Hi guys,
during the Wikisource triage meetings we discussed the opportunity of
using Foundation and Chapter grants in order to improve the project
(focusing on the ProofreadPage extension), instead of waiting for the
Annual Wishlist or hoping for some computer scientist user with a lot of
good will. Other User Groups regularly ask for grants with success, even if
the activities do not directly improve the projects.
We were lucky because WMI (Wikimedia Italy) funded two grants we requested.
We asked for grants for developers on very punctual tasks.
Sohom is adapting theEdit-in-sequence gadget, used in some projects, to
have it natively in the ProofreadPage extension. Jay is upgrading the
BookReader (currently, this tool is limited to the Indic Wikisource
community) so that other global Wikisource communities can also use it.
Sam is supervising in his work hours the two projects.
Here's the link to the WMI announcement:
https://www.wikimedia.it/news/sostenere-le-idee-dei-volontari-per-liberare-…
Let's hope that we can pursue this course of action in the future, in order
to have efficient and up-to-date projects. Check with your local chapter if
there are grants available for developers, and join us in the Triage
meetings!
Cheers,
Alex
*Ruthven* on Wikipedia
Hello everyone,
Fourth Wikisource Triage meeting (29 June 2022) is happening today in
exactly 3 hours from now at *10:00 AM UTC / 3:30 PM IST*.
We will be sharing some updates from Wikimedia Italy and the WMF GLAM team.
Additionally, we will be joined by OVasileva (WMF) & SGrabarczuk (WMF) who
will be sharing about the* Desktop Refresh (Vector 2022)* and how it has
been adapted for Wikisource.
Video call link: *https://meet.google.com/dwr-ifrx-grb
<https://meet.google.com/dwr-ifrx-grb>*
Check out the page on Meta-Wiki for more information:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Triage_meetings
Regards
Sam & Satdeep
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அனுப்புநர்: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>
Date: ஞாயி., 26 ஜூன், 2022, பிற்பகல் 9:22
Subject: Long Live Linux Users Groups
To: ILUG-Chennai <ilugc(a)freelists.org>
Today, we had our weekly Kanchi Linux Users Group, online via
https://meet.jit.si Platform.
All the meeting was on Tamil Language.
Dhanasekar introduced Docker. He explored the basic usage, writing Docker
files and demonstrated how to build and run Docker images.
Mohan explained how chroot is mother of all virtualization solutions like
Docker, Podman, LXC, snap, flatpak etc.
Then, We started to discuss on many things on the FOSS world.
Many students studying at https://Payilagam.com joined. For many of them,
it is a new experience to hear the open source discussions in Tamil itself.
The very good thing Payilagam does is, they ask all the students to install
LinuxMint on their machines. It is a mandatory thing. After showing linux
on their machine only, their classes starts.
As the students have the linux already, now they are enabled to learn
millions of new things on their computer. They attend various tech meetups.
They attend Kanchi Linux Users Group, Indian Linux Users Group Chennai (
ILUGC ), ChennnaiPy meetups. Few of them are already giving talks.
A switch to Linux OS will open millions of gates in Life.
In todays meeting, we asked all the participants to give one talk on the
upcoming meetups. The LUGs are the best place to start learning. Not only
tech. It will give all the life skills. For me, ILUGC, KanchiLUG,
Villupuram LUG gave me life long friends, tons of learnings, and the
ability to do anything on the world.
Today, wondered to know about Badri from Villupuram. Villupuram LUG is
celebrating Software Freedom Day every year. 8 years ago, when he was at
9th standard, he attended one Software Freedom Day celebration there. He
got to know about Linux OS, Free Software philosophies, Free Hardware and
all major free software. He installed Linux and started using it. He
explored all the distros. He learnt mobile development, flutter on his
collge days. He started to talk about linux to all his friends, and moving
them all to Linux. He is still at his final year of collge. He got job
already as a flutter development. He is using Manjora Linux. Good to know
it is used in remote deep villages too.
Another one is from Gopinath. He started to attend ChennaiPy meetups. Then
he joined ILUGC meetings. He still remember that we were celebrating Debian
Buster Release with a cake cutting on ILUGC meet. Since then he is
attending all possible open source related meetups. He grows on knowledge
and career along with all these meetings.
Annamalai from Trichy NIT. Told that ChennaiPy Vijay and Creator of Ezhil
Language Muthu are from NIT Trichy. They are part of NIT LUG on those days.
That LUG spirit is still driving them even after many years,. Asked him to
restart LUG activities there.
Kavitha told that she is a security expert. She told that she is looking
for a tamil tech community for long time and happy to find us. She agreed
to give talks on upcoming meetings.
Dhanasekaran is a Civil engineer. Still using Linux for past 18 years. He
is interested in Free Hardware. He will give talks on that soon.
Happy to know that many people are following https://Kaniyam.com as it is
the only online magazine for Free/Open Source Software. Thanks for all the
contributors for Kaniyam.com for keeping it alive for 10+ years.
