What is this

oh-irc-bot (potential name: Nightlightbot) is a bot for welcoming people into the #openhatch irc channel when no one is paying attention. The goals are to:

1. alert community members when someone knew enters the room and says hello (either by using their nick in a response, or by sending a private message)
2. helping a person to feel welcome even when there's no one around, and providing more information about staying in touch

Deets

Response conditions

Proposed

1. someone joins, says hi/hey/hello immediately, and no one responds for 60 seconds
2. someone says hi/hey/hello with no nicks after it, and no one responds for 60 seconds
3. someone joins, says nothing, and no one responds for a while but they're still there?

Responses

May

Include "maintainers" nicks so they get pinged? Suggest waiting til the morning, or emailing.

Implementation ideas

Keep last line said in chat (remember that ircmsg will prob include joins and parts and nick changes.

How to help

Find me (shauna) on the #openhatch IRC. Alternatively you can fork this project, make changes, and send them back if you want. If you need help using github, see here.

I will come back and improve this documentation later.

Credit

This bot was adapted from code found here: http://wiki.shellium.org/w/Writing_an_IRC_bot_in_Python