Slack bot ideas

[robertquitt]

Extending #19

Make a slack bot that syncs our LDAP entries with the members of a slack channel, give greeting messages, etc.

With a bot, we can do a lot more than just this, there are a number of features I can think of that would be useful. Here are a few I think of:

• Access control to channels (officers, pb, other possible private channels)

  • Will need to associate slack user <-> unix user

  • Should kick/invite users

• Info about server health

• Add/remove people from mailing lists and unix groups

  • Basically a fancy interface to the django admin site, except no password/web ui needed.

• Officer points management

  • Might have to plug into google sheets or rethink how we track these

• Print out current MOTD

There are a few resources online already for this. https://medium.com/freehunch/how-to-build-a-slack-bot-with-python-using-slack-events-api-django-under-20-minute-code-included-269c3a9bf64e seems pretty helpful. Once we get a framework down, then we can start adding more features.