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Kaniyam Foundation October,November,December-2019-January-2020-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 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.

Events

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/

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.

Activities

No Activities This Month Total This Month Contributors
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

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. 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

Releasing Digital Works on Creative Commons License

  • 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.

Software

Low cost ScanBox

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.

Collecting all the nouns in Tamil

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.

Translating strings in OpenStreetMap.org to Tamil

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.

Scan, OCR, Proofread

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.

Hardware Donations

  • 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

New Projects

Writing the discussions about new projects here. https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues

This month Donors

No Name Donation
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

Expenses

No Name Details Expense
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 .

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]