fyi, I know very little about IRC in general. Is this already happening? Is there a reason we don't want to? Should it be public? I was hoping to install irssi http://irssi.org/ (andrew?) on stat1 and have it make logs that we could all check when we've joined the channel too late to get the hangout link, or need to look for link that someone posted a week ago. I'm imagining just grep it over an ssh connection for now, though if we wanted to share it publicly we could create a labs instance and run one of those web interfaces that is built around irssi logs (ircloghttp://irclog.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html, webssi http://wouter.coekaerts.be/webssi/--suggestions welcome as none of these look super canonical)
thanks,
evan