GrizzBot 🐻

A Slack bot for use in managing the GrizzHacks 5 virtual sponsorship expo and automating tedious tasks and reminders during the event.

What can GrizzBot do?

Moderate a Virtual Sponsor Expo

With events moved to an entirely virtual environment, GrizzBot is there to help make sure everything runs smoothly for both hackers and sponsors. Simply install GrizzBot into the Slack workspace and hackers can type slash commands right in the chat to join the queue to meet one-on-one with sponsors, and have a video meeting link sent directly to them when it's their turn.

Sponsor's Perspective

From the sponsor's point-of-view, using GrizzBot is easy! The sponsor representative will simply:

1. Join the designated video conferencing link provisioned for them
2. Wait for hackers to join the queue for the meeting link (sponsors can check the status of the queue using the /showqueue command typed into the Slack chat)
3. When the sponsor is ready to accept new hackers, they can type the /advancequeue [sponsor-key] command into the channel chat, where “sponsor-key” is the secret sponsor password provided to the company’s point of contact This will automatically send the invitation link through Slack to the hacker.

Hacker's Perspective

From the hacker's point of view, the steps are just as easy:

1. Type in /joinqueue to enter the queue to speak with a representative
2. To see where you are at in the queue, you can type /showqueue
3. If you decide to leave, you type in /leavequeue When the recruiters are ready, you'll get a message in this channel that you can click on to join the meeting!

Automate Reminder Messages to Keep Hackers Informed

GrizzBot in Context	Automated Meeting Links

Send Encouraging Messages to Keep Hackers Motivated