Optimal Congress

Command Line Interface to find an optimal, personal schedule for the 37c3 congress.

Optimization logic

The optimization relies on a simple 2-fold logic:

1. Find a personal schedule that maximizes the sum of 'rating scores' assigned to scheduled events.
2. The schedule must be feasible, i.e. the times of scheduled events must not overlap.

Installation

pip install optimal-congress

Available commands

optimal-congress provides the following commands:

$ optimal-congress --help
Usage: optimal-congress [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Optimize your personal schedule for the 37c3.

Options:
  -v, --verbose
  -h, --help     Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  dump      Export all latest ratings to CSV, for bulk editing.
  fetch     Fetch events and rooms from API, and update local cache.
  load      Bulk import ratings from CSV.
  next      List next upcoming events, filtered by minimum rating.
  optimize  Optimize the schedule based on ratings.
  rate      Interactively rate those events that have not been rated yet.
  ratings   List all latest ratings.

Example Workflow

1. Fetch events and rooms from congress API:

$ optimal-congress fetch

Fetching events and rooms from API...
Fetched 49 events and 58 rooms from API.

Comparing API with cache...
Found 0 new events, and 0 removed events.

Updating cache...
Done.

2. Interactively rate events, if not already rated:

$ optimal-congress rate

Unrated event (1/65):

2023-12-28 20:15 - 20:55

Lützerath Lebt! Einblicke in den Widerstand

You can't evict a movement! Der Energiekonzern RWE wird noch Jahre brauchen, die Kohle unter Lützi abzubaggern: Der Kampf gegen die Kohle und für Klimagerechtigkeit geht weiter!

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/event/lutzerath_lebt_einblicke_in_den_widerstand

Rate from 0 to 10 (Enter to exit):

3. Review you current ratings:

$ optimal-congress ratings

loading events and ratings from cache...

Latest ratings:
- Rating: 8.0 - Amateurfunk als Hilfe in Not- und Katastrophenfäll..https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/event/amateurfunk-als-hilfe-in-not-und-katastrophenfalle
- Rating: 8.0 - InfraNodus: Reveal Non-Obvious and Find the Gaps w..https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/event/infranodus-reveal-non-obvious-and-find-the-gaps-wi

4. Optimize your personal schedule:

$ optimal-congress optimize

loading events, ratings, and rooms from cache...

Scheduled events:
- Wed 27 10:30-11:00 Saal 1..........37C3: Feierliche Eröffnung................https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/event/37c3_feierliche_eroffnung
- Wed 27 11:00-11:40 Saal Granville..The Trouble with Green Electricity Certi..https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/event/the_trouble_with_green_electricity_certificates
...

Testing

Software testing uses pytest, relying upon poetry and tox.
To run all tests, across multiple python versions:

poetry run tox

Roadmap

• test export of schedule to iOS app via QR code