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Re: [CC-India] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools
- From: Venkatesh Hariharan <venkyh AT gmail.com>
- To: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind AT gmail.com>
- Cc: Fosscom Network <network AT fosscom.in>, "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <wikimediaindia-l AT lists.wikimedia.org>, cc-india AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [CC-India] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 13:44:04 +0530
This is a very welcome development. Congrats, Anivar and team.
Venky
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind AT gmail.com> wrote:
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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