Add org key for slack team name

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The Code for America API. Tracks and motivates activity and participation across the civic technology movement.

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Add org key for slack team name #304

Open patcon opened 8 years ago

patcon commented 8 years ago

Seems that most every brigade has a slack team. Would be great to keep track of this in the API

In particular, I'm interested in creating a service that works a little like this: https://github.com/davidkassa/hubot-slack-relay

The idea is to make slack a little bit more like IRC, where you can easily jump into someone else's channel and start talking and sharing information. Would be great if a central service kept track of all the authorization tokens, and a bot script allowed users to send receive messages between teams :)

patcon commented 8 years ago

Hm. Or perhaps it should just be slack_url, and then people could either link the login (https://civictechto.slack.com/) or link to an invite page if they've chosen to host one (http://civictech.ca/slack/).

ondrae commented 8 years ago

Great idea. Here's how it could work:

[ ] In https://github.com/codeforamerica/brigade-information add an optional slack_url attribute to the organizations.json docs.
[ ] Add the slack_url attribute to the Organization model
[ ] Write a migration for this change. I think its python app.py db migrate
[ ] run_update.py should automatically pick it up the new info, but double check here
[ ] Add some tests that the attribute is getting picked up and added.

You could do the same thing with Twitter handles too.

patcon commented 8 years ago

Great! I've got it started, but I'll have to investigate testing tools in python later