Presence and IntComm WG

[Stephen Kingham <>]

Hi Ben

Firstly please vet this message for distribution within Internet2 as you 
see fit.

As I mentioned in Hawaii we are going to take up the suggestion at the 
Internet2 meeting to hold a "hands on workshop to build SER based SIP 
servers" at the APAN meeting (www.apan.net) being help with the Questnet 
meeting (http://www.questnet.net.au/Conferences.html) on the first week 
of July in Cairns Australia.

I have lined up Aaron Solomon to lend a hand with his experience with 
SER.  Jiri has agreed to lend a hand remotely, by way of reviewing the 
material.  Without asking I have had lots of offers from Australian 
Universities (who are now madly building SER systems) to provide assistance.

I would like to liaise with Internet2's work in the same area.  I know 
the objectives will be slightly different; as I understand it you are 
looking at a bake off and we are looking at a tutorial to kick start SIP 
capability into Australia and Asia.

So this is an initial heads up to say we are committed and would like to 
liaise with Internet2 and visa versa.  I will be publishing a set of web 
pages to present to workshop participants, and another set to 
co-ordinate people contributing resources to make the workshop happen.  
The pages will contain detailed course notes and build information for 
the Unix Operating Systems and SER installs so that the participants who 
provide there own platform all have the same build.  I think it is in 
the content of these pages that assistance from the Internet2 community 
will be most useful.

I expect we will have material to contribute to the cookbook and 
generate lots of interest in the SIP.edu initiative.

Also Cairns being close to The Great Barrier Reef, red deserts, and 
rainforests, is quite a nice place to visit and international visitors 
are welcome just in case anyone was interested.

Regards

Stephen

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