On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Dave Neary <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On 03/16/2012 06:26 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
>
>> I've been quite happy with the inclusion of a meetbot during IRC
>> meetings.  It totally automates the minutes, action items, info points
>> and logging in a way I can't see video conferencing achieve.
>>
>
> Personally I think meetbot minutes can't hold a candle to human
> written/typed minutes. Most meetbot minutes look like this to me:
>
> Meeting started by nick1 at 16:00:46 UTC (full logs).
>
> Meeting summary:
>
> * Topic 1 (nick1, 16:05:03)
>  *  url (nick2, 16:23:22)
>  *  ACTION: Update proposal (nick1, 16:35:19)
>
> * Topic 2 (nick1, 16:38:01)
>  * ACTION: Request comments on mailing list (nick2, 16:58:12)
>
> Meeting ended at 16:59:30 UTC (full logs).
>
> Basically useless - and you need to read the full logs to get any
> information. MeetBot automates nothing - it requires someone responsible
> for minutes during the meeting.
>
> Also, meetings that aren't linear, but where someone wants to add
> something at the end of a meeting related to something earlier, are a mess
> in meetbot. Unstacking actions, or changing stuff that is already minuted,
> is really hard. But we do this with written minutes all the time.
>
>
Yes, there is nothing like a good minutes taker.  (who I will need for this
thing ;)

sri
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