The SF Lindy Hop Calendar is a community-maintained store of information about local swing dance events, venues and personalities. It is designed to be intuitive to use and with a philosophy of automating common tasks for those posting event information.
If you just want to view the calendar, then no, you don't need an account. If, however, you want to post event information, you'll need to register. Registering will also allow you to save your site preferences between site visits.
Click the "Sign-in/Register" link at the top right of any page and follow the prompts. You will need a valid email address to register, and all your activities on the site will be linked to this email address. We do not currently support user-chosen usernames.
No, at least not yet. We are working on implementing this
There are two basic calendar views: Week (the default) and Month. The top header sections of each view contains navigation links to access the next and previous week or month. You can click on any event to view details about that event (the Event View) and you can follow links on that page to view information about Locations and People associated with that event.
Click either of the "Settings" links to access your personal settings page. There is one link to this page at the top left of the Week and Month View headers. Another link to this page appears in the upper left login section of the page, whenever you are currently logged in.
Once on the Settings Page you can change various options such as the your default calendar view or which geographical regions to include on the calendar. Click the "Save" button to confirm the changes, and your settings will be remembered when you log on next time.
In the top-right of the calendar header, there will be a "Month" or "Week" which you can click to temporarily switch the calendar view. You can also click the "Settings" to access the page where you can set you preferred calendar view to "Month" or "Week", which be remembered the next time you log into the site.
Yes. On the Settings page (see above), check the boxes for event regions you want to display on the calendar. By default, only events in the direct vicinity of San Francisco are included in the calendar display.
Not yet, but we've designed the calendar database with search in mind, and we are currently working on some powerful ways to find the information you're looking for.
Yes! Sign up for the SFSwing Yahoo! Groups email list, and you will automatically receive updates about events posted to our calendar.
Yes! There is no charge to view or post information to the calendar, and that's the way it always will be.
If you want to support the site, we accept donations (info coming soon), or consider purchasing a banner ad.
Yes. To add information to the calendar, you need to register with a valid email address. Click the "Sign In" link at the top left of the page, near the logo, to begin registering. All information that you enter into the calendar is tied to this email address.
If you want to be able to auto-post event information to the SFSwing Yahoo! Groups email list, the email you register with must have permission to post to the group. These permissions are handled externally at the Yahoo! Groups website.
There are separate editing forms for adding Event, Venue, People or Link information to the calendar. The two main ways to access these forms are:
Click on one of these links to bring up the appropriate editing form in "add" mode. When you've finished entering the new information, be sure to click the "Save" button to store the new information.
The editing forms are the same as those used to add events. Links to the editing forms only appear if you have permission to edit the record in question. If you own the record, but don't see the editing link, check to make sure you're logged in. You can access the editing forms for a record from two spots:
Change any information on the editing form as appropriate, and remember to click "Save" to store your changes.
Every sflindyhop.com event, venue and people record has an administration section with a "primary owners" field. You can enter a line separated list of email address for registered sflindyhop.com users who are allowed to edit or delete your event. This permissions list is record specific. Currently there is no way to set up a list of people who can edit ALL your posted information, although this is on the to-do list.
On the event editing form, set the Occurrence field to "Once" and enter the date of the event.
On the event editing form, set the Occurrence field to "Recurring". After a moment, the editing form updates itself with fields to accept the recurring dates description. Hover the mouse pointer over the Help Bubbles next to the "When" field to display the valid formats for entering recurring dates.
| English formats | Recipes for multiple-weekdays every week | Recipes for Nth and Mth day-of-week every month |
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| NOTE: "every 2nd Wednesday" means something different from "2nd Wednesday of every month" |
NOTE: Use "every 2nd monday" if your schedule does not respect month boundaries. |
After saving the event, check the month or week view of the calendar to see that your recurring event shows up correctly. Sometimes wording subtleties may cause the recurring event dates to be misinterpretted; in that case simply use the event editing form to adjust the recurrence description.
