Watercooler 2.0

What is this?

A script to automate watercooler event creation in Google Calendar.

Make virtualenv with make venv && source venv/bin/activate.
Generate and save authorisation tokens for Google Calendar API.
- Make sure to follow steps described here to be able to use Google Calendar API. We recommend using your personal gmail account for this script to avoid any unnecessary sharing of corporate information.
- Run the script to create and save your authorsation token in the token.pickle file. This will automatically open your browser and prompt you to authorise read and write access. It will also create a test event for verification.
```
python gcal/create_events.py --email-ids eid1@gmail.com eid2@workemail.com --force-create-token
```
Inside user_groups directory create yaml file for your team <team_name>.yaml. Copy&paste here the content from user_group_template.txt. Fill out the fields using the same format.
IMPORTANT: You need to manually create google meet rooms with corporate account so that other people in that corporation can join the meeting without any approvals.
Run python generate_watercoolers.py to generate watercoolers for all user groups in user_groups folder. This script will read the cached token from the previous steps and you would not need a browser.

The following example schedules the watercoolers every week on Mondays at 5am.

$ crontab -e

0 5 * * MON /home/virtualenv/bin/python /home/watercooler/generate_watercoolers.py