3 May
2008
3 May
'08
12:37 a.m.
Will - have you seen Colin Hume's Dance Organiser Database Software.
Information and download is at http://www.colinhume.com/download.htm.
Michael Barraclough
http://www.michaelbarraclough.com
-----Original Message-----
From: callers-bounces(a)sharedweight.net
[mailto:callers-bounces@sharedweight.net] On Behalf Of Greg McKenzie
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:18 AM
To: Caller's discussion list
Subject: Re: [Callers] Intro and Callers Database
Dear Will,
Your dance database looks great!
I have used Filemaker Pro to keep my dance
database for years. Your implementation is
elegant and beautiful. Your idea of allowing the
capture of specific programs is brilliant! I
realize now how useful that would be. I am very
interested in seeing your beta version.
I've set up my database so that I can print out
my cards directly from the database on 3 x 5 index cards.
I look forward to hearing more. Please keep in touch.
Regards,
Greg McKenzie
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At 06:21 AM 4/29/2008, you wrote:
Hi everyone,
I joined SharedWeight a few weeks ago but have not had time to introduce
myself. My name is Will Loving - though some who met me many years ago may
remember me as Will McNaughten - and I live in Amherst, MA. I've been
contra
dancing for about half my life - 26+ years I think -
initially in Seattle,
NH/VT (Lyme, Etna, Norwich, Putney), and DC/MD/VA, but mostly in the
Pioneer
Valley/Western Mass area for the last 20+ years.
I got interested in calling early on and started collecting dances and
teaching my students (small Quaker High School in Maryland) and anyone else
who was interested. Ken Haltenhoff (Bluemont dance), Steve Schnur, David
Kaynor and Larry Jennings book ³Zesty Contras² were early influences. After
I moved to Western Mass I called the Montague dance once or twice when
David
was away but didn¹t do much beyond that. My wife, Kate,
and I also taught
East Coast swing for five years here in the valley and my interest in
calling is very much related to my joy in teaching dance.
For the last 12+ years, parenting and running my business have taken
precedence over many personal interests including dancing and calling, but
I'm finally beginning to move in those directions again. Though my time is
still limited, I'm actively looking for opportunities to learn more about
calling and to talk with and observe people calling and teaching. I¹m
driving to Belfast, Maine this weekend to do the Intro Callers workshop
with
Chrissy Fowler and will hopefully be going to the
followup weekend with
Lisa
in September.
I really appreciate Chris Weiler¹s recent post about his experiences as a
new caller, it¹s inspiring and gives me hope for how things can open up as
you go along. I know I bring certain skills to the table because of my
background in movement and teaching, but I¹m pretty clueless at the moment
about the music side of things and how to interact with the musicians. Lots
to learn and I very much appreciate the encouragement of the caller
community (esp. David Kaynor, Rick Mohr, Lisa Greenleaf, Linda Leslie,
George Marshall, et al.) as I figure out what next steps to take.
Finally, for my work, I do database programming in FileMaker Pro, mostly
for
community arts organizations and other non-profits. I
created a small dance
database some years ago for my own use, but now that I actually might start
using it actively I wanted something that was much more functional and
nicer
to look at. I¹ve been working on something for several
weeks that I think
might be of interest to the caller community, particularly because it has
the ability to create and preserve sets of dances for a particular date and
location.
At some point in the next few weeks I¹ll post a link to a downloadable beta
(both Mac and Win) for people to play with, but in the short term here (
http://dedicationtechnologies.com/CC/ ) are some screen shots to show you
where I¹m going with it. There is a lot of functionality already built in
which you can¹t really see but which will be apparent when you actually get
a chance to play with it. I also have lots of questions for you all because
I would like this to be versatile enough for contras, square and English,
so
I¹ll be soliciting your input on that.
Thanks for listening and for the encouragement I¹ve already received from
many of you.
Thanks,
Will
--
William M. Loving
Dedication Technologies, Inc.
7 Coach Lane
Amherst, MA 01002-3304 USA
will(a)dedicationtechnologies.com
Tel: +1 413 253-7223 (GMT 5)
Fax: +1 206 202-0476
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