Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of October 4*

(high priority)
[ACTION] (10/28) Rodger will send out some helpful Psi screen shots ahead of 
the
Oct. 5 test session.
[ACTION] (9/21) Ben T. will look into getting student coding resources for
porting the presence agent.
[ACTION] (9/7) Mark will post his presence-agent code on the web.
[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*

Rodger Will (chair) - Ford
Mark Sirota - Penn
Deke Kassabian - Penn
Dennis Baron - MIT
Candace Holman - Harvard
Neal McBurnett - Internet2
Ben Teitelbaum - Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Ben T. noted that he has contacted Clique about getting some licenses; this
looks promising. Dennis noted that while Eyeball claims to be standards-based,
they also seem to assume that you're buying all components from them; Clique
seems like a better fit for universities.

OpenSER (http://www.openser.org/) has been released; Deke is planning to
take a look at it. It's not clear what differences there are between the
OpenSER and iptel.org SER codebases. Dennis is hoping to talk to Jiri Kuthan
during the week of October 2.

Rodger noted a Network World cover story about a university's switch to
an open-source VoIP platform. See
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/091206-von-sam-houston.html.

Ben T. suggested the group resume its pre-call testing sessions, starting
October 5 by testing some of the more advanced features of Psi
(http://psi-im.org/) against Penn's jabberwocky server. There was general
agreement; the first session will be October 5 from 3-4pm Eastern, with the 
call
4-5pm Eastern as usual. All PICsters are welcome; Ben T., Rodger, Candace, and
Neal are all hoping to make it. [ACTION] Rodger will send out some helpful Psi
screen shots ahead of the Oct. 5 test session.