Drive DesertPy with CI

[godber]

This is a rough description for how I think we could try to better automate the DesertPy Meetup.

• Data driven by Google Calendar (ical link) as the source. (scheduling could be driven by something else)
• Every meeting gets a Github Issue, that issue is assigned to the the meeting coordinator.
• Meetings that actually get scheduled are "implemented" as a Markdown webpage on the website.
• The meeting on the Meetup Site gets generated from the markdown source of the web post.

[godber]

Ok, I was thinking about this again today. Rather than google calendar, the list of meetings could come from a yaml or json file in the repo. It would contain a list of meetings and information about when they "should" happen. We'd write a script that runs daily with circleci and see if something needs to be done based on the current date (e.g. 5 weeks before the 4th Wednesday meeting, the issue for the meeting gets stubbed out and assigned to the user.)

And example of computing things like "the fourth wednesday of the month" using the python-dateutil package:

from dateutil.rrule import rrule, MONTHLY, WE
from datetime import datetime
list(rrule(freq=MONTHLY, count=12, byweekday=WE(4), dtstart=datetime(2019, 1, 1)))

results in

[datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 23, 0, 0),
 datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 27, 0, 0),
 datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 27, 0, 0),
 datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 24, 0, 0),
 datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 22, 0, 0),
 datetime.datetime(2019, 6, 26, 0, 0),
 datetime.datetime(2019, 7, 24, 0, 0),
 datetime.datetime(2019, 8, 28, 0, 0),
 datetime.datetime(2019, 9, 25, 0, 0),
 datetime.datetime(2019, 10, 23, 0, 0),
 datetime.datetime(2019, 11, 27, 0, 0),
 datetime.datetime(2019, 12, 25, 0, 0)]

[godber]

Just wanted the dates real quick

https://gist.github.com/godber/428e1cc2500fb9fed68fe9919a34f45b