Arrange Videochat

Django app to arrange a meeting for a video chat for a group of people.

Functionality

It show a public list of upcoming video chat events, allows to add a new event to the list and to join an event by stating your mail address. Registered participants for an event will get the unique video chat url to join the video chat.

Automatic emails can be set up by configuring mail templates in the admin, allowing to confirm the creation and participation in an event or to remind registered participants of the start of an event.

Participants can leave an event by using a secret url sent to them by mail. Creators of events can delete event by using a secret url sent to them by mail.

The Ui and mails are fully internationalized.

Installation

1. Install the package

   pip install arrange_videochat
   

2. Add arrange_videochat and its dependecies to your settings installed apps:

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       "modeltranslation",  # must be put before admin
       "django.contrib.admin",
       ...
       "crispy_forms",
       "bootstrap_datepicker_plus",
       "arrange_videochat",
       ...
   ]
   

3. Include the arrange_videochat URLconf in your project urls.py like this:

   path('chat/', include('arrange_videochat.urls')),
   

4. You need to migrate after installing:

   python manage.py migrate
   

5. Create a base template in templates/base.html. All templates from arrange_videochat inherit from base.html.

Configuration

TIME_ZONES_BY_LANG = {"de": "Europe/Berlin", "en": "UTC"}

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL

Dependencies

crispy_forms bootstrap_datepicker_plus icalendar django-modeltranslation

Cron job

Setup a cron job that runs the following command to delete old events and to remind participants of events that start soon:

python manage.py cron