Oh-bot - Your team's Office Hours Bot

The Oh-bot will help manage your team's office hours.

• Set location and time for office hours on a per-team or individual basis.
• Organizes and records who is intending on joining the team's office hours and what topics will be discussed
• Provide insight into past office hours to help make improvements to services team provides

Present abilities

Oh-bot is able to...

Set your team's office hours

Sample Utterances

• "SampleUtterances"
• "Set office hours today"
• "I would like to set office hours"
• "Set office hours now"
• "I need to set office hours"
• "Help me set office hours"
• "Damn it I forgot to set office hours"
• "Let's set office hours"
• "How about some office hours"
• "Set office hours"

Retrieve office hours for a known team (Controlled by the Lex slot SetTeam)

Sample Utterances

• "When is office hours"
• "Look up office hours"
• "When is office hours for data platform"
• "When is office hours for a team"
• "Are there office hours today"
• "Where is office hours"
• "Get office hours"
• "Tell me about office hours"
• "What are office hours"
• "Lookup office hours"

Add discussion topic for a team's office hours for a given day

Sample Utterances

• "Set topic for office hours"
• "I have a something I want help with"
• "I have an issue I want to work on"
• "I would like to come to office hours"
• "I have something to discuss at office hours"
• "There is something I would like help on"
• "Coming to office hours"
• "I need help at office hours"
• "Set topic"
• "Topic to set"
• "Add a discussion topic"

Lookup office hour discussion topics for a given day

Sample Utterances

• "Tell me the topics"
• "Look up discussion topics for"
• "Look up discussion topics"
• "What are the discussion topics"
• "What are we talking about"
• "Topics at office hours"
• "What are we talking about at office hours"
• "Who is coming"
• "Lookup topic"

Video walkthrough

Technology stack

AWS Lex Bot + Slack

Serverless.com framework driven setup

Python 3.6 AWS Lambda Functions

Dynamodb backend

Setup requirements

• Install serverless npm install serverless
• Install serverless-package-python-functions npm install --save serverless-package-python-functions
• copy local_sample.yml to local.yml and update local.yml to use your Slack bot's auth token
• Run serverless deploy
• Review lex/full-configuration/oh-bot.json and import into your AWS with adjusted values for the SetTeam slot values

Lex configuration overview

Intents

• AddDiscusionTopicOfficeHours
• GetTeamsOfficeHours
• LookupDiscussionTopics
• SetTodaysOfficeHours

Slots

• GetDiscussionTopic
• SetTeam
• OfficeHoursLocation

Dynamodb tables

• oh-bot-{environment}
• oh-bot-{environment}-topics

Local Development

Initial setup script will download latest DynamoDB local service

bash localdev_setup.sh

To run local DynamoDB on port 8000

java -Djava.library.path=./DynamoDBLocal_lib -jar DynamoDBLocal.jar -sharedDb -inMemory

• oh-bot logo by Rebecca Meredith