Forró Events App
Dear Forró friends,
please share the Forró App with organisers and dancers,
- because that way, we can unite all Forró events in one place.
- because this makes it easier to join other Forró cities while travelling.
- because it helps our shared mission and that of the forrofederation.com to grow Forro together
- because with your financial support, we can implement useful features
Please share and ask the organisers in your city to add their events! 🙂
FAQ
Founding team:
In the Summer of 2022, Philipp (a Forró dancer from Munich) and his developer friends Paul and Jonas were inspired by the federation’s mission and generously offered to create the “Forró App,” through which we can unite all Forró Events into one community app. They even created an iframe that allows you to display your own events and all festivals on your website, and it will update automatically as events are added to the app.
Paul and Jonas developed all of this for free for the Forró Community even though they are not dancers.
At the beginning of 2024, Jonas and Paul decided they could no longer maintain the app for free, but they were so kind as to forward it to Daniel.
Current Team:
In September 2024 Daniel, Christian (both developers from munich) took over. Michael also from Munich updated the very old dependencies in October, Christian moved our backend from AWS to oracle in March 2025 through which we now don´t have any backend costs anymore. Donations will next be used to improve the app.
Current team:
Christian (Backend Developer)
Michael (Frontend/Backend Developer)
Daniel (Chief Vision Officer ;D)
Founding team:
Jonas (Backend Developer)
Paul (Frontend Developer)
Philipp (Project Manager)
Daniel (Forró Advisor)
info@forro-app.com
Yes you can!
Guide:
- Log in as an organiser and create some events
- Go to the start page of the app (where you see all upcoming events)
- Klick on the little (i) icon in the upper left corner
- Select the web plugin
- Select yourself as the organisor
- Choose the styling
- Click the „copy“ iframe button
- Go to your website (in this example WordPress)
- Navigate to the area where you want to have the events list
- Select the code block element
- Paste the code you copied in there
- Save and publish
- Done 🙂
(if it did now work, please email us, and we are happy to assist you in a video screen sharing call for free)
Sure we can! (And it’s completely free!)
The domain of it will be: www.forro-app.com/organisors/your-organisor-name
Please add your events to the app and let us know that we should create the link for you (email us info@forro-app.com)
We would love to create new features. Unfortunately, we don´t have funding to create new features. If you want a new feature, please reach out to us. With a donation of 500-1000€ I´m sure we can motivate someone to create your feature.
Log in to your account. Click on the account tab. Scroll to the bottom and click „Delete account.“
All your login, account and events data will be deleted.
If you need help send us an email at forro.events.app@gmail.com or contact@filora.eu.
If you don´t want to delete your account but want to delete some of your data, you can do so at any time in the app. Only your user name will be visible at any time. Your login data can only be deleted by deleting your account. Except for that, you can delete the rest of your data without deleting your account.
Please read „who created this app“ for the background story.
Content Development:
As the App is a big win for the Forró community and helps to unite and grow Forró, Daniel from the Forró Federation and other volunteers help to bring everyone on board.
IT Development:
The app is a win-win for the Forró community and the developers, as the Forró app is connected to the Filora app, another event platform that the developers like to grow. Also, we were lucky that this was their first project to build and test features, so we can grow with them together.
The app will always stay free for everyone.
In the future, there might be some premium features that organisors can use, like highlighting your events or selling event tickets easily.
To get automatically listed as a festival on the festival list of the Forró Federation, simply add the Hashtag #Festival to your event.
If you are logged in, please log out first. Then go back to the account tab and create a new business account. Only business accounts can create events.
First, you need to log in with your business account. (How to do that is explained in the question above)
Then go to the events tab and click the + sign at the bottom.
This is not autimatically build in yet, but you can create a .ics file (an event that people can add to their calendar) with this generator: https://www.terminsysteme.de/ics/, upload it to your google drive (make sure that it´s available to download for everybody) and add this link to the Forró app. That way, when people click on the link, they can download the event.ics file and add the event automatically to their calendar.
API Endpoint: https://api.dance-events-app.com/events/
Here are examples with the following filters:
– All events from the Forró app (filter_domain=forró)
– All events that start after 01.01.2023 (filter_start_date_gt=2023-01-01)
– All events that start before 01.01.2024 (filter_start_date_lt=2024-01-01)
– All events by location (location_distance=110000&location_point=11.74876,48.40351)
https://api.dance-events-app.com/events/?filter_domain=forr%C3%B3&location_distance=110000&location_point=11.74876,48.40351&filter_start_date_gt=2025-02-26&ordering=start_date
Here a list of all Filters:
Forró Map
Thanks you Forró Federation for providing this amazing Forró Map where all Forró Citys, Organisors, Traveling Teachers, Festivals & Musicians are listed.