HSVevents Twitter

Creator: Jim Shoe Status: Planning Born On: 16:11, 23 August 2008 (CDT) Last Updated: 17:11, 26 January 2011 (CDT)

Overview

Project to automate the posting of tweets to @HSVevents.

Notes

• MYSQL database
• User whitelist, with on/off flags
• Site scrapping of other sites
• Use Twitter API, since XMPP isn't working right now.
• Perl?

Requirements

• Primary Requirements

1. Message format - Title Date Location other info
2. Direct message or @hsvevents to add events to the database
3. Scrape known sites for lists of events and add them to the database automatically
4. Send out a tweet at T-7 days, T-2 days, and T-0 days
5. Through Twitter administration
   1. Admins(approve, silence, remove publishers)
   2. Publishers (summit, approve, remove events)
   3. Normies(summit events)
6. Send conformation
7. webcal

• Secondary Requirements

1. RSVP
2. Movie Bot

Examples

• PR.1 (This format need to be worked out, example events)
  • Phreaknic Oct. 24-26 2008 Nashville TN http://phreaknic.info - 80 characters
  • Taste of Hunstville Oct. 30 2008 Von Braun Center South Hall - 80 characters
  • Big Spring Jam Sep. 26-28 2008 Downtown HSV http://www.bigspringjam.org Tickets - $45 weekend, $25 a day - 104 characters

• Normie - Event Submitted is approved

1. sends event (Phreaknic Oct. 24 - 26 2008 Nashville TN) <- PR.2 & PR.5.3
2. event sent to random publisher for approval
3. publisher responds with Ya <- PR.5.2
4. adds event to database <- PR.2
5. sent a conformation to Normie <- PR.6

• Normie - Event Submitted is not approved

1. sends event (Phreaknic Oct. 24 - 26 2008 Nashville TN) <- PR.2 & PR.5.3
2. event sent to random publisher for approval
3. publisher responds with Na and reason <- PR.5.2
4. send publisher's reason back to Normie <- PR.6
5. discard as not approved

• Publisher - Event Submitted

1. sends event (Phreaknic Oct. 24 - 26 2008 Nashville TN)
2. adds event to database <- PR.2
3. sent a conformation <- PR.6