Chat in slack in commandline – wee-slack

Slack is one of the chat tools I use to communicate with professional teammates. But, using that is a kill for my computer. It takes all the memory if I run as a desktop application. If i open it in a firefox tab, it slows down the firefox. Being a command line lover, I look …

Building Open Source Tamil Spellchecker – Day 9 – Ported from C# to Python

Since Tamilnadu government released a spellchecker as open source here - https://github.com/Tamil-Virtual-Academy/Tamilinaiya-Spellchecker I have joined with friends on porting this to Python. It is a desktop application in C#.  As linux has a C# environment called mono, I got recommendations to port to mono first. But, I am all new to C# and mono. Decided …

LUGs and Mailing lists

Today is software freedom day.FSFTN and VillupuramGLUG celebrated with live events. https://classmeet.chiguru.tech is a Bigbluebutton Instance hosted by http://chiguru.tech team. Villupuram GLUG used this to host several sessions like Wikipedia, Inkscape, GIMP, Linux distros, Stellarium, Blender, Android alternates, Free Software philosophy etc. Each session had a separate link to join that room. We can enter …

A call from FSFTN

Today FSFTN Friends organized a online campaign for the above demands. Read here on more details. https://fsftn.org/blog/call-for-protest-20-sep I support this campaign.

Happy software freedom day

Today is software freedom day, celebrated worldwide.Most of the events are happening virtually. Remembering the great old days when we took our big monitors and CPUs for the sfd events we organized years back. They were great inspiration for me and all of us.Tons of thanks for all those took great efforts on such events.Let …

Introduction to self hosting – IRC chat session

Last saturday, I gave a IRC text chat based session on "Self Hosting" at #ilugc channel on chat.freenode.net for our monthly meetings. We switched from physical meeting to IRC Chat based meeting recently. Here is the text for my session. Self hosting is nothing new. That is the very old method of web hosting. It …

ILUGC Monthly Meet – Sep 12, 2020 – 3-6 pm – Lets meet on IRC (#ilugc in freenode.net)

Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] has been spreading awareness on Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in Chennai since January 1998. We will be organizing this month's meet through ILUGC's Official IRC channel (#ilugc in freenode.net). If Visual Presentation required, we will use https://meet.jit.si ;(Link will be provided in #ilugc irc channel at the …

Create Searchable Tamil PDF using PDF/A in libreoffice writer

Creating searchable Tamil PDF is a long time dream for Tamil People. For so many reasons like PDF standards, Unicode Issues with Tamil, Issues with rendering engines, etc, we could not copy/paste any tamil content from PDF files. We have a issue for this here https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/78 Today morning, I was reading this issue and explored …

Building Open Source Tamil Spellchecker – Day 8 – Porting from C# to Python

Recently, Tamil Virtual Academy released 10 Tamil NLP tools as Free/Open Source Software with source code. It has a SpellChecker too. Read more here about this. https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2020/08/16/tamilvu-released-10-tamil-software-as-free-open-source-software/ The spellchecker is written in C#. I want it to be ported to Python so that we can extend it very well. C# is very new language for …

TamilVU Released 10 Tamil software as Free/Open Source Software

Tamil Virtual Academy is a TN govt driven organization, which is working for Increasing Digital contents in Tamil Language. It had funded few software projects at 2017 and released as only binaries. Those software includes Tamil Spellchecker, text analysis, Browser plugin for Tamil Text to speech etc. With the binaries, no one can learn them …