Hey there. Virtual Coffee isn't using this package any more, so we've archived it. Please feel free to fork and use on your own!

We miss you, Mike. ❤️

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Bot : MeetingPlace Events

This friendly bot reports when the next event is in our Slack.

It pulls the data from the MeetingPlace API.

Sample Output

📅 *Next Event:* Virtual Coffee - Morning Crowd
Starting in 10 minutes! <https://meetingplace.io/virtual-coffee/events/3185|View Details>

Setting up

The bot runs on a schedule as managed by Heroku Scheduler (We did try GitHub Actions, but they proved unreliable at running on time). It requires the following secrets to be setup:

Secret	Source	Purpose
SLACK_API_TOKEN	Bot User OAuth Access Token	This allows us to post as a bot to slack

Slack Bot Token Scopes

The following scopes need to be added to your Slack Bot to allow it to post messages.

Scope
chat:write.public
channels:read
chat:write

Scheduled Messages

Currently there are three scheduled tasks which run:

Rake Task	When it should be run	Purpose	Crontab
virtual_coffee_bot:next_event	Hourly ~15 minutes before the hour	Gives a heads up that a new meeting is about to start	45 * * * *
virtual_coffee_bot:todays_events	Every morning at 8am (Except Monday)	Tells us in the morning an event will happen that day	0 8 * * *
virtual_coffee_bot:this_weeks_events	Every Monday at 8am UTC	Lists all the meetings starting that week	0 8 * * *