www.thedecemberseason.com

rithvikraja · Post by **rithvikraja** » 20 Nov 2009, 15:28

www.thedecemberseason.com is a one of a kind website, launched specially for Chennai's special Music festival in December.

This is a free support website that offers concert schedules, transport rates, personalized calendars, sabha venue directions, and recommendations for accommodation and restaurants, to aid rasikas, artistes, students and connoisseurs of Music to get a comprehensive view of the December Kutcheri Season. On the whole, www.thedecemberseason.com is a virtual travel tour of Chennai to help the user enjoy a peaceful and serene time amidst the frenzied December Season.

This website will be launched at 18:00 IST (Indian Standard Time)

Please see this link for a detailed preview of www.thedecemberseason.com

http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/11/20/stor ... 010400.htm

Thanks

Regards

Rithvik Raja

gavats · Post by **gavats** » 21 Nov 2009, 08:06

looks very good Rithivik...
but I dont see the schedules for MFAC (Mylapore Fine arts Club), Nungambakam Cultural Academy, Brahma Gana sabha, Parthasarathy Swami Sabha etc.....

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 21 Nov 2009, 11:22

Good work Rithivik. The web site contains very useful info and it is quite easy to navigate.

rithvikraja · Post by **rithvikraja** » 21 Nov 2009, 21:59

@ Vasanthakokilam - Thank you so much for your support! Glad to be of use

@ gavats - Thank you! We are still uploading the schedules of all the sabhas that you've mentioned and they will all be up by the 24th moring (Tuesday morning) Thanks once again for your support

Rithvik Raja

kedharam · Post by **kedharam** » 21 Nov 2009, 22:57

thanks for the holy season bible...

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 21 Nov 2009, 23:05

rithvik,
very useful website; thanks a lot.

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 22 Nov 2009, 08:22

Very user-friendly. Nice work, Rithvik!

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 22 Nov 2009, 09:11

A great effort, Rithvik. Thank you!

rithvikraja · Post by **rithvikraja** » 22 Nov 2009, 12:28

Thanks to all of you for your support. This is not just my effort but a collective one by a group of us in bringing out this website exclusively for the december season.

@ Kedharam - Haha! thanks! Season is our target but we're also looking to maybe expand it after the season.

@ Punarvasu, bilahari, prashant - Thanks so much for your appreciation and support. We are still bringing in some changes, adding a few schedules and tweaking it a bit... please let me know if you find any bugs... Thanks all for your support

Rithvik Raja

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 23 Nov 2009, 00:36

Good work.

Nice to see you are listing accompanists, at least for some programs. I guess the information is not available for all.

Whilst we have Ram's wonderful listing, and, more recently, the Rasikas.net calendar, it certainly would do not harm if your site became Channai-all-year!

jimihendrix · Post by **jimihendrix** » 23 Nov 2009, 01:07

Great work rithvik. Commendable work. Keep the good work going.

vkr85 · Post by **vkr85** » 23 Nov 2009, 04:24

Hi all,

theDecemberSeason.com team has updated the website and they can now be followed via Facebook and Twitter to stay posted for updates to the site. Please see the connections section on the home page.

Please send any feedback to [email protected].

Thank you,

On behalf of theDecemberSeason.com team.

ram · Post by **ram** » 23 Nov 2009, 08:45

Rithvik,

Really commendable work. Kudos to you and the team behind this.

Ram

rithvikraja · Post by **rithvikraja** » 23 Nov 2009, 10:06

@ nick H - Thank you. We have entered the accompanists for all those that we received. We might be looking at expanding this into a yearly calendar website as well.
@ jimihendrix - Thank you for your support.
@ Ram - Thank you once again.

We are still updating and adding a few other major sabha schedules and they should be up by tomorrow morning.

