Hacking Culture with Javascript (CodeMotion Amsterdam 2017)

Most every remote-enabled team uses real-time-communication software of one sort or another, but usually it's a chat room. Lately, even co-located teams are signing up for this. So now that a bunch of our togetherness is in a chat room, we can gently introduce robots to do some of our scut work for us. Let's take a look at what happens when the robot becomes not just a tool, but a part of the team.

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1. Hacking Culture With Javascript
2. Ben Straub benstraub
6. automation
7. cultural automation
9. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackal1/15066929313
11. Automation Is good
12. Automation is Dumb
13. “A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history” Mitch Ratcliffe
14. Cultural Automation Is good?
20. ChatOps
24. http://blog.zikes.me/post/how-i-ruined-office-productivity-with-a-slack-bot/
29. Break: lessons
30. Automating a thing says:
31. We want this thing to be done often
32. We want this thing to be done right
33. We want this thing to be visible
34. We want this thing to be impersonal
36. https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/01/12/hacking-inclusion-by-customizing-a-slack-bot/
39. !shut up about guys
45. First six months number of gifts 150 Average gift $24 Average receipts $25
47. !highfive @nick $4.23 for finding something on Amazon for exactly $4.23
48. Downsides
49. BX design (bystander experience)
50. You can do this
51. Step 1: Get chat
55. Step 2: Get a bot
56. Contextualizing Virtual Assistants for More Effective Meetings in the Digital Workplace https://www.gartner.com/doc/3649117
57. “By 2020, 60% of meetings with 3 or more participants will involve a virtual assistant.”
58. https://hubot.github.com/
59. http://errbot.io/
60. https://www.lita.io/
61. https://www.botkit.ai/
62. Step 3: get hacking
63. > hubot animate me applause
64. > hubot animate me I got this
65. "Ping" in Hubot robot.hear( /ping/i, (msg) => { msg.reply('PONG') } )
66. "Ping" in Err from errbot import BotPlugin, botcmd class Ping(BotPlugin): @botcmd def ping(self, msg, args): return "PONG"
67. "Ping" in Lita route(/ping/) do |response| response.reply 'PONG' end
68. "Ping" in Botkit controller.hears( /ping/i, ['direct_message', 'direct_mention', 'mention'], (bot, msg) => { bot.reply(msg, 'PONG') } )
71. You got this 1. Chat 2. Automate
72. Ben Straub benstraub
73. Questions? https://github.com/ ben/talks/2017- robots-codemotion Also: send feedback