I think this is a great idea, and the main non-technical limitation is writing to lots of callers to get their permission to include their dances. Several people have proposed something similar, but the actual work of checking with lots of callers has been too daunting.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Maia McCormick via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently in programming school casting about for programming projects, > and I had the idea of a giant searchable contradance database, where you can > filter by move combination, etc. > > My question: is this something people would be interested in having? Or does > it run the risk of infringing on intellectual property, or shortchanging > dance writers on book sales, etc.? (Obviously no dances would be included > without the author's permission, but it may be that making a huge ton of > dances freely available and searchable in one place online would be a death > blow to published books of dances, or have some other negative effect I'm > not foreseeing right now...) > > Anyway: does anyone have any thoughts on this project? > > Cheers, > Maia > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > Callers@lists.sharedweight.net > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net > _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers@lists.sharedweight.net http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net
