As you may have noticed, the link to Ongoing has vanished. I haven't really posted anything there for a small forever (a year and two weeks to be exact), and there isn't that much of unreported ongoings either. Whatever practical news of interest might show up, they'll blend in the regular blog section just well. You can still use the link above to reach the section, should there be some historical curiosities you wish to explore.

For those curious about what's on the task list as things are winding up, here's the situation at a quick glance:

General projects

• Audio and video. I have about 10-15 hours of video and 20 of audio unsorted and unprocessed. I don't know if I'll have the enthusiasm to work on them to get them added to the Lake of Flowers archive, given the blandish feedback I've received, with the exception of a few grateful enthusiasts.
• Books. Translations and publications. Haven't really had the energy to immerse my mind in the work, even though my written Bangla skills have come to a fairly decent level. It's a lot of hard work. If someone's interested in supporting translation work, I don't mind translating. Feel free to contact me.
• diCrunch, the diacritic conversion tool. Fixed a few small issues today, and it's not too far from the final 2.0 release. I understand it's being quite widely used.
• DVDs of the Lake of Flowers materials. Again, I'm uncertain as to how much demand there'd be. Mastering them takes a moment. I'd like to give it a shot nevertheless, to see if I can break even with costs the project's brought over the years.
• Photos. Sorting all my N thousand photos by theme. I don't exactly have the patience to start writing individual descriptions for each or setting up elaborate galleries, so they'll be made available as one large PDF file per category. Expect these to show up when I'm back in Finland.
• Sadhana Manual was a project in progress, especially during my days with Sanatana Baba. I have a great quantity of useful notes that'll probably just be put out for download as they are, where generally relevant material is there.

Specific websites

As we need to cut down on domain costs, some domains just need to go. (If someone is interested in taking them over, please contact me and we'll see what can be done. Otherwise, as they expire, they'll stay for several years with the registrant company that'll serve out ad pages and benefit from the revenue.)

• Bhasa.Net will most likely be ditched. The concept is good, but activity is zero. We might look at the bibliography section merging under Grantha Mandira, I don't know. The data will be archived either there or at Gaudiya.Com.
• Gaudiya.Com. One of the leading sites, will stay as it is. The "Saints" -page that was never worked on will go, replaced with a link to the archive section.
• Gaudiya.Info. Will probably be kept as it is, it's a useful little intro site in easy language. (Even if feedback has been practically zero.) Otherwise, merged under Gaudiya.Com as an archived section.
• GaudiyaDiscussions.Com. Was recently converted into its final archive format, will stay as it is. The ads there (when clicked) generate some income, enough to pay for the domain anyway!
• GaudiyaKutir.Com. Now that's one abandoned hut there, I tell you that. If someone wants to hold on to the idea of its starting again (I don't), they're free to sponsor the domains. .Net can stay for as long as the domain exists; the search engine has been removed.
• gkWiki. The concept's good, but it really is so very dead. If no change in level of activity happens during the next six months, data will be archived under Gaudiya.Com and site ditched.
• Granthamandira still needs a fair amount of work with the back-end, although the public sections are pretty much final. It's one of the more important works I've been involved with. I met with Jagat the day before yesterday, and we were both hopeful more public response could be had, for example with regular newsletters.
• Krishnacaitanya.Com will stay as it is.
• Lakeofflowers.Com will stay as it is. Future media collection unlikely, processing and adding current raw collection a possibility, but no guarantees on that.
• Madhavananda.Com. I have no idea. Clearly in its current format it's a bit redundant. The project index never sparked the response I would have hoped, in fact it sparked practically no response at all, which was one of the factors setting my current direction.
• Madrasibaba.Org website needs to get some loose ends tied up, and I need to also give Karunamayi the means to do, or to get done future updates in my absence.
• Padavali.Com isn't going to be developed. If someone becomes enthusiastic to key in padavali, they're free to post for example at the Vilasa Kunja padavali section. Someone will sort them out in the future when a need arises.
• Raganuga.Com/Org will be archived under Gaudiya.Com.
• Vilasakunja.Net will stay as it is. Forum software needs to be upgraded to phpBB 3.
• Vrajajournal.Com will stay as it is.
• Vrindavanart.Com will stay as it is.

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Still a bunch of work there, I see. Whatever else is listed at Madhavananda.Com can be considered buried. I may have missed something obvious, in which case please feel free to let me know.

If someone's interested in chipping in a paisa or two into my pension fund (I already have ten rupees!) as a thanks for the thousands of hours and several years that went into putting all of this stuff together, or otherwise in the name of general philantrophy, below's the button that'll help in the process.



I hope that at least some of my at times overwhelming engagement in diverse projects has brought something useful for someone out there.