Community @ Pandorabots

One week in to the public release of AIaaS…

…We took a step back to appreciate the truly cosmopolitan composition of this global community.

In the first days after the new developer portal went live, developers flooded in from all over the world:

AIML can be written in any language

One of the amazing features of Artificial Ingelligence Markup Language is that it can be written in almost any natural language. When you sign up to build a bot on the Playground, simply select the language of your choice and start creating the AI content for your target demographic.

Flexible and extensible

AIML is also highly flexible and extensible. Bots built and hosted on the Pandorabots platform can be created for any domain, and deployed anywhere. We’ve already written about hooking a bot up to Twitter, adding a bot to your web page for live chat or customer service, using Firebase to store logs and more — but the use cases don’t stop there. In the coming weeks, we’ll be exploring how to hook a bot up to the Twilio messaging service, followed by other use cases and tutorials to introduce new functionality.

Ideas for these tutorials are often inspired by the community. We follow in the footsteps of other platform users who continue to find new and interesting ways to deploy bots on messaging services, social networks, mobile apps, games, and more. If you have a suggestion for integration you’d like to see, we invite you to email us at info@pandorabots.com, and in the meantime, please keep sharing your hacks.

The importance of community

Community is one of the cornerstones of Pandorabots. In addition to promoting and supporting open standards, we make as much of our work as possible available for free or open source in order to give back. With every new tool, framework, and feature, we strive to make building bots easy and accessible.

However, we could never have gotten this far alone.

To that end, we’d like to take a moment to say thanks for all of your amazing contributions, including the new community-developed Ruby and Python SDKs now up on github. If you’ve written an SDK in another language (particularly .NET or Objective-C), or any other tools that might benefit the community, then we would love to hear from you.

Thanks again,
The Pandorabots Team

Originally published at blog.pandorabots.com on November 27, 2014.