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Re: IRC bots

 

On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:23:15 +0100
Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi gang,
> 
> *ubot2*
> 
> in amongst my travels I've had a chat about the little room bots that live
> on rooms like #ubuntu-beginners that people can ask questions of (try
> entering !grub and !grub2 on that room). I have been informed that we can
> have the ubot2 added to #lubuntu if we wish. This would give access to a
> quick way of people getting information. I've also asked about the adding to
> the ubot2 (for example lxterminal) and have been told that this can be
> requested.
> 
Not been on IRC for a while, but ubot2 is vey useful and well worth having. Although it can confuse people new to the channal who don’t realise what it is and try to have a conversation with it:)

> *meeting bot*
> 
> We can also have a meeting bot added, so any meeting that we hold on
> #lubuntu will be automatically formatted and archived. Zach had a play with
> it on the #ubuntu-beginners-wiki channel. The result of it can be found at
> http://mootbot.libertus.co.uk/ubuntu-beginners-wiki/2010/ubuntu-beginners-wiki.2010-07-11-15.57.html
>  (I
> hasten to add, it was just Zach  learning from Alan a bit about how the bot
> works, with me looking on ;-)  )
> 
> I propose that we have this functionality added to #lubuntu, please let me
> know whether to ask for either or both to be added.
> 
Are you hinting we should have a meeting:)
Although only useful for meetings, it does make life easier and thanks to Alan’s tweaking it produces output that can be placed straight into the wiki.


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