Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of October 18*

(high priority)
[ACTION] (10/12) Candace and Neal will send out their notes from the October 5
Psi testing session ahead of the October 19 session.
[ACTION] (10/12) Ben T. will take pals down, with a view to possibly bringing 
it
back up later if we need it for testing.
[ACTION] (10/12) Candace will try to fix pals-dev.
[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] (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.

(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
Joe Rork - Ford
Candace Holman - Harvard
Ben Teitelbaum - Internet2
Neal McBurnett - Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Most of the call was spent pruning the list of action items:
- "Ben T. will look into getting student coding resources for porting the
presence agent" and "Ben T. will look for students active in Place Lab to work
with PIC." Neither of these looks promising; both were deleted.
- "Joe will update the group on work in IETF SIMPLE, after he talks to Jon
Peterson at VON." This has already been done on a different call.
- "Rodger will launch an email discussion of if and how to fix pals and
pals-dev." The group discussed this and agreed that [ACTION] Ben T. will take
pals down, with a view to possibly bringing it back up later if we need it for
testing. Pals-dev will stay up; [ACTION] Candace will try to fix pals-dev.
- "Rodger will send out pointers to an assortment of XMPP-client
feature-comparison matrices, highlighting items of particular interest or
concern to the group." Rodger pointed the group instead to the information at
http://www.jabber.org/software/clients.shtml.
- "Rodger will revise his Gaim setup instructions." There was general 
agreement
that this is no longer needed.

Rodger noted that the group spent the October 5 testing session getting Psi
working -- it needs some tweaking right out of the box -- and familiarizing
themselves with its confusing interface. It was agreed to hold a second 
testing
session from 3pm to 4pm Eastern on October 19, i.e. the hour immediately 
before
the PIC call. [ACTION] Candace and Neal will send out their notes from the
October 5 Psi testing session ahead of the October 19 session.