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                              <p>Some of you are familiar with the W3C Chairs angels, three home-made bots living in <abbr title="Internet Relay Chat">IRC</abbr>, that are truly essential to the W3C Working Groups conducting their work on the phone:</p>

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	<li>Trackbot, the toolbox, is the bot for creating and tracking issues and action items during meetings.</li>
        <li>Zakim, the phone, is the bot connecting people on phone, controlling the agenda of meetings, and managing the questions and queue.</li>
        <li>RRSAgent, the tape recorder, is recording the IRC log and help to create minutes of meetings.</li>
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<p>Back in 2008, <a href="http://www.la-grange.net/karl/">Karl Dubost</a> crafted an image of our robots and put it on a tee-shirt that we handed out to the W3C groups Chairs, at <abbr title="Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee [meeting]">TPAC</abbr>2008, as a <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/10/w3c-chairs-tshirt.html">gift</a>, to acknowledge their terrific work.</p>

<p>The "W3C Bots" image is now <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/01/w3c-chairs-bots/">available</a>! It comes in different flavours (graffle, SVG, PNG, and EPS) which are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/">license</a>.</p>

<p>People who read French can follow the story of the W3C Bots on Karl's blog entry "<a href="http://www.la-grange.net/2009/01/31/w3c-bots" hreflang="fr">La naissance des bots du W3C</a>", others can simply look at the pretty photos. Here are draft three and the final version:</p>

<p><img src="http://www.la-grange.net/2009/01/31/bot-04" width="700" height="480" alt="draft 3 of the W3C bots, Karl Dubost"/></p>

<p><img src="http://www.la-grange.net/2009/01/31/chairs-bots" width="700" height="328" alt="W3C Bots, final version, Karl Dubost"/></p>
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