[Replicant] Publication of Replicant's IRC logs

[Kurtis Hanna]

Hello Replicant Community,

This issue has come to a head. I did not receive any feedback on my
original email below. I found out today that there have been matrix bots
in the #replicant freenode channel for a little while now. I have not
determined how long the bot(s) have been keeping a complete log of the
room, but it has been happening.

I suggest that we immediately add something to the topic of the
#replicant freenode IRC saying that our room is logged and the logs are
available on the internet. I don't think that we necessarily need to say
where they are available in matrix.

What are your thoughts on this?

In Solidarity,
Kurtis

Kurtis Hanna:
> Hello,
> 
> There is a lot of chatter in the Replicant IRC these days. I got ZNC to
> work on my server, but I'm kinda a n00b and it was pretty difficult. I
> still don't have full logs, but I bet I can fix that in the settings
> without too much more work. I'm assuming that some of the more talented
> among us have been keeping full logs of the IRC convos saved locally for
> a while, allowing them to do a full historical search of them by
> keyword. I'd like to have this set up as well. I'm planning on setting
> something like this up soon using something like this program:
> https://github.com/mapkyca/IRCLogBot
> 
> It is a bot that logs a channel's conversation in the markdown format.
> 
> Here's a git repo from a free software IRC channel that uses the bot:
> https://github.com/mapkyca/KnownchatLogs
> 
> I was curious if the community would like me to publish these logs in a
> web enabled git repo. Or, for privacy or other reasons, would it be bad
> to publish them?
> 
> It was said in the IRC chat when I asked about this that, before I start
> publishing the logs, a mention should be put in the channel topic that
> archives of the chat will be published on the web. Does this seem like a
> good idea?
> 
> This might make it easier to update the Replicant Wiki as well, as we
> could all brainstorm in the IRC and then one of us could look up the
> discussion later and update the Wiki with the info that was first
> written in various IRC conversations throughout various days.
> 
> Curious to hear your thoughts.
> 
> In Solidarity,
> Kurtis
> FreeKurt.com
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