Mukto Library — Grant Report #2

Nasir Khan — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 07:52:46 +0000

Mukto Library is an open platform for everyone who loves books. It is for readers, authors, publishers, designers, and everyone around. You can read open licensed books here for free, write notes and reviews about any book or just add books and build your own virtual library.

Project Update

Mukto Library is a place to find books and everything around it. At the very beginning we planned to list books and write articles about different books. Later planned to include open licensed books here. From next month we will regularly add more and more books and people will be able to read here without downloading anything.

We are very happy that all of your initially planned featured has been developed and published. We will continue working on examining the reach and community around it.

What’s next?

We will try to explore new user groups. We have plans to host some offline events with other open communities and readers groups. We will learn from there activities and will invite them to join this online community.

So far we developed and published a number of features on our portal. For next one month or so we will monitor the user traffic sources and add more and more contents in the popular sections.

We have a few volunteers working here right now. But will need some funds to continue out expansion and meet the operational costs. We will be very happy if any community member of Grant for the Web wants to collaborate with us. We will also actively looking for other grants options as well.

What community support would benefit your project?

This community space is a great place to learn. Here we can read the updated form others and we love to learn from them.

Relevant links/resources

https://muktolibrary.com

Mukto Library — Grant Report #1

Nasir Khan — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 07:08:50 +0000

Project Update

When we started the project we set some milestones for each month. So far we covered most of that. The progress of the project is good. Though we planned to make some additional progress at the beginning. But we are confident that at the end of December 2021 we will be able to complete all the features.

Progress on objectives

We have two major objective in this project. First one is to build that platform. It is a custom web application which we are developing to meet all the necessary features.

Offline activities

We want to build that platform based on the feedback from the community members. From the very beginning we are communicating with a number of group of community members. We are working with a community of around 50 village library. While we talked to those librarians of those village libraries and that community we found some interesting information. They said there usually a small group of reader and larger circle of general people around libraries. Sometimes they use the library premises as common gathering place as well.

We are a good contact with some of these communities and we take their feedback while building the platform.

Building the platform

Initially we had an application with some features. At the very beginning we changed the design of the application and started to add more features.

Not all the features are for public use rather we needed to build some tools which will also help us to maintain it as an open platform. We mentioned earlier that we do not moderate any user generated articles or comments. But at the same time we do not want anyone to use this platform to spread any hate speech. So we built an option to report any content to us. If we get any report on any content we will look into that. Along with that we are also planning to build a feature to automatically detect the hate words and send notifications to us as well as the person who has created that content.

Add more data

We are building an open platform to discuss on any and every topic our user wants to. We will not moderating or guiding anything. What we suggest is to like a book with the articles.

Adding new book data will be a continuous process. We expect those will be added by the users of this platform. But at this beginning stage we are adding more and more book. This may help the users to know about new books and they may only focus on their content.

Communications and marketing

We set a strategy that first we will try to on board the existing reading circles and similar communities. We have contacted with a number of such communities. This will benefit us to find the right members. Also we are focusing to those communities who are not much active in online platforms right now. We are trying to introduce this platform as a tool where they can learn from as well as spread their thoughts to others as well.

What’s next?

Here are a list of major milestones/ goals

Make the platform more complete by developing the necessary features
Try for new funding opportunities to continue the project. Six month is a small time to build a platform and make it self sustainable as well
Reach more communities and on board them here
Add more and more contents of different genre from which users can be benefited.

The Interledger Community 🌱: Mukto Library

Mukto Library — Grant Report #2

Project Update

What’s next?

What community support would benefit your project?

Relevant links/resources

Mukto Library — Grant Report #1

Project Update

Progress on objectives

Offline activities

Building the platform

Add more data

Communications and marketing

What’s next?