FESco meeting summary for 20090605

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 01:05:06PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:56:34 -0400
> "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:51:42AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > > If this format is acceptable, I would like to see all irc meetings
> > > use it, and have them all transfer to a common location with search
> > > ability. If not, we will come up with something better. 
> > 
> > We should probably try to have these transferred to the wiki, under
> > the Meeting: namespace, with an appropriate category assigned.
> > Perhaps the bot could be given an account that would allow that
> > access?
> 
> That would be great, but it currently has no ability to talk to a wiki. 
> 
> The upstream page at http://wiki.debian.org/MeatBot has:
> 
> Wishlist:
> Publish to a wiki page? (I'll do it if someone gives me wiki-posting
> code)
> 
> So, perhaps someone could contribute that. :)
> Currently it just writes logs/summary to a local filesystem. 

I'd like to try this (and fail badly, and then have it rewritten by
someone who knows better).  The main problem I see is that the thing's
written in Tcl which I don't know.  Maybe I could try porting it to a
zodbot plugin, and then use python-mediawiki to do the auth + posting.

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