From merwok at netwok.org Sun Dec 2 08:01:34 2012 From: merwok at netwok.org (=?UTF-8?B?w4lyaWMgQXJhdWpv?=) Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 02:01:34 -0500 Subject: [group-organizers] Script to announce events Message-ID: <50BAFCCE.10607@netwok.org> Hello everyone, I?m a Python core developer and a member of the Montr?al-Python organization team. I heard about this list at PyCon Canada thanks to Jessica McKellar and I just subscribed. I?m looking forward to discuss about community building and learn things! In this first message, I would like to ask if any of you are using some tool to automate sending announcements to various systems. For our monthly meetings, we end up doing these things manually: - send bilingual email to our mailing list - add markup to that text, remove greetings and publish it to our blog as two posts - post a short blurb with a link on our LinkedIn group - post a short blurb with a link on our Facebook page - post a shorter blurb and link on our Twitter account - update our Google calendar - update Free Software calendar (a website) I?m sure other user groups do something similar. Do you automate these tasks, and if yes, using what tool? Thanks! From ned at nedbatchelder.com Fri Dec 7 16:04:12 2012 From: ned at nedbatchelder.com (Ned Batchelder) Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:04:12 -0500 Subject: [group-organizers] Script to announce events In-Reply-To: <50BAFCCE.10607@netwok.org> References: <50BAFCCE.10607@netwok.org> Message-ID: <50C2056C.1050803@nedbatchelder.com> On 12/2/2012 2:01 AM, ?ric Araujo wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I?m a Python core developer and a member of the Montr?al-Python > organization team. I heard about this list at PyCon Canada thanks to > Jessica McKellar and I just subscribed. I?m looking forward to discuss > about community building and learn things! > > In this first message, I would like to ask if any of you are using some > tool to automate sending announcements to various systems. For our > monthly meetings, we end up doing these things manually: > - send bilingual email to our mailing list > - add markup to that text, remove greetings and publish it to our blog > as two posts > - post a short blurb with a link on our LinkedIn group > - post a short blurb with a link on our Facebook page > - post a shorter blurb and link on our Twitter account > - update our Google calendar > - update Free Software calendar (a website) > > I?m sure other user groups do something similar. Do you automate these > tasks, and if yes, using what tool? At Boston Python, we use meetup.com almost exclusively. We have a twitter account, but we don't even reliably announce our events on it (we should...). We don't have a Facebook page, or our own blog, etc. The work we do is fairly manual. The one automation tool we have is to reserve space at our regular venue, Microsoft NERD, which wants us to reserve space using a web form, so a fellow organizer automated that. --Ned. > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > Group-Organizers mailing list > Group-Organizers at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers From francois.dion at gmail.com Fri Dec 7 16:40:52 2012 From: francois.dion at gmail.com (Francois Dion) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:40:52 -0500 Subject: [group-organizers] Script to announce events In-Reply-To: <50BAFCCE.10607@netwok.org> References: <50BAFCCE.10607@netwok.org> Message-ID: On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 2:01 AM, ?ric Araujo wrote: > In this first message, I would like to ask if any of you are using some > tool to automate sending announcements to various systems. For our > monthly meetings, we end up doing these things manually: > - send bilingual email to our mailing list > - add markup to that text, remove greetings and publish it to our blog > as two posts ?ric, I do something similar up to this point with PYPTUG ( http://www.pyptug.org ). We have a mailing list on google groups and the website itself is a blog. I was thinking of doing a script email to blog (you cc the account) initially but I'm thinking of doing the opposite. Run a script that will check for new content on the blog, and if so, convert to plain text and email to google group. Another option is to subscribe your mailing list to your blog through feedburner, but then it is html emails. I'm still not 100% sure which way to go. I also link from my personal blog to the PYPTUG blog for workshops and monthly meetings. > - post a short blurb with a link on our LinkedIn group Don't have, I'm thinking about it, but PYPTUG is not a non profit company, it is just a user group. I'm not sure how to set that up on LinkedIn as a stand alone entity. Of course, once setup, if you use feedburner, use your blog as the source, and it will post on LinkedIn. > - post a short blurb with a link on our Facebook page None of our members are interested in Facebook for some reason. If there was any value to it, then I'd create one and again, use feedburner. > - post a shorter blurb and link on our Twitter account We do that: http://twitter.com/pyptug and it gets posted automatically from feedburner. > - update our Google calendar Still a manual process. I haven't investigated a way to automate this, it doesn't take that long. I'm