Congratulations, this is wonderful!
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Gautam John <gau...@akshara.org.in> wrote: > Wow! That's an amazing win! More power to you. > > Thank you. > > Best, > > Gautam > ________ > http://www.akshara.org.in/ > > > On 15 November 2013 18:10, Anivar Aravind <anivar.arav...@gmail.com> > 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 > > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >
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