Meetings, Minutes, and Mootbot

“Back in March 2009, I started hanging out in the
#ubuntu-meeting channel on Freenode to see first hand how IRC
meetings in the Ubuntu Community are conducted. I noticed there
were specific actions/commands that were being used in the
meetings; I wanted why and what they were, so I asked :-).

“I found out the #ubuntu-meeting Channel on Freenode uses
mootbot. This great little bot that makes keeping track of action
items and gathering meeting minutes/notes really easy. The Scribes
Team which was founded by Jeremy Austin-Bardo (ausimage) in
February 2007, has a great HowTo on the wiki that let’s the user
know just how easy it it to use this bot. This tool makes chairing
an IRC meeting in the Ubuntu Community such a breeze I wanted to
track, the Mootbot developer, Chris Oattes (Seeker’), down, tell
him thanks, and find out a little more about how Mootbot came into
being.

“Here’s what he had to say:”

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