Project idea – Create a mobile app or website to find stalls on any bookfair

Chennai Book fair is a one of the mega events happening every year, with tons of chaos. It holds around 400-600 book stalls every year. Finding which stall is where is still a game there. They may give a pamphlet with list of bookstalls with the stall number in very random way. no body knows …

Minutes – Workshop on Pywikibot

Last Saturday, I attended a online workshop on Pywikibot. It is a python library to interact with mediawiki and all wikipedia websites, programmatically. The event was arranged by "Small Wiki Toolkit - South Asia" team. The trainer was Joaquin from Spain. we got some 25 participants. He started with introduction to python as we were …

Report – Python Mentoring on IRC

2021 started for me with so many exciting new things. One of the happy things is, I did mentoring on Python projects for few students. Out of 10-15 students, 3 students got job immediately after completing the training program. All for free. Payilagam.com is one of the leading IT training centers in Chennai. It is …

Live Coding session Today 3-4 pm on PyTamil – A Python Library for Tamil

Sriram is a Bengaluru based software engineer. He created a Python library for Tamil Language, just like Open-Tamil Python library. He keeps thinking why should artists have all the fun with creative projects while engineers solve logical problems. Imagine the engineer in you jumping with joy coding for a creative collaborative art project. Then welcome …

Free online training in Tamil on Django framework (Python)

Django is a powerful python framework used to build robust web applications quickly. Langscape.com, a leading translation service organization, Payilagam, Kaniyam Foundation jointly host a free online training on Django framework in Tamil. Conditions : Participants should have know python programming already. Knowledge on HTML,CSS, SQL is good Have to attend the class daily. Have …

kanchilug Meeting Schedule – 07.02.2021

Hello everyone, Huge welcome from KanchiLug. Usually we are conducting two half an hour sessions every week Sunday between 4pm - 5pm. Accordingly, this week schedule followed as, Schedule: #1 - Parathan Thiyagalingam - Tesseract GUI #2 - Thirumurugan K - Python functions and loops I have to thank all the members for their cooperation …

Kanchilug Meeting shedule – 31.01.2021

Hello everyone, Greetings from KanchiLug. We had planned to conduct a meeting every week Sunday between 4pm - 5pm. Accordingly, this week schedule followed as, Meeting Schedule: #1 - Selvamani Sambath - Linux file system and directory structures #2 - Shrinivasan T - How to make ebooks for FreeTamilEbooks.com I have to thank all the …

Received Shuttleworth Flash Grant

I am so happy to announce that I have received 5000 USD as "Shuttleworth Flash Grant" . "Shuttleworth Flash Grant" is one of the great things happened, recently. It’s an immensely rewarding feeling knowing that there are people out there who find our work useful, whether or not we have met face to face before, …

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 …