| 14:43 |
Phrynne |
Hi Carl |
| 14:43 |
lovejoy2199 |
Greetings everyone. |
| 14:43 |
Phrynne |
Word's not available today, but I'm here in case people show up. |
| 14:43 |
lovejoy2199 |
Hello Dean |
| 14:43 |
lovejoy2199 |
Hello Carl. |
| 14:44 |
Phrynne |
and we can do some kind of informal Q&A without reports. |
| 14:44 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Do you want me to do the General Q&A I do on the other weeks? I still have time to get the announcements out. |
| 14:44 |
Phrynne |
If you want, that would be fine. |
| 14:45 |
Phrynne |
I'm not really prepared for this. |
| 14:45 |
Phrynne |
Only if you want to, of course |
| 14:46 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Looking at the Notices list, I see Wordsmith has already sent out a cancellation for today, so I would probably not get many people even if I did send out a notice. |
| 14:47 |
Phrynne |
When did it come out? I have not seen it. |
| 14:47 |
Carl Metropolitan |
If people come and have questions you can't do, I will do my best with them. |
| 14:47 |
lovejoy2199 |
Me neither. |
| 14:47 |
Carl Metropolitan |
9:52 this morning it seems. |
| 14:47 |
Carl Metropolitan |
“Due to RL perturbations, I'm canceling today's Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. We will return on the 2nd Sunday of September. Oxbridge remains in good financial standing with tier paid until Oct. I am working on Spanish and French translations for the tutorial kiosks. —Wordsmith Jarvinen, Chancellor, Caledon Oxbridge University” |
| 14:47 |
lovejoy2199 |
Ok. |
| 14:48 |
Phrynne |
I had to dig back in COUG. It is not in COU. |
| 14:48 |
Cychwynn |
Hello everyone |
| 14:48 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Hi |
| 14:48 |
lovejoy2199 |
Hello Cychwynn |
| 14:48 |
Carl Metropolitan |
COUG only I think. |
| 14:48 |
lovejoy2199 |
Hello Herra Skysmith |
| 14:49 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
:-) |
| 14:49 |
Phrynne |
Well, what do you want to do? |
| 14:50 |
Phrynne |
We can just wait and see if anyone else shows up, if anyone has any questions and leave it at that. |
| 14:50 |
Phrynne |
And communally try to answer. |
| 14:50 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Sounds good to me. |
| 14:50 |
Phrynne |
Okay. |
| 14:51 |
Phrynne |
I was going to bring a cat but all my kitties are asleep |
| 14:51 |
Cychwynn |
:) |
| 14:52 |
Phrynne |
I'll move over, Carl |
| 14:52 |
Carl Metropolitan |
This may be a short session. Wordsmith canceled Q&A With the Deans this morning. So Phrynne and I will answer any questions from anyone who is here and has them. |
| 14:53 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Sort of a General Q&A, but with less questions. |
| 14:53 |
Phrynne |
A little more informal. |
| 14:53 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I forgot I had this old Sculpty chair. |
| 14:53 |
Phrynne |
It looks nice. |
| 14:54 |
Carl Metropolitan |
This is ancient. It dates back to when Nova Civis Caledon was a thing and I had my "office" there. |
| 14:54 |
Phrynne |
I'm not even sure where that is. |
| 14:55 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Before Oxbridge, there was a sim that was a collaboration between NCI and Caledon, called Nova Civis Caledon |
| 14:55 |
Phrynne |
Nods. New Caledon City |
| 14:56 |
Carl Metropolitan |
It was supposed to mean New Citizens Caledon, but I guess our faux Latin failed us :) |
| 14:56 |
Cychwynn |
Fun history fact though :) |
| 14:57 |
Carl Metropolitan |
The NCI Caledon moved to the first iteration of Oxbridge Village in a reduced size when Oxbridge opened, and when I was forced out of NCI, the remaining people in charge at NCI closed it. |
| 14:59 |
Phrynne |
It could mean New Citizen Caledon—city is urbs, not civis, but I don't think civis takes a female ending, which Nova is, so it might be Novus Civis Caledon. |
| 14:59 |
Phrynne |
(off the top of my head without the dictionary in the other room) |
| 14:59 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Ah. Well, I wish we had had you back then. |
| 14:59 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Civic pacem, para bellum... |
| 14:59 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Caledon Oxbridge is a far superior area anyway. |
| 14:59 |
Phrynne |
Yes. |
| 14:59 |
Carl Metropolitan |
And eventually someone gave NCI their own island somewhere that they make little use of. |
| 15:00 |
Phrynne |
NCI South? I use the sandbox there when I need more space than Oxbridge has. |
| 15:00 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
They seem to need land donations in their group. |
| 15:00 |
Carl Metropolitan |
No. NCI Island. I think they still have it. |
| 15:00 |
Phrynne |
Is that the one that took over White Tiger Island and reduced it from 4 regions to one? |
| 15:00 |
Phrynne |
or a different NCI island? |
| 15:01 |
Carl Metropolitan |
No. No relation that I know of. |
| 15:01 |
Carl Metropolitan |
NCIsland is the name. |
| 15:01 |
Phrynne |
Okay. |
| 15:01 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Still wondering why one of the areas is NCI Kuula, since the last word is also in Finnish. |
