Congratulations On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Whoa! Great news. Congratulations Shrini, and thanks Ravi for sharing this > widely. > > Subhashish > > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Srikar Kashyap <srikar.kash...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Congrats Shrini! Hope you achieve many more laurels in the future! >> >> >> >> <https://mailtrack.io/> Sent with Mailtrack >> <https://mailtrack.io/install?source=signature&lang=en&referral=srikar.kash...@gmail.com&idSignature=22> >> >> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> T. Shrinivasan <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/5www>, a Tamil Wikipedian, >>> wins 2016 Sundara Ramaswamy award for Tamil Computing for his contributions >>> to Free Tamil Ebooks and Indian language Wikisource projects. >>> >>> This is the fourth year in a row that people supporting Tamil Wikimedia >>> projects are winning this honor. This award includes a cash price of 1000 >>> Canadian dollars and is being presented by the diaspora Tamils organization >>> called Tamil Literary Garden based in Canada. >>> >>> He is a passionate advocate and an exemplary contributor to Tamil >>> computing related FOSS (Free and Open Source) software. He has been >>> promoting Free Culture movements in Tamil for over ten years. He has >>> developed tools related to OCR, which enabled transcribing thousands of >>> Tamil books, adding more than 500,000 pages to Tamil Wikisource and >>> Noolaham Digital Library. His tools also support the growth of other Indian >>> languages. He is the former coordinator for the Indian Linux Users Group >>> Chennai and the founder of non-profit community project FreeTamilEbooks, >>> which publishes DRM-free ebooks in Tamil under Creative Commons licenses. >>> Till date, it counts more than 4.7 million ebook downloads. >>> >>> He started an online magazine run by volunteers for Free Software in >>> Tamil, Kaniyam. Kaniyam has published several technical Tamil books such as >>> “எளிய தமிழில் GNU/Linux”, “எளிய இனிய கணினி மொழி – ரூபி” and “எளிய தமிழில் >>> MySQL”. He has written numerous technical articles in Tamil, covering >>> emerging programming languages, tools, and technologies. He has trained and >>> mentored numerous individuals such as Thagaval Uzhavan who in turn >>> contribute back to community projects. >>> >>> He is a technical contributor to Noolaham Foundation. His contribution >>> includes helping to build the multimedia platform, extracting templated >>> metadata from MediaWiki, and research into next-generation digital >>> preservation infrastructure. >>> >>> Shrinivasan serves as the coordinator for INFITT’s India Chapter. He is >>> currently working as a Systems Architect in a private software services >>> firm at Chennai. You can follow him on Twitter at @tshrinivasan or contact >>> him at tshriniva...@gmail.com. >>> >>> About FreeTamilEbooks >>> >>> Free Tamil Ebooks is a non-profit initiative providing hundreds of free >>> ebooks to readers in the Tamil language. This is a unique project in the >>> South Asian languages. Volunteers compile Creative Commons-licensed >>> writings by popular bloggers and authors into ebook format. Started in >>> 2013, they have released 280 ebooks till date counting 3.9 million >>> downloads. Each book gets downloaded at least 500 times, but a few books >>> have crossed the 1,00,000-download threshold. True to his FOSS ethos, Free >>> Tamil Ebooks source code is freely availble at: >>> https://github.com/kishorek/Free-Tamil-Ebooks Learn more from the >>> Interview in Pressbooks >>> >>> About OCR tool for Wikisource projects >>> >>> OCR for Wikisource is a game-changing tool that converts Pdf or Djvu >>> files to text using Google OCR and uploads the content automatically to >>> Wikisource. Since December 2015, this tool is under active development with >>> intense collaboration from various Indian language Wikimedia communities. >>> By September 2016, the tool has added more than 900,000 pages to Bengali >>> and Tamil Wikisource projects. Addition of 2000 nationalized books to Tamil >>> Wikisource is a significant milestone. This also catapulted Tamil in to the >>> list of Top 10 Wikisources in the word by page count. The same tool is used >>> by Noolaham project to OCR Tamil works from Sri Lanka and make it >>> searchable online. >>> >>> Let us join in wishing him to serve more :) >>> >>> Ravi >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- *Regards:* *Suyash Dwivedi* E7/83F, Ahsoka Society Arera Colony Bhopal - 462016 Madhya Pradesh, India +91-9826015410
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