hackfridaymailbot

scrape the wiki for content and generate an invitation email for hackfridays

Requirements

• bash
• working mail or sendmail command

Deployment

With cron

• run the script as a weekly cron-job, e.g. 0 12 * * WED \path\to\hackfridaymailbot.sh

With systemd timer

• run the following commands

sudo cp contrib/* /etc/systemd/system/

• adjust user, group and Execpath in /etc/systemd/system/hackfridaymailbot.service
• enable and start timer

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable hackfridaymailbot.timer
sudo systemctl start hackfridaymailbot.timer