Motivation

The project began as an attempt to simplify the updating of "Tango This Week In Singapore" Facebook Group (hence the TTWIS name)

Singapore's social tango scene has many independent tango event producers (which is a good thing), but with this bonanza comes the complexity of keeping track of what is happening, and sometimes people forget about an event that is about to happen, or timeslots are double-booked (which is not so good):

• Many producers do not have a permanent venue, the location of events are also frequently changing as opportunities to use a space appear.

• Organisers post their event announcements on Facebook, but sometimes forget to include address, price, contact information etc.

• When tango tourists come to Singapore, they wish to consult a schedule which may be several weeks in the future.

Only if the community has someone with deep knowledge of everything happening in the scene, and the time and energy to organise that information -- like Singapore and Don Ferrin -- , we get:

• a clean summary of each week's schedule
• the missing information fact-checked,
• incoming visitors can get authoritative answers.

Looking at the wider communities, most of the active tango cities in Asia have very similar problems regarding their community-wide social tango calendars. In Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, someone in those communities has stepped up to compile the data, and post that schedule for the benefit of others.

Perhaps a better way forward is to use smarter software to automate the process? We would like to explore this.