Announcing the Unofficial TBA Slack Bot Closed Beta

[bdaroz]

The Programming Group of FRC 5881, the Tech Valley High School Dragons, is proud to announce the closed beta for our Unofficial TBA Slack Bot!

The bot is currently able to look up team information, details, and competition statuses either via direct messages, or conversationally in a channel. It is also able to follow teams at competition and notify the channel of updates.

Currently the request/response commands are fairly complete and just need more testing. Following teams is "probably" working, but without both testers and events, who knows what's broken?

Teams interested in testing during the closed beta are encouraged to sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/8CQSZLDkNhMy6j3J2

If you request access, you must be a Slack Team admin, or have permissions to install Slack Apps. As the bot is currently being hosted on a testing/development server (until open beta), you will be asked to keep setup information and instructions confidential. (Also helps from getting too many testers.) Finally, you will be asked to report any problems timely so we may fix them.

Priority will be given to those teams competing in upcoming events, as well as those teams looking to follow a team in an upcoming offseason event. (This is to facilitate testing.)

A quick example of some of the interaction in a direct message:
http://i.imgur.com/yqqrpFy.png