The chairperson introduces him-/herself and welcomes everyone to the meeting while he asks everyone to sign the attendance register by way of introducing themselves to the channel bot Maaz. eg: Maaz: I am FirstName LastName
http://maaz.mene.za.net/logs/meetings/freenode-%23ubuntu-za/2013-02-18-17-30-02.html
The chair gves a brief background about procedures and makes a few announcements or allows somebody to talk on his behalf.
Experiences, good and bad about upcoming version of Ubuntu, if available. Exciting new developments?
Release schedule: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseSchedule