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by Don Veino

Hi, Wondering if any of you offer a periodic or seasonal subscription to your dancers? If so, how is that priced relative to your standard admission? I'm guessing some form of discount is given, e.g.: a season of 26 dances is offered for the equivalent of, say, 20 dances or so? If you offer a sliding scale admission typically, do you offer subscriptions at different levels? And, on a practical basis, how do you administer such admissions at the entry table? Name list, token, etc? Thanks, Don Veino Monday Contras at the Concord, MA Scout House

2 weeks, 4 days

Archive poll

by Seth Seeger

Hi everyone, Thank you so much for this conversation! Here's an anonymous poll to fill out: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyhEx6t49BC-YZAQKJJaERELupEuViE_P… There is a separate poll for contra callers and musicians. (I thought that the content of the different lists may generate different answers.) Thank you, Seth

2 months, 1 week

List archives

by Seth Seeger

Dear list members, Since the beginning, the archives for this list have been public. This was an effort to make information easier to search, to find, to link to, and to share. However, the days of free information online have changed. AI bots are now scraping the web for data to train on and privacy is more of an issue. As we move to groups.io, Chris and I would like to make the archives private. The biggest reasons are member privacy and to protect us from AI training/scraping. This means that you’ll need a free account on the new site to view the archives. We feel this is a good change for our community. Since the only barrier to the archives would be subscribing, we think this is a reasonable trade off between privacy and accessibility. If you have concerns about this change, please reply! (Once we make the archives at groups.io <http://groups.io/> private, we cannot make them public again later.) Thank you, Seth & Chris

2 months, 1 week

Shared Weight moving to Groups.io

by Seth Seeger

Hi Folks, The admins of Shared Weight have some exciting news… Organizers (and all the other CDSS Shared Weight email lists) are moving to Groups.io! Groups.io is a more secure and stable mailing list platform, with less spam and fewer bounces. Also, there will be more useful features like a calendar, photos, files, wiki and more. The move will make much less work for our sysadmins, and will bring much more reliable email delivery. The existing archives will be coming along with us to the new site. The archive interface is a lot better than the old Mailman3 site and has better searching. All members and the archives will be automatically moved. You do not need to do anything (other than update the email address you send to once the move is complete). Once completed, the new address for this list will be: organizers(a)sharedweight.groups.io <mailto:GROUPNAME@sharedweight.groups.io> This move is financially supported by CDSS. We appreciate their involvement and support, and we could not do this without them. Please consider supporting CDSS. In addition, this new platform allows members to donate directly through groups.io <http://groups.io/> to help defray the hosting costs. (More on this once the migration is complete.) There will be another email with lots more details once the move has been completed. Seth & Chris

2 months, 1 week

Blog post: BIDA Band Booking

by Emma Azelborn

Hi All, BIDA has been thinking a lot about how to make our band booking process more transparent, predictable, and fair. I wrote up a blog post summarizing what we've come up with, and thought it might be of interest to folks on this list: https://blog.bidadance.org/2025/05/bida-band-booking-timing.html Emma Azelborn she/her

4 months, 1 week

Brooklyn Contra's organizer blog :)

by Emily Addison

Hey fellow organizers :) Just wanted to flag Brooklyn Contra's blog for y'all in case you hadn't heard about it. I'm really enjoying their posts a lot. Here's the latest on an argument for beautifying our dance halls: https://brooklyncontra.substack.com/p/make-it-cute-an-argument-for-beautiful This one really spoke to me I feel that the visual vibe of the hall adds a LOT to an event. You can actually sign up to get their blog posts sent to you via email. :) Emily in Ottaw

4 months, 2 weeks

Puttin' On The Dance 3 archive is live!!!!

by Emily Addison

Hey fellow organizers, Sharing this message on behalf of the POTD3 organizing team Thanks! Emily in Ottawa ====================================== Just a quick message to say that the archive of materials and photos from POTD3 (May 2-4 in Belfast Maine) has just gone live: https://www.puttinonthedance.org/potd3archive/ A big shout out to the archive team, facilitators and POTD3 participants for contributing to make the archive possible. Enjoy 🤗 Emily, Chrissy, Patty, & Lisa PS: Reminder that there are great archives from POTD1 and POTD2 as well!

4 months, 2 weeks

New Substack Post: Make it Cute Make It Cute: An Argument for Beautiful Contra Dance Halls

by Admin Team

Hi Y'all, Inspired by a post a few months back we've got a new Substack post up! Make It Cute: An Argument for Beautiful Contra Dance Halls, and How to Do It On the Cheap! <https://brooklyncontra.substack.com/p/make-it-cute-an-argument-for-beautiful> We hope its helpful to folks, and we'd love to hear more idea for low cost ways to make rental halls lovely! Thanks, Christin at Brooklyn Contra

5 months, 1 week

Tracking/Tracing Venmo Payments?

by Don Veino

Hi, We've been trying to figure out how to tie admission payments via Venmo to specific events. I'm not the account user so I'm only hearing this second hand or through web search, but we can create QR codes in Venmo with information encoded in them, e.g.: https://www.paypal.com/qrcodes/venmocs/be7ee836-3a9a-44c7-94e3-d6a1ae93b6b9… But I'm told when they are scanned, folks still need to key in the amount (despite it being encoded in the URL). And when payment comes through, there is no tie to a unique code that makes for easy attribution to a specific event. Are there any tricks others have found for doing this? It would be great if we can separate generic donations to our organization from event admission payments so we can properly credit them. This is something easily done in PayPal but folks don't seem to have the patience to use that tool and have asked for Venmo availability. Thanks in advance, Don

5 months, 4 weeks

📣LAST CALL: POTD3 registration closes April 15th!

by Emily Addison

Hi Shared Weight Organizers, Last notice about POTD3 :) See below! Thanks :) Emily ====================================================== Dear POTD email list members 🤗 This is a quick final reminder that Puttin' On The Dance 3 is happening soon in Belfast Maine! *🌟Registration closes **April 15th** at 11:59pm .🌟* We're super excited that there are so many folks who have never been to POTD who are participating this time around. The schedule is really coming together - we've got some fantastic sessions based upon community input and there's lots of space for the informal conversations as well. Plus some dancing of course! 🪅🪅🪅 *If you're available May 2-4 and would like to join us, check out the registration information: https://www.puttinonthedance.org/ <https://www.puttinonthedance.org/>* We even have a couple of scholarships left.) Cheering y'all on - So grateful that we're each doing our bit to bring joy to others and make the world a better place. ♥️♥️♥️ The POTD3 organizing team Emily Addison, Chrissy Fowler, and Patty Giavara -- puttinonthedance.org facebook.com/PuttinOnTheDance *You're on the POTD email list because we think you're interested in conferences for dance organizers. Let us know if you want your address removed. *

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