Time to get real
So, we’ve created a slack bot based on Hubot, and written a deployment scheme which is 12 factor-y. The bot comes with a few batteries included, such as common scripts for finding pictures of cats and throwing pugs at one another, which is great and all. But we came here to chew bubblegum and get 
done - and we’re all out of bubblegum !
We need to start giving this dude some things to do - things which are currently taking up our human time. That’s why we started this whole thing in the first place: so that we’d spend less time on boring admin and more time rocking and hacking.
The easiest kind of task that we can automate are repeating tasks. These are the kinds of things that have to be done repeatedly at specified intervals.
The first repeating task that I can think of is the monthly report.
Monthly Sitrep
We have organised our Slack workspace into several channels based on interest, location or role. For example, all of the sites which contribute resources have their own channels, which the site operators and the Regional Operator on Duty.
The point of these channels is not to distract the other operators with issues that are strictly pertinent to the site itself.
However, there are many issues which are relevant to all sites, such as issues arising in campaigns, discussion of technical issues, general questions, or requests for help from other site admins. Often, a common issue arises at all sites, which it is much more efficient to deal with collectively than individually at the site level. For this, we previously had an ops channel.
This channel ended up generating a lot of good knowledge, and helped us to understand what was happening in the ROC as a whole. Re-reading this channel made it easier to summarise the general progress or state of issues on the ROC, and thus made it possible to write more concrete periodic reports.
Unfortunately, the message limit imposed by Slack on free workspaces meant that we would often lose much of that information before we realised that we needed it again. The solution to this was to create channels every month, and shift the discussion over there, while archiving the previous month’s channel for posterity.
Hey presto, we can now search all of the ops archives.