KanchiLUG meet – 10.01.2021 – 4-5 pm IST

Hi everyone, As we planned, our KanchiLug meeting will be held on 10.01.2021 between 4pm - 5pm. KanchiLug inviting all the active members, old members and peoples from all levels. I have to thank all klug members. Because, without your support, It doesn't happen. Our meeting will be held through jitsi. so, all are requested …

Kaniyam Foundation gets ‘Top 10 Youth of 2020 award’ from Ananda Vikatan magazine

Hundreds of volunteers are contributing to various Open Source Tamil computing projects. Ananda Vikatan, a popular Tamil Magazine, gifted all of us, in this new year 2021. "Top 10 Youth of 2020" is the award, provided for Kaniyam Foundation. This is announced on the Ananda Vikatan magazine dated 6.1.2021 Kaniyam.com e-magazine was started on January …

Exploring command line marc file validator

A little background for the MARC file From - https://opensource.com/article/17/4/bit-about-marc-handlers <Quote>MARC stands for MAchine Readable Cataloging records. It's a format first developed in the 1960s for the U.S. Library of Congress in order to facilitate the exchange of bibliographic records among libraries. By the mid-1970s, it was an international standard, used around the world. Programming and …

Releasing a small tool to explore wikipedia users contributions

Last week, we had a Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon 2020 event. see here for full details https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon_2020 Though I did not participated in this event, (feels sad for this. Life is too messy nowadays), I thought to build a small tool to give report on any wikipedia user’s contribution on given wikisite for a given date …

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 …