I did email him and he sent me a copy of the database in Excel format, but have not perused it yet. I did not tell him of any other interests in the database. The email from the archived site does reach Russell. Dave Colestock
--- On Tue, 6/28/11, William Watson <[email protected]> wrote: From: William Watson <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Callers] American Country Dances Online To: "Caller's discussion list" <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 3:20 PM Folks, I just dropped Russell a note, asking him about the requirements to host the database. I subsequently looked at the archived version (which doesn't seem able to access the actual database), and see that the page (used to) offer FTP transfer of the database in FileMakerPro format. I suspect that's the part that made hosting tedious, and would make migration non-trivial. I'll pass along word of what I hear back from Russell. FYI, CDSS is evidently discussing a possible contra dance database effort. I don't yet know any details. Best regards, William Eugene, Oregon On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Mark Widmer <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Clark. Looks like it is indeed defunct, unless/until somebody is > willing to take on hosting duties for it. > > From your link, I was able to find the webpage of Russell Owen, who used to > maintain American Country Dances Online. He has just recently shut it down; > he has this note on his webpage: > > Note: if you are looking for American Country Dances On Line: I shut > down 2011-06-13 as I did not have time to maintain it. If you wish > to host it please contact me. > > Russell Owen > University of Washington > Russell's webpage is at > http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/rowen/ >> From: Clark Baker<[email protected]> >> >> Not a perfect answer, but perhaps this will help... >> http://classic-web.archive.org/web/*/http://arcserve.astro.washington.edu/dances/ >> >> On Jun 26, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Mark Widmer wrote: >>> Does anyone know what became of the website American Country Dances >>> Online? -- [email protected] Try "williamcallscontras" instead to contact me directly. This is my bulk mail / mailing list address. William J. Watson _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list [email protected] http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
