<div dir="ltr">Ooh, I heartily plus one Laura's statement -- let's get that welcome bot!<div><br></div><div>I've set up simpler welcome-bots for other IRC channels in the past, so am happy to help with this one -- and I'd agree that they really boost the morale for some reason, even though we all know they aren't actually real!<div>
<br></div><div>Same goes for hug bots, and friendly chatter bots ala <a href="https://aaronparecki.com/articles/2011/02/12/1/loqi-the-friendly-irc-bot">https://aaronparecki.com/articles/2011/02/12/1/loqi-the-friendly-irc-bot</a> ... ;)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Related: There is also Darkbot, who can be trained to answer repeated questions -- might be another interesting experiment: <a href="http://darkbot.sourceforge.net/">http://darkbot.sourceforge.net/</a></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Laura Hilliger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:laura@mozillafoundation.org" target="_blank">laura@mozillafoundation.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Indeed. If this isn’t hard, can we get this in the #Webamker and #TeachTheWeb channels? We are getting new folks regularly, but have really crappy retention. Maybe a friendly bot will help them understand that we’re not ALWAYS in IRC.</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>Should I file a bug?</div></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite">Message: 3<br>Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:10:19 -0700<br>From: David Ascher <<a href="mailto:da@mozillafoundation.org" target="_blank">da@mozillafoundation.org</a>><br>To: Webmaker dev <<a href="mailto:webmaker-dev@mozilla.org" target="_blank">webmaker-dev@mozilla.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:appmaker@mozilla.org" target="_blank">appmaker@mozilla.org</a><br>
Subject: Fwd: [CBT] IRC Greeter Bot!<br>Message-ID:<br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><<a href="mailto:AC782E42-FDB9-470F-A636-2AEDC8488FCE@mozillafoundation.org" target="_blank">AC782E42-FDB9-470F-A636-2AEDC8488FCE@mozillafoundation.org</a>><br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<div><div class="h5"><br><br>highfive & welcomebot seem cool.<br><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">From: Josh Matthews <<a href="mailto:jmatthews@mozilla.com" target="_blank">jmatthews@mozilla.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [CBT] IRC Greeter Bot!<br>Date: July 24, 2014 at 9:07:06 AM PDT<br>To: For discussions about how to grow Mozilla and bring in new contributors <<a href="mailto:community-building@mozilla.org" target="_blank">community-building@mozilla.org</a>><br>
Reply-To: For discussions about how to grow Mozilla and bring in new contributors <<a href="mailto:community-building@mozilla.org" target="_blank">community-building@mozilla.org</a>><br><br>I'm definitely in favour of tools like this in general! Do you have a more detailed list of the bot's capabilities and actions?<br>
<br>In a similar vein, I wrote a hook for github projects (<a href="https://github.com/jdm/highfive" target="_blank">https://github.com/jdm/highfive</a>) that will greet new contributors and ping a random project member at the same time, with the intention of providing instant feedback, clear next steps, and ensuring that work from newcomers isn't overlooked. An example of the result is at <a href="https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/2885#issuecomment-49611235" target="_blank">https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/2885#issuecomment-49611235</a> .<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Josh<br><br>On 07/24/2014 12:03 PM, Jennie Rose Halperin wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">hey Mozillians!<br><br>Working with the incredible folks at Open Hatch, I developed an IRC Greeter Bot that will say hi to new people on our channel, ping community leaders, and generally help people feel welcome when they enter the channel. Hurray.<br>
<br>Do you want to see what WelcomeBot will do? Check out the #openhatch channel on freenode.<br><br>I would like to propose to add welcomebot at least to #CBT and #grow and maybe to some other channels. It's a simple, friendly little fix that is so nice and sweet. I'm also going to take a look at the other IRC bots used in Reps and other forums to see if we want to add those as well.<br>
<br>Please either yay this email or if you're super against bots saying hi to people, please respond as well! It'll take me a little bit of time to get the bot up and running on the server anyway, so folks have time to give feedback.<br>
<br>Best,<br><br>Jennie<br><br>Jennie Rose Halperin<br>Community Building Team | Mozilla | <a href="http://jennierosehalperin.me" target="_blank">http://jennierosehalperin.me</a> | @little_wow | Join us! <a href="http://mozilla.org/contribute" target="_blank">http://mozilla.org/contribute</a><br>
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