[UbuntuWomen] IRC meeting with Jono and IRC bot

[Elizabeth Bevilacqua]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:35:28PM +0600, Vid Ayer wrote:
> On 4/27/07, Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com> wrote:
> > 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?

This is sort of what we've done thus far, I just tail my logs and post
them on the wiki. This really isn't a hard thing to do - the only
disadvantage is that it's not immediate, people joining the meeting late
don't have a site to go to to catch up.

> Ahem, the u-w channel is not private (or by invitation). Since all are
> free to join,  anyone logged into the u-w channel 24/7 can keep
> private archives. Then how does the conversation remain private ?

The same way the LinuxChix IRC logs are "private-ish" - we ask people
not to post public logs. People have brought logging bots in before and
we've asked them to be removed. There is no fool-proof way to avoid logs
being published, but we can avoid having official published ones.

> To me the advantages outweigh the disadvantages but I want to hear
> more viewpoints on this.

This has been discussed by the IRC team before and we've decided that
the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. Women join the channel to
learn how to use IRC, how to get into the community, and the questions
asked are not always questions you want published openly on the
internet. We want to continue to respect that so people are comfortable
joining our channel to learn.

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Elizabeth Bevilacqua // Lyz at PrincessLeia.com
http://www.princessleia.com