Dear all ,1. SCERT is improving Book printing infrastructure by shifting from Adobe 's softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licesned 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 majors 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 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 standardsMyself, 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 AravindSecretarySwathanthra Malaalam ComputingPh. 09448063780
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