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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
1. SCERT is improving text book printing infrastructure by shifting from
Adobe 's softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licensed 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 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