Automation with no funds (GDG CEE Summit 2016)

When you create events, usually you have a lot of common tasks like: post to meetup, facebook, twitter, update website, notify community, etc. It is a big place to automate this things. This talk will show you how we at GDG Riga try to do this... with no funds, using open source and not only. With tips and tricks.

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1. Automation with no funds Sergey Kibish, GDG Riga @s_kibish
2. Who am I? • SOFTWARE DEVELOPER AT TRANSACT PRO • MASTER OF COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENT • GDG RIGA ORGANISER
4. WHAT IS AUTOMATION? http://bit.ly/2dCV7d7
5. – dictionary.com “THE TECHNIQUE, METHOD, OR SYSTEM OF OPERATING OR CONTROLLING A PROCESS BY HIGHLY AUTOMATIC MEANS, AS BY ELECTRONIC DEVICES, REDUCING HUMAN INTERVENTION TO A MINIMUM.”
6. WHY WE NEED THIS?
7. SAVE TIME http://bit.ly/2dVRWgd
8. time Action Action Action Action Action Action Action Action
9. time Action Action Action Action Action Action Action Action Simultaneously
10. OUR CASE http://bit.ly/2dPSfIt
11. ONE EVENT PER MONTH http://bit.ly/2cx30yi
12. WE ARE LAZY http://bit.ly/2dW5hc4
13. FULL TIME JOB http://bit.ly/2dWXuLf
15. WE WANT ONE PLACE TO RULE THEM ALL http://bit.ly/1O1258W
20. Cons • SAME “SHOUT OUT” FOR ALL EVENTS. IT CAN’T BE CUSTOM EVERY TIME OR TIME TO TIME • ZAPIER DON’T HAVE POSSIBILITY TO ATTACH PHOTO TO FACEBOOK POSTS • MEETUP DON’T HAVE SPECIAL SECTION FOR EVENT BANNER • GOOGLE DEVELOPERS DON’T HAVE ANY API IN 2016
24. A HACK http://bit.ly/2dJtYHx
25. YOURACCOUNT@GMAIL.COM
26. YOURACCOUNT+TEXT@GMAIL.COM
27. GDGJETPACK
29. THE FUTURE http://bit.ly/2djbIBi
30. API
31. Our App • HAS FIELDS FOR TITLE, DESCRIPTION, BANNER, LOCATION AND ALL OTHER THINGS THAT WE NEED • CAN POST TO ALL SOURCES WITHOUT HUMAN • IT WILL HAVE CUSTOM “SHOUT OUT” MESSAGES • YOU CAN SPECIFY MESSAGE TEMPLATE(S) FOR EACH PLATFORM
32. THANK YOU SERGEY KIBISH @S_KIBISH HTTP://S.KIBISH.ROCKS