Building an Alexa Skill in 20 minutes using NodeJS

[muttoni]

Developers can build engaging voice experiences, aka Skills, for their services with the Alexa Skills Kit. In this 20 minute session, learn how to build a voice experience for Amazon Alexa: from idea to working skill including some best practices to consider along the way.

Personal Info: Tech Evangelist at Amazon, Twitter: @muttonia

[admataz]

Hi @muttoni - thanks for your talk proposal!

This sounds like a fun talk - it will be great to hear how node.js developers can experiment with things like Alexa - will you be giving us a demo? 😄 👍

How are you fixed for August 22nd or October 24th?

@lnug/contributors @lnug/organisers - thoughts, feedback, seconder?

[muttoni]

Of course, we'll be implementing it together, I usually ask for an idea from the audience to keep things interesting (also for myself 😉). We'll have a working prototype within 20 minutes.

Can't do August 22nd unfortunately, but can do October 24th. I've tentatively blocked my calendar in the meantime ;)

[admataz]

Thanks @muttoni! Looking forward to hearing it. Added you to October's meetup plans.

@lnug/contributors @lnug/organisers - please can someone provide their 2nd thoughts/support for this proposal?

[muttoni]

hey @admataz , was just going through the events calendar. is the slot on oct 24 confirmed?

[admataz]

Hi @muttoni - yes if you're still up for it, I'm happy to confirm

[muttoni]

Yup :) Let's confirm it.

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Hi @muttoni https://github.com/muttoni - yes if you're still up for it, I'm happy to confirm

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[admataz]

you're on! - looks like it's going to be a good and full evening of talks!

[admataz]

Hi @muttoni ! Just getting everything finalised for tomorrow's meetup... I trust all is still good from your side?

Some details:

We are hosted at Condé Nast Adelphi Building 1-11 John Adam Stree WC2N 6HT

We aim to start talks at 7pm - it would be great if you can get there some time between 6:30pm and 7pm?

If you need to contact me at any point - my number is 07757234443

See you tomorrow!

[admataz]

I meant to add - when you get to the venue - your name will be with security - ask for Michelle Garret if there are any issues.

[muttoni]

Ok, great. Yes I confirm for tonight! On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 21:19, Adam Davis notifications@github.com wrote:

I meant to add - when you get to the venue - your name will be with security - ask for Michelle Garret if there are any issues.

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[admataz]

Hi Andrea Thanks for a great talk last week - it was very well presented, and really kept the audience interested - we were talking about the talks later at the pub - and yours was a favourite for some... I enjoyed the live coding and audience interaction...

I'll post a link here with the video when it's ready.

Meanwhile if you have any feedback for us on the evening, or how LNUG is run generally - I'd welcome your thoughts! Also if you want to share any resources or links related to your talk - please post them here.

Hopefully see you again at a future LNUG meetup!

[admataz]

Thanks again for the great talk - it's now available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLam_80-FY3vQE2I_NP0F3dTFsVHGrTTVX

See you soon!