Logging of Ubuntu LoCo Teams core channels

[Zach Gibbens]

I know Tennessee had some opinions on it (at the time I thought it was 
loco or irc council policy for some time, I was just a regional contact 
back then) I'm going to add it to our teams agenda for our meeting 
tomorrow. I know personally it's earned it's weight, but others didn't 
like how widely indexed it was online via the big search engines.

I do like what ubuntu-nl did, creating an off topic channel & seeing 
that two channels work, without trading one for the other.
However, we're unfocused until there is a need for a focused channel, 
for meetings, greeting & helping members new & old, then it becomes an 
unfocused channel again, there has allways been respect, something of an 
unwritten rule. be polite, don't fight.

If logging were an issue, with a two channel system one logged & one 
not, what's to prevent an issue from being moved to offtopic, to avoid 
the logging, or make it a client to client message for that matter. on 
the other end, if logging wasn't made known, who's to say that the 
client your using isn't logging it?

It's hard to have an opinion on this one way or another, I see that both 
sides have some merit, I'm not sure which way I'd lean. Why not leave it 
to the LoCo's (with some strong encouragement, listing where it's 
beneficial to have it) we have op's in our channel all the time (not 
displaying op status, no need for any ops) nor have we needed it in my 
almost 3 years as a member, our channel is active most of the day, 
nearly every day. what issues we had were a long time ago & via our 
mailing list, not on IRC (outside of logged meetings) it's been over a 
year & a half since that happened.

I've not been on this list long & I suppose I don't fully understand the 
desire for requiring logging outside of meetings. I do see why logging 
is valuable & also unwanted, depending on your opinions on the matter, 
why make it policy for every loco to log their channels 24/7, instead of 
leaving that up to the loco's, which some loco's choose to log their 
channels? I ask with my mind fully open, just trying to have an 
understanding on that part of this issue.

Signed,
Zach Gibbens
Tennessee PoC (ubuntu-us-tn)

P.S I didn't mean for this to be as long winded as it became, my apologies.