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Working on our own digital infrastructure allows us to adapt the tools to our own needs and behaviours; meaning that these bots make sense to us, but they may not make sense to someone else.
* [Streambot](https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/xmpp.streambot): a bot that saves the images sent to the main Varia group chat and creates an [html page](https://vvvvvvaria.org/stream/) for them.
* [Logbot](https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/logbot): a bot that [logs](https://vvvvvvaria.org/logs/) the quotes that are sent to it.
* You can find a genealogy of the bots around Varia in this footnote [^2]
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### 15:30-15:45 - _bot as conductor or bot as conductive_
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* 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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**_name:_** gather.py;
**_action mode:_** generates a share language; it creates a collective document;
**_action mode:_** generates a shared language; it creates a collective document;
**_situation:_** a collective discursive setting that generates its own vocabulary;
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**_action mode:_** sends a message when it enters the room;
**_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
**_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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**_action mode:_** replies to a specific word; brings alternatives into the situation; tries to create new habits and terminologies;
**_situation:_** potentially in moments when a situation seems difficult and there is a need for more joyful interactions
**_situation:_** potentially in moments when a situation seems difficult and there is a need for more joyful interactions;
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Split into groups of maximum 4-5 (mixed interest in code)
Split into groups of maximum 4-5 (mixed interest in code).
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* 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;
* **embody the situation through a conductor / conductive bot:**
* **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);
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* **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)
* 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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### 16:40-17:10 - _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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### 17:10-17:30 - _bot in the situation_
### 17:00-17:30 - _bot in the situation_
* experimenting with bots: either adapt the ones we provided (experiment with code) or enact the bots' behaviours iteratively (bot behaviour);
