DanceCompetitionHelper

Helper for Dance Competiton Organizers and Volunteers

Purpose of this project

I am a amateur dancer for competitive ballroom dancing in Austria. Sometimes I do volunteer at competions sites as IT support for calculating the results of the compuetions (scrutineer). During my work - over the last 10 years - I was facing some major "issues" where organizer and volunteers always struggle with:

• (class) winners ¹ and "promoted couples" ² dancing in a higher class
• Time-Table of a competition

This projects aim is to privide an "easy" to use software where roganizer and volunteers are able to get these information out of lists of staring participants.

Competition organization in Austria

The Österreichicher TanzSport Verband (ÖTSV) is "the head" organization of competitive ballroom dancesport in Austria and member of WDSF. In Austria its common that a club request a competition with a various number of classes (age, classification, etc.). If accepted, couples who are member of ÖTSV (by joining a club which is member of ÖTSV) are able to register via ÖTSV to participate at this competition. When the registration is closed - in common 10 days before the competition - the club who is in charge of the competition needs to create at least a time-schedule for the participants. This is done based on the registration counts by starting class. Because the count of couples differ at each competition (based on possible classes, location, etc.) it is always a different story.

In other countries it is common that the time-schedule is needed as acceptence criteria for a competition registration.

Technical base

• C# dotNet core 8.0 - Win & Linux (x64 each)
• ASP.NET Core-Web SDK for HTTP interfaces
• Entity Framework 7 - SQLite
• MigraDoc for PDFs
• NUnit
• req'n'roll (R.I.P: SpecFlow :/)

Folder struct

- docs  -> documentation for this project
- src   -> code of software projects
- test  -> test of software projects

EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Some info about this software according to EU-GDPR. This software is supposted to work with folloing information.

Participants List/Start numbers

• Full Name (First-, Middle-, Last-Name) or parts of it for the participants lists
• Name (or Parts) of club or organization the participant is member of
• Nationality of participants and club/organizations ("available" via addresses)
• Address/Location of the competition

Time Schedule

• Nationality of club/organizations ("available" via addresses)
• Address/Location of the competition

Please note

It is not designed to work with adresses of participants at all. But it does not check if the imported or entered data contains parts of addresses or other personal data.

Contribute

If you like to help on this project, please check CONTRIBUTING, create an issue and a branch.

Changelog

Noticable changes are described in the CHANGELOG.

Thanks to

following sources helped to get this project "on track":

• Österreichicher TanzSport Verband (ÖTSV): Docu, API
• WDSF: Docu
• USA Dance: Docu

License

See the LICENSE file for license rights and limitations (MIT).

Footnotes

1. in austria it's possible that the winner is allowed to dance in the next/higher competitive classifications ↩

2. cuple accumulated enough points to compete in the next/higher competitive classifications ↩