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Important: please note these meetings are now regularly on the 4th Thursday of each month and we're seeking speakers for the next 6 events. Further details have been pinned in the #wellington channel of the Ruby NZ Slack (http://slack.ruby.nz/).

So far we have 1 speaker lined up:

Alexandre Barret -Natural Language Processing and Facebook Messenger 101:

The talk will cover the basics of implementing a chatbot through Facebook Messenger using a Natural Language Processing (NLP) api called RecastAI.

During the talk will address:

• nlp - how to to identify user intents

• nlp - how to train and improve your bot

• messenger - how to create a hello world chatbot using the facebook-messenger gem

• example - Overview of the development of BravoWellyBot in Ruby, https://www.facebook.com/bravowellybot

This will go ahead with just Alexandre, but we're always looking for more speakers, let me know on slack (@four_seven) if you're interested!

Doors open at 5:30pm with talks starting at 6:00pm. We'll break for pizza and chatting/networking after the 1st talk.

Please join us in the Ruby NZ Slack

Lots of us are hanging out there, you can get an invite from the official Ruby NZ (http://ruby.nz/) site here (http://slack.ruby.nz/). Don't forgot to join the #wellington channel too as that's were any discussion and announcement about this meetup occurs.

Sponsorship

Optimal Workshop (https://www.optimalworkshop.com) is once again sharing their sweet office with us and covering the pizza. They're also a big fan and sponsor of the NZ Rails Camps!! Thanks!