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currently the campusgroups domain is hardcoded to RIT's domain in campusgroups.py. It might be nice to be able to change this later in case other schools want to use this too.

packaging the bot as a dockerfile makes it way easier to host. This ensures people using the oauth link in the readme can run a usable bot instance

an example of a similar, already-dockerized discord bot is at https://github.com/MoralCode/velmabot, so it should be pretty simple to tweak and apply that to this bot

having to manually run the $sync command may be a bit of a hassle. it would be nice to set this up so that it can resync the events for all servers on a schedule

see https://github.com/MoralCode/velmabot/ for an example of how to schedule things in a dyscord.py bot (there may be better ways though)

some sub tasks this may involve:

• figure out how to retrieve a discord.py Guild instance using only the guild/server ID as the sync command currently uses the server that the sync message was posted to
• separate the process of downloading the campusgroups calendars from parsing them to reduce load on campusgroups when many servers subscribe to the same group

currently there are no checks and any server members can mess with the subscription list

Currently this just works by using the publicly-available ical feeds from campusgroups, which notably do not include:

• events not visible to "everyone"
• event locations

I would like to find a way to create some kind of separate set of credentials for this campusgroups bot so that it can authenticate rather than using the session cookies from my own account.

It should probably be noted that providing this bot with authenticated access may end up being a source through which private information could be leaked since may clubs aren't especially protective over who can join their discord or where invite links get shared, so these servers should probably be considered public, even if the chances of them being seen/found by non-students is quite low.