Interview-Communicator

A set of rules and scripts for making interviews for Hack Bulgaria's courses

TL; DR

You can send emails, if you have proper people.json and settings.py file, by running:

$ python send_emails.py start

Where start is a filename, placede in the messages/ folder - this is the template of the message that is going to be sent to every person from people.json

Steps for making interview schedule with students.

0. Edit settings.py with your email credentials. Don't fotget to change the title of the email
1. From your table, somewhere, export a CSV file with the interview schedule.
2. Transform it to JSON. You can use http://www.convertcsv.com/csv-to-json.htm
3. Make sure that the fields, that you use in your email template, like {Date}, are present in the JSON file.
4. You need Python v. > 3
5. Execute python send_emails.py <name_of_template_located_in_messages/_folder>

settings.py

There is an example_settings.py file. You can rename it to settings.py and insert your email credentials and the desired SMTP server.

Here is an example for Google:

EMAIL = 'your-email-here@gmail.com'
PASSWORD = "your-password-here"
SMPT_SERVER = 'smtp.gmail.com'
SMPT_SERVER_PORT = 587

Testing an email

You can rename example_people.json to people.json and send RadoRado or yourself an email to test if everything is correct, before running the script on live data.