Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: > On di, 2007-02-06 at 10:41 -0500, Steve Stalcup wrote: > > >> I am writing on behalf oh the ScibesTeam to find out how you keep >> records of your meetings. We are trying to get logs in a central >> location. >> > > Ubugtu already secretly logs meetings but it's not perfect yet: he logs > from 10 minutes before a meeting to 30 minutes afterward. It should have > some 'silence detection' to detect longer meetings. > I think, I should possibly clarify some of the issues with irc logs from a meeting from the viewpoint of less geeky more business minded folks and this is in no way an attempt to teach the sucking og eggs or a lecture so please bear with me. Any meeting which doesnt have a structure is just a conversation, and any meeting without a result a clear next step has just been a debate. We as a community are great for new ideas and discussing the possibilities but moving quickly forward or keeping track of what could or should be done is more difficult. Taking time to read through IRC logs to get a feeling for the event and what its results were has a long slog through a long log of text and in general the context or value of any one conversation can be hard to define by just searching for the text alone. The scribe teams aim is to help start putting some structure to the conversations and the results. Specifically through using a seperate bot ( currently developed by ChrisOattes for use in UKTeam meetings ) to help track the topics, ideas, links , actions , votes and agreements which occur as part of a meeting. The bot has been a big help in formalising the results of the discussions and helping to keep things happening and moving forward. The scribes team would like to seek the help of the various loco teams and groups to collate previous irc logs into one locations ( in as much as this is possible ). The goal here is to bring all the converations, discussions and results together in such a way that future agendas and discussions can build on work and ideas which might have been previously discussed. I suspect that at present there is a fair bit of duplication of work and ideas and efforts ( this is in no way a bad thing ) though its hard from a new persons point of view to locate ideas and projects which can be contributed to, in structuring the conversatons in such a way to make it easy to collate and gather its hoped that it will be a useful part of the whole of the ubuntu documentation projects and enable the whole community to step forward faster.
So thats the goal of the scribes team -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
