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Kaniyam Foundation Report - Jan 2023 ‐ Feb 2024
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
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Online training for Shell Scripting
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Online training for Git
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Digital Tamil Studies - Virtual Symposium by UTSC, Canada - 2023
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Digital Tamil Studies - Virtual Symposium by UTSC, Canada - 2024
Activities
| No | Activities | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | FreeTamikEbooks.com Ebooks | 857 |
| 2 | Kaniyam.com articles | 1746 |
| 3 | Tamil Linux Community Videos | 107 |
| 4 | Kaniyam Foundation Videos | 116 |
| 4 | Tamil Linux Community Discussion posts | 5500 |
Completed Kaniyam.com series
Introduction to 3D Printing in Tamil
Digitization of Soviet Books and Old Small Magazines
With a colloboration from University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus (UTSC), we are doing a digitization of Soviet Russia books and old abandoned Tamil Small Magazines. So far scanned 187 Soviet Russia books and 500 Magazines. Will publish them all once they are verified for quality.
Forums.TamilLinuxCommunity.org
Started TamilLinuxCommnity as a Youtube channel and Telegram Group. To make the discussions in Public, started this https://Forums.TamilLinuxCommunity.org portal. This is highly effective on questions and answers on any topic on Free/Open Source Software.
Tamil Open Source Conference 2020, 2022, 2023
At 2020, Started Tamil Open Source Conference as Online Event. At 2022, conducted the second event as in person event. https://TossConf22.kaniyam.com
TossConf 2023 is conducted with various online and offline event, with a collaboration of various FOSS organizations in Tamilnadu. https://TossConf23.kaniyam.com
CreativeCommons Announcements
List the recent authors we met and and trying to get them in Creative Commons License
- Kadavur Manimaran
- Manjai Vasanthan
- H. Mujif Rahman
- Krishna Prasath
- United India
- Thamizhannal
- Ve. Aanai Muthu
- Fathima Mainthan
- Arandhai Narayanan
- Selventhiran
- Thazhai Mathiyavan
- Peru Murugan
All details are here https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/CreativeCommonsAnnouncements/issues
Website with Ebooks of Prof. Tho. Paramasivan
Released all ebooks of Prof. Tho. Paramasivan here - https://thopa.FreeTamilEbooks.com more details here - https://kaniyam.com/ebooks-portal-for-tho-paramasivan-books/
Emacs Video tutorial Series in Tamil
Emacs is one of the oldest, power full text editor. Thanga Ayanar published 11 part videos on emacs in Tamil for the first time in the emacs history. See the videos here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQCYGoC5uqg&list=PL0vwHm0AGyYP8yg0DZc8ApOEI7mw75U70
Accounts
From Oct 2018 to Till date
Total Donations - Rs 9,83,071
Total Expenses - Rs 8,84,898
Total Balance - Rs 98,173
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]
Thanks for all the contributors. If you can contribute the activities above, please write to us.
Note
Due to various reasons, we missed to send monthly reports for few months. Our sincere apologies. Will send every month henceforth. Feel free to report to us if we miss to send report every month. Thanks.