| Area                         | Status                                                                                             |
|------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Community                    | [![StackExchange](https://img.shields.io/stackexchange/stackoverflow/t/generalbots.svg)](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/generalbots)  [![Gitter](https://img.shields.io/gitter/room/pragmatismo-io/GeneralBots.svg)](https://gitter.im/GeneralBots) [![Open-source](https://badges.frapsoft.com/os/v2/open-source.svg)](https://badges.frapsoft.com) [![PRs Welcome](https://img.shields.io/badge/PRs-welcome-brightgreen.svg?style=flat-square)](http://makeapullrequest.com) [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-AGPL-blue.svg)](https://github.com/pragmatismo-io/BotServer/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)|
| Management                   | [![Maintenance](https://img.shields.io/badge/Maintained%3F-yes-green.svg)](https://gitHub.com/pragmatismo-io/BotServer/graphs/commit-activity) [![Waffle.io - Columns and their card count](https://badge.waffle.io/pragmatismo-io/BotServer.svg?columns=all)](https://waffle.io/pragmatismo-io/BotServer) |
| Security                     | [![Known Vulnerabilities](https://snyk.io/test/github/pragmatismo-io/BotServer/badge.svg)](https://snyk.io/test/github/pragmatismo-io/BotServer) |
| Building & Quality           | [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.com/pragmatismo-io/BotServer.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/pragmatismo-io/BotServer)  [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/pragmatismo-io/BotServer/badge.svg)](https://coveralls.io/github/pragmatismo-io/BotServer) [![code style: prettier](https://img.shields.io/badge/code_style-prettier-ff69b4.svg?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/prettier/prettier) |
| Packaging                    | [![forthebadge](https://badge.fury.io/js/botserver.svg)](https://badge.fury.io) [![Dependencies](https://david-dm.org/pragmatismo-io/botserver.svg)](https://david-dm.org)  [![Greenkeeper badge](https://badges.greenkeeper.io/pragmatismo-io/BotServer.svg)](https://greenkeeper.io/) [![Commitizen friendly](https://img.shields.io/badge/commitizen-friendly-brightgreen.svg)](http://commitizen.github.io/cz-cli/) |
| Releases                     | [![General Bots](https://img.shields.io/npm/dt/botserver.svg?logo=npm&label=botserver)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/botserver/) [![.gbapp lib](https://img.shields.io/npm/dt/botlib.svg?logo=npm&label=botlib)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/botlib/) [![semantic-release](https://img.shields.io/badge/%20%20%F0%9F%93%A6%F0%9F%9A%80-semantic--release-e10079.svg)](https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release)|
| Samples                        | [default.gbdialog (VBA)](https://github.com/pragmatismo-io/BotServer/tree/master/packages/default.gbdialog) [AzureADPasswordReset.gbapp (TypeScript)](https://github.com/pragmatismo-io/AzureADPasswordReset.gbapp)|
| [Docker Image](https://github.com/lpicanco/docker-botserver) | ![Docker Automated build](https://img.shields.io/docker/automated/lpicanco/botserver.svg) ![Docker Build Status](https://img.shields.io/docker/build/lpicanco/botserver.svg) ![MicroBadger Size](https://img.shields.io/microbadger/image-size/lpicanco/botserver.svg) ![MicroBadger Layers](https://img.shields.io/microbadger/layers/lpicanco/botserver.svg) ![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/lpicanco/botserver.svg) <br/> *Provided by [@lpicanco](https://github.com/lpicanco/docker-botserver)* |

General Bots
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![General Bot Logo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pragmatismo-io/BotServer/master/logo.png)

General Bot is a strongly typed package based chat bot server focused in convention over configuration and code-less approaches, which brings software packages and application server concepts to help parallel bot development.

## Guide

[Read the General Bots Guide](https://github.com/GeneralBots/BotBook/blob/master/01%20-%20Overview.md).

## Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. 
See our [Contribution Guidelines](https://github.com/pragmatismo-io/BotServer/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for more details.

## Reporting Security Issues

Security issues and bugs should be reported privately, via email, to the Pragmatismo.io Security
team at [security@pragmatismo.io](mailto:security@pragmatismo.io). You should
receive a response within 24 hours. If for some reason you do not, please follow up via
email to ensure we received your original message. 

## License & Warranty

General Bot Copyright (c) Pragmatismo.io. All rights reserved.
Licensed under the AGPL-3.0.       
                                                            
According to our dual licensing model, this program can be used either
under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3,
or under a proprietary license.   
                                                        
The texts of the GNU Affero General Public License with an additional
permission and of our proprietary license can be found at and 
in the LICENSE file you have received along with this program.
                                                       
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
                                                        
"General Bot" is a registered trademark of Pragmatismo.io.
The licensing of the program under the AGPLv3 does not imply a
trademark license. Therefore any rights, title and interest in
our trademarks remain entirely with us.


<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask?tags=generalbots">:speech_balloon: Ask a question</a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://github.com/GeneralBots/BotBook/blob/master/01%20-%20Overview.md">:book: Read the Docs</a>
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# Videos

## Easeness authoring of bot packages, development environment and self-deployment.

* Now with the General Bots server you can press F5 on Visual Studio to get a bot factory on your environment* published on November 10th, 2018.

[![General Bot Video](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pragmatismo-io/BotServer/master/docs/images/video-01-thumb.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKTwljoMOs)

## Using TALK and HEAR to build Virtual Assistants with BASIC

* See how easy is to use 'hear' and 'talk' to build Microsoft BOT Framework v4 logic with plain BASIC * published on December 3rd, 2018.

[![See how easy is to use 'hear' and 'talk' to build Microsoft BOT Framework v4 logic with plain BASIC](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pragmatismo-io/BotServer/master/docs/images/video-02-thumb.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX1sF9n9628)