Automated meetup notifications?

[rwanyoike]

A nice enhancement to have would be automated meetup notifications.

Our meetups (@nairobilug) - every 1st Saturday of the month - are always announced late. If we could automate notifications* every ~30 days, I think turnout would be better.

* mailing list (email), twitter and irc. 👍

[urbanslug]

Hello @rwanyoike 😺 you would like for the bot to send tweets, email and notify on IRC once a month. On which day of the month? What about the time that this should take place?

I need a little more info.

[alanorth]

We know the meeting is on the first Saturday of the month, which you could get programatically—work backwards from there. I assume IRC is easiest (as it's an IRC bot afterall), so perhaps it could announce on IRC ten days before, seven days before, five days before, then three, two, one? :)

[urbanslug]

Nice 10, 7, 3,2,1.

It would be fun if we could make it send email and tweet over and above posting on IRC. But email to who? To a list of email addresses? To the mailing list?

[alanorth]

E-mail and tweet are harder... because those involve things that are not
IRC, and it's not like read-only fetching a web page that it's already
doing—it would have to use SMTP for sending mail, and then what username,
password, and server does it use? And who does it send to? Same questions
for tweeting. I don't think the IRC bot should send mail or tweet.

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Nice 10, 7, 3,2,1.

It would be fun if we could make it send email and tweet on top of IRC.
But email to who? To a list of email addresses? To the mailing list?

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[rwanyoike]

Sure, lets stick to irc. What do you think @urbanslug, make use of a timer library?

[urbanslug]

@alanorth Yeah, do one thing and do it well. Staying true to the Unix philosophy.
@rwanyoike Yeah, can be done 😸

[urbanslug]

To my surprise this isn't as easy to implement as I expected so I shall it shall take a while. See, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determination_of_the_day_of_the_week

[alanorth]

It's good to learn these things, HAHA!

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To my surprise this isn't as easy to implement as I expected so I shall it
shall take a while see,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determination_of_the_day_of_the_week

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[urbanslug]

I just thought that it could query the system date and use that to notify users. Why didn't this simple solution come to mind? 😺

[rwanyoike]

@urbanslug are you working on this? I set this repo up https://github.com/nairobilug/hello-notify - we should team up!

[urbanslug]

@rwanyoike Interesting that you should ask me about the support of another repo in this one. Uh, I could but the time. What about @oguya ? or @eebrah or @fredmanglis ? Let's see their code for once. 😺