Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

Hi all,

These are revised to reflect some changes Candace sent me.

Talk to you tomorrow,
Ben C.

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*Action Items as of October 27*

[ACTION] Jeremy will ask Deke if he still wants to work on the UA.
[ACTION] Jeremy will outline a high-level paper on the PIC WG's experiences 
and
lessons learned.
[ACTION] Ben T. will write a short document describing the motivation for the
paths-in-the-snow approach to PIC development.
[ACTION] Jamey will update the SER readme file.
[ACTION] By mid-November, Candace will produce an outline of the features that
Jamey has added to SER.
[ACTION] Jamey will send the group a note clarifying what code belongs to HP 
and
what's open source.

*Attendees*

Jeremy George (chair) - Yale
Jamey Hicks - HP
Ben Teitelbaum - Internet2
Ta-yi - Harvard
Candace Holman - Harvard
Dennis Baron - MIT
Steve Blair - Penn
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

The group reviewed Jeremy's list of priorities coming out of the Austin 
meeting:

1)  Trial continuation
Jeremy noted that Joe has confirmed that he can continue as the project 
manager
for the trials.

2)  UA development
[ACTION] Jeremy will ask Deke if he still wants to work on the UA.
Ben T. noted that contributions of code and funding may be available here; 
he'll
be looking into this further at VON. Going forward with this would require a
high-level document describing what higher education needs in a SIP UA. (This
would be separate from the current requirements doc, which only addresses how
the UA talks to the server.) Ben T. observed that there's some tension between
producing this document, and the "paths in the snow engineering" approach; on
the other hand, the PIC WG is in a good position to produce such a document. 
The
process used to produce requirements for Chandler could serve as a model.
Candace suggested it might be possible to hybridize the paths-in-the-snow and
requirements-articulating approaches.

3)  Publishing
[ACTION] Jeremy will outline a high-level paper on the PIC WG's experiences 
and
lessons learned.

4)  Long term trials  (Paths in the snow)
[ACTION] Ben T. will write a short document describing the motivation for the
paths-in-the-snow approach to PIC development. This would helpful to have in
recruiting professors to do classroom deployments. Candace noted an Innovation
Grant we might be able to use for this:
http://www.provost.harvard.edu/it_fund/innovation_grant.php#grant2

5)  versioning/packaging
There was less of a clear consensus in Austin on this item than on the others,
but there was strong interest on the call in pursuing this item. [ACTION] 
Jamey
will update the SER readme file. [ACTION] By mid-November, Candace will 
produce
an outline of the features that Jamey has added to SER. The group agreed on
March as a target for having a packaged version.

There will be no conference call October 21, as many of the group will be at 
VON
(http://www.pulver.com/von/). The calls will resume the following week, on the
usual schedule.