[group-organizers] Script to announce events

[Tim Flink]

On 12/02/2012 12:01 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 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