Kaniyam Foundation October, November, December 2019 January 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.
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[Workshop on ebook making at Madurai – Dec 01, 2019] (http://www.kaniyam.com/workshop-on-ebook-making-at-madurai/)
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[Releasing source code of tamilpulavar.org] (http://www.kaniyam.com/event-notes-on-releasing-source-code-of-tamilpulavar-org/)
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 | 14 | 595 | Lenin Gurusamy- suriya-S. Rajeswari- shrinivasan |
| 2 | Kaniyam.com articles | 67 | 1020 | R.Asokan - S.Kuppan - Khaleel - Nithya - Muthu |
| 3 | Kaniyam.com Videos | 5 | 61 | Khaleel |
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
- M.S.Udhayamurthy Books - Discussion See here We got permission for this. Working on the documentations.
Thanks to Khaleel Jageer, Anwar for finding great content team and asking them to release their works in Creative Commons License.
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Connect google form and github https://forms.gle/4yHiS2uSgH5haTCW7 Created this form. The details added here will be sent to https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/Ebooks/issues/ automatically.
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.
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.
- 2 Laptops - David Rajamani
- 1 tablet - David Rajamani
- 1 iPhone - David Rajamani
- 2 Kindle - Vijaya Kumar
- 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
- Android app to share Quotes from Kindle App
- OCR for Tamil Inscriptions Estampages
- Tesseract OCR - Windows version with GUI
- Documenting Encyclopedoa
- epub to HTML pages
- Searching Tamil medical books written by Samuel Fisk Green
| No | Name | Donation |
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| 1 | Unknown | 2200 |
| 2 | Jeyaraman | 2,000 |
| 3 | Amazon ebook sales | 460 |
| 4 | S. Kuppan | 10,000 |
| 5 | Tamilarasan Sethu | 5,000 |
| 6 | Cary Tamil School, Cary, Noth Carolina, America | 1,54,000 |
| 7 | Murugan | 500 |
| 8 | Narayanan | 200 |
| 9 | R. Kathirvel | 200 |
| 10 | S.Arunachalam | 200 |
| 11 | Saravana Kumar | 1,000 |
| 12 | Arun Isaac | 1,000 |
| 13 | Selvan Pachamuthu | 35,580 |
| 14 | Vedha Vedaiyan | 7,116 |
| 15 | Nirmal Palanisamy | 1,420 |
| 16 | Madhan Kumar | 1 |
Total - Rs 2,20,877
Dontations - Internet Resources
- Noolaham Foundation - server worth of Rs 350/month
- E2E Networks - server worth of Rs 730/month
| No | Name | Details | Expense |
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| 1 | Tharakeswari | Proofreading | 32,000 |
| 2 | Software freedom day celebration at villupuram | event | 5,000 |
| 3 | Tamil Hackathon | Food | 3,000 |
| 4 | Muthu - Payilagam | Projector Rent | 600 |
| 5 | Muthu Payilagam | Tea | 300 |
| 6 | Muthulakshmi | WikiSource Proofreading | 1,170 |
| 7 | Deepa Arul | WikiSource Proofreading | 1,170 |
| 8 | Kaleeswari | WikiSource Proofreading | 4,555 |
| 9 | Sasi | WikiSource Proofreading | 810 |
| 10 | Yasoda | WikiSource Proofreading | 435 |
| 11 | Divya | WikiSource Proofreading | 545 |
| 12 | Ramesh | WikiSource Proofreading | 3,040 |
| 13 | Anwar | Travel | 1,500 |
Total expenses - Rs 54,125
Total Balance - 2,94,710
Donations and expense details are documented in this sheet .
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