[group-organizers] Script to announce events

[Ned Batchelder]

On 12/2/2012 2:01 AM, Éric Araujo wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I’m a Python core developer and a member of the Montréal-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.

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