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  • From: Kannan Moudgalya <kannan AT iitb.ac.in>
  • To: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind AT gmail.com>, cc-india AT lists.ibiblio.org, "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <wikimediaindia-l AT lists.wikimedia.org>, Fosscom Network <network AT fosscom.in>
  • Subject: Re: [CC-India] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools
  • Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:02:41 +0530

Dear Anivar Aravind,

Congratulations - the role of Swathanthra Malaalam Computing in achieving this is excellent.

Dear All,

From the Aakash team, we need your input on the following:  We are in the process of converting the NCERT books into ePub form to work under Aakash.  We have ported 130+ books, with about 70 remaining.  Mostly, Hindi and Urdu books are yet to be completed.  We are concerned about the distribution of these, however.  Although the newspaper article says that NCERT books can be distributed for free, their site does not.  Your comments are welcome. 

After completing the NCERT books, we would like to begin this work for the books of state boards as well.  Your comments on these are also welcome.

Regards,
Kannan

On 15/11/13 6:10 PM, Anivar Aravind 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.
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
Ph. 09448063780



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