On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Kannan Moudgalya <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > AFAIK http://nroer.in/home/ is under CC-BY-SA . I dont know about textbook availability in that . If it is available it must be redistributable under same license . It will be good if you can make epubs avaiable for public consumption too. > 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. > About SCERT & Kerala Text books, There official order will take few more days . please wait for that BTW Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is working closely with SCERT for bringing out HTML, EPUB and PDF versions of all text books . We are helping SCERT to build a Mediawiki based textbook preparation system for collaborative content preparation by text book commitees and FOSS based XeTeX setup for book authoring and PDF/EPUB/HTML generation. So without any technical issues you can start using official Epub versions once it is released. > > 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. > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > CC-India mailing > [email protected]http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-india > > >
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