Presence and IntComm WG

[Steve Blair <>]

Ben & Jeremy:

 Cisco was in the office this week and offered to scare up a speaker 
for the
Members Meeting. Would PIC want to accept their offer? If so does the PIC
group have any topics they would like Cisco to discuss?

-Steve

Ben Chinowsky wrote:

> *Action Items as of June 29*
>
> (new)
> [ACTION] Jeremy, Rodger, and Ben T. will write the proposal for the MM 
> sessions.
> [ACTION] Jamey will look into adding fuzzed presence to the MM demo.
> [ACTION] Candace and Jamey will compile a "how to un-wedge the server" 
> document.
> [ACTION] Candace will accept Jan Janek's offer to host a Debian version of 
> PALS
> for PIC-SER.
> [ACTION] Jamey, Candace, and Ben T. will test the latest PIC-SER RPM and 
> install
> documentation.
>
> (from previous calls)
> [ACTION] Jamey will post the PIC-SER tarball.
> [ACTION] Jamey will send Candace a list of the PIC-SER package's library
> dependencies.
> [ACTION] Anyone who has a BSD or other unusual Unix-like system on which they
> can do a test install of the PIC-SER package, will contact Candace.
> [ACTION] PIC will consider changing its conference call schedule so that 
> PIC-SER
> participants in various time zones can join more of the calls.
> [ACTION] Rodger will ask Jiri for comment on SIPPS.
> [ACTION] Jamey will continue to pursue interoperability issues with Jeff King
> at Wave3 and Neal at Xten.
> [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] 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 Magnussen)
>
> (from previous calls, low priority)
> [ACTION] Candace will look into Tyler Johnson's H.350-enabled version of the
> NIST client.
> [ACTION] Ben T. will write a short document describing the motivation for the
> paths-in-the-snow approach to PIC development.
>
> *Attendees*
>
> Jeremy George (chair) - Yale
> Rodger Will - Ford
> Megan - Columbia
> Deke Kassabian - Penn
> Ben Teitelbaum - Internet2
> Dennis Baron - MIT
> Candace Holman - Harvard
> Jamey Hicks - HP
> Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2
>
> *Discussion*
>
> Jeremy noted that the proposal deadline for the Internet2 Fall Member Meeting 
> is
> June 30. The group agreed to:
> - do a demo per Steve's proposal, ideally in a demo room of its own, but 
> sharing
> a room with other demos if necessary;
> - not do a track session; and
> - hold a WG meeting, the first part of which will be devoted to reports from 
> the
> PIC-SER teams.
> [ACTION] Jeremy, Rodger, and Ben T. will write the proposal for the MM 
> sessions.
> [ACTION] Jamey will look into adding fuzzed presence to the MM demo.
>
> The group discussed its participation in the Google Summer of Code
> (http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html). It was agreed that PIC will 
> mentor a
> calendar integration project, and co-mentor with SIP.edu on a project to 
> write a
> SIP/SIMPLE plugin for GAIM.
>
> Ben T. is working on bringing up a separate PALS server (PALS-DEV) for
> development purposes. Jamey has a machine he can use as a temporary PALS-DEV 
> if
> necessary. There have been recurring problems with the production PALS server
> locking up; [ACTION] Candace and Jamey will compile a "how to un-wedge the
> server" document.
>
> PIC-SER applications have been accepted from UCLA, Florida State, Penn, MIT,
> Columbia, i2CAT (Catalonia), and UNAM (Mexico). Congratulations to the PIC-SER
> participants!
>
> It was agreed that the PIC-SER list will be open for self-subscription, 
> subject
> to moderator approval. [ACTION] Candace will accept Jan Janek's offer to host 
> a
> Debian version of PALS for PIC-SER. Candace is letting the PIC-SER 
> participants
> know that the PIC-SER package will not be ready by June 24 as previously
> planned. [ACTION] Jamey, Candace, and Ben T. will test the latest PIC-SER RPM
> and install documentation.
>