Report in Tamil
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/Organization/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%B1%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%88-%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%87,-%E0%AE%9C%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D--2019-%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A4-%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%B1%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%88>
Report in English
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/Organization/wiki/Kaniyam-Foundation-May,-June-2019-Report>
Kaniyam Foundation May, June 2019 Report
Vision
An environment where all virtual resources, tools and knowledge related to
Tamil Language and ethnic groups, are accessible free and open to all.
Mission
To ensure that the use of Tamil language is advanced, parallel to social
economic and scientific development and to provide knowledge and resources
free and open to all.
Events
- FreeTamilEbooks Android App release party – 12/05/2019
<http://www.kaniyam.com/event-notes-fte-app-release/>
1000 Ebooks
Published a call for donation to buy 1000 ebooks in unicode format here -
http://www.kaniyam.com/call-for-donation-to-buy-1000-books-in-unicode-format/
*Here is the happy news*
*University of Toronto, Canada (UTSC)* , has provided all the amount to
purchase these 1000 ebooks. We have to make and release all the ebooks as
epub, mobi, PDF, HTML, txt, odt with cover images in short time. The
following works are being done. Hiring few full timers for this work,
Training materals as text, video for them, MoU between Kaniyam and UTSC,
Announcement document of releaseing all these books in Creative Commons
license. Will give public announcements as soon as possible.
As we plan for 3-4 full timers, we need to pay them as monthly salary. We
are looking for donations to cover this expense.
Thanks for all the donors.
Activities
No Activities This Month Total This Month Contributors
1 FreeTamikEbooks.com Ebooks 41 552 Lenin Gurusamy, Anwar, S. Rajeswari,
G.Sumathi,Julbihar Ahmed
2 Kaniyam.com articles 40 806 D. Nithya - R.Asokan - Kalarani - S.Kuppan -
P.Mahalakshmi
3 Kaniyam.com Videos 12 44 D. Nithya, P.Mahalakshmi Tamil Wikisource
Created a project page at Tamil wikisource for kaniyam contributions. Wrote
about the goals, guidelines for contributors etc. 9 contributors joined so
far. One ebook is proofread, validated fully and released. 30 books are
proofread and waiting for validation. Here is the List of books being
worked on <https://ta.wikisource.org/s/8xzy>
see https://ta.wikisource.org/wiki/விக்கிமூலம்:கணியம்_திட்டம்
Releasing Digital Works on Creative Commons License
-
Dr. Phili Iruthayanath books are going to be released in CC license. See
the efforts here
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/CreativeCommonsAnnouncements/issues/16>
-
Payanam Publisher's books are going to be released in CC license. See
the efforts here.
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/CreativeCommonsAnnouncements/issues/15>
-
Gnanasambandam, Writer, Pondicherry - books are going to be released in
CC license. See the efforts here
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/CreativeCommonsAnnouncements/issues/10>
and notes here <https://connect.fshm.in/notice/9j1b50tbPK5K14a9ce>
-
Singer Roja Adithya released her youtube channel in CC license.
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/CreativeCommonsAnnouncements/issues/9>
Thanks to Khaleel Jageer, Anwar for finding great content team and asking
them to release their works in Creative Commons License.
Software
1.
Sanga Elakkiyam - Following the android app for Tamil Sangam Literature,
we are working on to release a website for this. Anitha is making the
website. Source code is here <https://github.com/anithagk12/Tamilbooks>
2.
Nithya is working on creating an OCR for Tamil using machine
learning. Details
are here <https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/37>
3.
Sudharsan and Anitha are working on creating cover images for ebooks
automatically. Details are here
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/35>
Scanning a very old book
'Pathartha Guna Sindamani' is an old book, released in 1888. Warrant Bala
gave this book for scanning. Kalyan of greendms.in scanned the book. Post
processing work is going on. Will release it as PDF soon. Details are here.
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/38>
Collecting all the nouns in Tamil
We started to collect all the nouns in Tamil. Details are here
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/awesome-tamil-nlp/issues/1>
In this spreadsheet,
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FqiFLstsTo6DXsPKPKzp7iPKR49Ml2k81UPR6Nq6inQ/edit?usp=sharing
totally 83695 nouns are added.
Thanks to Divya for the great contributions.
Translating strings in OpenStreetMap.org to Tamil
OpenStreetMap.org needs strings to translated in Tamil. Started a project
for this. Details are here
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/osm_tamil_translations/issues>
Anitha is getting the strings from OSM and Arunachalam is translating them.
Scan, OCR, Proofread
When writers release their works in CC license, they give as print books or
as PDF files. We started to Scan them, do OCR, Proofread and release as
ebooks. Thara joined the team as fulltimer for proofreading works.
Contributors - Anwar (Gets the books), Lenin Gurusamy (Scan), Anwar (OCR),
Thara (Proofread)
So far 1600 pages have been proofread. Project details are here.
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/Proofread-Works/issues>
New Projects
Writing the discussions about new projects here.
https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues
- Tamil OCR using Machine Learning
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/37>
- The History of Everything - app in Tamil
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/19>
- Digitization project on Jamal Mohemmad College, Trichy
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/51>
- Create video tutorials for all Free Sotware
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/47>
- Documenting all old Coins
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/30>
- Digitization of Mir, Raduka, Progressive Publications
<https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/13>
This month Donors
No Name Donation
1 Unknown 500
2 Rajeev 1,000
3 K. Sankar 10,000
4 Suba. Rathnagiri 1,000
5 Panagudi Sankar Kumar 1,000
6 Unknown 2,000
7 Unknown 2,000
8 Free Software Users Group, Villupuram 20,000
9 Unknown 2,000
10 Unknown 1,000
11 Divya 1,000
Total - Rs 41,500
Dontations - Internet Resources
- Noolaham Foundation - server worth of Rs 350/month
- E2E Networks - server worth of Rs 730/month
Last month balance - Rs 1,04,050
Expenses
1. FTE app release party, Villupuram - Rs 17,700
2. Pavithra - prood reading at Tamil Wikisource - Rs 4,555
3. Bought Mir publication books - Rs 800
4. Scanned an old book - Rs 1,500
Total expenses - Rs 24,555
Total Balance - Rs 1,04,050 + Rs 41,500 - Rs 24,555 = Rs 1,20,995
Donations and expense details are documented in this sheet
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zBXZzjYP_WKfm4y3EpTYw5yOTOeA-sSp8mcNjjNAUe0/edit#gid=0>
.
Bank account details
Kaniyam Foundation
Account Number : 606 1010 100 502 79
Union Bank Of India
West Tambaram, Chennai
IFSC - UBIN0560618
- Please send your donations to this account to support activities of
Kaniyam Foundation
- Send your name, donation details to kaniyamfoundation@xxxxxxxxx
For more information or queries, write to - kaniyamfoundation@xxxxxxxxx
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