Alright for purpose of testing, I have created an instance of gitter-irc-bot <https://github.com/finnp/gitter-irc-bot> on Heroku. The program was suggested by ScottPJones.
It shows up on IRC as *GitterBot*. and on gitter as *oxinabot *with a little robot icon saying IRC. See github profile <https://github.com/oxinabot>. I believe it will kill itself in about 17 hours, then possibly rise back from the dead 6 hours later, or maybe not. I'll just kill it manually not long after that if it does rise up. If this works out well, then I (or someone else) can recreate it on a VM, rather than running on Heroku. And make it a github account that is called something good (Eg *JuliaBot*).
