On 11/15/2013 06:33 PM, Anivar Aravind wrote:
Sorry for the typos** earlier
Dear all ,
Some happy news for all of us .
really good news!! all the best to the team that will work with SCERT.
regards
Guru
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 .
Official Order is still pending. But I am posting this since it is
already in media reports.
Read a report 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 few months
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 <tel:09448063780>
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