Hi,

2013/11/17 Shrinivasan T <[email protected]>

>
> 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 .
>
>
This is a nice initiative..
Hope Other States also will follow this!

-- 
Regards,
ARUN P

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