[UbuntuWomen] IRC meeting with Jono and IRC bot

[Melissa Draper]

Vid Ayer wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> ----- Meeting with Jono Bacon (continued)  ------
>
> Thanks to all those who attended the meeting yesterday in
> #ubuntu-women with  Jono Bacon. Basically it was a continuation of
> last week's meeting on issues women face while volunteering in Foss.
>
> You can download the log for yesterday from here:
> http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/20070426
>
> ----- IRC bot for UW channel ------
> While on the subject, I would like to have feedback about keeping a
> bot on the UW channel permanently.  Currently the admins have to post
> them to the wiki for each
> meeting. This extra work can be avoided as almost all Ubuntu channels have bots.
>
> Advantages :
> * Folks who are not logged 24/7 but want to catch-up can read that
> days archived log.
> * The bot can be used to answer newbie questions which are repeatedly
> asked over a period of time.
> * It increases and encourages openness and transparency in UW.
>
> Disadvantages :
> The only downside, I have heard, is that logged channels prevent women
> from  speaking openly about issues. Do you think so ? IMHO, people can
> maintain private archives so what is the benefit of not logging the UW
> channel as we loose the goodness mentioned above !!
>
> Thoughts ??
>
> Thanks
>   
Maybe a compromise in terms of the logging. Surely there's a plugin for
blootbot or whatever that one can enable logging, and disable it? that
way important things can be logged, but private-ish discussion kept
private-ish?

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Sincerely
Melissa Draper

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