Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items*

(new)
[ACTION] Jamey will update the group on whether or not eyeBeam can do off-hook
notification with p2p, and if so, how.
[ACTION] Ben T. will update the group on whether or not Session can do 
off-hook
notification with p2p, and if so, how.
[ACTION] Candace will update the group on whether or not p.C can do off-hook
notification with p2p, and if so, how.
[ACTION] Ben T. and Candace will test Session on Tuesday at 10am Eastern, and
send out notes on the results.
[ACTION] Candace will find out if p.C is available to the public.
[ACTION] Rodger will let Jeremy know if he can accept Samir's invitation to
speak.

(from previous calls)
[ACTION] Ben T. will write a script for the Member Meeting demo, recruiting
others to help as necessary.
[ACTION] Ben T., Jamey, and Candace will participate in Dennis's April 19 
demo.
[ACTION] Candace and Jamey will get a test account set up for the p.C people.
[ACTION] Jamey, Ben, and Steve will test the BlueLava SER distribution; Steve
will take notes for documentation.
[ACTION] Candace will try registering Session with Free World Dialup or
Harvard's Avaya server.
[ACTION] Ben T. will work on configuring SER to get Session to work with it.
[ACTION] Ben T. will send the list the new Session download URL.
[ACTION] Jeremy will recruit some people from JISC to join a future PIC call,
and reschedule the call to a time that's convenient for those in the UK
time zone.
[ACTION] Jamey will enable eyeBeam to use presence info to decide
whether messages should go straight to voicemail.
[ACTION] Once Session can register with PALS, Jeremy will schedule Session and
eyeBeam testing with Candace.
[ACTION] For the Spring MM demo, Rodger will look into a) eyeBeam for the Mac
and b) Session.
[ACTION] Candace will try to get a version of Pulver Communicator that 
registers
properly with PALS.
[ACTION] Jamey will look into ways of addressing Dennis's concerns about solo
testing on the PALS server.
[ACTION] Jamey will test eyeBeam against the 090 prerelease version of SER,
which is what PALS is running now.
[ACTION] Candace will write a description of a simple way to append PUBLISH
messages from the client to the servers, in order to provide a basic way to
do location and presence tracking.
[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 interface requirements document.
[ACTION] Jamey will continue working on the future of the skiffs, and solicit
opinions from PIC members as needed.
[ACTION] After the MM, people will research skiff-like offerings from various
companies:
- Dennis - Newbury
- Steve - Airwave
- Candace - Airespace (being bought by Cisco)
- Jeremy - Eckehau (via Walt Magnusson)

*Attendees*

Jeremy George (chair) - Yale
Candace Holman - Harvard
Deke Kassabian - Penn
Steve Blair - Penn
Dennis Baron - MIT
Jamey Hicks - HP
Rodger Will - Ford
Joe Rork - Ford
Ben Teitelbaum - Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

The deadline to checkpoint development and start testing the Member Meeting 
demo
configuration was April 8; the group agreed to extend it to April 14. So far
only eyeBeam is working properly; the main thing still needed is at least one
additional client. There was general agreement that running all clients in P2P
mode is OK, as long as this is compatible with manual presence features. There
will be no rich presence features (e.g. calendar integration) in the MM demo.

There is strong interest in including off-hook notification in the demo.
[ACTION] Jamey will update the group on whether or not eyeBeam can do off-hook
notification with p2p, and if so, how. [ACTION] Ben T. will update the group 
on
whether or not Session can do off-hook notification with p2p, and if so, how.
[ACTION] Candace will update the group on whether or not p.C can do off-hook
notification with p2p, and if so, how. [ACTION] Ben T. and Candace will test
Session on Tuesday at 10am Eastern, and send out notes on the results.

Dennis pointed out that we don't want to include clients that demo attendees
can't try themselves. [ACTION] Candace will find out if p.C is available to 
the
public. Jeremy noted that the package doesn't have to be ready at the demo; we
could announce an impending release anyway.

Samir Chatterjee has invited the group to do a demo and/or presentation at
SuperComm in Chicago on June 6. There was general agreement that we don't have
the resources to do a demo then. [ACTION] Rodger will let Jeremy know if he 
can
accept Samir's invitation to speak. Also, Rodger is still planning on having a
demo at Ford sometime after the Member Meeting; this will likely be nearly
identical to the MM demo.

Finally, Ben T. noted that he's gotten a commitment from Internet2 audio guru
Chris Goosman to help with the difficult problem of avoiding feedback and echo
at the MM demo.