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From: "Gowtham Raam" <professionalgraam(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sep 12, 2014 2:49 PM
Subject: [Ilugc] ILUGC Monthly Meet – September 13 2014
To: "ILUG-C" <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in>
Cc:
Dear all,
Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ ILUGC ] is spreading awareness on
Free Open Source Software in Chennai since Jan 1998. We meet regularly
on every month second Saturday with technical talks and discussions on
various Free software.
Check our websitehttp://ilugc.in for further details.
Join our mailing list athttp://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
<http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc>/listinfo/ilugc
We have our Meet on September 13, 2014
Check the details below.
ILUGC Monthly Meet :-
Time : Sat September 13, 2014 (3.00 – 6.00 PM)
Venue: Classroom No 1,
Aero Space Engineering,
Near Gajendra Circle,
IIT Madras.
Link for the Map:http://bit.ly/iit-aero
1.
Topic : Introduction to Tamil Wikipedia
Description: Talk on Tamil Wikipedia, Its sub projects, how to
contribute etc.
Duration : 45 min - 1 hr
Speaker : CR Selvakumar [ c.r.selvakumar AT gmail.com ]
About Speaker :
http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/1lohttps://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/people-profiles/chetty…
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
He is one of the regular contributors for Tamil wikipedia over 10 years.
He is now in IIT and he talks about his experiences with Tamil Wikipedia.
2.
Topic : Open-Tamil - A Python library for processing Tamil Text
Description :
open-tamil provides Python package 'tamil' with ability to,
map unicode code-points to Tamil letters - basic but important parsing
- in a routine called get_letters from a Tamil word
work with vowels (uyir) and consonants (mei), compound, uyir-mei letters
reverse letters in Tamil word
Tamil fonts to unicode conversion
Tamil text to IPA conversion
Transliterate Tamil text to English
and more.
Links to explore :
https://github.com/arcturusannamalai/open-tamilhttp://tuxcoder.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/release-txt2unicode-converter-v4-0…
Duration : 30 min
Speaker : T Shrinivasan ( tshrinivasan AT gmail DOT com )
About Speaker :
Founder ,http://FreeTamilEbooks.com,
Editor :http://kaniyam.com
3.
Topic : Introduction to GnuRadio, Scilab
Description : A view and introduction with open source hardware in Real
time Radio communication using electronics.
Duration : 30 minutes
Speakers : Ganesh
About Speaker - Working in CSIR as Research Intent
Mail :31gane@gmail.com
4.
General group discussions on any queries, events related to Free and
Open Source Software and community.
CDs/DVDs can be shared on prior request.
Announce this to all your friends, social network sites etc.
All are welcome. Entry Free
Regards, T.Shrinivasan & Gowtham Raam.J
Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil :
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Dear Wikimedians,
Mozilla Foundation is hosting a Maker Party [1] 2014 in Chennai during
September 13-14, 2014. They are quite keen to have a Wikimedia learning
station [2] at this Maker Party.
It is a great opportunity for interested Chennai (or nearby place) based
Wikimedians to be part of the "Maker Party: Chennai 2014" [3] and to
spread the word about the Wikimedia projects. Please touch base off the
list if you are interested to help set up the Wikimedia Learning Station
at the Maker Party. CIS-A2K will give limited support [4] to set up the
Wikimedia Learning Station.
Sorry for this delayed mail. I was out of action due to ill health :(
Best,
Vishnu
*
*[1] About Mozilla Maker Party: Maker Party 2014 was kick-started by
President Obama at White House Maker Faire
<https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/06/18/president-obama-announces-mozillas…>
this June. From June 15 - Sept 15, Mozilla Foundation is hosting a
Global Maker Party (https://webmaker.org/en-US/party/), with small to
large Webmaking events happening everywhere. Mozilla India will be
hosting/ be part of the flagship Maker Party World Tour.
[2] Could have simple table-top activities or hands-on activities that
are easily understandable by any age group/ skill level. Demonstration
of Wikimedia projects (especially Tamil projects) could be thought of.
[3] About 'Maker Party: Chennai 2014': is an attempt to map and empower
a community of educators and creative people who share a passion to
innovate, evolve and change the learning landscape. This will be the
first of its kind Mozilla Foundation event in Tamil Nadu.
[4] Some of the support could include banners, brochures, posters,
standees, Wikipedia goodies, etc. We are open to exploring the
innovative ideas from those of you, who would like to set up the
Wikimedia Learning Station.
Dear Ravi and Tamil Wikimedians,
This is fantastic news!
Congratulations to Prof. C.R. Selvakumar and all the Tamil Wikimedians
and to Prof. P.R. Nakkeeran of (Tamil Virtual Academy) for this
significant content donation!!
