Mote 2.0

Python Flask project used to aggregate and distribute IRC meeting minutes and logs for the Fedora Project.

Description

The project can be described as follows

Mote is a web application purposed to aggregate and distribute the minutes and logs for IRC/Matrix meetings of the Fedora Project community.
The project allows looking up meeting info with channel names, dates/times of occurrence and lists recent meetings for quick access.
The backend is written in Python with the use of libraries such as Flask micro web framework, BeautifulSoup4, Urllib3, Click, Werkzeug etc.
The frontend is written in HTML5, CSS3 and ES6 with the use of libraries such as Bootstrap 5, jQuery, Popper.JS, EasyQRCode etc.

View Project

Click this link to view the project: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/

How to set up a local development environment?

You can download the meeting log archive from the link below

https://mega.nz/file/cJYykbKA#jJozcnIG-WzwlYVQUXF25lqM5A8PNl2knQObQrSpOSk

Clone the repostory

git clone https://github.com/fedora-infra/mote.git

Navigate to the cloned repository

cd mote

There are two ways to setup this project

Containerized setup

Install podman (require root privileges)

On Fedora:

sudo dnf install podman

Extract the meetbot archive

tar xzf meetbot.tar.gz

Build the container image

podman build -t mote .

Run the server

podman run -it --rm -p 9696:9696 -v ./meetbot:/srv/web/meetbot:Z mote

Congratulations! The project is being served on http://localhost:9696.

Native setup

Mote expects to find meeting logs in /srv/web/meetbot.

Extract the meetbot archive in /srv/web (requires root privileges)

sudo mkdir -p /srv/web
sudo chown $USER /srv/web
tar xzf meetbot.tar.gz -C /srv/web

Create a dedicated virtual environment

python3 -m venv venv

Activate the virtualenv

source venv/bin/activate

Install all the dependencies

The dependencies of this project can be found in requirements.txt and are installed with setuptools:

python3 setup.py install

Run the project

start-mote-server -p 9696 -4

The project is served on http://localhost:9696/

For any help with this format please run

start-mote-server --help

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to this project, you can look at existing issues and fill Pull Requests.
You can also connect with the team at chat.fedoraproject.org.

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