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## Screenshot

[![George in action!][1]][1]

## About

George the Dev is a chat bot for the Stack Exchange network of chat sites.

He currently hangs out in the [Sandbox](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1/sandbox) and is capable of understanding a few commands and those commands resemble a natural form of English. Here are some examples:

<pre>
Me: @GeorgetheDev what time is it?
George: @Nathan The current time is Thu, 03 Sep 2015 05:22:02 GMT.
Me: @GeorgetheDev what is tritium?
George: @Nathan [link to "Tritium" article on Wikipedia]
Me: @GeorgetheDev what is (12 + 2) * 3?
George: @Nathan 42
</pre>

He can also lookup manpages, perform `ping` and `dig` lookups, etc.

### License

George is released under the [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

### Download

The source code for George is available [here on GitHub](https://github.com/nathan-osman/george-the-dev-bot).

## Contact

I can be contacted at `[email protected]`

## Code

The bot is written in Go and uses [go-sechat](http://stackapps.com/questions/7245/go-sechat-go-package-for-interacting-with-the-stack-exchange-chat-network).


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/Xjqnj.png