Kaniyam Foundation March, April 2019 Report - KaniyamFoundation/Organization GitHub Wiki
Kaniyam Foundation March, April 2019 Report
Vision
An environment where all virtual resource, tools and knowledge related to Tamil Language and ethnic groups, are accessible free and open to all.
Mission
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.
Events
- Travel to Coimbatore to meet writers to introduce Creative Commons License
- Writer Covai Gnani released all his works in CC-BY-SA License
- Python Programming Workshop
- Released an android app - Sanga Elakkiyam
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/ Thanks for all the donors.
Activities
| No | Activities | This Month | Total | This Month Contributors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FreeTamikEbooks.com Ebooks | 4 | 512 | Lenin Gurusamy, Anwar, S. Rajeswari |
| 2 | Kaniyam.com articles | 56 | 778 | D. Nithya - R.Asokan - Kalarani - S.Kuppan - Kendiran |
| 3 | Kaniyam.com Videos | 12 | 32 | D. Nithya |
| 4 | Kaniyam.com ebooks | 1 | 15 | D. Nithya |
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. 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
Releasing Digital Works on Creative Commons License
- Tamil Heritage Agriculture Promotor Gnana Prakasam released his talk in CC License - https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/CreativeCommonsAnnouncements/issues/6
Thanks to Khaleel Jageer, Anwar for the finding great content team and asking them to release their works in Creative Commons License.
Software
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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.
New Projects
Writing the discussions about new projects.
- Buying 1000 ebooks in unicode format
- Scanning an Old Book
- Create new Tamil OCR using Machine Learning
- Create 1000 ebooks cover images automatically
- Website for Sanga elakkiyam ebooks
- Translate wikidate Lexeme interface in Tamil
- Hand written recognision for Tamil
- The History of Everything - App in Tamil
- Collecting all Tamil Nouns
This month Donors
| No | Name | Donation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elantamil | 10000 |
| 2 | Mohan | 3000 |
| 3 | Venkat | 101 |
| 4 | Velankanni | 1250 |
| 5 | Panagudi Sankar Kumar | 1000 |
| 6 | Sakthivel | 100 |
| 7 | R. Ramasamy | 2000 |
| 8 | Unknown | 2000 |
| 9 | Unknown | 250 |
| 10 | Kalarani Lakshmanan | 5000 |
| 11 | Ilavarasan Varadharajan | 5001 |
| 12 | Unknown | 1000 |
| 13 | Unknown | 500 |
| 14 | Revathi Kannan | 150 |
| 15 | Dhanasekar | 500 |
| 16 | Abdul Kadhar | 1000 |
| 17 | Dhanasekar | 200 |
| 18 | Unknown | 1000 |
| 19 | Vasanth | 3000 |
| 20 | Unknown | 200 |
| 21 | Unknown | 1500 |
Total - Rs 29,752
Dontations - Internet Resources
- Noolaham Foundation - server worth of Rs 350/month
- E2E Networks - server worth of Rs 730/month
Last month balance - Rs 1,24,698
Expenses
- Maanavar Publishers - Rs 50,000 - Received first 100 ebooks in Unicode format
- Divya - Rs 400 - Wikisource Proofreading
Total expenses - Rs 50,4000
Total Balance - Rs 1,24,698 + Rs 29,752 - Rs 50,400 = Rs 1,04,050
Donations and expense details are documented in this sheet .
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 [email protected]
For more information or queries, write to - [email protected]