[Feature] Meetup slides generator #147
Description
Every meetup, we have slides with somewhat structured content:
- The venue
- The speakers
- Recurring announcements
- seasonal/monthly announcements
- A call for community announcements
Currently, these slides are manually created using google slides. It's a tedious exercise in copy + pasting things around and hoping to not make any mistakes.
What would be much better is if the slides (or at least most of them?) could be generated programmatically. This should be feasible for a good chunk of them:
- The recurring & community announcements are typically the same every month
- The speaker info is structured in Airtable, and should be available via api
- We rotate between a few venues, the data for each could be added manually
- Our upcoming events have dates known ahead of time (2nd Wednesday etc.)
So if we could get to the slides being mostly generated through code and just a little bit of updating manually, that would be a great help in running the meetups smoothly each month.
There are a number of great tools out there such as slidev or our own slides repo that could be used directly or for inspiration.
One consideration is that in the future we would like to move the speaker & venue info into a github-based workflow using issues, so the connection to Airtable should be isolated rather than deeply integrated into the code.