Shardik

Projects
Participants	Realitygaps, Voidz0r
Skills	Python, irc, Programming, Git
Status	Active
Niche	Software
Purpose	World domination

shardik is a bot that runs in #techinc

About

shardik is based on http://willie.dftba.net/, with some extra modules (hosted at https://github.com/techinc/spacebot_modules).

You can /msg shardik to have a private query (and reduce spam on the channel)

Techinc Related Features

• .state - returns the current space state (open/closed)
• .spacestate - returns the current space state (open/closed)
• .rule X - returns rule number X from the wiki
• .togglestate - toggles the space open/closed state
• .startrss - starts tracking rss feeds (new wiki pages, github commits, etc)

• .mpd playing - returns current song playing
• .mpd state - returns current mpd state
• .mpd play - starts mpd playing
• .mpd stop - stops mpd
• .mpd pause - pauses mpd
• .mpd next - start next track playing in mpd

• .alertspace - flashes the lights at the space (to catch peoples attention)

Other Bot Features

• .tell user message - will tell user the message when they next appear
• .in time message - will remind at that time of the message
• .tr phrase - translates phrase
• .commands - bot will send you a list of commands

Disabled Features

Willie has a lot of features, we have turned some of them off.

• auto-correction based on regex s/x/y was disabled (as some ppl complained it was annoying)
• ai has been disabled
• Shardik may be separated into two bots, one for space related items and another for other bot things (so ppl can ignore one)

Planned Features

• automate trackstate and startrss on channel join
• next event module (based on next wiki event, with reminder notice to channel before an event)
• wikibot module - for other wiki integration (tools, pledges, projects, users, etc?)
• helpbot module - for space info/faq/intro stuff
• meetbot module - there are meeting features in the bot (to manage irc meetings and automatically export logs/notes)