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About Tango Central What is Tango Central? Tango Central is an enthusiast's contribution to the tango community. At launch, Tango Central is simply a tango events diary - a single place where you can see what's going on in the world of tango without having to trawl the web for information. Developing the site In time, we may add other features to this website. You can get an idea of the development potential if you take a look at our other dance-related website www.salsakernow.com - the salsa site has been running for years now and has quite a substantial following - and that's the key - the more visitors we get to the tango site the more it's development is justified. From previous experience, we know that the Diary is the most important feature - so that's where we're starting. If you have any requests or comments please get in touch! What's in it for the site owner? I would like to stress that this is a not-for-profit service. I have no plans to run tango events or classes - so in providing this website I am adopting a completely neutral and non-competitive role! Any tango event organisors who find this service of real value and feel the need to make a contribution are free to send me free tickets to their event! (You don't get anything without asking!) - click here for my contact info. What prompted the site? I have been unable to find a website that provides all the event information I need to ensure I don't miss anything! (If you know of one I probably don'tr want to hear about it as this site has taken hours of work so far!!). So this site is primarily for my own benefit - if others find it useful then that's a good spin-off! And as an organisor of dance events and classes for the other dance in my life I know how important it is for organisors to see at a glance what else is going on so they can avoid diary clashes. Who gets to put information on the site? I'll contact as many event and class organisors as possible to tell them how to add their information to the website (there's a simple online form that puts the event information straight into our database). But I also encourage anyone with knowledge of an event to submit an entry via the same online form. If you notice an entry in the diary that is incorrect you can email me to let me know what needs changing. (Don't you just love the democracy of this thing?) How will we ensure the information in the Diary is correct? We wondered about that too... When anyone submits an event item for the Diary the information goes into our Diary database but it doesn't go online immediately - I get an email to say the entry has been submitted and I have to approve the submission before it goes live. Before I switch the item on for public view I'll check the content and, if I'm not confident about the submission, I'll email the organisor. If the submission clearly comes from the organisor then it's most likely to be switched on without further checking. I can't offer a guarantee that all the information in the diary is accurate or up-to-date so users are encouraged to check with the event organisor to make sure the event is going ahead. Other services If organisors want to promote an event by placing a banner onto the Tango Central website they can contact me and I'll arrange it. The cost is a paltry £25 per week - check out www.salsakernow.com to see the banner facility at work. And finally... Because I live in the South West of the UK you can expect that the Diary will (initially) contain most information for this region. Over time we should get a wider feed of event information for other areas - your help in adding events is eagerly requested - I would rather have six people submit the same event and then have to sift through the information than not hear about those events! So if you know there's a practica happening in a little outback town in the Himalayas please submit an entry - someone will be interested to hear about it! Thanks Ian