Plans for 2026

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Apr 1, 2026, 11:03:36 AM (7 days ago) Apr 1

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(published here: https://ambuda.org/blog/p/plans-for-2026)

After a long break, Ambuda is resuming regular activity.

Our library now contains more than 200 texts, including several rare Upanishads, several plays by Bhasa, and a variety of texts related to Advaita Vedanta. To adjust to our larger library, our site has received some visual updates to make it easier to find and explore a given text. These include a search bar on the front page, a catalog view for exploring the library as a whole, and new support for bulk downloads and exports.

Our proofing engine has received several major upgrades, including a new visual editor and better error-checking capabilities. We have also experimented with releasing “unproofed” texts with minimal human correction. Advances in optical character recognition (OCR) have helped enormously in making this work possible.

To reach a wider audience and simplify our operations, most project discussion is now on a public mailing list (https://groups.google.com/g/ambuda-discuss). Please join if you are interested in our work!

Our main goal this year is to keep up the momentum and publish as many texts as we can. There are three bottlenecks for doing so.

The first bottleneck is time. Most of our new texts were proofread by me. While I enjoy proofreading, I have limited time and need to grow our proofing capacity so that it is easier for others to contribute and help.

The second bottleneck is scanned documents. While plenty of scanned documents exist on archive.org and other sites, the trick is to find a high-quality scan that given our automated systems the best chance to succeed.

The third bottleneck is money, both for hiring assistants and for paying for services like OCR

I intend to aggressively pursue becoming a registered nonprofit so that we can raise the funds necessary to remove these bottlenecks.

While there is more I could say, actions speak louder than words.

Now it is time to get to work. Thank you for your support, and please join the ambuda-discuss mailing list if you want to follow along.