=== Overview ===

Recording of the [[IrcMeetings|board meetings]] is handled via an IRC bot which is controlled by the secretary. The president chairs the meeting, so needs to be the one that issues the first "#startmeeting" command.

Documentation (commands, installation, etc) for the bot is available at: https://hcoop-meetbot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

The MeetBot was written as a plugin for limnoria Python IRC bot, which is packaged and available in Debian GNU/Linux. The source code for the MeetBot comes from https://github.com/pronovic/hcoop-meetbot (pronovic@ was previously a board member of the HCoop).

=== Technical details ===

libera.chat (which is the IRC network currently used to host the IrcChannel) requires user registration so one was created for "hcoop-meetbot" and registered with the NickServ there with the email address of board@hcoop.net. Additionally, SASL is required by that network (details at https://libera.chat/guides/sasl ) so SASL PLAIN is used to authenticate the bot. Pleasantly, that's supported by limnoria (and was a motivating factor to upgrade from supybot, which does not support SASL).

Meeting logs are automatically recorded by the bot when using the "#startmeeting" command, and closed and summarized after "#endmeeting". The results are stored in /afs/hcoop.net/user/h/hc/hcoop/public_html/board/meetings with a directory (auto-created) by year. Those meetings can then be accessed via https://hcoop.net/board/meetings/ and linked from the relevant wiki page.