HCoop Meetbot is an IRC plugin that has been installed to pinesol to facilitate and support the various meetings that take place in the Evergreen IRC channel.

Full manual: https://hcoop-meetbot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

This command tells MeetBot to begin listening for creation of meeting notes later.  

Example: #startmeeting

 This command documents your attendance and optionally associates a name with an IRC nick.
 You can enter just your name and organization and MeetBot will associate the name with your
 IRC nick.
 

Example: #here Jason Stephenson, C/W MARS, Inc.

This command sets the topic of discussion.

Example: #topic When will 2.2 be released?

This command logs a note about a given topic.

Example: #info 2.2 is likely to be released in March 2012.

This command logs when the group "accepts" a particular idea or course of action.

Example: #accepted We'll work together on 4.0 release process.

This command logs an action item for the meeting.
If you specify a user in the action, it will target that user for the task.

Example: #action bshum to finish more of the MeetBot usage guide.

This command logs an "idea" for future reference.

Example: #idea It would be great if we tried using MeetBot more often to track meeting notes.

This command indicates that a motion has been made and starts a vote.  Format is "#motion <Topic>"

Example: #motion bshum should be the release manager from now on.

Register a vote value. Format is "#vote [+1,-1]" A +1 vote means "yes," and -1 means "no."

Example: #vote +1

End voting on a motion.

Example: #close

This command notes a request for "help".

Example: #help Need to find volunteer to lead more developer meetings.

Add a link to the meeting minutes. Format is "#link <URL>" or "#link <Some text> <URL> <optionally more text>."

Example #link Minutes of the last meeting at https://evergreen-ils.org/meetings/evergreen/2026/evergreen.2026-05-12.1508.html

This command tells MeetBot that the meeting has ended and will print out links to the notes, logs, and raw text.

Example: #endmeeting

Meeting Output: https://evergreen-ils.org/meetings/evergreen/2026/evergreen.2026-06-08.1450.html

Commands used:

 #startmeeting
 #topic Attendance
 #info As mentioned in the message, you can associate your nick with your name using #here <Your Name> at any time during the meeting.
 #here Jason Stephenson, C/W MARS, Inc.
 #topic Acition Items from the Last Meeting
 #info There are none.
 #motion Approval of the Minutes from the Last Meeting
 #vote +1
 #close
 #topic New Business
 #nick goood Mike Rylander
 #action goood to email the dev list about RESTful API versioning
 #action Dyrcona to update the dokuwiki
 #idea Wouldn't it be great if....
 #link Community documentation for using Meetbot is https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=community:using-meetbot
 #endmeeting