In the summer semester 2020, when Europe faced the first wave of COVID-19, I was -- as many others -- confronted with a growing number of different online meetings. Bored by the repeated searches for meeting ids and passwords, I started Meety as a private project in May.
A few weeks later I told my friend and colleague Christopher Spinrath about the project, gave him access to the repository and asked for his opinion. Naive as I have been, I expected a simple feedback like "nice" (or "okay" at least). Instead, he reminded me on certain Python standards (PEP8, setuptools, ...) that I haven't been aware of. But he didn't stop at that point but rather took on and greatly improved the code -- and also started using Meety himself. Many thanks to Christopher also for help and advice on the preparation of application bundles.
Early on we wanted to open source Meety but due to a number of other tasks, we haven't found the time. Then, in October and November 2020, I started to rewrite large parts of Meety and to add many features. You can find the product in this repository.
--- Gaetano Geck
AUTHORS (in alphabetical order):
- Christopher Spinrath
- Gaetano Geck
Thanks also to
- Jonas Schmidt for helpful comments
- Andre Thevapalan for noting problems with outdated packages