not sure it is used by anybody, however... And finally, for our PyHack workshops that are held at the local hackerspace ( http://fablocker.org ), they post it to their meetup page and their website using the information I post to the mailing list. Overall, it is a bit too much manual work. As for meetup.com as Ned Batchelder mentioned, it seems like the most popular way of doing this. It is does some promotion for your group. It is a good way to know how many people are going to show up, but it is not free. I was thinking of using eventbrite instead (free), but overall, people find it a chore to register for every meeting. In a larger area such as Boston or Montr?al, I'm sure it makes more sense. Fran?ois -- www.pyptug.org - raspberry-python.blogspot.com From tim at tirfa.com Fri Dec 7 16:59:21 2012 From: tim at tirfa.com (Tim Flink) Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:59:21 -0700 Subject: [group-organizers] Script to announce events In-Reply-To: <50BAFCCE.10607@netwok.org> References: <50BAFCCE.10607@netwok.org> Message-ID: <50C21259.5010902@tirfa.com> On 12/02/2012 12:01 AM, ?ric Araujo wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I?m a Python core developer and a member of the Montr?al-Python > organization team. I heard about this list at PyCon Canada thanks to > Jessica McKellar and I just subscribed. I?m looking forward to discuss > about community building and learn things! > > In this first message, I would like to ask if any of you are using some > tool to automate sending announcements to various systems. For our > monthly meetings, we end up doing these things manually: > - send bilingual email to our mailing list > - add markup to that text, remove greetings and publish it to our blog > as two posts > - post a short blurb with a link on our LinkedIn group > - post a short blurb with a link on our Facebook page > - post a shorter blurb and link on our Twitter account > - update our Google calendar > - update Free Software calendar (a website) > > I?m sure other user groups do something similar. Do you automate these > tasks, and if yes, using what tool? At PySprings, we were looking into doing something like that but the pieces haven't been coming together very fast. I'm in the process of moving our site from a somewhat problematic php framework to Pelican (http://blog.getpelican.com/) and I'd like to hack in twitter posts, meetup updates and a mailing list announcement into the site update process but I doubt that we'd be done with that in any timeframe that would be useful to you. If you find a solution to automate all that, please let us know. I'd be interested in hearing about it. Thanks, Tim From marrakis at gmail.com Mon Dec 10 14:41:51 2012 From: marrakis at gmail.com (Mathieu Leduc-Hamel) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:41:51 -0500 Subject: [group-organizers] Script to announce events In-Reply-To: <50C21259.5010902@tirfa.com> References: <50BAFCCE.10607@netwok.org> <50C21259.5010902@tirfa.com> Message-ID: Hi Tim, Talking about Pelican, we, Montreal-Python, are switching also from wordpress to Pelican and we'll quite certainly tried to do something to post stuff on different services. Do you already have something done ? We'll work on it tonight probably cause it's our first Project Night or like it seems to be called Pnight. Thanks :) Mathieu On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Tim Flink wrote: > On 12/02/2012 12:01 AM, ?ric Araujo wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I?m a Python core developer and a member of the Montr?al-Python >> organization team. I heard about this list at PyCon Canada thanks to >> Jessica McKellar and I just subscribed. I?m looking forward to discuss >> about community building and learn things! >> >> In this first message, I would like to ask if any of you are using some >> tool to automate sending announcements to various systems. For our >> monthly meetings, we end up doing these things manually: >> - send bilingual email to our mailing list >> - add markup to that text, remove greetings and publish it to our blog >> as two posts >> - post a short blurb with a link on our LinkedIn group >> - post a short blurb with a link on our Facebook page >> - post a shorter blurb and link on our Twitter account >> - update our Google calendar >> - update Free Software calendar (a website) >> >> I?m sure other user groups do something similar. Do you automate these >> tasks, and if yes, using what tool? >> > > At PySprings, we were looking into doing something like that but the > pieces haven't been coming together very fast. > > I'm in the process of moving our site from a somewhat problematic php > framework to Pelican (http://blog.getpelican.com/) and I'd like to hack > in twitter posts, meetup updates and a mailing list announcement into the > site update process but I doubt that we'd be done with that in any > timeframe that would be useful to you. > > If you find a solution to automate all that, please let us know. I'd be > interested in hearing about it. > > Thanks, > > Tim > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Group-Organizers mailing list > Group-Organizers at python.org > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/group-**organizers > -- Mathieu Leduc-Hamel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: