[Foundation-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

[Jyothis E]

Dear fellow Wikimedians,

With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD
project "Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0" at the 4th
annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. This is by far the biggest digital
collection of free books in Malayalam language available on CD for offline
use. This is an important milestone, as majority of the households in Kerala
does not have internet or does not have an always on connection and this
will enable them to access these books as an offline content.

Contents:

     Selected Poems by
          * Kumaranasan
          * Cherusseri
          * Changampuzha Krishna Pillai
          * Kalakkaththu Kunchan Nambiar
          * Irayimman Thampi
          * Ramapurathu Warrier

     Malayalam Grammer
          * Kerala Panineeyam by AR Rajaraja Varma

     Legends/Folklore
          * Aithihyamala

     Novels
          * Indulekha

     Religious
          * Bhagavad Gita
          * Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippaatu
          * Harinama Keerthanam
          * Geetha Govindam
          * Sathya Veda Pusthakam (Malayalam Bible)
          * Quran
          * Works of Sree Narayana Guru
          * Devotional songs for Christian, Hindu and Islamic religions

      Native Art Form
          * Parichamuttukali pattukal

      Philosophy (Political)
          * Communist Manifesto
          * Principles of Communism (Friedrich Engels)

The CD also contains the commons collections of images on food, plants,
birds, maps and  celebrations from Kerala. The CD is made available for
download in iso format as well as browsing at our community website -
http://www.mlwiki.in. For those who are interested in the technical
challenges and aspects of the background work may read Santhosh's blog
post<http://thottingal.in/blog/2011/06/11/malayalam-wikisource-offline-version/>about
it.

We thank every one who participated in the effort. Comments and questions
are welcome.

Thanks and Regards,
Malayalam Wikimedia Community.