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Re: [CC-India] [Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools
- From: Pranav Curumsey <pranav AT wikimedia.in>
- To: "gautam AT akshara.org.in" <gautam AT akshara.org.in>, Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l AT lists.wikimedia.org>
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- Subject: Re: [CC-India] [Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:16:48 +0530
Congratulations, this is wonderful!
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Gautam John <gautam AT 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 AT 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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[CC-India] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools,
Anivar Aravind, 11/15/2013
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