Few weeks ago, Niagara had its Christmas lighting started. Went there with friends. We went there in the evening. Niagara is one of the greatest natural beauty, which we can see a million times. Visited the Casino there. Got 10$ free card and played with few slot machines. Won 3$ and lost all 13$. Though it was a free money, it was tough to stop the game.

Then, visited the wonderful lighting. It was a very long walk, in dark roads, along with glittering lights on the road sides. Kids enjoyed much to see them all.

Few photos are here – https://shrini-clicks.kaniyam.cloudns.nz/#/collections/albums/2024-niagara-chrismas-lighting

Last Saturday, we had a grand event to celebrate the winter, organized by HeartComonos team. I volunteered a little amount for the event. We had nearly 2 months of preparation. All the volunteers made the event a memorable one. We had around 300 participants. The Bollywood dance team won all the attention. I had a makeover as ELF and was giving candy to all the kids there.

Few pics of the events are here – https://shrini-clicks.kaniyam.cloudns.nz/#/collections/albums/2024-welcoming-winter-2024

We are having daily meeting for open source project mentoring. Around 10 people are doing different projects. We are discussing many things like linux, Emacs, productivity, book reviews etc. Read the logs here – https://ircbot.comm-central.org:8080/kaniyam

Started a thread to plan the 2025 activities for Kaniyam Foundation. Write there what do you think on what we can do next year.

https://forums.tamillinuxcommunity.org/t/topic/2723/2

FreeTamilEbooks.com is with a very old theme for past 10+ years. We need the below changes.

• Check for new theme
• improve its SEO for search results.
• Fix the send2kindle links
• Fix the categories
• Merge duplicate author names, categories
• Fix the download stats
• Get the detailed download report for all the books
• have author page
• have contributor page
• remove email address on the book’s pages
• add intro content to all books

Created an project idea issue for this here. https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/237

Ravishankar is the founding member of FreeTamilEbooks.com and a mentor for kaniyam. He started to work on these tasks. He gave a new theme and improved the SEO. Need more volunteers to work on other items. Let me know if you can spend few hours for FreeTamilEbooks.com

Today, we got the very first snow fall of the year. It is mesmerizing to see all the green lands are turning into white. For 4 months, we will be in hibernate state. Have to plan many indoor events. I have tons of books to read, tasks to complete.

We are collecting large amount of Tamil text with shareable, open licensed content, for LLM and other research works. So far, collected 1.6 GB of text, from Tamil Wikipedia, FreeTamilEbooks, project madurai, tamilmunn publishers books, etc. Get the data from here – https://kaniyam.cloudns.nz/tamil_datasets/

Read the blog posts on these here

part 1 – https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2024/06/11/collecting-content-for-llm-dataset-part-1-tamil-wikipedia-content/

part 2 – https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2024/06/16/collecting-content-for-llm-dataset-part-2-freetamilebooks/

part 3 – https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2024/11/23/collecting-content-for-llm-dataset-part-3-thamizh_mann-books-project-madurai-wikisource/

Around Dec 25 to Jan 5, we will get winter break for schools. I am thinking of teaching python or scratch for kids in this break. Learning scratch for that. The graphics, the colors, drag/drop may be easy for kids. But it is tough for me as a terminal dweller. Yet to think and plan more on the training for kids. At least, I should teach the basics of programming and show a taste of making computers to obey our orders.

Started to teach chess for our condo kids. we conduct a weekly chess hour, to teach and play with other kids. Good to see that many kids know chess already and they all enjoy the game hours.

Watched Moana 2 yesterday. Viyan loved it. It is very difficult to being a part 2 movie as good as part 1. Moana team did a great job on this. Stunning graphics, good story line, nice music, heart melting songs make the move as a wonder. Don’t miss to watch it in theaters.

completed – பேசத் தெரிந்த நிழல்கள் – sramakrishnan. Took it from a local library. It is a book full of review of world movies. Happy to read a physical tamil book apart from 1000s of miles.

In progress – Drupal, LLM, Digital Museums

As usual, got 100% savings on Thanksgiving Day sales. Bought nothing. As we are following minimalism as much as possible, we feel that we have all the things required. I was thinking, if the name of the day is like “Genocide Memorial Day”, we won’t be rushing for shops to get offers and sales. They should rename the day to show the history.

I am running a social media platform on my desktop, and interacting with the world using that. It is a software called ‘Gotosocial’. It is like twitter, but we can install on our own servers. The Fediverse activitypub protocol connects with other millions of such servers around the world.

Hosted it here https://social.kaniyam.cloudns.nz/

Happy to see many Emacs, FOSS, Linux, Self hosting lovers are there to interact. Getting replies for all the questions I am asking there. It gives much happiness, to be with like-minded people, around the globe.

