Schedule manager - A Django app that has rules-based events generator. Has hooks to post events to email and Meetup via their APIs.

Has views/forms to specify event types (templates). For example, an event type specifies:

• title of event
• location
• event repeat pattern, e.g., 1st Friday of every month
• start time, e.g., 7:00pm, 1 hour after sunset

The templates are then used to generate a set of events. During event generation, holidays and astronomy events (e.g., 3Q moon, summer solstice, Jupiter oppositioni) are generated in AuxEvents. Currently nothing is done with events. Features to be added later. See tutorial.rst.

Views show lists of events. Some views show sunset, twilight, and moonrise/set times.

All editable views currently require superuser access.

This was originally written to automate most of the effort required to generate a calendar of events for an astronomy club. The generator is aware of lunar cycles and sunset/twilight times.

• Python 3 (works for 3.4.3)
• PyEphem (needed if using astronomy based generator)
• pip install pyephem
• pytz
• icalendar
• debug_toolbar (optional)
• pip install django-debug-toolbar
• psycopg2 (required if using PostgreSQL)
• [To be added later - Pickles]
• requests
• mimeparse

Any number of "channels" can be used to post events, including Google calendar and Meetup, at pre-set times.

The scheduler currently can only import/export events as a .tsv file.

Currently all event templates (e.g., event descriptions for Google calendar/Meetup) are coded in Python. Most of this, however, are in files separate from the core modules and should be easy to change, even those not familiar with Python.

• Database The default data base is sqlite3, which is a part of Python. It's fine for very light usage. For heavier traffic, PostgreSQL is recommended (psycopg2 is required).
• Learn how to back up and restore database by using: python manage.py [dumpdata|loaddata]

• HTML links/buttons to access views
• Convert admin views to user accessible views
• Add calendar (instead of list) views
• APIs
  • Meetup
  • email
  • Twitter
  • Facebook

To dump SQL database: ./manage.py dumpdata --indent 4 --natural-foreign auth sched_ev sched_announce > .json

To load/dump SQL database: ./manage.py loaddata auth sched_ev sched_announce .json