Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of November 29*

(high priority)
[ACTION] (11/16) Rodger and Deke will confer with the group planning the 
Second
Life session at the Member Meeting, to see what the PIC WG could contribute.
[ACTION] (10/12 - in progress) Candace will try to fix pals-dev.
[ACTION] (9/7) Mark will post his presence-agent code on the web.
[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) Mark will evaluate prospects for modifying the calendar-
integration code written by Ben T.'s 2005 SoC student, to drive XMPP presence.

(medium priority)
[ACTION] (8/31) Dennis will contact Skyhook for more information.
[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
Deke Kassabian - Penn
Dennis Baron - MIT
Neal McBurnett - Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Jeff Pulver will be joining the November 30 call to discuss the presence and
integrated communications potential of Second Life and other virtual worlds.
This call will begin at 10am Eastern instead of the usual 4pm Eastern.

The Internet2 Member Meeting in Chicago will include a session on "Teaching &
Learning in Massively Multiplayer Virtual Worlds: Second Life Adventures in
Learning"; see
http://events.internet2.edu/2006/fall-mm/sessionDetails.cfm?session=2877&event=258
[ACTION] Rodger and Deke will confer with the group planning the Second Life
session at the Member Meeting, to see what the PIC WG could contribute.

There will also be a PIC Working Group meeting in Chicago; see
http://events.internet2.edu/2006/fall-mm/sessionDetails.cfm?session=3012&event=258
This meeting will focus on setting priorities for PIC in light of the recent
recommendations from the Real Time Communications Advisory Group. RTG-AG's
deliverables are available at http://www.internet2.edu/rtc/ and will be
discussed in a Member Meeting session; see
http://events.internet2.edu/2006/fall-mm/sessionDetails.cfm?session=2843&event=258