Best wishes,
Vishnu
On Saturday 30 August 2014 08:10 PM, Ravishankar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tamil Development Board (an autonomous institution under Government of
> Tamilnadu) releases its Encyclopedia (10 volumes, 7407 pages) and
> Children's Encyclopedia (10 volumes, 969 pages) under Creative Commons
> license. Tamil Wikipedians lead by Prof. C. R. Selvakumar and Prof. P.
> R. Nakkeeran, (Director, Tamil Virtual Academy) spearheaded this
> initiative coinciding with Tamil Wikipedia's 10 years celebrations.
>
> An official confirmation (in Tamil) can be seen at
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Letter_from_Tamil_Devel…
>
> Scanned copies of these works are already available at
>
> http://tamilvu.org/library/kulandaikal/lku00/html/lku00ind.htm
>
> At Tamil Wikipedia, we are discussing how we can get this content
> typed and transferred to WikiSource. Doing so can be a good model to
> encourage more such works to be released in public domain.
>
> Following are two options I can think of:
>
> 1. Volunteers type all the content. Besides taking years to complete,
> this won't do justice for the value of time of volunteers who can do
> more valuable work than typing mechanically.
>
> A program like IT@School present in Kerala or a contest can encourage
> more people to join this effort but not all communities can't emulate
> this model successfully.
>
> 2. Request WMF to give a grant to the owner of the content and let
> them hand over the typed content to Wikisource volunteers who will
> upload and wikify the content.
>
> This will ensure maintaining the spirit of volunteerism and yet
> getting the work done in a professional and time bound manner.
>
> Numerous works in Wikisource are such ready made content uploaded
> already in the web through other projects like Project Gutenberg.
>
> If providing grants to non-Wikimedia organizations is an issue, a
> grant towards this can be given to community / chapter who will then
> outsource the typing work.
>
> I welcome community's input on any other model for this as India has
> vast amount of literature and works like this are waiting to be
> transfered to Wikisource. This is one area where we can add lot of
> content to Wiki projects at once.
>
> Ravi
>
>
>
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Dear all,
Apologies for the delay in sharing the monthly bulletin. Below is the
details of the activities by Centre for Internet and Society's Access To
Knowledge program (CIS-A2K).
University of Mysore Re-releases Kannada Vishwakosha (Encyclopaedia) under
Creative Commons Free License
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/university-of-mysore-releases-kannada-vi…>
The University of Mysore and the Centre for Internet and Society
co-organized the Open Knowledge Day in Mysore on July 15, 2014. On this
occasion Mysore University released six volumes of Kannada Vishwakosha
under the Creative Commons (CC) license. Kannada Vishwakosha brought out by
the University of Mysore <http://www.uni-mysore.ac.in/> can easily be
termed as the best encyclopaedia in Kannada. It has been modelled after the
famous Britannica encyclopaedia. Mysore University Vishwakosha has 14
volumes having a total of 13802 pages. The very first volume was brought
out in the year 1969 and the final volume was released in 2004. Many famous
Kannada authors, scientists, academicians and stalwarts from other fields
have worked on creating this encyclopaedia.
Leading English and Kannada dailies like Andolana Kannada, City Today,
Deccan Herald, Hosa Diganta, Kannada Jana Mana, Kannada Prabha, Rajya
Dharma, Samyukta Karnataka, The Hindu, The New Indian Express, Udayavani,
Vijaya Karnataka, and Vijaya Vani published about this. Scanned versions of
the published articles can be downloaded from:
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/open-knowledge-day-mysore-media-coverage…
AnnouncementOur grant application to the Funds Dissemination Committee
(FDC) of the Wikimedia Foundation was approved by its board which met in
Frankfurt from May 21 to 24, 2014. CIS had requested a grant of Rs.
18,406,454 and were awarded Rs. 12,000,000
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2013-2014_ro…>
for the next one year.
Articles / Blog Entries
1. Aircel & Wikimedia Foundation announce Wikipedia Zero
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/prajavani-july-3-2014-article-on-wikiped…>
(by Dr. U.B.Pavanaja, Prajavani, July 3, 2014). As per this, users of
Aircel need not pay for data for accessing Wikipedia.
2. ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅକ୍ଷରସଜ୍ଜା
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/article-on-akruti-unicode-converter-in-s…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, Samaja, July 4, 2014).
3. State of Odia Language in Computing and Future Steps
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/state-of-odia-language-in-computing-and-…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, Sovereign for national Level Seminar on "Computer
Application and Odia Language", July 7, 2014).
4. ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ବିକାଶର ରାସ୍ତା
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/sambad-july-21-2014-paths-for-developmen…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, The Sambad, July 23, 2014).
5. Wiki Loves Pride 2014 and Adding Diversity to Wikipedia
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikimedia-blog-dorothy-howard-wiki-loves…>
(by Dorothy Howard, Wikimedia Blog, July 25, 2014).
