Chicago Python's Community Engagement Slack bot.
With over six thousand members, the Chicago Python Users Group (ChiPy) is one of the largest Python communities in the world. Slack has become the primary method of communication amongst our members in-between events. We developed an open-source Slack bot, codename: Busy Beaver, to increase community engagement.
We released Busy Beaver on Jan 10th, 2019 at the Chicago Python __main__ Meeting. Slides and video recording from the release announcement are available online.
Busy Beaver integrates with Meetup API to provide details about upcoming events. Events are downloaded to the Busy Beaver database periodically.
Users are able to query using the /busybeaver slash command.
/busybeaver nextshows details of the upcoming event/busybeaver eventsshows details of upcoming events
A periodic CRON job has been set to post the contents of /busybeaver events in a designed Slack channel.
Busy Beaver posts daily summaries of public GitHub activity for registered users in the #busy-beaver channel on the ChiPy Slack. The goal of this feature is to increase engagement by sparking conversations around GitHub activity.
Users sign up for an account by DMing the bot with the phrase: connect. The bot requires users to sign into GitHub to ensure only authorized activity is posted in the channel.
Busy Beaver posts open Call For Proposals (CFP) for your organization and upcoming Python conferences in a designated channel.
Note: This feature is in beta. Please create an issue if you would like support for other conference types.
We are currently working on additional features to improve ChiPy community engagement. Please join the conversation in #busy-beaver-meta on the ChiPy Slack.
Busy Beaver is always looking for new contributors! Previous open source experience is not required! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md.