[Pycon-openspaces] Open Spaces blog post

[Hobson Lane]

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
>
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