6. Doctors and Translators Are Working Together to Bridge Wikipedia's
Medical Language Gap
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/global-voices-subhashish-panigrahi-july-…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, Global Voices, July 27, 2014). This was
re-published
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/30/doctors-working-to-bridge-wikipedias-…>
on the Wikimedia Blog, July 30, 2014.
7. Classical Odia Language in the Digital Age
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/odisha-review-june-2014-classical-odia-l…>
(by Subhashish Panigrahi, Odisha Review, posted on July 28, 2014). The
essay was published in the magazine’s June edition.
Event Organized
1. Open Knowledge Day
<http://cis-india.org/openness/events/open-knowledge-day-mysore>
(co-organized by Mysore University and CIS-A2K, Kuvempu Institute of
Kannada Studies, University of Mysore, July 15, 2014). The event coincided
with the Open Knowledge Festival in Berlin from July 15 to 17. Dr.
U.B.Pavanaja conducted the event.
2. Wikipedia orientation for Christ University UG students, Bangalore
Participation in Events
1. National Level Seminar on Computer Application and Odia Language
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/state-of-odia-language-in-computing-and-…>
(organized by Institute of Odia Studies and Research, July 6, 2014).
Subhashish Panigrahi was a panelist.
2. Open Knowledge Festival 2014
<http://cis-india.org/news/ok-festival-2014> (organized by Google,
Omidyar, et.al., Berlin, July 15 – 17, 2014). Subhashish Panigrahi
represented India as the India Ambassador of OpenGLAM local and made a
presentation.
3. # NAMA: The Future of Indic Languages
<http://cis-india.org/news/nama-the-future-of-indic-languages>
(organized by Medianama, The Oberoi Hotel, Bangalore, July 24, 2014).
Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event.
4. Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Kannada Science Writers (organized
by Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath at PDA College of Engineering,
Gulbarga, July 29, 2014). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave the presentation and demo.
Thirty-two participants attended the workshop.
5. Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Students and Research Scholars
(organized by Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga, July 30, 2014).
Dr. U. B. Pavanaja gave the presentation and demo. 37 participants attended
the presentation.
6. Talk about Kannada Wikipedia (organized by District Kannada Sahithya
Parishath, S.M. Pandit Auditorium, Gulbarga, July 30, 2014). Dr. U.B.
Pavanaja gave a talk as inaugurator of the first session of the Jilla
Sahithya Sammelana (district literary festival). About 600 people attended
this talk.
News and Media CoverageCIS-A2K team gave its inputs to the following media
coverage:
1. Wikipedia edit-a-thons to add content on LGBTs
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-7-2014-renuka-phadnis-wikipedia-ed…>
(by Renuka Phadnis, The Hindu, July 7, 2014).
2. Font problem hits Odia
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-telegraph-july-7-2014-bibhuti-barik-font-prob…>
(by Bibhuti Barik, The Telegraph, July 7, 2014).
3. Four volumes of Kannada Encyclopaedia digitised
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-12-2014-r-krishna-kumar-four-volum…>
(by R. Krishna Kumar, The Hindu, July 12, 2014).
4. ‘ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ’ಕ್ಕೆ ಇನ್ನು ಲೈಸೆನ್ಸ್ ಹಂಗಿಲ್ಲ
<http://cis-india.org/news/prajavani-july-14-2014-four-volumes-of-kannada-en…>
(Prajavani, July 14, 2014).
5. Soon, all 14 volumes of Kannada encyclopaedia to be online
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-15-2014-r-krishna-kumar-soon-all-1…>
(by R. Krishna Kumar, The Hindu, July 15, 2014).
6. ವಿಕಿಪಿಡಿಯಾಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ
<http://cis-india.org/news/kannada-prabha-july-15-2014-coverage-of-open-know…>
(Kannada Prabha, July 15, 2014).
7. ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶದ ಆರು ಸಂಪುಟ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾಗೆ
<http://cis-india.org/news/udayavani-july-15-2014-mysore-university-event-co…>
(Udayavani, July 15, 2014).
8. ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾದಲ್ಲಿ kannada ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ : ಈಗ ಆನ್ ಲೈನ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ 6 ಸಂಪುಟಗಳು
ಮುಕ್ತ…ಮುಕ್ತ……
<http://cis-india.org/news/just-kannada-july-15-2014-wikipedia-kannada-vishw…>(Just
Kannada, July 15, 2014).
9. Six Kannada encyclopaedias released
<http://cis-india.org/news/web-india-123-july-15-2014-six-kannada-encyclopae…>
(Webindia 123, July 15, 2014).
10. 150 Rare Books Get New Lease of Life Online, Courtesy Students
<http://cis-india.org/news/new-indian-express-july-15-2014-anila-backer-150-…>
(by Anila Backer, New Indian Express, July 15, 2014).
