7:00 – 5:00 ASRC NASA

• Starting to take a deep look at Slack as another Antibubbles RPG dungeon. From yesterday’s post
  • You can download conversations as JSON files, and I’d need to build (or find) a dice bot.
    • conversations.history (from Slack conversations API documentation)
      • The Slack Conversations API provides your app with a unified interface to work with all the channel-like things encountered in Slack: public channels, private channels, direct messages, group direct messages, and our newest channel type, Shared Channels. Use this API family to review history, create or archive channels, invite team members, set conversation topic and purpose, and more — no matter what type of conversation your app is working with.
    • Why Slack is Great for Text-Based Role-Playing Games
    • Chat & Slash – Play the world’s first and most-advanced Slack-based RPG.
    • Tabletop Role Playing Games for Slack(ers)
  • Created Antibubbles.slack.com
  • Ok, getting at the data is trivial. An admin can just go to antibubbles.slack.com/services/export. You get a nice zip file that contains everything that you need to reconstruct users and conversations:
  • The data is pretty straightforward too. Here’s the JSON file that has my first post in test-dungeon-1:

    {
            "client_msg_id": "41744548-2c8c-4b7e-b01a-f7cba402a14e",
            "type": "message",
            "text": "SUBJECT: dungeon_master1's introduction to the dungeon\n\tPOST: dungeon_master1 says that you are about to take on a 3-room linear dungeon.",
            "user": "UFG26JUS3",
            "ts": "1547641117.000400"
        }

    So we have the dungeon (the directory/file), unique id for message and user, the text and a timestamp. I’m going to do a bit more reading and then look into getting the Chat & Slash App.

  • Looking at the Workspace Admin page. Trying to see where the IRB can be presented.
• More work on getting the historical data put into a reasonable format. Put together a spreadsheet with the charts for all permutations of fundcode/project/contractfor discussion tomorrow.
• Updated the AI for social good proposal. Need to get the letter signed by mayself and Aaron tomorrow.
• Pytorch tutorial, with better variable names than usual