Kudos to Pratham books. Real champions of open culture. I have procured many books from them for the pre-primary school that I shepherded in Kolkata. On 9 Sep 2015 18:25, "Gautam John" <gau...@prathambooks.org> wrote:
> Hi all and sorry for cross-posting. Sharing this here because it's all > openly licensed and because we'd be happy to see you all re-use the content > and perhaps translate and remix stories too. > > I wanted to share this with you since it is Creative Commons powered and > that we have talked about it in the past.. It launched yesterday. We'd be > very grateful if you could share it with your local Wikipedia 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-en mailing list > wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en > >
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