11. Open Access: Students help revive and digitize rare books for
Malayalam Wiki Library
<http://cis-india.org/news/spicy-ip-swaraj-paul-barooah-july-15-2014-open-ac…>
(Spicy IP, July 15, 2014).
12. 'Trolled' from US Congress, Wikipedia bans edits
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-narayan-lakshman-july-25-2014-trolled-f…>
(by Narayan Lakshman, The Hindu, July 25, 2014).
13. Telugu Wikipedia struggles to stay afloat
<http://cis-india.org/news/the-hindu-july-27-2014-renuka-phadnis-telugu-wiki…>
(by Renuka Phadnis, The Hindu, July 27, 2014).
14. The joys of being a Wikipedian
<http://cis-india.org/news/new-indian-express-july-29-2014-svetlana-lasrado>
(by Svetlana Lasrado, New Indian Express, July 29, 2014).
15. Kannada Wikipedia Presentation
<http://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-presentation-vijayavani-coverage>
(Vijayavani, July 30, 2014).
16. Kannada Wikipedia Presentation for Kannada Science Writers
<http://cis-india.org/news/kannada-wikipedia-presentation-prajavani-coverage>
(Prajavani, July 31, 2014).
Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia
movement in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in
Bangalore: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and
Rahmanuddin Shaikh. One team member Nitika Tandon is based in Delhi. We
also have one Advisor Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana working with us. Archives of
our newsletters can be accessed here
<http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters>. Wikipedians from various
communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs,
logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests>.
About CISThe Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research
organization that works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression,
privacy, accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge
and IPR reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open
standards, etc.), and engages in academic research on digital natives and
digital humanities.
Follow us elsewhere
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/CISA2K
- CIS group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india
- Visit us at: https://cis-india.org
Request for Collaboration:
We invite researchers, practitioners, and theoreticians, both
organisationally and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with
Internet and society and improve our understanding of this new field. To
discuss the research collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive
Director, at sunil(a)cis-india.org or Nishant Shah, Director – Research, at
nishant(a)cis-india.org. To discuss collaborations on Indic language
wikipedia, write to T. Vishnu Vardhan, Programme Director, A2K, at
vishnu(a)cis-india.org.
CIS is grateful to its primary donor the Kusuma Trust founded by Anurag
Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin for its core
funding and support for most of its projects. CIS is also grateful to its
other donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International,
UK, Hans Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and IDRC for funding its various
projects.
This bulletin is also available on Meta-Wiki at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_to_Knowledge/Newsletter/July_2…
Thank you all for your kind support and collaboration!
Subha
Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@psubhashish
The below mail FYI. Hope to see active participation from the Tamil and
Chennai based Wikimedia community. This is a good opportunity for all of
us to come up with a shared vision for the Wikimedia movement's growth
in India.
Best,
Vishnu
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Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] IMPORTANT: Future of work in India -- a
community consultation in Bangalore
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:50:36 -0700
From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia India Community list
<wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear fellow Wikimedians,
(this is important and a rare opportunity -- please do take a few
moments to read.)
I would like to draw your attention to a major piece of news:
The Wikimedia Foundation is convening a community consultation on the
future of Wikimedia work in India, to be held in October in Bangalore,
with significant representation from across India, the different
projects, and the different language communities.
Please see the following page on Meta for details, context, and to begin
discussion the delegates you would like to see participating. All costs
will be borne by the Foundation.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Community_Consultation_2014
Let's try and keep discussion on the talk page of that page on Meta, so
everyone can follow, even people not on this list.
Also, your help in forward this widely, translating as necessary, etc.,
would be MUCH appreciated. Again, this is an important opportunity, and
we need to ensure we get every community's attention.
I look forward to this conversation very much!
Asaf
--
Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share
in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
https://donate.wikimedia.org
I am reporting this here to request you all to spread the word.
Regards,
Sowmyan
Wikimedia Chapter
Dear Wikimedians,
The chapter intends to have a office, and recruit 2 employees. The job
descriptions are posted in the link below.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/FDC_Proposal_2013/Budget/Staff
The post of Executive Manager will be renamed as Program Director. The
other role will be that of the Program Executive. At present we will not
fill the third position mentioned in the link, namely administrative
assistant / executive.
If any one is interested in applying for these roles, they may send in
their applications to Careers(a)wikimedia.in.
We are looking for active Wikimedians, who can conduct training workshops,
organize events, GLAM programs, etc.
For the role of the Program Director, the additional expectations are
working on a strategy, FDC grant applications, general administration,
government relations etc.
We intend to fill these positions by August 2nd week so that the new
employees can take charge along with the new EC members to be elected on
Aug 16, 2014.
Apply within 10 days.
Regards,
Sowmyan
