Ditto from me, Will. I'm very impressed. Laurie Grand Rapids, MI
--- Greg McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > ******* > > 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 > >[email protected] > >Tel: +1 413 253-7223 (GMT 5) > >Fax: +1 206 202-0476 > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Callers mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > ~~ ~ What the heart has once owned.....it shall never lose. ~ ~ Henry Ward Beecher~ ~~ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
