Last week I was in Branson, Missouri to present at the North American Collaboration Summit, a great conference which has grown out of the strong community that exists because of the SharePoint Saturday movement.

I talked about building chat bots, some of the considerations around making your bots not suck and gave a couple of demos at opposing ends of the spectrum, at the simple end I showed using QnA Maker to make an FAQ bot while at the complex end I demoed the ability to authenticate with BotAuth, integrate with Azure Functions, and the Microsoft Graph.

I’ve put the base code for both the Bot and the supporting Azure Functions up on GitHub for you to look at. I’m going to keep iterating on this code and making it suck less.