(Note: This site was created mostly for my own personal historical and archival purposes. It is like a biography and obituary for Reg. You will likely only be interested in the first link - a YouTube video that is fun to watch. You may also enjoy gawking gazing at the byzantine baroque beauty of the code.)

Reg at MMC, 1981-2024

Reg Appreciation at the HFS Mid Year Gathering, March 23, 2025

 

Prior Years Thank You Cards and Gifts

MMC Card 1, ~1992

MMC Card 2, ~1989

Mount Madonna School, ~1997

Mount Madonna School, November 2000

MMC Card 3, 2009

A gift of a framed image of Ganesh - ‟The elephant headed god, the remover of obstacles, the protector. With his blessings, a person gains confidence in the success of their endeavor and his guarding hand keeps negativity and ignorance at bay.”

In addition to the thank you cards and gifts there was a continual expression of gratitude for the work I did. This is, of course, a wonderfully effective way to motivate volunteers. Here is a mail thread which is a good example of the feedback I got through the years.

To Retreat Guru in 2016?

In 2016 we considered a transition to Retreat Guru (RG) but decided against it. I remember Brajesh saying that the transition would be excrutiating. Videos and documents were created for the RG people to show them how Reg worked. They may have used some of what we shared to enhance their software.

The Code

The Database Schema - 68 tables, 834 columns

The complete code for Reg is kept in a public open source repository at github.com a total of 2,137 commits. Just for fun, here are some selected code fragments with the coolest parts colored in red.

To Retreat Guru

Retreat Guru Decision Meeting, January 5, 2024

Finances

I started being paid for software development in 1998. $50 per hour. This amount was never increased. The tasks I took on and the features that were added were based exclusively on requests and feedback from the director or the office staff. Here are two tallies of the monies from the accounting office:

Daily Sutra and Talks with Babaji

These resources will continue to be hosted on the Reg machine.

Daily Sutra from Babaji
Talks with Babaji


R.I.P. Reg! Long Live RG!