Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items*

(revised or new)
[ACTION] Candace will draft the "Configuration worksheet and Wiki reference"
offered in the CFP, aiming to have it ready for distribution by May 16.
[ACTION] Jamey will build the PIC-SER RPM; Steve and Ben T. will install it
and take notes for documentation; all will aim to have the RPM ready for
distribution by May 16.
[ACTION] Jamey will look further into what OS versions we should support.
[ACTION] Candace will get a PIC-SER section set up on the SER Wiki.

(from previous calls)
[ACTION] Jamey will continue to pursue interoperability issues with Jeff King
at Wave3 and the SIP expert at Xten.
[ACTION] Ben T. will set up the 

 technical support list.
[ACTION] Jamey will enable eyeBeam to use presence info to decide
whether messages should go straight to voicemail.
[ACTION] Jamey will update the interface requirements document.
[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] Ben T. will write a short document describing the motivation for the
paths-in-the-snow approach to PIC development.
[ACTION] Jamey will continue working on the future of the skiffs, and solicit
opinions from PIC members as needed.
[ACTION] People will research skiff-like offerings from various companies:
- Dennis - Newbury
- Steve - Airwave
- Rodger - Airespace (now part of Cisco)
- Jeremy - Eckehau (via Walt Magnusson)

*Attendees*

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

*Discussion*

Much of the call was devoted to final preparations for the May 4 demo at the
Internet2 Member Meeting. This session will be reviewed on the May 12 call.

The group agreed on May 16 as a target date to have the PIC-SER RPM and
"Configuration worksheet and Wiki reference" ready for distribution. Jamey 
plans
to drop Red Hat 7.3 from the supported OSes; it's too old. [ACTION] Jamey will
look further into what OS versions we should support. Candace noted that her
action item, "Candace will find out what Mac OS versions support Session",
should refer to eyeBeam not Session, and the answer is versions 10 and later.
[ACTION] Candace will get a PIC-SER section set up on the SER Wiki.

Finally Dennis gave a short but extremely cool demo of the BIC ("Bus-ence
Integrated Communications") transportation-tracking application; see
http://shuttletrack.mit.edu/ .