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  • From: shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 AT gmail.com>
  • To: Gautam John <gautam AT prathambooks.org>
  • Cc: cc-community AT lists.ibiblio.org, cc-india AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [CC-India] Pratham Books' CC-powered Story Weaver Platform
  • Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 23:15:44 +0530

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On 9/9/15, Gautam John <gautam AT prathambooks.org> wrote:
> Hi Everyone!:
>
> We wanted to share this with you since it is Creative Commons powered and
> launched yesterday. We'd be very grateful if you could share it with your
> locale CC communities.
>
> https://storyweaver.org.in/
>
> Blog post: http://blog.prathambooks.org/2015/09/the-future-is-open.html
>
> If we could have one wish, it would be this : Joyful reading material for
> all the 300 million children of India. So they could fall in love with
> reading, and discover new ideas, new thoughts, and eventually, have richer
> lives.
>
> In the past ten years, at Pratham Books <http://www.prathambooks.org/>,
> we’ve created inexpensive, but high quality storybooks and spread them
> across schools and libraries in every corner of the country. We reached
> millions of children, but we still had a long way to travel to reach each
> of those 300 million little minds.
>
> 2008 introduced us to two little letters that would change the way we
> worked. And brought us closer to that one wish. Those two letters were CC
> or Creative Commons <http://creativecommons.org/>.
>
> <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZfRnvcPs1Lg/Ve2OvWSinXI/AAAAAAAAJh8/-0mMWoep-1s/s1600/Open%2BContent.jpg>
>
> Creative Commons took conventional publishing wisdom of restrictive
> copyright and threw it to the wind. It meant that when we released our
> stories under this open license, we gave anyone the right to use, share or
> even build upon the creative work that we were licensing. It allowed our
> stories to travel to places that we couldn’t reach directly. It opened the
> doors to readers – of all ages, geographies, and nationalities. It’s how
> our stories found their way into newer languages, audio versions, YouTube
> videos, and digital apps. Its how a whole new multiplier effect got
> created.
>
> <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-El88gCOo8xo/Ve2PC8dnvsI/AAAAAAAAJiE/ig5vSiGaMl4/s1600/P5070574.JPG>
>
> This led us to our brand new initiative, *StoryWeaver
> <https://storyweaver.org.in/>*, an open source platform of multilingual
> children’s stories. StoryWeaver is a window into this enchanting world of
> Open stories and images and languages. Open to parents. Open to educators.
> Open to other publishers. And, most importantly, *open to children!*
>
> Log onto *StoryWeaver* <https://storyweaver.org.in/> from a desktop
> computer, laptop, tablet or mobile phone. You can then read from a
> collection of 800 stories in 24 languages. You can create a new story from
> a bank of 2000 images. You can translate any of the stories into newer
> languages and share them with others. You can print and use the stories in
> the way that you want. And also connect with a community of content
> creators and readers. And this is just the beginning. We will continue to
> grow the repository through more participation and more collaboration with
> like-minded partners.
>
> Imagine a story written in English being translated into ladakhi, being
> read by children in Kashmir. And the same illustrations being used by a
> teacher in bihar to retell the story. And the same story being versioned
> into a play in assamese. The possibilities are endless.
>
> We believe that the joy of reading is the greatest gift of all. So we’re
> giving it – to the children of India, and the world. Not just for now, but
> for the future.
>
> We believe in Open!
>
> <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-khcB170mbeo/Ve2PR3XtkSI/AAAAAAAAJiM/yKjsR78sUEA/s1600/P5070468.JPG>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
> Gautam
> ________
> http://prathambooks.org/
>

Dear Gautam,

Sorry for the late reply. It is indeed great hearing from you. I had
thought that the mailing list had almost died. I just take the
opportunity to tell and share with you I had got some of the
educational computer aiding concept books from seconds and then used
that to show the CC logos and show that CC is alive and well in India.
I was in half a mind to also showcase some of the SARAI stuff which
they had also cc-licensed but as the presentation was in a pedagogy
setting used yours. I have couple of more workshops lined up where I
am hoping to showcase the cc-licensed aiding magazines I have.

Look forward to hearing from you :)

--
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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