Hi Cathy,
I am including Sean about your questions on the lutelist versus FB.
Sean looks both them and Nig even more than I do, so can give you a
better answer. Here are my sanswers:
The lutelist is old-fashioned and it's biggest virtue is that we have
access to people like Art Ness and Martin Shepherd to answer
questions. It's vibe is a bit more toward the serious lute player, but
the people are mostly patient with newbies with questions. It is not
the place for promoting you CD or next concert.
FB IS the place to promote anything and everything and I think Larry
spends time getting rid of the messages that off topic. FB has a
younger vibe - or maybe it had a younger vibe when it started. I hear
it has been taken over by groups like the LSA and some musicians use it
instead of a web page. FB can have pictures and mostly postings are
very short.
I don't think the lutelist needs much curating, at least not right now.
We've had a couple of differences of opinion in the past, but nothing
recently. Another big benefit for me is that people access the
lutelist using their own emails and I can keep the email address for
future contacts. The people there are a big source of additions to my
lists of prospective LSA members. I can be the moderator for the
lutelist until it's up and running and we find a good person to take
the job over. We don't have the problem with the LL of every tom, dick
and harry wanting to join it - it's more for the cognisenti. David
Smith might be a good moderator - he's been on the LL for years.
When I had an orpharion for sale on Wayne's list (and it wasn't
selling) Wayne checked in with me to see if it was still for sale after
about a year. This seems to me to be a small job that only needs
looking at every few months. I think the other part of job is posting
new instruments for sale.
We would also need to make sure people know where to find both the LL
and LFS lists - a few CC blitzes?, since people are used to going to
his Dartmouth site and it will be linked on places like the ELS site.
Nancy
I agree. Now that we are back on solid footing — Whew! We should not
piss off people like Wayne after all he has done. We should probably
not piss of anyone! — we can proceed.
What happens on the lute list that doesn't happen on Facebook or on
Danny Shoskes' site? Just curious.
What kind of curating does ithe lute list need to work well and be a
benefit? There is little point in setting one up if we don't have
someone dedicated to keeping it operating properly, not only from the
tech standpoint, but just as important, to keep nasty people off. The
same question applies to the Lutes for sale listings. At the very least
we need someone ready to take posts down when the seller has completed
the transaction.
I might see if Chris Henriksen can tell me if Bill Good would be good
for this kind of thing. He did not want to be a custodian, but maybe
this is more to his liking. Maybe Lyn Abissi will know someone. These
two were making great strides toward setting up a local chapter here in
Boston, but the pandemic knocked that out, as far as I know.
At the next Board meeting, hopefully this fall, maybe some of our new
Board members will either step up or know someone who could be asked.
Feeling relieved that we are on a better track with this.
Cathy
Catherine Liddell
President/Chairman of the Board
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On Sep 3, 2020, at 12:33 PM, LSA Editor <[2]lsaq.edi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I think we should go ahead and get a new lutelist and For Sale list
going so that we can harvest as many people as possible from the old
lists ASAP - before they go away. Wayne has not mentioned his archive
of all the old discussions on the lutelist and I am pretty sure from
the note below he will not be giving them to us or anyone else. I
think people do use that, but if he wants to keep it for himself,
that's fine. How about if I go ahead and start copying the text and
contacts from the For Sale list? Jerry says he can set up a new lute
list very quickly.
I think both the lutelist and the For Sale list have been around for so
long that there will be dead links for years bouncing toward Wayne's
old computers. I am less interested in the pictures because David van
Edwards has done a lot with pictures for the ELS. I have never looked
at his treatises - again it is less interesting.
Nancy
HI Cathy
Thanks for your thoughtful and carefully worded message. I guess I
was a little careless in the wording of my original message. My
intention was that someone, (perhaps the LSA), could start their own
list, using their own software and computers, and announce it on my
list when they were set up. Maybe that was what you folks meant, but I
got the impression that my input was required, and I am retiring and no
longer want to be involved in doing sysadmin work. The same goes for
the "lutes for sale" list. I would like to disconnect and turn off my
list completely and not leave anything hanging. In this case I would
not want any advertisements left on another web site, where the
advertisers might not know how to take their ad down. To be blunt, I
would not want people to say "Wayne had a great for sale site but
something changed and now he isn't doing such a great job anymore". It
would be great to the LSA to start its own great "lutes for sale" site.
My pages of lute pictures arranged by date were intended to show
people how the hand positions changed of the ages, but because I didn't
explicitly say that I don't think anyone got the message. Oh well. I
am sure that better pictures are available on the web now. The set of
treatises on hand position is worth saving, most everything else exists
to answer questions that people would email to me.
