A New Malayalam Free Software Font Project

[Vimal Joseph]

On 11/6/07, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> I am considering designing an original Malayalam typeface designed for
> reading long passages of text on screen, that will be wholly created
> with and released as free software.
>

great.

> I was given your contact details by Praveen A, from the SMC GNU/Linux
> user group, as someone involved with the IT at School initiative that is
> using GNU/Linux in schools in Kerala. I thought I'd email you to see if
> you would be interested in contributing to my project a little, with feed-
> back and general information about the usage scenarios of GNU/Linux
> with regards to fonts and printing in Kerala :-)

Thanks for contacting me. Sure I can help you in this regard.

> Specifically, I would be very grateful if you could tell me (or email digital
> photos) about the kinds of documents made and printed at schools
> using GNU/Linux, and how much text created by free software is
> read on-screen or printed out :-) I'd also be interested in the use of
> photocopies in schools as well.

Students do their project reports and presentations in GNU/Linux, most
of these documents are only used for on-screen viewing. You can see a
sample newsletter here http://space-kerala.org/Nerkazcha.pdf (it is
made in a workshop on building newsletters organized by a public
library.) Printouts are usually made to send official letters, routine
reports, etc. Some samples they use is available at
http://education.kerala.gov.in (but they are not created using free
software)

I dont have exact statistics of those you are asking for, But if there
is some specific questionnaire or so, we can collect the data from the
teachers directly.

regards,

~vimal


>
> --
> Regards,
> Dave
>


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