meetup2xibo 3.3.1

Load Meetup events into a Xibo digital signage CMS.

Meetup2xibo is a command line program that retrieves event descriptions from Meetup.com and loads them into a Xibo digital signage dataset. Xibo can display events in sign layouts such as agendas, calendars, room activity signs, and maps.

Meetup2xibo was developed for Nova Labs, a makerspace in Reston, Virginia. The busy Nova Labs calendar has up to a dozen Meetup.com events per day. Xibo displays event agendas for today and tommorrow on several large wall-mounted monitors. Meetup2xibo keeps those agendas up-to-date as events are added, cancelled, or updated.

Resources

• Documentation: https://meetup2xibo.readthedocs.io
• Source code: https://github.com/jshprentz/meetup2xibo
• Python package: https://pypi.org/project/meetup2xibo/
• Free software: MIT license

Features

Meetup2xibo …

• Retrieves events from the Meetup.com API.
• Inserts, updates, and deletes events via the Xibo CMS API.
• Extracts event locations from Meetup.com venue name and find-us fields.
• Maps abbreviated and misspelled event locations to preferred forms.
• Allows per-event overrides of location mapping rules.
• Computes event end times from Meetup.com start times and durations.
• Formats event start and end times for Xibo.
• Removes accounting codes from event names.
• Detects and logs schedule conflicts.
• Logs changes to Xibo events.
• Logs location mappings.

Supporting programs …

• Summarize logs in a daily email message.
• Report yesterday’s date for use in shell scripts.

Credits

Meetup2xibo was developed by Joel Shprentz (@jshprentz).