Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of September 20*

(high priority)
[ACTION] (9/7) Mark will post his presence-agent code on the web.
[ACTION] (9/7) Mark will resend jabberwocky account holders their jabberwocky
account info, and note what they will need to experiment with the presence 
agent
(e.g., what version of python is needed).
[ACTION] (9/7) Ben T. will talk to Candace and Rodger about doing some
presence-agent testing.
[ACTION] (8/31) Rodger will schedule an evening PIC WG meeting at the
Internet2 Member Meeting.
[ACTION] (8/31) Dennis will contact Skyhook for more information.
[ACTION] (8/24 - in progress) Ben T. will contact the Galago developers to 
find
out how the presence-agent project could make use of Galago.
[ACTION] (8/24 - in progress) Mark will see if he can find interest in the
presence-agent project on the Psi developers' list.
[ACTION] (8/3) Joe will update the group on work in IETF SIMPLE, after he
talks to Jon Peterson at VON.
[ACTION] (8/3) Rodger will launch an email discussion of if and how to fix 
pals
and pals-dev.
[ACTION] (8/3) Rodger will send out pointers to an assortment of XMPP-client
feature-comparison matrices, highlighting items of particular interest or
concern to the group.
[ACTION] (8/3) Rodger will revise his Gaim setup instructions.
[ACTION] (5/18) Ben T. will post the calendar-integration code (written by his
2005 SoC student) on the Penn XMPP server; Mark will evaluate prospects for
modifying it to drive XMPP presence.
[ACTION] (5/11) Ben T. will look for students active in Place Lab to
work with PIC.

(medium priority)
[ACTION] (8/3) Rodger will put a discussion of current vendor offerings in the
location-services space on the agenda for a future call.
[ACTION] (pre-12/8 - in progress) Rodger and Joe will write up some use cases
for enterprise federations.

*Attendees*

Ben Teitelbaum (acting chair) - Internet2
Mark Sirota - Penn
Deke Kassabian - Penn
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

The group discussed plans for XMPP development:
- Mark talked to a Windows developer about his proposed presence-agent
architecture. The developer confirmed that the architecture will work under
Windows, although the lack of any Windows equivalent to Growl
(http://growl.info/) will make things harder.
- Mark noted that the presence-agent code is close to being ready for PIC to
experiment with. [ACTION] Mark will post his presence-agent code on the web.
- The group agreed to keep the jabberwocky server
(jabberwocky.net.isc.upenn.edu) purely experimental, not depending on it for 
any
production-like uses. [ACTION] Mark will resend jabberwocky account holders
their jabberwocky account info, and note what they will need to experiment 
with
the presence agent (e.g., what version of python is needed).
- [ACTION] Ben T. will talk to Candace and Rodger about doing some
presence-agent testing.