Re: Regarding Text to HTML conversion

Where is the info/source for voipbot?

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 8:36 AM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On 8/5/19 1:17 AM, Kim Hamilton wrote:
> > We appear not to be using RRSAgent correctly, or at least, not in a
> > way that's consistent with standard W3C procedures.
>
> We don't use RRSAgent at all because it doesn't allow us to fix the
> minutes/logs if bad things happen (like, global search/replace that
> wipes the logs, erroneous search/replace). You'd need a staff contact to
> step in, IIRC, and they don't do that for CGs.
>
> RRSAgent also doesn't handle the phone lines, that's Zakim's job (and it
> could only control the MIT phone lines, not the ones that the CCG uses),
> and Zakim was phased our a number of years ago. We had to write the
> voipbot to take Zakim's place. If we get rid of the voipbot, we'd lose
> the ability to control the audio lines, queue management, publishing of
> .log files, etc.
>
> The easiest thing to do at this point is probably to extend voipbot to
> do the "autopublish at the end of the call" thing that RRSAgent does,
> but this often leads to crappy minutes as no one goes back and cleans
> them up. Losing the audio would create legal uncertainty around IPR, as
> if someone is misquoted, there is no other record to go to and figure
> out that they said something different and the scribe mis-scribed what
> they said.
>
> Feels like this thread is going to create a lot of work for whoever
> takes on this work. I'm all for someone else figuring out how to
> auto-publish minutes, it's not difficult, but whoever takes that on
> should know about all of the requirements when building such a system.
>
> -- manu
>
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