[LGM] irc: channels and bots

[ale rimoldi]

Dear LGMers,

One more email from the web+ infrastructure team (one day we will find
a name for what we are doing...).

The next topic, we would like to sort out is: the IRC channels.

Currently we have two LGM related channels on freenode:

#lgm: the general LGM channel.
#lgm2014: the organization channel for last year.
They're managed as follows:

The bot mrscribe run by the Scribus project does the archiving of the
#lgm channel. Peter Linnell from the Scribus project is the current
administrator of the #lgm channel. #lgm2014 is unmanaged.
Again, we thank the Scribus project for having set up and informally
managed the infrastructure for all those years!

We would like to suggest that in the future we have:

#lgm, for the general chit-chat
#lgm-org, for all the discussion concerning the organization of the
yearly LGM Both channels would be free to join and publicly archived
(eventually, the archive could be password protected and the password
provided to everybody who asks for or published on the website).

Any comments about it?

In the case you agree to the suggestion above, the web+ infrastructure
team will:

need to have write access to subject line for both channels;
manage the bot archiving the discussions;
setup and manage the bot managing the meetings (as requested in
Leipzig). Are there any other IRC related tasks that we are forgetting?

For the above tasks to be done, we will need:

"the keys" for the #lgm channel;
access to the mrscribe bot for archiving both channels or a way to
setup another bot; a way to setup meetbot (a supybot plugin for
managing meetings). What are your thoughts?

Greetings

Ale, Camille, Manuel, Martin, and Sarup