Please check in to view the list of other sabhas

Thank you

On behalf of theDecemberSeason.com team.

sumathibhuvarahan · Post by **sumathibhuvarahan** » 23 Nov 2009, 13:18

While you are at it could you also fix the photograph of Ms Harini Ramakrishnan on the YACM home page?

http://www.yacm.in/ec.html

Thanks.

rithvikraja · Post by **rithvikraja** » 24 Nov 2009, 15:21

@ sumathibhuvarahan

Sure

I shall look into it asap

Thank you

rithvikraja · Post by **rithvikraja** » 24 Nov 2009, 23:46

@ rbharath - Thank you so much!

karthikbala · Post by **karthikbala** » 25 Nov 2009, 11:44

The schedule seems to be mixing 2008 season with 2009
For instance, BVB listing shows Charulatha Mani's concert on 8th December, whereas it should be 7th December

saadhyaa · Post by **saadhyaa** » 25 Nov 2009, 16:35

well done rirhvikraja...keep up your good work....

saadhyaa

kamalamba · Post by **kamalamba** » 25 Nov 2009, 16:38

Rithvik, this website you created is fantastic; look forward to your concerts as well
cheers
Kamalamba

Yazh · Post by **Yazh** » 26 Nov 2009, 06:55

Thanks Rithvik. Appreciate all that you are doing for cause of Carnatic Music

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 26 Nov 2009, 22:09

Rithvik:

I have a few suggestions for you.

1) In the main schedule page and search results page, under location, make the name of the sabha a clickable link, like you have done for the physical location. For example, Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan will point to http://www.thedecemberseason.com/schedu ... =10&vid=10

2) Have a Search button at the main page at the same level as Home, Schedule, Venues, Dining & Lodging, About. You already have the search feature under Schedules but it will be good to put it at the Home page since people expect it to be there.

3) Can you look into creating a column for each concert for review links for that concert? You can update them over time. The links can include links to newspaper reviews like Hindu and website reviews like rasikas.org . Keep space for 3 or 4 links along with a 'more' button if there are more review links.

rajaglan · Post by **rajaglan** » 02 Dec 2009, 09:54

rithvikraja wrote:@ rajagllan - Very nice suggestion sir.

We are discussing the possibilities of including and embedding such a search on our website.

We should be able to get this to you ASAP

Thanks for your support

Regards

Rithvik Raja

- On Behalf Of www.thedecemberseason.com

Thank you.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 03 Dec 2009, 07:07

Are booklets that show the various sabha programmes available for purchase?

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 04 Dec 2009, 02:11

Here's a constructive criticism...

Have you tried printing off lists of schedules. For a start, one gets an almost blank page which is the basic page frame (I don't use this as a technical term, and if that is what it is then it is happy coincidence: I do not speak html!). Sites that do this a really annoying!

I may be asking a bit much for this year, but could you build a "Printer-friendly view" button into the schedule displays, and anything else that is useful to quickly transfer to paper as one rushes out the door to a concert!

Do not limit your thinking to the screen view!

EDIT... Here's another one, on-screen this time...

repeat the first/previous/page number/next/last controls at the bottom of the listings pages: most of the time one wants 'next', that's where one will be!

.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 04 Dec 2009, 03:06

Nick: I thought printfriendly.com may come in handy in the mean time ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOYKL7KY ... r_embedded ) but did not quite work nicely for me. May be you can give it a try.

Rithvik can spin some CSS magic and make it printfriendly natively.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 05 Dec 2009, 08:31

Hi, since I plan to be in chennai next weekend for 5 days, I tried copy-pasting from the schedules given-choosing the cutcheris I would want to attend; but the last column(venue) did not get saved, in the word programme. I tried typing it in the first column; somehow all the details did not appear. I do not know how to adjust.
Anyway, it was a great help.Thanks.

ShrutiLaya · Post by **ShrutiLaya** » 07 Dec 2009, 23:28

First of all, great job! This is a marvelous resource. I do wish you would continue this after the season too, because it is so hard to find information about concerts if you are on a short visit to Chennai (as happened to me recently, I was on a 1 week business trip from the US)

Now to my suggestion, which will probably give many here apoplexy. From the point of view of music organizers from outside India, it would be very helpful if you can create a list of artists, along with a "score" of how many concerts they played at during the season, or atleast a list of venues/times. This will help when we are approached by a relatively unknown (to us, due to our ignorance!) artist; By using this score, we defer judgement to the far more knowledgeable folk in charge of arranging events at these sabhas. This can be done after the season, if you wish.

If you feel queazy about creating such a score, note that (1) this is probably done informally by those in the "know" anyway and (2) now that you've shown the way, others will probably come up with similar sites and similar ideas next year; and as the first one to do this seriously, this will be your chance to mark this as your own (the DecemberSeasonCom score or DSC score)!

