Problem. Online meetings provide a useful means to communicate with others. With an increasing number of meetings, however, it can get difficult to remember or pick the right meeting location, user id, password and so on.
Goal. Meety aims to provide a quick and easy way to start the right online meeting from a list of predefined meetings. Meetings are defined in YAML, a clean and simple format that is well readable for humans and machines alike. Thus, you can
- view and edit the meetings with your favourite text editor and
- sensibly share them with other users, even if they don't use Meety. (Think of conferences, lectures, ...)
Features. Meety can can load meetings from one or multiple YAML files. The meetings can be filtered by time preferences and/or keywords. After choosing a meeting, Meety will try to connect to it based on the information the meeting provides.
Out of the box, Meety supports meetings via the browser and via the Zoom app. However, the application can easily be configured to handle other types of meetings too, as described in the documentation.
Meety ships with a graphical user interface (program meety) and with a command line interface (program cmeety).
Meetings are specified in YAML and may look like this.
# FIRST MEETING (Coffee round with colleagues, every morning)
- name: Coffee
zoom-url: https://zoom.us/j/123456789
prefer: Monday to Friday, 9 to 10 o'clock
# short format for time specifications (also for other languages)
# SECOND MEETING (lecture, each Tuesday and Thursday)
- name: My favourite lecture
url: https://my-university.edu/my-fav-lecture
prefer:
- weekday: Tuesday
time: 12:00 - 14:00
date: 2020-10-01 - 2021-03-31
- weekday: Thursday
time: 14:00 - 16:00
date: 2020-10-01 - 2021-03-31
# explicit format for time specifications (also for other languages)
# THIRD MEETING (without time preferences)
- name: Another meeting
zoom-id: 987-654-321
More information can be found in the extended README on GitHub.