Handy Basecamp script for communicating weekly activities
At Firmhouse it sometimes gets hard to keep track of all schedules and weekly activities and what the progress is of our projects. To streamline communication of our activities we decided to have a planning meeting every Tuesday and post a message on Basecamp with our work to do for the next weekly meeting. This message gets posted into our company-wide Firmhouse project we have on Basecamp.
To automate this we introduced a script that posts a message every Tuesday. All project members can then comment on it by copy-pasting the template and filling it in.
Screenshot of Weekly Activity message
The script is written in Ruby and uses a modified basecamp.rb from 37Signals Developerland.
I am planning to write more of these lifehacking-like scripts for Basecamp and for this I’ve created a GitHub repository so you can use and modify them for your own use. You can find it (and more in the future) in the basecamp-scripts repository on GitHub. If you want to make changes or have other handy scripts. Please fork the repository and request for a merge!
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Very cool script you guys have created here. Have you done any other modifications to help Basecamp fit your needs better?
Troy Malone
Hi Troy. Thanks
I hope you can use it or maybe you can implement it in some way for Pelotronics.
I’m planning to write more of these scripts. For example, we have a scanner that scan to our FTP-server. I want the file be added to a Basecamp project automatically.
One of the best things it does is left out the blogpost.
It automaticly sends a notification via basecamp to all members of Firmhouse and they can reply via e-mail or are reminded to login to fill out their activities.
For tracking time we use Harvest, which is a great tool we will blog about soon!