Thinking of the upcoming "Office Hour" sessions, it might be useful to log IRC messages, possibly restricted to certain time constraints.
Obviously this raises certain privacy issues - at least the channel topic should reflect that the channel is logged by Gooey. We should also consider restricting the viewing to certain groups (registered forum users?)
From a technical perspective, recording messages seems to be fairly easy:
https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/blob/master/src/scripts/store-messages-couchdb.coffee
However, Gooey needs a space to upload the data - I doubt that a a full database is appropriate here.
A simpler approach is demonstrated here:
http://umashanthi.blogspot.de/2010/10/create-your-irc-channel-and-make-logs.html
The idea is to save the log to a local file (one per day) and move that to a web-accessible folder. This would involve Gooey to relocate from Heroku to movingblocks.net. It would be a lot easier to maintain, because it doesn't involve remote writing (to a DB).
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Thinking of the upcoming "Office Hour" sessions, it might be useful to log IRC messages, possibly restricted to certain time constraints.
Obviously this raises certain privacy issues - at least the channel topic should reflect that the channel is logged by Gooey. We should also consider restricting the viewing to certain groups (registered forum users?)
From a technical perspective, recording messages seems to be fairly easy:
https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/blob/master/src/scripts/store-messages-couchdb.coffee
However, Gooey needs a space to upload the data - I doubt that a a full database is appropriate here.
A simpler approach is demonstrated here:
http://umashanthi.blogspot.de/2010/10/create-your-irc-channel-and-make-logs.html
The idea is to save the log to a local file (one per day) and move that to a web-accessible folder. This would involve Gooey to relocate from Heroku to movingblocks.net. It would be a lot easier to maintain, because it doesn't involve remote writing (to a DB).
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