ml>,
to creating entirely new
books<http://blog.prathambooks.org/2010/05/announcing-results-of-retell-…
from
existing illustrations and creating versions of the same books for the
print impaired – from DAISY and
Braille<http://www.bookshare.org/quickSearch?keyword=pratham+books> books
to rich audio books <https://soundcloud.com/prathambooks> . Their books
have been translated to languages that they do not publish in including
Assamese, Italian and French with translations in Santali, Hebrew,
Malayalam and Konkani underway.
Based on these rich experiences, Pratham Books now hopes to build a
collaborative platform which will scale their existing production of
1600 books across 12 languages to 20,000 books across 25 languages over
3 years! Millions of children across the globe will benefit from this
platform.
Click
here<https://impactchallenge.withgoogle.com/india2013#/prathambooks> to
vote for Pratham Books.
You can also spread the word by :
1. Spreading the word on
Google+<https://plus.google.com/106251745479548184530/posts>
2. Sharing it on
Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151884608619927&s…
3. Tweeting about the
campaign<https://twitter.com/prathambooks/status/392883443589058560>
4. Writing a post on your blog about why you believe in Pratham Books'
mission and why you want readers to vote for them. Here's an example
from one of our
champions<http://readingthroughrsmind.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/because-e…
.
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