Kaniyam Foundation February 2019 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 use of Tamil language is advanced, parallel to social economic and scientific development and to provide knowledge and resources free and open to all.
- NLP Workshop - SRM Valliammai Engineering College, Chennai
- Workshop on Cover Images creation for Sangam Literature 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/ Thanks for all the donors.
| No | Activities | This Month | Total | This Month Contributors |
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| 1 | FreeTamikEbooks.com Ebooks | 0 | 506 | |
| 2 | Kaniyam.com articles | 14 | 709 | R.Asokan - Kalarani - S.Kuppan - Nithya |
| 3 | Kaniyam Podcast | 1 | 10 | Kamal, Ragul |
| 4 | Politics Talks - Podcast | 1 | 17 | Aazhi Senthilnathan |
| 5 | Vaasagasalai - Podcast | 16 | 16 | Vaasagasalai Team |
Created a project page at Tamil wikisource for kaniyam contributions. Wrote about the goals, guidelines for contributors etc. 8 contributors joined so far. One ebook is proofread, validated fully and released. 4 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
- Kids Stories by Sowmiya - Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/angel1992sowme is released in Creative Commons License.
- Santhosh Kumar - Facebook posts - https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/CreativeCommonsAnnouncements/issues/3
- Quwait Tamilosai Poets Clus - https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/CreativeCommonsAnnouncements/issues/4
- Tamil Desiyam Leader Pe. Maniyarasan - https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/CreativeCommonsAnnouncements/issues/1
- Poet Vidyasagar - https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/CreativeCommonsAnnouncements/issues/2
Thanks to Khaleel Jageer, Anwar for the finding great content team and asking them to release their works in Creative Commons License.
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A new software is created to publish Podcasts from a local mp3 file or a youtube URL. SourceCode- https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/YouTube2Podcast with this we can publish podcasts easily. Thanks to Khaleel for making this. While this is a command line application, Anitha from Trichy is released this as a Web Application. Source code - https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/YouTube2Podcast-web
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An Android app is being developed to record audio for wiktionary words. Source. Few bugs are fixed. This is still under development.
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Initial plans for making Tamil spellchecker are started. Linguistic professor Mr. Palani has sent the rules for Nouns. Planning for writing code for this. Kamal and Prasanna from Pondicherry are researching on this.
Writing the discussions about new projects.
- Getting Scanned ebooks from Tamilappanar
- Scanning Mir, Raduga, Progressive Publishers
- DIY Scaner
- New site for PDF only ebooks
- Archiving the talks of celebrities
- Scanning books of Pudukottai Gnanalaya Library
- Hiring full time developer for Tamil software development
- Travel to meet authors to get their works in CC License
Once all the plans, contributors and enough funds are raised, these plans will get into actions.
| No | Name | Donation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palani Raja | 250 |
| 2 | Swaminathan Sethu | 1000 |
| 3 | v. rajasekar | 1000 |
| 4 | Khaleel jageer | 100 |
| 5 | Jeyakrishnan | 200 |
| 6 | Unknown | 100 |
| 7 | Mani Vengatraman | 1000 |
| 8 | Warrant Bala | 1000 |
| 9 | Manivannan shanmugam | 1000 |
| 10 | Ramadass Veerappa | 500 |
| 11 | Dinesh Karthik | 5000 |
| 12 | KC Ragunathan | 2000 |
Total - Rs 13,500
Dontations - Internet Resources
- Noolaham Foundation - server worth of Rs 350/month
- E2E Networks - server worth of Rs 730/month
Last month balance - Rs 1,12,848
- Lenin Gurusamy - Rs 1650 - Bill Books for Kaniyam Foundation
Total Expenses - Rs 1650
Total Balance - Rs 1,12,848 + Rs 13,500 - Rs 1650 = Rs 1,24,698
Donations and expense details are documented in this sheet .
Kaniyam Foundation
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Union Bank Of India
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