Kaniyam Foundation July, August, September 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 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.
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. Public announcement is here
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.
| No | Activities | This Month | Total | This Month Contributors |
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| 1 | FreeTamikEbooks.com Ebooks | 26 | 585 | Lenin Gurusamy, suriya,S. Rajeswari, G.Sumathi, Thara, shrinivasan |
| 2 | Kaniyam.com articles | 46 | 858 | Divya - Haripriya - R.Asokan - S.Kuppan - P.Mahalakshmi - Muthu |
| 3 | Kaniyam.com Videos | 5 | 56 | Khaleel, P.Mahalakshmi |
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. 12 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
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Discussing with A.Marx to release his works in Creative Commons license See here
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Dravidian Research Facebook Group released their content in CC-BY-SA License See here
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Discussing with Payanam Publishers to release their works in Creative Commons license See here
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Discussing with Naveena Alezander to release his works in Creative Commons license See here
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Discussing with S.Dhivan to release his works in Creative Commons license See here
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Meeting with Alur Sha Nawas see here
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M.S.Udhayamurthy Books - Discussion See here
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Marxist Magazine - Dicsussion - See here
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Nandini devi Discussion - See here
Thanks to Khaleel Jageer, Anwar for finding great content team and asking them to release their works in Creative Commons License.
- Sanga Elakkiyam - Following the android app for Tamil Sangam Literature, we are working on to release a website for this. Anitha created the website. See here and sangaelakkiyam.org
'Pathartha Guna Sindamani' is an old book, released in 1888. Warrant Bala gave this book for scanning. Kalyan of greendms.in scanned the book. PDF is here Details here
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.
OpenStreetMap.org needs strings to translated in Tamil. Started a project for this. Details are here
Anitha is getting the strings from OSM and Arunachalam,Raman are translating them.
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.
Writing the discussions about new projects here. https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues
- Getting Catalog of all books at Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai
- Get all nouns from peyar.in website
- New website to publish PDF only ebooks
- Making Low cost ScanBox to scan books
- Digitization of Encyclopedias
- Create HTML websites from epub
- Searching Tamil Medical books written by Samuel Fisk Green
| No | Name | Donation |
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| 1 | Unknown | 500 |
| 2 | Unknown | 2,000 |
| 3 | Balavignesh | 3,000 |
| 4 | Vijaya kumar | 10,200 |
| 5 | Lokesh | 10,200 |
| 6 | Ramkumar | 3,400 |
| 7 | Ramanathan | 2,040 |
| 8 | Ranjith | 6,868 |
| 9 | Prem Kumar | 2,070 |
| 10 | Ravishankar | 1,700 |
| 11 | Jebaraj | 1,360 |
| 12 | Suresh | 3,400 |
| 13 | Bharath | 10,000 |
| 14 | Sivakumari avudaiyappan | 2,000 |
| 15 | Amazon Ebooks Sales Royalty | 810 |
| 16 | Unknown | 500 |
| 17 | Unknown | 300 |
| 18 | Vijaya Kumar | 70,424 |
Total - Rs 1,30,772
Dontations - Internet Resources
- Noolaham Foundation - server worth of Rs 350/month
- E2E Networks - server worth of Rs 730/month
Last month balance - Rs 1,20,995
| No | Name | Details | Expense |
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| 1 | Sasi | WikiSource Proofreading | 2,915 |
| 2 | Thara | Proofreading | 24,000 |
| 3 | Divya | WikiSource Proofreading | 2,265 |
| 4 | Info-farmer | WikiSource Proofreading | 10,860 |
| 5 | Arun | WikiSource Proofreading | 3,315 |
| 6 | Muthu Lakshmi | WikiSource Proofreading | 3,085 |
| 7 | Deepa Arul | WikiSource Proofreading | 3,147 |
| 8 | Anwar | WikiSource Proofreading | 3,147 |
Total expenses - Rs 50,587
Total Balance - Rs 1,20,995 + Rs 1,30,772 - Rs 50,587 = Rs 2,01,180
Donations and expense details are documented in this sheet .
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