Few weeks ago, Niagara had its Christmas lighting started. Went there with friends. We went there in the evening. Niagara is one of the greatest natural beauty, which we can see a million times. Visited the Casino there. Got 10$ free card and played with few slot machines. Won 3$ and lost all 13$. Though it was a free money, it was tough to stop the game.

Then, visited the wonderful lighting. It was a very long walk, in dark roads, along with glittering lights on the road sides. Kids enjoyed much to see them all.

Few photos are here – https://shrini-clicks.kaniyam.cloudns.nz/#/collections/albums/2024-niagara-chrismas-lighting

Last Saturday, we had a grand event to celebrate the winter, organized by HeartComonos team. I volunteered a little amount for the event. We had nearly 2 months of preparation. All the volunteers made the event a memorable one. We had around 300 participants. The Bollywood dance team won all the attention. I had a makeover as ELF and was giving candy to all the kids there.

Few pics of the events are here – https://shrini-clicks.kaniyam.cloudns.nz/#/collections/albums/2024-welcoming-winter-2024

We are having daily meeting for open source project mentoring. Around 10 people are doing different projects. We are discussing many things like linux, Emacs, productivity, book reviews etc. Read the logs here – https://ircbot.comm-central.org:8080/kaniyam

Started a thread to plan the 2025 activities for Kaniyam Foundation. Write there what do you think on what we can do next year.

https://forums.tamillinuxcommunity.org/t/topic/2723/2

FreeTamilEbooks.com is with a very old theme for past 10+ years. We need the below changes.

• Check for new theme
• improve its SEO for search results.
• Fix the send2kindle links
• Fix the categories
• Merge duplicate author names, categories
• Fix the download stats
• Get the detailed download report for all the books
• have author page
• have contributor page
• remove email address on the book’s pages
• add intro content to all books

Created an project idea issue for this here. https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/237

Ravishankar is the founding member of FreeTamilEbooks.com and a mentor for kaniyam. He started to work on these tasks. He gave a new theme and improved the SEO. Need more volunteers to work on other items. Let me know if you can spend few hours for FreeTamilEbooks.com

Today, we got the very first snow fall of the year. It is mesmerizing to see all the green lands are turning into white. For 4 months, we will be in hibernate state. Have to plan many indoor events. I have tons of books to read, tasks to complete.

We are collecting large amount of Tamil text with shareable, open licensed content, for LLM and other research works. So far, collected 1.6 GB of text, from Tamil Wikipedia, FreeTamilEbooks, project madurai, tamilmunn publishers books, etc. Get the data from here – https://kaniyam.cloudns.nz/tamil_datasets/

Read the blog posts on these here

part 1 – https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2024/06/11/collecting-content-for-llm-dataset-part-1-tamil-wikipedia-content/

part 2 – https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2024/06/16/collecting-content-for-llm-dataset-part-2-freetamilebooks/

part 3 – https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2024/11/23/collecting-content-for-llm-dataset-part-3-thamizh_mann-books-project-madurai-wikisource/

Around Dec 25 to Jan 5, we will get winter break for schools. I am thinking of teaching python or scratch for kids in this break. Learning scratch for that. The graphics, the colors, drag/drop may be easy for kids. But it is tough for me as a terminal dweller. Yet to think and plan more on the training for kids. At least, I should teach the basics of programming and show a taste of making computers to obey our orders.

Started to teach chess for our condo kids. we conduct a weekly chess hour, to teach and play with other kids. Good to see that many kids know chess already and they all enjoy the game hours.

Watched Moana 2 yesterday. Viyan loved it. It is very difficult to being a part 2 movie as good as part 1. Moana team did a great job on this. Stunning graphics, good story line, nice music, heart melting songs make the move as a wonder. Don’t miss to watch it in theaters.

completed – பேசத் தெரிந்த நிழல்கள் – sramakrishnan. Took it from a local library. It is a book full of review of world movies. Happy to read a physical tamil book apart from 1000s of miles.

In progress – Drupal, LLM, Digital Museums

As usual, got 100% savings on Thanksgiving Day sales. Bought nothing. As we are following minimalism as much as possible, we feel that we have all the things required. I was thinking, if the name of the day is like “Genocide Memorial Day”, we won’t be rushing for shops to get offers and sales. They should rename the day to show the history.

I am running a social media platform on my desktop, and interacting with the world using that. It is a software called ‘Gotosocial’. It is like twitter, but we can install on our own servers. The Fediverse activitypub protocol connects with other millions of such servers around the world.

Hosted it here https://social.kaniyam.cloudns.nz/

Happy to see many Emacs, FOSS, Linux, Self hosting lovers are there to interact. Getting replies for all the questions I am asking there. It gives much happiness, to be with like-minded people, around the globe.