> The School curriculum steering commitee of  Kerala Govt's SCERT(State
Council Educational Research and Training)  decided  3 major points in our
interest yesterday
>
> 1. SCERT is improving text book printing infrastructure by shifting from
Adobe 's softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licensed 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 .
>

Excellent progress. Watch out for commercial interests trying to tie it up
in ropes.

-- 
Sudev
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