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SCVSDA General Dance Program

Scheduling: Objectives, Constraints, and Guidelines

Objectives

First, some scheduling objectives relating directly to the purposes of this project:

Constraints

At the same time, we need to take into account some constraints relating to other dance activities. It is NOT the purpose of this project to replace or interfere with Plus or any other dance program. We neither want to actually interfere with them nor to be seen as interfering with them. And we very much want people who dance Plus and higher programs to feel welcome at our dances and support them. Of course with so much already going on it's simply not possible to schedule any new dance in a way that won't in some sense be in competition with something else somehow related to square dancing somewhere, but hopefully we can come up with guidelines which minimize that.

Some things that we probably don't need to consider as constraints:

Guidelines

It will likely be impossible to avoid all of the kinds of conflicts that we would like to avoid while still maintaining a schedule of at least one dance per month. To minimize this problem, we can: