Thats a great news. All the best!
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Anivar Aravind <[email protected]>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. > > 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 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 > http://smc.org.in > Ph. 09448063780 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- With thanks & regards *Rahimanuddin Shaik* నాని [image: File:Wikimedia India logo.svg] <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/> reachout ఒక విశ్వాన్ని ఊహించండి, ఎక్కడయితే ప్రతి మనిషి ఒక సంపూర్ణ విజ్ఞానభాండారాన్ని అందరితో పంచుకోగలడో, ఆ విశ్వాన్ని ఊహించండి. *అటువంటి విశ్వాన్ని నెలకొల్పడమే మా సంకల్పం.* తెలుగు వికీపీడియా : http://te.wikipedia.org A new address for ebooks : http://kinige.com *తెలుగువారికి సాంకేతిక సహాయం - http://techsetu.com <http://techsetu.com/>*
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