fptbot is a small open source data management system offering basic entertainment and collaboration features.

The architecture was built with flexibility in mind and can be extented to provide all sorts of different features and protocols. Currently, only IRC is supported but support HTTP is planned.

The system maintains a list of accounts, so that registered users can authenticate with the bot for additional administrative functions. Users can be authenticated with username/password credentials or based on implicit information such as IRC network-specific registration services. Additionally, a simple RBAC concept offers basic authorization.

A central part of the systems consists of a small calendaring system with support for calendar, event and contact data. The calendaring datastore provides an abstract mechanism to store data objects in multiple backends. Data can be replicated over multiple backends using either one-way or two-way synchronization. Additionally support for limited un-deletion of data items and autiding of data manipulation is planned.

Currently supported backends are local databases using SQLAlchemy and Google services using the Google Data API.

The topic of an IRC channel can be set using a variety of data source, such as calendars, url grabber, etc. When calendar mode is activated, the topic will be changed upon new calendar events to provide the latest information for all channel users.

The URL grabber collects all sorts of URLs posted to the channel such as websites, pictures, videos, etc. Using plugings, addtional functions can be executed, e.g. posting the youtube video name to the channel, pushing new URLs to twitter, etc.

The information system provides a flexible way to store simple public information items like URLs or IP adresses.

The bot offers various entertainment functions like a quote database, the posting of random facts, and mini games.

The IRC subsystem offers a simple command-based interface for managing calendering data.