plenum-mailer

This script automates the sending of invitations for a monthly plenum meeting at a hackerspace. It calculates the date of the second Thursday each month and sends an email with meeting details and participation links. To use it, follow the following instructions.

Setup instructions

1. Clone the repository e.g to git clone https://github.com/HackerspaceBielefeld/plenum-mailer.git /home/user
2. Rename the example env file dot-env-example to .env and configure the variables.
3. Create a virtual enviroment python3 -m venv .venv
4. Activate the virtual enviroment source .venv/bin/activate
5. Install the requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Create a cronjob running the script on tuesday before the second thursday 0 8 * * 2 /bin/bash -c 'source /home/user/plenum-mailer/.venv/bin/activate && python3 /home/user/plenum-mailer/main.py'