Kaniyam Foundation February, March, April, May, June 2020 Report
An environment where all virtual resource, tools and knowledge related to Tamil Language and ethnic groups, are accessible free and open to all.
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.
- Wikisource Edithathon
- Spell4Wiki Android app creation
- Free 30 days online training on Python
- TamilIRC monthly meet
- tamil-handwritten-papers-donation-project/
- Wikisource workshop on ssss jain college chennai
- talk-about-freesoftware-and-python-in-tamil-video/
- Indic Wiki stats as grafana dashboard – wikimedia remote hackathon 2020
- How to create story books for kids using storyweaver.org.in ? Video in Tamil - For OpenPublishingFest.org
- Introduction to creative commons license - Video in Tamil - For OpenPublishingFest.org
- How to create ebooks for FreeTamilEbooks.com ? - Video in Tamil - For OpenPublishingFest.org
- How to make a low cost scanbox? - Video in Tamil - For OpenPublishingFest.org
- Building Open Source Tamil Spellchecker
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 5 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. Public announcement is here
5 full timers are working on cleaning the content and making as ebooks in various formats. we need to pay them as monthly salary. We are looking for donations to cover this expense.
Thanks for all the donors.
| No | Activities | This Month | Total | This Month Contributors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FreeTamikEbooks.com Ebooks | 56 | 653 | Lenin Gurusamy- Rajeswari- shrinivasan - Naveenraj - Tamilselvan |
| 2 | Kaniyam.com articles | 68 | 1090 | R.Asokan - S.Kuppan - Khaleel - Muthu |
| 3 | Kaniyam.com Videos | 5 | 66 | Khaleel, Shrinivasan, Lenin Gurusamy |
Created a project page at Tamil wikisource for kaniyam contributions. Wrote about the goals, guidelines for contributors etc. 9 contributors joined so far. 36 ebooks are proofread, validated fully and released. 36 books are proofread and waiting for validation. Here is the List of books being worked on
see https://ta.wikisource.org/wiki/விக்கிமூலம்:கணியம்_திட்டம்
- Tesseract GUI for Windows
- Indic Wiki Stats Exporter for Prometheus/Grafana
- Spell4Wiki - Android app to spell and record words
- Windows GUI application for Tesseract OCR
- Twitter bot to share one new tamil word with meaning, daily
- Twitter bot to share one Kuronthogai poem daily
To scan books, we have created a low cost scanbox. https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/73 Using this we can scan using mobile phone itself.
We started to collect all the nouns in Tamil. Details are here
In this spreadsheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FqiFLstsTo6DXsPKPKzp7iPKR49Ml2k81UPR6Nq6inQ/edit?usp=sharing totally 90,811 nouns are added.
Thanks to Divya for the great contributions.
Added all the nouns collected there here - https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/all_tamil_nouns
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 2600 pages have been proofread. Project details are here.
- 2 Laptops - David Rajamani
- 1 tablet - David Rajamani
- 1 iPhone - David Rajamani
- 2 Kindle - Vijaya Kumar
- 2 Scanbox - Shrinivasan
- DSLR D70S Camera - Shrinivasan
- 1 Laptop - Prof. Parthasarathy
- 1 Laptop - Nithya
More details are here - https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/84
Writing the discussions about new projects here. https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues
- Build a open source tamil spell checker
- Android app to share Quotes from Kindle App
- OCR for Tamil Inscriptions Estampages
- Documenting Encyclopedoa
- epub to HTML pages
- Searching Tamil medical books written by Samuel Fisk Green
| No | Name | Donation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kamala | 3000 |
| 2 | Sivakumari Avudaiyappan | 2,001 |
| 3 | Vijaya Santhanam | 3000 |
| 4 | Shanmugam | 200 |
| 5 | Amazon ebook sale | 690 |
| 6 | Sababathy | 660 |
| Total | Rs 9,151 |
Dontations - Internet Resources
- Noolaham Foundation - server worth of Rs 350/month
- Shrinivasan - server worth of Rs 750/month
| No | Name | Details | Expense |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tharakeswari | Ebook Tagging | 16,000 |
| 2 | shobia | WikiSource Proofreading | 3530 |
| 4 | Priya | Ebook Tagging | 6000 |
| 5 | Aishwarya | Ebook Tagging | 12457 |
| 6 | Adithya | WikiSource Proofreading | 430 |
| 7 | Deepa Arul | WikiSource Proofreading | 7301 |
| 8 | Suriya | Ebook Tagging | 6000 |
| 9 | Ramesh Kumar | WikiSource Proofreading | 6545 |
| 10 | Sasi | WikiSource Proofreading | 1265 |
| 11 | Loganathan | WikiSource Proofreading | 1270 |
| 12 | Tamilmunn Publishers | Advance for ebooks purchase | 50,000 |
| Total expenses | Rs 60,798 |
Total Balance - Rs 2,22,635
Donations and expense details are documented in this sheet .
Kaniyam Foundation
Account Number : 606 1010 100 502 79
Union Bank Of India
West Tambaram, Chennai
IFSC - UBIN0560618
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Due to various reasons, we missed to send monthly reports for few months. Our sincere apologies. Will send evey month henceforth. Feel free to report to us if we miss to send report every month. Thanks.