Missed to write about many participants. Will take better notes next time.
It is really a social revolution that all the Linux Users Groups are doing,
silently. Even a small meetup, a Linux Demo day, a software freedom day can
open up someone mind and it will lead to great life change for them.
Even my life started to shift it gears after ILUGC meetings only. The pains
I took to travel to attend ILUGC meeting, from Kanchipuram to Chennai, are
still paying back to me with good job, good skills and never ending
learnings.
I request all of you join a nearby Linux User Group. If not start one. It
is so easy to start a LUG. Just find one or two supporting people and start
spreading the software freedom. Even the small regular activities can lit
light on many people’s life. You dont need to be an expert to give a talk.
Just share what ever you are learning.
Another tip here. If you want to learn any topic deeply, announce a talk on
that. It will make to read a lot, practice a lot. On giving a talk, you
will learn tons of things. Thats what I follow for many years.
I wish there is a Linux Users Group, in every village, every town, every
city, every college. They will build a great human society, because Linux
is not just a Operating system. It is a life style.
Long Live all the existing Linux User Groups, all around the world.
Thanks for all who are contributing to all LUG activities.
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com
Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer :
http://FreeTamilEbooks.com
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com
Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer :
http://FreeTamilEbooks.com
மொசில்லாவின் திறந்த மூல குரல்தரவுதள முன்னெடுப்பான Common Voice (
voice.mozilla.org/ta) இப்போது தமிழில் தொடங்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இது குரல்
கண்டறிதல் தொழில்நுட்பங்களுக்குப் பயிற்சி அளிப்பதற்குத் தேவையான பெருமளவு
குரல்மாதிரிகளைக் பொதுக்கள உரிமையில் (CC-0) வெளியிடுவதை நோக்கமாகக்
கொண்டுள்ளது.
Common Voice தளத்திற்குச் சென்று சொற்றொடர்களைப் பேசி பதிவுசெய்வதின் மூலமும்
பதிவு செய்யப்பட்டவற்றைச் சரிபார்ப்பதன் மூலமும் நீங்கள் பங்களிக்கலாம். இதைப்
பற்றிய அரை மணி நேர அறிமுகக் கூட்டம் இணையவழி நடக்கவிருக்கிறது.
நாள்: 26.06.2022 ஞாயிறு – மாலை 5.30 மணி இந்திய நேரம்
ஒருங்கிணைப்பாளர்: கி. முத்துராமலிங்கம், பயிலகம், சென்னை.
நிகழ்வில் பங்கெடுக்க: meet.jit.si/mozilla
Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!
We are hosting the Wikisource Triage meeting
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Triage_meetings> on *29th June
2022 at 10 AM UTC / 3:30 PM IST* (Check your local time
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1656496824>) according to the wudele poll
<https://wudele.toolforge.org/wstriage4>.
There is some exciting news about a few technical projects related to
Wikisource that are getting started right now and we will be sharing more
information during the meeting.
As always, you don't have to be a developer to participate in these
meetings while the focus of these meetings is to improve the Wikisource
infrastructure.
If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on
sgill(a)wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.
Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Triage_meetings> and suggest
any other topics for the agenda.
Regards
Sam and Satdeep
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Triage_meetings
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Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hey,
From what I understand WikiSource’s servers are located in the US and must
therefore follow US Copyright.
I would like a much deeper understanding of how copyright is upheld online
since it’s so easy to access “foreign” websites, of course.
I would like to upload a book - Finnegans Wake by James Joyce - to
WikiSource. It’s out of copyright in Europe but on the US, because they
have different copyright lengths.
If we assume US copyright law applying to servers physically located in the
US, that much makes sense. But is there a law that people in the US cannot
access those same materials on foreign servers where they are not
copyrighted? If that’s actually a law, how do they enforce that? They would
need to stick up some kind of internet barrier, internet censorship. Is
that legal? How could they achieve it? Wouldn’t they basically have to get
internet service providers to block a certain domain or something? So… the
government would say, “We heard foreign site X is serving copyrighted
material to American citizens; block that site for all Americans”? And then
the foreign site would respond (to get unblocked) by checking the location
of whoever’s requesting their webpage and probably specifically limit
content depending on region, to comply with the government? (In which case
the user could use a VPN.)
What about where a company is registered?
Can Wikisource.de - if it’s actually hosted in Germany - host Finnegans
Wake even if Wikisource is perhaps trademarked in the US or something?
Does the law work that way, that a company registered in one country is
responsible for complying with copyright law internationally? (I assume so,
it sounds likely).
Anyway: if we cannot host Finnegans Wake on Wikisource.de, is there any
good workaround? Wikipedia is a very international phenomenon, it would be
too bad if it only were ruled by American law. Can’t we create a German
subsidiary legal entity for it or something?
Thanks very much,
Julius