Presence and IntComm WG

["Ben Chinowsky" <>]

*Action Items as of January 3*

[ACTION] (12/6 - high priority) Tim will submit a proposal for the MM demo, 
and
cc wg-pic.
[ACTION] (12/6) Tim will contact Dorothy Williams and Ed Humphrey about 
working
on PIC.edu server documentation.
[ACTION] (12/6) Tim will send wg-pic a proposal for which features the initial
PIC.edu client table should cover.
[ACTION] (11/8) Tim will recruit someone to create the PIC.edu client table.
[ACTION] (11/1) Tim will put the draft PIC.edu project objectives on the wiki
and invite people to start contributing there.
[ACTION] (11/1) Tim will ask SIP.edu participants for their insights on how to
proceed with PIC.edu, and in particular how to handle user generation and
management.
[ACTION] (10/4) Peter will find out if Horizon Wimba can interoperate with 
other
XMPP services, in particular whether it can do server-to-server federation.
[ACTION] (7/12) Mark will prepare a simple demo of anonymous and non-anonymous
versions of moderated and unmoderated Jabber chatrooms, for a PIC call in 
early
2008.

*Attendees*

Tim Callahan (chair) - Michigan
Deke Kassabian - Penn
Mark Sirota - Penn
Jorj Bauer- Penn
Rodney McDuff - Queensland
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

Deke has contacted David Morton at the University of Washington. They are
running a Jabber server for their IT department and may be able to help with
PIC.edu.

The group discussed clients for PIC.edu.
- Mark noted that the four clients listed at 
http://www.upenn.edu/computing/im/
(iChat and Adium for Mac, Pidgin and Exodus for Windows) support all the
features needed for the initial version of PIC.edu. Deke suggested that we 
also
recommend a couple of Linux clients for the demo at the Member Meeting.
- For administrative purposes, Rodney recommends TKjabber, with Psi as
runner-up.
- For the MM demo, the only admin functions we're likely to need are those
needed for creating chatrooms; Rodney suggested separating these from other
admin features in our client evaluations.
- Rodney suggests also recommending one or two web-based clients for the demo.
Of the free clients, jwchat or jeti are the best-looking and most 
full-featured.
See
https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/arc/wg-pic/2007-12/msg00004.html
and
https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/arc/wg-pic/2007-12/msg00005.html
for more on web-based clients.
- The group also agreed to note the availability of, but not recommend,
clients for Windows Mobile, e.g. imov
(http://www.movsoftware.com/products/imov/imov.htm)