* create an account and [choose nickname](https://conversejs.org/fullscreen.html#converse/register ) on conversejs
* once you are logged in, join the group chat named botsofconduct@muc.vvvvvvaria.org
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_Conducting: "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conducting. There are many roles as conductors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conductor also, in connection to the enviroment: "a substance, body, or device that readily conducts heat, electricity, sound"._
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Looking into the bots [examples](https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/ccl/bots-of-conduct)
Let's look into the bots [examples](https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/ccl/bots-of-conduct):
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#### Transit
**_name:_** transit.py;
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**_situation:_** finding non-verbal ways of communicating through presence and absence; making presence felt otherwise;
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#### Gather
**_name:_** gather.py;
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**_situation:_** a collective discursive setting that generates its own vocabulary;
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#### Greet
**_name:_** greet.py;
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**_situation:_** when there is a theme, for example: "send a reference to an existing or imaginary code of conduct, complaint, guideline, bug report, open letter, license or other social-technical protocol and explain why it is of interest to you."; how one wants to be introduced;
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#### Spark
**_name:_** spark.py;
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**_situation:_** potentially in moments when a situation seems difficult and there is a need for more joyful interactions;
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#### Whisper
**_name:_** whisper.py
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**_situation:_** there are remarks or complaints in the room, but the person does not feel comfortable to bring up the issue themselves;
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### 16:00-16:30 — _Creating Situations_
We move to [an Etherpad](https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/botsofconduct.workshop-Burg-Halle).
* **create a name for the chatroom:**
* or rooms /sites of action/ environments ..to open up the imagination of what a chatroom may be like!
* **imagine situations:**
* from your own experiences working in collaboration, or with a collective, or having read a CoC, try to recall a specific moment which can define an action mode;
* **action modes: embody the situation through a conductor / conductive bot:**
* in relation to the situation, does your bot act as conductor or as conductive?
* what are your "action modes" (for eg.: sitting; dancing; witnessing; listening; gathering; greeting; sparking; whispering; reminders is a specific kind of action);
* action modes that create or perform within specific situations (for eg.:conversation is unbalanced);
* what apart from language can be used as a way of conducting? what other modes of non-linguistic expression?
* **further questions:**
* how could the bot be physically enacted? what gestures would it perform?
* some (non-exhaustive) attributes of bot behaviour: iteration, repetition, lack of memory, other temporalities (duration / tempo);
* will your bot perform in other space extensions? speaking to other (chat)rooms? to other spatial formats (file systems, like the gather.py which uses a txt file for adding words to a glossary);
* will your bot be a channel between private to public? semi-public to semi-public? semi-public to private? private to private?
* will your bot relate to other bots? thinking of distance and proximities between members and bots: is it listening to a specific member? is it listening to other bots?
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### 16:30-16:45 - _Break_
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### 16:45-18:00 - _Bot in the Situation_
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* bot behaviour: iterations, repetition, ...
### _Installing and Running the Bots_ (optional)
####_Installing and Running the Bots_ (optional)
**For computers running Windows OS**
* install [Anaconda](https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/windows/) with python 3
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* if you dont have a code editor, we can suggest (among others) [Sublime Text](https://www.sublimetext.com/)
* to install the conversations app on your phone, you could use either Conversations or [Quicksy](https://quicksy.im/) for Android phones (among others)
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### 18:00-18:30 - _Discussion and Performing with the Bots_