| 15:01 |
Carl Metropolitan |
That's named after the sim it is in. |
| 15:01 |
Phrynne |
White Tiger became NCI at Lawst Paradise or something similar. |
| 15:01 |
Carl Metropolitan |
After my time. |
| 15:01 |
Phrynne |
I only remember because they had rideable sharks and an underwater art gallery. |
| 15:02 |
Phrynne |
And that's where I went before I came to Oxbridge. |
| 15:02 |
Phrynne |
Neither the sharks nor the underwater gallery survived. |
| 15:02 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Kuula was the sim NCI started out on originally as a 1024 m2 help area founded by Brace Coral. |
| 15:02 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
"Kuula" = "hard sphere" (like cannonball, ball bearing or marble sphere). |
| 15:02 |
Phrynne |
No relation to Koala. |
| 15:02 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I had my "First Land" across the street from it, so that's how I got involved. |
| 15:03 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Then Brace had to step down as she no longer has as much time in world, and I took over from her as I was the only volunteer as Tateru Nino did not want the job. |
| 15:03 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Hi Andrea. |
| 15:03 |
Phrynne |
hi Andrea |
| 15:04 |
|
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) wonders if anyone has heard of Brace Coral recently. |
| 15:04 |
Phrynne |
We are jamming, more or less. Nothing official. |
| 15:04 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I was still eligible to participate in their Newbie Show & Tell when I took over NCI :) |
| 15:04 |
Carl Metropolitan |
No. She [Brace Coral] left SL for good as far as I can tell. |
| 15:04 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Hi Andrea. |
| 15:05 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Greetings all. |
| 15:05 |
Cychwynn |
Hello :) |
| 15:05 |
lovejoy2199 |
Greetings. |
| 15:05 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Wordsmith canceled Q&A With the Deans this morning. |
| 15:05 |
Carl Metropolitan |
But if anyone has any questions, we are here to answer. |
| 15:05 |
Phrynne |
But the notice only went to COUG. |
| 15:05 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Not many people in the audience, but this is going to be informal. |
| 15:06 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I was just doing ancient oldbie reminisces. |
| 15:06 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
There is no notice in COUG. |
| 15:06 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Last one is Flexi Skirt class |
| 15:06 |
Phrynne |
It was early this morning. |
| 15:06 |
Phrynne |
Not an expected time |
| 15:07 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Something must have come up for him. |
| 15:07 |
Carl Metropolitan |
So, any questions? |
| 15:07 |
Cychwynn |
I came to listen to the info shared as usual lol :) |
| 15:08 |
Phrynne |
Questions? Comments? Suggestions? |
| 15:08 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Announcements? |
| 15:08 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Imprecations? |
| 15:08 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Well, I still host the Writers' Meeting. And Soup has his reading one... |
| 15:09 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
The main announcement I would have. |
| 15:09 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Andrea is their a bi-weekly fundraiser next weekend? Or this weekend? |
| 15:09 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
and I take it "I can make your avatar pregnant” scam is not active? |
| 15:10 |
Carl Metropolitan |
And she just answered that in Group Notices: |
| 15:10 |
Carl Metropolitan |
[15:09] Andrea Jones (andreajonesms): The Caledon Oxbridge University bi-weekly fundraiser is coming up in under a hour. Join DJ Sasha and myself at 4 pm sl for 2 hours of ball room music and dance at the Victoria Hall. your buggy Caledon Oxbridge Village (125,213,2382) |
| 15:10 |
Phrynne |
I have not seen any evidence of that scam in a few years, Mr. Elfbiter. |
| 15:10 |
Cychwynn |
Hurrah. Cant wait! |
| 15:10 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Splendid. |
| 15:10 |
Carl Metropolitan |
If you see any new scams, please tell the Deans, and especially Lindal who does the Avatar Safety class. |
| 15:10 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Yup. |
| 15:10 |
Phrynne |
I have also not seen the MLP griefer objects attaching themselves to newbies, for which I am grateful. |
| 15:11 |
lovejoy2199 |
MLP??? |
| 15:11 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
No screaming cubes, either, at least in my watch. |
| 15:11 |
Phrynne |
My Little Pony |
| 15:11 |
Carl Metropolitan |
If you see any new scams, let me know, too. I can talk about them in General Q&A. |
| 15:12 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I think the biggest scams are long in SL's past. In the early days they had casinos and "banks". |
| 15:12 |
Phrynne |
hello Badger! |
| 15:13 |
badgerofzen |
Hullo. |
