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Using the calendar and this package perhaps

Send a message to #random when a new emoji is created

Have a command that makes sure Gerald hasn't died

Replace the email birthday reminders with Slack messages

• Extract quotes from the channel
• Store them in a file
• Remember the last time you announced them
• Randomly say one in random every now and then

Command: Could you get me the 3 most recent papers from 0000-0001-6147-5761 please @gerald?

Results: The most 3 recent papers from 0000-0001-6147-5761 were published on the arXiv 2, 4, 3, ,, , 2, 5, 7, , a, n, d, , 2, 6, 7 days ago respectively. Here are the titles and links:

The arXiv date refers to the date it was submitted, not the date it is announced. We can work around this by doing a weekly summary instead.

I think we could get Gerald to do speaker dinners too. I'm imagining some new commands:

• What are the upcoming speaker dinners?
• I will host the speaker dinner on YYYY-MM-DD
  • Gerald would ask for confirmation

Gerald can then keep a CSV of all of the dinners and all of the hosts. He'll send out a reminder on the week of the dinner with the host and perhaps could also remind the channel if no one has signed up as host.

It seems like Gerald will currently announce papers both when they are submitted and accepted. I need to make him tell the difference and announce differently. Probably something like "here's the new papers...and here's a list of papers that got accepted...".

I think just checking the publisher returned by ADS should do this.

Either in response to sad messages or upon demand?

Just noticed that the whinetime message doesn't highlight the channel name. I mean you have to do something similar to @ ing someone.

Probably easiest to just look at an incoming message and copy the format, then use find_channel("whinetime") to insert the right ID.

Gerald will reaction to tomorrow with :tom: - das not good

(I'll fix this with regexs)

If I write: "Wow this is fun :gerald-wink:"

He'll react as if I mentioned his name in the string. I think the easiest way to fix this is to blank out emojis in the text.

"When is ...'s birthday Gerald?"

• I love you
• How old are you?
• Who made you?
• Where are you from?
  etc.

Replace the email bot

• Randomly generate a list of people to host whinetime in some order
  • And only add certain people to this list to avoid alums and remote folks
• Still allow people to reject, swap them with the next person in the list
• At the end of the list redraw and start all over again
• Create a command for people to query when they are hosting whinetime
• Send reminders two weeks in advance in a DM?

He should probably come with instructions for future reference 🙃

I think currently he'll get confused, I need to make him do something special for his own (I have the GIF ready)

I didn't handle the case for if someone has no papers yet!

I'm thinking a slash command where you submit an image and get an emoji out

Seems like I could just use the ads API to make it so people don't need to link/provide ORCIDs

This is just an idea, but I bet you could scrape all the slack messages and train a model that takes the text as input and then predicts/reacts with the appropriate emojis.

@jbirky suggested we could automate pizza in the same way as whinetime. I think I just need to make Gerald

• Randomly select someone from the channel as host (two week schedule?)
  • (Allow re-rolls same as whinetime in case people are away)
  • Maybe a "no pizza lunch this week" button for holidays/summer
• Once the person accepts...unsure, send them instructions on who to call and where to get it?

@jbirky, let me know what exactly you had in mind and I'll get Gerald on it!

Probably just need to use a different separator in the file, maybe }?

Automated trawl of the arXiv, does it have an API?