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A script to automatically send slack messages to a channel so ppl can meet up and talk about their work.

Requirements

• Python 3
• a slack webhook URL
• a .json file similar to sample-data.json that includes the following data:
  • slack webhood and message content
  • information about people under the key people
    • who to pair up on this round (may vary round by round who is available) under the key this_round
    • a key of nicknames, etc. for how to actually refer to people, under the key namesub
    • people willing to meet twice in one round under the key doubles

Usage

Once data file is specified, run:

python pairomatic.py --i sample-data.json

You can replace sample-data.json with your own data file.

By default, this will run in test mode and not actually send messages or re-write the history in your data.json file. It will print what would have been added to the data.json file to a new file test.out. If you want to actually send the message, run:

python pairomatic.py --i sample-data.json --slack

In order to run automatically on the 1st of the month at 2pm, include the following cronjob:

0 14 1 * * python ~/path/to/pairomatic/pairomatic.py --i data.json --slack

As you run pairomatic, it will update the history in data.json to keep track of who has met with who. It will try not to pair the same people together if there are other people they haven't met with yet.