Once again, this is obviously not a judgement of the artists by you, but an aggregate of the judgements of many music sabhas; and not necessarily of artistic talent, but of popularity at this time. And it would help discover upcoming artists faster, and get them more opportunities to perform away from Chennai.

- Sreenadh

Sundara Rajan · Post by **Sundara Rajan** » 08 Dec 2009, 06:17

I plan to be in Tamil Nadu beween Jan 02 and Feb 02,2010 to attend a wedding in Tiruchi on Jan 21,2010. I used the information available through "Kutcheribuzz" and have "jotted" down the programs in Chennai till Jan 06,2010 and then on to Madurai for Sathguru Samajam concerts till Jan 13,2010. Thus it is possible to plan , if only for a few days, without downloading directly from the respective sites.

ragool · Post by **ragool** » 08 Dec 2009, 12:13

Very nice format for decemberseason website. Lots of useful information presented neatly - except that I'm having difficulty locating the contact numbers for the various Sabhas - you only list the contact nos of the hall not the organizer that sells tickets. Did you give a thought to how non-chennai residents can locate the ticket seller and buy tickets before coming to Chennai? I think not. If you can fulfill this requirements you will fulfill a main advantage potential of the Internet that is often overlooked. That is how to provide information that is of practical use to somebody not just casual browsers.

Regards

rithvikraja · Post by **rithvikraja** » 10 Dec 2009, 00:54

Hi all,

Sorry for the delay in responding to all your posts.

@ Punarvasu - I guess they are available at Nalli outlets but why would you need it when u have the same thing available online!

@ nick H - Thank you for your valuable suggestions. We are discussing them and shall bring in changes as soon as possible.

@ Vasanthakokilam - haha! hope we can come up with something where all of u can print schedules and take it along too.

@ Punarvasu - We are working on something that will facilitate your interest soon.

@ ShrutiLaya - If what you are looking for is the number of cocerts artistes have performed, if you search for their name, then the search will automatically give you the number of concerts that they have performed. If this is not it, then can you clarify? Thanks

@ Sundara Rajan - Thanks for that useful piece of information.

@ ragool - Thanks for your wishes. We shall work that out soon too. And if i'm not mistaken, some numbers are there on the organizations link. We shall update numbers of few more soon.

Thanks all for your interest.

Please keep such feedback coming in.

Regards

Rithvik Raja

- On behalf of thedecemberseason.com team

Sundara Rajan · Post by **Sundara Rajan** » 11 Dec 2009, 00:36

How about adding the few concerts scheduled for the period after Jan 02,2010 ? There may be a few like me interested in the information. Thanks.

vkr85 · Post by **vkr85** » 11 Dec 2009, 06:34

Hi all,

Thanks for all your suggestions...do keep them coming. We are continuing to update the features of the site and are constantly adding more schedules as we receive them. We have added a print functionality for the schedule displays on the Home and Schedule pages. This will enable you to print just the programs that are displayed on the page.

Thanks again for your support.

Regards,

-theDecemberSeason.com Team

Gamakam · Post by **Gamakam** » 11 Dec 2009, 15:43

I had written a post on website, I have included this site too: http://carnaticmusicreview.wordpress.co ... ndar-2009/

ShrutiLaya · Post by **ShrutiLaya** » 12 Dec 2009, 09:14

rithvikraja wrote:

@ ShrutiLaya - If what you are looking for is the number of cocerts artistes have performed, if you search for their name, then the search will automatically give you the number of concerts that they have performed. If this is not it, then can you clarify? Thanks

Well, something like that. First, if I search for an artist, I can only find the number of concerts he/she is yet to perform, not all concerts in the whole season; More importantly, the idea is to find lesser known artists who have performed this season, so one cannot be typing in the names of each artist to find this. I'm asking for a table of Artist Vs. Number of concerts, or some weighted score (music academy concert counting for more than a local concert etc.,)

- Sreenadh

vmr · Post by **vmr** » 15 Dec 2009, 11:57

Hi Friends,

In one of the threads I had seen the broadcast schedule of concerts over AIR Chennai ( starting Dec 19 ) about 4-5 days back.I am not able to get the same now.Can any of rasika friends help me in getting the schedule once again please.....

Shalu · Post by **Shalu** » 15 Dec 2009, 17:08

Great job done rithvik..truly appreciate your commitment to this...keep it going, taking the tons of feedback which is going to make it even better