PresenceNext

CIA.vc blends automated updates from software development workflow with live human status updates. The system messages come from “checking out” and “checking in” your work from an online code repository. The live talk is on IRC – internet relay chat. The bot posts trigger human observations, feedback, interaction.

     <CIA-5>  jupiter * r9203 xchat-gnome/buildsystem.diff:
              update for new plugins
     <staz_>  what are the new plugins?
<purple_cow>  nothing functional yet
<purple_cow>  working on 308765 and 320477
     <staz_>  ok
     <staz_>  thanks

Archived to web, the live stream becomes history: an organized, searchable narrative of a project’s story.

While designed for the open source coding community, this model fits many workplaces. There’s an art to picking which system messages are most meaningful, create the best conversational triggers, and occur infrequently so they don’t turn into spam.