Hi, At Chris Cormack's suggestion, I have added the MeetBot [2] plugin to munin's bag of tricks. MeetBot is a tool to help run IRC meetings and, more importantly, produce a summary of the discussion, including action items, automatically. Here's a brief list of the important commands. Commands for the chair: #startmeeting - Start a meeting. Whoever starts the meeting is designated the owner (and have permanent chair powers). #chair - Add somebody to the list of chairs #endmeeting - End the meeting. #topic - Set a new topic. #agreed - Document an agreement in the minutes. Commands for Everyone: #info - Add an info item to the minutes. People should liberally use this for important things they say, so that they can be logged in the minutes. #action - Document an action item in the minutes. Include any nicknames in the line, and the item will be assigned to them. (nicknames are case-sensitive) #idea - Add an idea to the minutes. #help - Add a "Call for Help" to the minutes. Use this command when you need to recruit someone to do a task. (Counter-intuitively, this doesn't provide help on the bot) #link - Add a link to the meeting minutes. The link should be the first non-command on the line, other commentary after the link is OK. Links beginning with http:// and a few other protocols are automatically detected. There is a manual [2] for MeetBot available which includes a tutorial and a reference to its full set of commands. For an example of the summary generated by the bot, please check out: http://librarypolice.com/koha-meetings/2010/koha.2010-11-14-19.41.html The full log corresponding to this meeting is: http://librarypolice.com/koha-meetings/2010/koha.2010-11-14-19.41.log.html If anybody wants to hold a fake (or even a real) meeting to try it out, I'll be around to help. I propose that we try MeetBot for the next general IRC meeting; if we like the results, we can adopt it. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot [2] http://meetbot.debian.net/Manual.html Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcharlt@gmail.com