[Tango-L] community - need insight

[jackie ling wong]

hey everyone,
i need your insight.

i have a regional calendar on my website to provide all the  
opportunities to dance in our community,  it covers one and half hours  
of driving in any direction.  it can also be a planning tool for  
organizers so that we don't step on each others toes.  there are  
rarely conflicts and those are usually worked out between the  
organizers by co-sponsoring an event, ect.  we have been a relatively  
happy community.

here's what has occurred recently.  setting  ...  two organizers (A  
and B) are 1 hour away from each other.  their communities cross  
pollenate.  one of the organizers (A) was the DJ for THE milonga in  
the other organizer's (B) community and was asked to take over as the  
host when that organizer (not A or B)left the country.  the other  
events in that city were given to a local person (B) to run.

organizer A has guest instructors come to their community to teach and  
they will also have them teach a workshop prior to this milonga.  what  
has happened is -  organizer B agreed to have a free event for  
pedestrian traffic on a night that the city sponsors free art and  
cultural events.  this happens once a month but on the night of the  
other organizer's milonga.  it ends right when the milonga begins and  
overlaps the workshops.  organizer B sent emails and has this event  
posted on the calendar.  (not just seeking pedestrian traffic in my  
opinion.)  Organizer B  is currently running two practicas every week  
(one with workshops), and one day of workshops and a new milonga every  
month.  so....

i know that this can be solved.  maybe i'm an optimist but the rest of  
us (other organizers) manage to play nice with one another.  i have a  
possible solution but i want your thoughts and insights also.  if you  
were organizer A, would you be upset?  how does your community work?

and if anyone thinks this is not tango related... you're wrong.  many  
tango communities have been ripped apart by this type of conflict.  
this affects the dancing.

jackie
www.tangopulse.net