How do you keep records of your meetings?

[Nik Butler]

Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On di, 2007-02-06 at 10:41 -0500, Steve Stalcup wrote:
>
>   
>> I am writing on behalf oh the ScibesTeam to find out how you keep
>> records of your meetings.  We are trying to get logs in a central
>> location.
>>     
>
> Ubugtu already secretly logs meetings but it's not perfect yet: he logs
> from 10 minutes before a meeting to 30 minutes afterward. It should have
> some 'silence detection' to detect longer meetings.
>   
I think, I should possibly clarify some of the issues with irc logs from
a meeting from the viewpoint of less geeky more business minded folks
and this is in no way an attempt to teach the sucking og eggs or a
lecture so please bear with me.  Any meeting which doesnt have a
structure is just a conversation, and any meeting without a result a
clear next step has just been a debate. We as a community are great for
new ideas and discussing the possibilities but moving quickly forward or
keeping track of what could or should be done is more difficult. Taking
time to read through IRC logs to get a feeling for the event and what
its results were has a long slog through a long log of text and in
general the context or value of any one conversation can be hard to
define by just searching for the text alone. The scribe teams aim is to
help start putting some structure to the conversations and the results.
Specifically through using a seperate bot ( currently developed by
ChrisOattes for use in UKTeam meetings ) to help track the topics,
ideas, links , actions , votes and agreements which occur as part of a
meeting. The bot has been a big help in formalising the results of the
discussions and helping to keep things happening and moving forward. The
scribes team would like to seek the help of the various loco teams and
groups to collate previous irc logs into one locations ( in as much as
this is possible ).  The goal here is to bring all the converations,
discussions and results together in such a way that future agendas and
discussions can build on work and ideas which might have been previously
discussed. I suspect that at present there is a fair bit of duplication
of work and ideas and efforts ( this is in no way a bad thing ) though
its hard from a new persons point of view to locate ideas and projects
which can be contributed to, in structuring the conversatons in such a
way to make it easy to collate and gather its hoped that it will be a
useful part of the whole of the ubuntu documentation projects and enable
the whole community to step forward faster.

So thats the goal of the scribes team