Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of March 28*

(high priority)
[ACTION] (3/22) Rodger will look for a new PIC chair; anyone who's interested
should contact Rodger 
()
 and cc Jonathan 
().
[ACTION] (3/22) Jonathan will look for PIC.edu resources at Radvision, 
Tandberg,
and Polycom.
[ACTION] (3/22) Ben and Candace will revise the survey to be more of a tool 
for
finding resources for PIC.edu.
[ACTION] (3/22) Dennis will see if PIC.edu resources are available in Europe.
[ACTION] (3/22) Deke will recruit Michael Gettes to work on PIC.edu.
[ACTION] (3/8) Jonathan will get Ken to clarify the status of PIC.edu and the
PIC WG more generally.
[ACTION] (3/8) Jonathan will find out what's going on with presence in the
Access Grid community, and if there is interest in PIC.edu there.
[ACTION] (3/1) Jonathan will submit a Member Meeting track session description
based on the discussion on the March 1 call, using the schedule slot he's
already reserved.
[ACTION] (3/1) Mark will revise the features list, adding XMPP items to the
"Protocol Specific" section, and making the "User Features" and "Security and
Privacy" sections protocol-agnostic.
[ACTION] (3/1) Dennis will recruit someone from Google to join a call to 
discuss
how they might be able to participate in PIC.edu.
[ACTION] (1/4) Prashant will send out some links on how XMPP relates to
federations.
[ACTION] (12/14) Rodger and Prashant will further discuss how CampusEAI could
participate in PIC.

(medium priority)
[ACTION] (9/7) Mark will post his presence-agent code on the web.
[ACTION] (8/31) Dennis will contact Skyhook for more information.
[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) Rodger will put a discussion of current vendor offerings in the
location-services space on the agenda for a future call.
[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.
[ACTION] (in progress) Rodger and Joe will write up some use cases
for enterprise federations.

*Attendees*

Rodger Will (chair) - Ford
Deke Kassabian - Penn
Dennis Baron - MIT
Neal McBurnett - Internet2
Jonathan Tyman - Internet2
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Due to the difficulties at Ford, Rodger is unable to continue chairing the PIC
working group for much longer. [ACTION] Rodger will look for a new PIC chair;
anyone who's interested should contact Rodger 
()
 and cc Jonathan
().

The group continued its discussion of how to find the resources needed for the
PIC.edu project. See
https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/picwg/pic.edu+Draft+Proposal 
for a
list of tasks that we need people to commit to.
- [ACTION] Jonathan will look for PIC.edu resources at Radvision, Tandberg, 
and
Polycom.
- [ACTION] Ben and Candace will revise the survey to be more of a tool for
finding resources for PIC.edu.
- [ACTION] Dennis will see if PIC.edu resources are available in Europe.
- [ACTION] Deke will recruit Michael Gettes to work on PIC.edu.

Neal noted that he's going to the March 22 meeting of the Serious Second Life
Group; see http://secondlife.meetup.com/9/?gj=sj5

Neal also noted that Peter St. Andre is unable to come to the Internet2 Member
Meeting in April.