[Pycon-openspaces] Open Spaces blog post

[Hobson Lane]

I grabbed @openspacesbot at the same time. Just keep using yours for now,
but we have backup if we get blocked/throttled by Twitter for some reason.

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On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Zak Kent <zak.kent at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I just setup a twitter account with the name @openspaces_bot and will set
> up the bot using that account this week sometime. For the moment it's still
> using the old @tw_testy account.
>
> I'm totally willing to help out with the a sentence or two promoting the
> use of the bot for the blog post if needed. I noticed in the google doc
> that there is already a section talking about the use of the
> #PyConOpenSpace hashtag. I've included a message about the bot that could
> possibly be added to that paragraph below. Feel free to change anything or
> everything :)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------------
> # possible message about bot
>
> "If you would like to reach a wider audience when promoting your Open
> Space, please take advantage of the Open Spaces Twitter Bot,
> @openspaces_bot. Send out a tweet that contains the hashtag
> #PyConOpenSpace, the time of your event, and the room number where the
> event will be held and the bot will retweet your message 15 minutes before
> your Open Space is scheduled!"
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------------
>
> We can also have the bot send out multiple reminder tweets before the
> event at different time intervals if that is needed. For example retweets
> 15 & 30 mins before an Open Space, etc.
>
> Let me know if y'all have any other questions about the bot setup or
> anything else.
>
> Thank you for letting us use the bot to help promote Open Spaces at
> PyCon!!!
>
> - Zak
>
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hobson, this all sounds great!
>>
>> For the name maybe something like @openspaces_bot if it’s still available?
>>
>> Thank you all for your hard work!
>> Anna
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>> You are appreciated.
>> You are enough.
>> You matter.
>> You are not alone.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 25, 2017, at 11:19 AM, Hobson Lane <hobsonlane at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Anna,
>>
>> Zak, since you built the bot, would you mind working with Trey to put
>> together a sentence explaining how it works? The key is to make it clear
>> that the twitter bot interaction is entirely optional, "just for fun". It's
>> a way for someone to promote their Open Spaces event. This blog post that
>> you are writing the sentence for with
>> trey is for the public, so they will only interact with the bot through
>> tweets with the hashtag #pyconopenspaces. In addition, Open Spaces
>> organizers (like myself) can tweet on behalf of any events in order to help
>> the bot promote an event that we see on the scheduling poster boards. The
>> poster boards are where PyCon attendees put up cards to schedule/suggest an
>> open spaces meetup.
>>
>> Trey, the bot simply extracts date, time and room number from any tweets
>> that contain #pyconopenspaces . If the tweet looks like someone promoting a
>> valid open spaces event time slot that no one else has yet "claimed" with
>> the bot, the bot will retweet the tweet 15 minutes before the event. It, of
>> course, can't verify that that event exists on the scheduling poster
>> boards, however. Organizers, like you and I and Anna will have access to
>> the twitter bot's schedule and can delete any tweets that are inappropriate
>> or have the bot ignore (blacklist) any accounts that are spamming that
>> hashtag. And we'll have some pretty robust spam filters in place. It may
>> not retweet all the legitimate openspaces tweets, but it will be highly
>> unlikely to embarrass us. And it will not be tweeting from an official
>> pycon account. We can set that account to whatever you and Anna would like.
>> The current test account is @tw_testy . That's where the promotional tweets
>> will come from, not a name attendees need to remember or tweet to.
>>
>> --Hobson
>> (503) 974-6274
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone!
>>>
>>> I had it on my calendar for today to take a final look at the Open
>>> Spaces blog post. The blog post is almost good to go, we just need to add a
>>> sentence or two about the Open Spaces bot and explain the promotional
>>> aspect of using our hashtag. The blog post is here
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZvEyX-xH6VccLpL5TK_
>>> EcWt5me0Y6tlMP4QOwLfbLVM/edit#heading=h.55czulx95ir4
>>>
>>> Hobson and Trey, would one of you be able to add the part that is
>>> missing to the blog post and then give Brandon the final go once you’ve
>>> done so please?
>>>
>>> Hobson gave me instructions on how to test the Open Spaces bot but I
>>> have been busy with conferences and work and I am going on a much needed
>>> work-free (that also includes volunteer work) vacation on Wednesday for a
>>> week so I actually won’t have time to test the bot before I leave. I was
>>> planning on having time to test the bot today or tomorrow but I had
>>> something come up at work and I actually have to put my job before my
>>> volunteer work this time, which is something that I rarely do and which I
>>> feel bad about.
>>> I trust Hobson that the bot works. If however one of you still would
>>> like to test the bot, please reach out to Hobson for instructions.
>>>
>>> Thank you all for your help in making the Open Spaces awesome again this
>>> year!
>>> Anna
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------
>>> You are appreciated.
>>> You are enough.
>>> You matter.
>>> You are not alone.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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