I’ve been corresponding with Caitanya Candra prabhu about the Vaisnava Calendar Project. Man, I thought it was pretty cut and dried, but apparently there is a whole lot of confusion and controversy over the calendar generating algorithms and which ones should be used.

Before the technical issues are tackled the socio-political situation will have to be sorted out. Anyway, we’re looking at the technical angle simultaneously. We want it to be cross-platform, which means portable languages - either binary portable like java or .Net / Mono, or else source portable like Python, QT, etc. There’s also talk of implementing it as a web service, which means php or similar.

The technical platforms we eventually settle on will depend to a large degree on who’s involved. If you have some programming experience / skills and would like to get involved in making the next-generation cross-platform open-source fully buzzword-compliant Vaisnava Calendar Generating Program, and become a superstar of devotional open source programming while performing service to the community of devotees, then please drop me a line at sitapati worldsankirtan net. You know where to put the punctuation.