On 11/19/2015 11:25 AM, Remy DeCausemaker wrote:
CommOps,
Some time ago, I made a request to the Fedora Infrastructure Team to
*require* a meeting topic when doing a #startmeeting with Zodbot.
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4952
This was requested for a number of reasons:
- More information inside of Fedmsg messages to help us find the right meetings
- Proper categorization for finding the meeting logs via Mote
Well, infra delivered, and it would be a great CommBlog article for us
to do a quick PSA: IRC meetings
This is awesome and a great idea - after looking at Bee's stats compiled
for IRC meetings, I think some awareness towards some of the other
features, like #help, are a great idea (I also didn't know it fed into
our channel).
In the article we should:
- Link to the trac ticket above describing the new requirement of
meeting topics
- describe the common meetbot commands (action, topic, info, link, help)
- specifically mention that #help is like a Fedora batsignal, and
that commops is on the other end of the red phone (it goes direct to
our IRC channel via FMN)
- Give a "sample" meeting agenda (like the commops etherpad, but with
really simple flow:
#startmeeting <MEETINGNAME>
#topic Agenda
#link <LINKTOAGENDA>
#topic RollCall
#.hello <FASUSERNAME>
#topic Old Business
#info this is where we discuss action items from last meeting
#action decause update trac ticket #1337 with discussion points
#topic New Business
#info this is where we cover new things since our last meeting
#topic Open Floor
#info this is where anyone can bring new/old business up for discussion
#endmeeting
- Describe Mote, our new IRC Logs site, and link to it
- Describe FMN, our Fedora Notification System, and link to it (with
screenshots?)
- Point to the source code repository for zodbot, and invite folks to dive in.
If nobody else has their heart set on this, I'd be happy to write this
one up either tonight or tomorrow. :)
This seems like it would be a good kind of "getting involved" kind of
article, similar to the feel of the Trac article in planning now. I like
the idea of putting community "primers" on the CommBlog too, to help
guide the way of showing people how they can contribute in other ways to
Fedora.
As an aside, it would be *really* fun to propose a Fedora badge for
contributing to zodbot, with a title like "Botsmith."
I fired up a ticket for it on the Badges queue:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-badges/ticket/415
I don't think this is something that would be useful to the
average
user (who don't typically work in IRC with us) but nearly every
contributor has to interact with IRC once-in-a-while.
Whaddya Think?
--RemyD.
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com