Here's our plan and build progress on the Twitter+Slack Bot to manage and promote a self-service event schedule, using Twitter and Slack.
Need to prioritize tasks below and put only “must haves”.
Initial Release (V1, April 1)
[ ] AO: "reserve" several bot usernames on twitter: @openspaces, @pyconopenspaces, @pyconospace, @opensched, @openspacesched [x] HL: daemon for snarfing tweets [ ] HH: celery task for snarfing tweets [x] HL: Django app + DB for storing/viewing tweet archive [x] ZK: API for retrieving/searching tweets [x] SA:integration with slack [ ] SA: Add twitter API out of the box filters for bot: (filter:safe, filter:url, filter:image, filter:media, result_type:popular etc.) [x] ZK: API for retrieving labeled trainings sets (strict filter) [ ] HL+ZK: Model trained to score tweets 0-1 for relevance to "pycon open space schedule" [ ] HL+ZK: Model trained to score tweets 0-1 for spamminess (anti-socialness) [ ] HL: Database table to hold outgoing tweet cue [ ] SA? ZK?: Web interface for deleting tweets from cue (admin interface is fine) [x] SA: schedule extractor (datetime and room number) from tweet [ ] RR: database table for openspaces schedule [ ] HL/RR: database table for history/log of edits to that schedule [ ] HL/RR: database field/table for storing scores for tweets (spam-ness, openspaces-ness) [ ] HL: Summarizing algorithm to combine neighboring schedule items (overlapping times, different room) into single tweet [ ] SA? ZK?: Webapp control of throttle to determine tweet rate maximum (including off) [ ] SA? ZK?: Webapp control of a spam-filtering threshold [ ] SA? ZK?: Web page presenting latest estimate of openspaces schedule [ ] SA? ZK?: Web page presenting image of official posterboard schedule [ ] HL: Twitter or Slack bot command for sending/sharing an image to be posted on the schedul page [ ] ZK: API endpoint for uploading image of pycon openspaces posterboard schedule [ ] SA: Configurable switches to control bot input and output (controled by django admin): 1: accept input from 4 sources: DMs, @pyconopenspaces, #pyconopenspaces, and/or relevant but untagged tweets 2: route output to one of 2 destinations: tweets to slack #twitter channel and/or actual twitter tweets