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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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 ******* 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