You probably meant to use a slightly different syntax: "1st <dayofweek> of every month". Note the omission of the leading "every". Consider that the phrase "every 2nd <dayofweek>" means "every other <dayofweek>" and ignores month boundaries.
If your regularly occuring event has a special occasion (one-time cancellation, special performances, etc), it's simple to override a single date of that recurring event. First browse to the event description for the specific date from the Week or Month calendar view. If you have editing priviledges for the event, you'll see a link to "Override this Event for..." link, next to the Edit link at the top right of the viewing page. Click that link to bring up the editing form.
Changes you make to the overriding event record will only affect that specific date. Other dates in the series will not be affected.
On the event editing form, select the venue for the event from the Location drop-down menu. If the location is not listed, click the Add button to temporarily save the event form values and bring up the venue editing form. When you finish entering the new venue information, you'll be returned to the event editing form and any form values you had already entered will be restored.
You can also add venue information directly, as described in the Adding Information To The Calendar Section.
Once you enter venue information, it is stored and available for reuse by you and other event posters. If several events are held at the same location, the venue information only needs to be entered once!
On the event editing form, select the Bands, DJs, Instructors and Performers for the event from the appropriate menu. You can select multiple performers for each field (Ctrl- or Shift-Click on Windows). If the person is not listed, click the Add button to temporarily save the event form values and bring up the People record editing form. When you finish entering the new information, you'll be returned to the event editing form and any form values you had already entered will be restored.
You can also add People information directly, as described in the Adding Information To The Calendar Section.
Once you enter People information, it is stored and available for reuse by you and other event posters. If several events are using the same people, the information only needs to be entered once!
No. The contact information fields are meant to be tied to the specific event, venue or person and in general should be different from each other:
Event: the person(s) running or organizing the event
Venue: the person(s) in charge of booking for that venue
Bands/DJs/Instructors/Performers: the person(s) in charge of hiring these performers
The idea is that other event organizers can have info for booking venues and performer at their disposal.
URLs entered into the URL field of event, venue and people records are automatically added to our Links Page, so you don't have to specifically add links for these types of websites.
For all other links, you can use the "Add Link" form accessed by clicking the "Create New Link" link on the Links Page or on the Links Pager.
The auto-post feature of the sflindyhop.com calendar allows you to enter your event information in one place (sflindyhop.com), and have it automatically posted to other relevant swing and lindy hop discussion boards, email lists and external calendars. Currently there is support for auto-posting to the SwingTalk message board and sfswing email list, although we will soon be adding support for Google Calendar, Lindylist.com and RSS feeds.
The auto-post features are located at the bottom of the event editing form. In general, you check a box for the auto-post feature that you want to enable, and when you click "Save" the information will be sent to the corresponding site or email list. The auto-post format will resemble the event listing format on sflindyhop.com, with adjustments for site or list specific features.
Currently, auto-posting only happens on when you initially add and save your event, i.e. if you edit and save the event, it will not be reposted, even if the auto-post box is checked. This means that if your event information changes, you will need to manually edit or repost the correct information to places where you have auto-posted. We are working on a way to automatically update or append to auto-posted information.
Recurring events are only posted once, during the initial addition of the event; they are not posted for individual occurrences of the event. We are working on a way to automate this.
Most auto-post features have an associated optional header and footer field. Text you enter in these fields will be added to the beginning and end of the auto-post to add some customization for the particular auto-post site.
Site-specific auto-post considerations are noted below.
You will need to enter a valid SwingTalk username and password to auto-post to the SwingTalk message board. Your post will posted using this username in the Local Events forum. We do not store your username or password.
Because the topic is posted using your username, you can click the "Edit" button on the original post to make changes to it. This is useful to add SwingTalk specific formatting, or to update information about your event.
Auto-posts to sfswing are emailed directly to the Yahoo! Group using your login email address. The user must be a registered member of the sfswing Yahoo! Group, and the login email address must be one of the verified addresses for that user. For this reason, users intending to use the sfswing auto-post feature should make sure to either register at sflindyhop.com using a Yahoo! validated address or proceed to validate their sflindyhop.com login email address at the Yahoo! website.