md-generator.js

var fs = require( "fs" ),
	request = require( "request" ),
	xml2js = require( "xml2js").parseString,
	exec = require( "child_process" ).exec,
	pages = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7],
	team = "core";

pages.forEach(function(page) {
	request.get("http://jquery.org/updates/category/" + team + "/feed/atom/?paged=" + page, function(request, response, body) {
		xml2js(body, {explicitArray: false}, function( err, result ) {
			result.feed.entry.forEach(function( entry ) {
				var outputFileName = "minutes/" + team + "/" + entry.published.replace(/T.+/, "") + ".md";
				var cmd = "pandoc -o "+ outputFileName + " -f html -t markdown-escaped_line_breaks";
				var child = exec(cmd, function(error, stdout, stderr) {
					console.log("Wrote " + outputFileName);
				});
				child.stdin.write(entry.content._);
				child.stdin.end();
			});
		});
	});
});

usage.sh

# make sure `pandoc` is installed already
npm install request xml2js
node md-generator.js
# replace "core" with "testing", run again