Announce events in #events #63
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Some members of Slack have said that Slackbot posting daily to the #general channel is disruptive because there isn't a good way to distinguish between messages from the bot and real people. Notifications are untrustworthy and can't easily be opted out of.
Bot messages in #general are prevalent enough that they may also discourage conversation from people in the channel since it only takes a few days of bot messages to fill the screen, making it unclear whether it's okay for people to chat there.
Describe the solution you'd like
Other Slack workspaces such as tech[inclusive] and Grand Rapids have a channel dedicated to events or announcements. Instead of the Slackbot posting event announcements to #general, it could be configured to do one or both of the following:
- Post all event announcements in
#events - Post topical events to their respective channel (e.g. JavaScript events get announced in
#front-end-dev)
The destination channel(s) for each announcement should be configurable outside of the code, preferably in the Firestore database by way of the api project.