ntgx / expo-bot-messenger

Messenger Bot for ICT Expo Ethiopia 2017

This is the official messenger bot for the first international ICT Expo in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 (June 28 - July 02). Over 200,000 are expected to attend!

You can play with the bot here or by scanning the code above

Progress

• Send Exhibitors, schedule, speakers, events, sponsors, floor plan
• Conversational form to register users for the lotto
• Use apiai to do NLP (smalltalk with the user and accepts commands, questions)
• Set reminder feature for events and daily schedule
• Collect website, tel and logo of all exhibitors, logos for sponsors & urls for learn more on the speaker cards
• Show the github contributors within the bot
• After expo ends make it generic enough so anyone can just replace the JSON data and have a good starting point for a new expo, conference or exhibition bot

Building and Deploying

Run $ yarn to install the dependencies and set these environment variables:

• PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN
• VERIFY_TOKEN
• APP_SECRET
• PORT
• EXPO_MONGO_URI - Setup Mongo locally or use a hosted service like mlab and provide the connection URI
• EXPO_API_AI_TOKEN - Sign up on apiai to get your token

Check the Messenger Platform Quick Start for how to get the first three and to setup your webhook.

For your webhook URL you can deploy the app to heroku or if you want to run the server locally you can use ngork.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome...even during the expo! There will be space there to hack on the bots[1] together & to show anyone interested the basics. Contributors will be shown within the bot.

[1] There's also a Telegram Bot

Contributing a fix or feature

1. Submit an issue describing your proposed fix or feature.
2. If your proposed fix or feature is accepted then, fork, implement your code change.
3. Ensure your code change follows the accepted code style and structure.
4. Ensure your code is properly tested.
5. Ensure your commits follow the accepted commit message style
6. Submit a pull request.

Code style and structure

The coding style must conform with the Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide. Run $yarn --dev to install the linter.

Git commit messages

This hasn't been the case so far but try to use Udacity's Git commit message style guide.

Screenshots

The main menu

Exhibitors, daily schedule, speakers

Events, sponsors, register for lotto

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Nati Gossaye

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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