arrrghh - this has gone to Bangpypers On Wednesday 01 July 2009 09:43:49 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Tuesday 30 June 2009 17:42:36 Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > > The main use of the bot for a conference is for sending updates > > via twitter. The way it works is as follows. > > > > 1. A twitter bot account for the conference is created on twitter. > > For our conference it could be "inpycon" for example. > > 2. An admin befriends the bot. > > 3. For broadcasting (tweeting) a message, the admin sends a command > > to the twitter bot with the message to be tweeted and the bot "tweets" > > it. 4. Everyone "following" the bot gets the update. > > 5. We can also publish the update on the website in this case, > > the in-pycon website. > > > > These are "push" bots. > > > > The bot will be running on a server, in this case it should ideally run > > on the inpycon server. > > > > I have the twitter reflect script written by Stephen Crimm for Pycon > > with me. I can take care of installing this on our inpycon server > > and administering it. > > > > I just need root ssh access on the inpycon machine. Kenneth, > > can u send this info to me directly ? > > the conference software is a django application. To tweet, all we need to > do is create a signal on save which will tweet the info to twitter. The > only thing we need to do is to decide what info we are going to send. For > example, every time a delegate registers, his name and a link to his info > could be tweeted. Or when a talk is proposed, a post made, that can be > tweeted also. AFAIK there is no need to install a bot.
-- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