I am backing up my web sites, so nothing will be lost, and I may start
another web site in the future. But right now I am retiring, and there
are a lot of pieces to sort out and put away, and I apologize if that
makes me a little irritable!
Wayne
On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 8:29 AM LSA President
<[3]lutesocietyamericapresid...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Wayne,
The value you have added, the contribution you have made to the lute
world with all of the work you have put into the lute list, the links
to lute art, the lutes for sale and the TAB program over the years is
immeasurable. I suspect thousands have taken advantage of what you have
offered. Because of that, when you put out the announcement on the lute
list that you'd be retiring and the server would be shut down in a
month's time, a certain tidal wave of panic developed. "What will
happen to the lute list?" "How will we buy and sell our instruments?"
etc. Our minds quickly rushed to come up with a way to save all this
material. It all snowballed from there. This is a testimony to how
valuable what you have been offereing is seen to be.
I will confess that I was affected by the wording at the end of your
announcement, "If someone wants to take up running the lute mail list…"
because it seemed to open the door to run-away thinking on the part of
myself, and other LSA folk, some of whom have contacted you directly,
assuming, incorrectly it's now clear, that you were looking for a home
for at least some parts of your work.
I apologize profusely for this reaction on our part. We, I, should have
contacted you directly to ask what you were planning, and to offer to
be helpful in some way, rather than assume that of course you would
want your work to carry on. We have come off as pushy vultures, and
that is ugly and unbecoming of a society that tries to engender good
will and cooperation. We fail, sometimes, as we have here, but we do
try.
It does feel sad to me to read "I am retiring, and my projects will
retire with me." Of course that's your choice to make. Do I understand
correctly then, that you would have no objection if we followed the
leads in your email here, assuming we find the personnel to do so? This
would involve, as you describe:
1) setting up a lute list on our site, and announcing on your site that
people can migrate over to the one we set up.
2) contacting those with instruments to sell, asking them if they want
to continue on our site.
It is clear to us that it will make no sense to undertake either of
these efforts if we do not have someone to curate them properly.
I ask your forgiveness for our having come across like vultures. We
were trying to help, and did so badly.
All best wishes faithful lute lover!
Cathy
Catherine Liddell
President/Chairman of the Board
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On Sep 2, 2020, at 11:48 AM, Wayne Cripps <[5]w...@cs.dartmouth.edu>
wrote:
Dear Everyone
I am a bit bothered by what seems to me to be a "grab everything" approach to
my various lute related web projects on your parts. I am retiring, and my proje
cts will retire with me. The next person's job is to take over with their own p
roject, not to copy or clone mine. My projects are mine, they are not LSA proje
cts, even if I have been a member of the LSA in the past.
- the lute mail list runs on propriatary software. If you would like to start a
nd maintain a lute mail list there are many excellent packages out there. [6]gr
oups.io seems to be a good one. Once you have it set up you can announce it on
my list.
- Lutes For Sale - because people who advertise on my lutes for sale page expose
themselves to quite a bit of spam, it is important that they can contact
someon
e (me) to have their information removed as soon as possible. For this reason i
t would not be appropriate for you to copy the existing list. If you want to st
art your own list you could write to the advertisers on my list and ask them if
they would like to advertise on your list. Then they will have a connection wit
h you when it comes time to remove their posting.
- Lute Tablature - Sarge Gerbode has a very complete site for Renaissance music
in tablature, which certainly has all of the same music that my site has, given
that he has scraped my site. If I find a demand for my tablature I may start an
other site somewhere. You may have technical issues copying the tablature witho
ut some effort.
- Web pages - the fact is that anyone can copy anything off the web, but I do fe
el that my pages are my creation and work, and if someone simply clones it they
are not respecting that. (I must say here that Caroline Usher contributed quite
a lot in the early days.) Besides, the wayback machine has it all. The LSA
di
d once have a web site on my computer, but it was their site, and my site is my
site.
My feeling is also that in efforts like this, people are eager to jump in to
th
e project, but they don't tend to stick around. The lutes for sale project need
s constant maintenance and the mail list requires supervision.
Sincerely,
Wayne
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Nancy Carlin
Administrator & LSA Quarterly General Editor
Lute Society of America
PO Box 6499
Concord, CA 94524
925-686-5800
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Nancy Carlin
Administrator & LSA Quarterly General Editor
Lute Society of America
PO Box 6499
Concord, CA 94524
925-686-5800
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