| 15:13 |
Cychwynn |
Hello there. |
| 15:13 |
Carl Metropolitan |
And "Stock Exchanges". |
| 15:13 |
Carl Metropolitan |
The casinos were the most legit of the three, too. :) |
| 15:13 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
I think only RL banks would be allowed to have banks in SL now. If even those. |
| 15:13 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Right. |
| 15:13 |
Phrynne |
What did they have stock in? |
| 15:13 |
Carl Metropolitan |
SL companies. |
| 15:14 |
Carl Metropolitan |
The "banks" were ponzi schemes that offered unsustainable rates of interest. |
| 15:14 |
lovejoy2199 |
Bernie was here? lol |
| 15:14 |
Carl Metropolitan |
And after the biggest one collapsed, LL banned them. |
| 15:14 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Too small time for Madoff :) |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
There are still scammers, but not that big. |
| 15:15 |
lovejoy2199 |
Every little bit helps. |
| 15:15 |
Carl Metropolitan |
The biggest was: Ginko Financial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginko_Financial |
| 15:16 |
Phrynne |
I think I heard about that when I was a newbie. |
| 15:16 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Might have been the time when LL did not cooperate that well with PayPal. |
| 15:16 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I know I told people whenever I could it was a scam, and a lot of other much more famous people did, too. Including Anshe Chung. |
| 15:16 |
Carl Metropolitan |
People did not listen. |
| 15:17 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
The more they invest on something, the less they are willing to believe it is a scam. |
| 15:17 |
Phrynne |
They don't listen. We had a one-day-old today who was sure she was going to make a RL fortune doing... something in SL. |
| 15:17 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
There are numerous RL examples. |
| 15:17 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Oh yes, that one. |
| 15:17 |
Phrynne |
She was only here to make money. |
| 15:18 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Rather impatient one as well. |
| 15:18 |
Phrynne |
Yes. Well, her loss. |
| 15:18 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Time will tell if she stays. |
| 15:18 |
Carl Metropolitan |
The entire Hall of Money & Commerce was designed to teach people about the SL economy. |
| 15:19 |
Phrynne |
Yes. She didn't get that far. |
| 15:19 |
Carl Metropolitan |
A lot of people seem to skip that part of the orientation path here. |
| 15:19 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I think something like that may be unique to Oxbridge's orientation. |
| 15:19 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
She did not seem to see the arrows leading people through the tutorial. |
| 15:19 |
Phrynne |
I haven't seen it elsewhere—anything on economics |
| 15:20 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Rare people get rich in SL these days. |
| 15:21 |
Carl Metropolitan |
The advice in it is "buy L$" to start with. Most people don't' want to hear that. |
| 15:22 |
Phrynne |
Some people don't have credit cards. |
| 15:22 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I know. |
| 15:22 |
Carl Metropolitan |
You can also use a debit card, if you have one. |
| 15:22 |
Phrynne |
though I think with the newer financial system in SL there may be other ways to do it. |
| 15:22 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I don't know if LL accepts prepaid MC/Visa cards anymore. |
| 15:23 |
Phrynne |
It accepts Paypal. |
| 15:24 |
Carl Metropolitan |
So any questions? I should probably stop rambling. |
| 15:24 |
Phrynne |
*crickets* |
| 15:25 |
lovejoy2199 |
I learn every time you ramble. |
| 15:25 |
Phrynne |
Lovejoy? |
| 15:25 |
Phrynne |
nods. |
| 15:25 |
Cychwynn |
yeah the rambling is always worth coming in for :) |
| 15:25 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
:-) |
| 15:25 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Thanks. |
| 15:25 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
I would not call that rambling :-) |
| 15:26 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I think I'm out of rambling tonight. |
| 15:26 |
Phrynne |
Move to adjourn? |
| 15:26 |
Phrynne |
going once... |
| 15:27 |
Phrynne |
going twice... |
| 15:27 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Sold! |
| 15:27 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Oh wait. That's an auction. |
| 15:27 |
Phrynne |
And we are adjourned. |
| 15:27 |
lovejoy2199 |
Fair warning |
| 15:27 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Thank you for coming. I hope to see some of you at the fund raiser |
| 15:27 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Well, how much you are paying? :-) |
| 15:27 |
Cychwynn |
Thank you for your time all. |
| 15:27 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Goodnight. |
| 15:27 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Well, moving to my RL bed. |
| 15:27 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Goodnight all. |