I like the ideas of disabling some of the @zoia bot plugins for the
conference at least.


> For what it's worth, Jon Gorman was working on a version of `@herald`
> that provided introductory information to those new to the IRC
> channel. (I'm hoping he can speak to details.)

Details of Greeter (the Herald-intro bot):

It's my first foray into both supybot and python.  I've got a couple
of things still on the todo list before throwing it in channel. I did
a fork that can be seen here:

https://github.com/jtgorman/supybot-plugins/tree/master/plugins/Greeter

I think off hand I have something that seems to mostly work, but I
want to get @greeter add nick and @greeter remove nick so people can
prevent alternative nicks from being spammed and some sort of init
routine that pulls in a list of nicks to ignore if the db is not
present.  The latter may just end up waiting, I don't know. Feel free
to submit pull requests.  I'll then try to figure out the git magic to
get into code4lib.  (Or I'll just check out a fresh version of the
code4lib and copy the directory and commit that)

Hoping to get something in shape by the end of the week that can be
added to Zoia. Suggestions on the message welcome.  (Right now it has
"Welcome to code4lib! Visit http://code4lib.org/irc to find out more
about this channel. Type @helpers for a list of people in channel who
can help." (Going to change @helpers into @helpers #code4lib)

Thanks to Mark who reminded me about the @helpers plugin. ( I don't think it's


Jon Gorman