From Pentabarf

Python bot

There's a supybot plugin which can be used to announce talks and events in an IRC channel. It was first used at the MetaRheinMain Chaosdays 111b. Announcements look like this:

 <mrmcdinfo> ==> Gleich fuer euch auf den mrmcds: mrmcd111b closing event von g0ph3r, Risktaker und Jonas Lerch -- mrmcd111b closing event- what happened and have a nice trip home -- Diese Veranstaltung findet in Raum C205 statt. -- Beginn: 17:30; Dauer: 30 Minuten

To use the plugin, you need to install supybot first, and set up a bot. (Refer to the supybot website for information on how to do this) The Xcal plugin, as the name indicates, gets the event information from the xcal version of the pentabarf schedule.

To set up Xcal, you have to copy it into the supybot plugin directory, then load it:

/msg $(NAME_OF_YOUR_BOT) Load Xcal

Next, make sure your bot is joined in the channel you want the announcements to be posted. Then issue in this channel:

!addevent mrmcd http://www.hcesperer.org/temp/mrmcdtmp.txt 1800 600 Metarheinmain Chaosdays 111b

Where mrmcd is a short name for your conference, http://www.hcesperer.org/temp/mrmcdtmp.txt is the (publicly accessibly) URL to your xcal schedule, 1800 the xcal refresh interval, 600 the number of seconds to announce an event in advance, and Metarheinmain Chaosdays 111b is the full title of the conference.

You may add multiple conferences.

If you want to change settings, use the supybot registry system. For example, to change the xcal url to http://foo.bar/xcal.txt, issue

/msg $(NAME_OF_YOUR_BOT) config supybot.plugins.Xcal.events.mrmcd.url http://foo.bar/xcal.txt

To change the announce message, use the variable supybot.plugins.Xcal.events.$(YOUR_EVENT_NAME).announcemsg .

You can checkout the current codebase here:

git clone http://www.hcesperer.org/supybot/supybotplugins.git

Or, you fetch the current tarball:

http://www.hcesperer.org/supybot/Xcal.tar.bz2

If you want to test the plugin, you may want to set up a test irc server. You may use my zero-configuration python ircd for that purpose.

Questions? Contact the author.

Ruby bot

Has been written for 22C3 and was run for 23C3 and 24C3, too. Check out with:

git clone http://cthulhu.c3d2.de/~astro/git/irceventannounce.git/

Or use its GitWeb.

You may contact the author for this one, too.