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.

1. Hacking
Culture
WithJavascript

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. “Acomputer letsyou
make more mistakes
fasterthanany
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
athing says:

31. Wewantthisthing
tobedoneoften

32. Wewantthisthing
tobedoneright

33. Wewantthisthing
tobevisible

34. Wewantthisthing
tobeimpersonal

36. https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/01/12/hacking-inclusion-by-customizing-a-slack-bot/

39. !shut up about guys

45. Firstsix months
number ofgifts 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
(bystanderexperience)

50. You can
dothis

51. Step1:
Getchat

55. Step2:
Geta bot

56. ContextualizingVirtual
Assistants for More
Effective Meetings inthe
DigitalWorkplace
https://www.gartner.com/doc/3649117

57. “By 2020, 60% of
meetingswith 3 or
more participants
willinvolvea
virtualassistant.”

58. https://hubot.github.com/

59. http://errbot.io/

60. https://www.lita.io/

61. https://www.botkit.ai/

62. Step3:gethacking

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. Yougotthis
1. Chat
2.Automate

72. Ben Straub
benstraub

73. Questions?https://github.com/
ben/talks/2017-
robots-codemotion
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