| 14:47 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome, Josain and Elf |
| 14:47 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Yp |
| 14:48 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
*Yo |
| 14:49 |
Josain Zsun |
G'Day! Traffic must be bad. Oh, it's only 10 till. |
| 14:50 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome, Trish |
| 14:50 |
Trish (ralter29) |
Hello |
| 14:56 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome, Larky, Gronk, Elo, lovejoy |
| 14:57 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
;o) |
| 14:57 |
Gronk Seriman |
Good evening, Chancellor Jarvinen, everybody! |
| 14:57 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Hi Word, everyone |
| 14:57 |
lovejoy2199 |
Greetings everyone |
| 14:57 |
lovejoy2199 |
Hello Chancellor |
| 14:58 |
Phrynne |
hello everyone |
| 14:58 |
lovejoy2199 |
Hello Dean |
| 15:02 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome to this week's Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. Your chance to hear what's happening in that Oxbridge Community and to ask questions, comment, nap, and the like. |
| 15:04 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
This is an open meeting. All are welcome with the exception of those who aim to misbehave in a disruptive manner. Non disruptive misbehavior is at your discretion. Transcripts will be posted after the meeting. |
| 15:04 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome, Catseye and Lindal |
| 15:04 |
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Lindal Kidd waves! |
| 15:05 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Transcript index is at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php |
| 15:05 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Phrynne, can you start. |
| 15:05 |
Phrynne |
I have one item for this week -- after a great deal of bouncing from one region to another, I completed an update of one of our most-used notecards, the COU Landmarks of G-Rated places. |
| 15:06 |
Lindal Kidd |
yay! |
| 15:06 |
Phrynne |
I sent this out to all staff members in the COU notices; if you do not have a copy of this notecard, please IM me and I will send it to you. |
| 15:06 |
Phrynne |
And please discard the earlier one. |
| 15:07 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
(welcome Brenda) |
| 15:07 |
Phrynne |
As usual, when I checked, I found a few new places - there are some General-rated dance clubs, for instance -- and several places that either do not exist, kept the name but the place is entirely different, or are now no longer there at all. |
| 15:07 |
Phrynne |
Fortunately, my clothes are waterproof; otherwise they'd be affected by the number of times I teleported and dropped from where a skybox used to be into the water. |
| 15:08 |
Phrynne |
And there was the General-rated hair shop that is now a nude beach... |
| 15:08 |
Phrynne |
Anyway, it's updated, and you can be sure that you will not be sending anyone you give it to into the water. |
| 15:08 |
Phrynne |
And that is it for me for now. |
| 15:08 |
Phrynne |
*looks back at Word* |
| 15:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thank you, Phrynne. It's a wet job, but somebody has to do it. |
| 15:09 |
Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) |
Kara2016 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome Kara |
| 15:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And thank you. |
| 15:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Lindal (and nice to see you here)? |
| 15:09 |
Kara2016 |
Smiles brightly. |
| 15:10 |
Lindal Kidd |
I'm just glad I finally made it to a Q&A |
| 15:11 |
Kara2016 |
and we are happy that you made it. |
| 15:11 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
:-) |
| 15:11 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Any observations on classes needed, things working well, or not so well? |
| 15:11 |
Lindal Kidd |
A couple of people have asked me to do a Sailing class |
| 15:12 |
Lindal Kidd |
I have one about half done |
| 15:12 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
I am still missing the vehicle class but I am not in a position to teach it... |
| 15:12 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Sailing would be a fun class to have. |
| 15:13 |
Lindal Kidd |
lots of people have asked for an Appearance class, but I'm rather at a loss...it's such a huge subject, and getting worse all the time |
| 15:13 |
Catseye Tennen (katsii.tennen) |
a class in low lag but great outfits |
| 15:13 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Sailing is a great idea! |
| 15:13 |
Catseye Tennen (katsii.tennen) |
but sailing sounds more fun |
| 15:13 |
Lindal Kidd |
I wonder if a format like Photo Salon would work...a series of classes, over a number of weeks |
| 15:14 |
Kara2016 |
smiles brightly. |
| 15:14 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Maybe team teach with someone to lessen the prep load? |
| 15:14 |
Brenda (brendaharden) |
I would love both of those classes |
| 15:14 |
Gronk Seriman |
I still wih somebody would steal my idea for an Avatar Show and Tell class. |
| 15:14 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
I have also received some questions about appearance class... |
| 15:14 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I think I read something in LL's coming soon blog about changes to enable using system clothes on mesh avatars. I need to go back a check that. |
| 15:14 |
Lindal Kidd |
yes |
| 15:14 |
Lindal Kidd |
that is "bakes on mesh" |
| 15:15 |
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Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) shudders at the though of being blamed for LLs actions again |
| 15:15 |
Lindal Kidd |
I think there's a project viewer that has it in a preview form |
| 15:16 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And yes, the permutations in teaching appearance are large. |
| 15:17 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Elf, what aspect of a vehicle class were you thinking about? |
| 15:17 |
Sandie Harbour |
I've looked at the topic of appearance |
| 15:18 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Any conclusions on what would be most helpful to teach Sandie |
| 15:18 |
Sandie Harbour |
it seems a very difficult topic |
| 15:19 |
Sandie Harbour |
cannot be covered in one class |
| 15:19 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
One part I'd suggest is how to hack using clothing designed just for mesh bodies on a system avatar. |
| 15:20 |
Sandie Harbour |
that would be helpful |
| 15:20 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
I think one would have to cover everything from system clothing to mesh clothing to mesh avatars. It is definitely a big subject. |
| 15:20 |
Sandie Harbour |
I only know how to dress myself |
| 15:20 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
There used to be a vehicle class about building vehicles with proper scripts |
| 15:20 |
Brenda (brendaharden) |
I think it would be helpful for newbies to have a class on how to select and put on a mesh avatar. |
| 15:20 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
I, well, mainly screwed up in that myself... |
| 15:20 |
Phrynne |
A multiple-part course with several people teaching it? |
| 15:21 |
Sandie Harbour |
No that is an interesting idea |
| 15:21 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
And I don't think Balpeen Hammerer is active any more |
| 15:21 |
Gronk Seriman |
That's the beauty of an Avatar Show and tell. Hopefully, you know your own avatars and looks, and can explain them. |
| 15:21 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Moonstone used to teach Avatar appearance, IIRC |
| 15:21 |
Lindal Kidd |
I will undertake to write a broad outline for Appearance. Then perhaps we can get people to take portions of it and teach them. |
| 15:22 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That would be great Lindal |
| 15:22 |
Brenda (brendaharden) |
I like that idea |
| 15:22 |
Kara2016 |
,..only knows to look at the label of the outfit before i buy it. |
| 15:23 |
Sandie Harbour |
we have some beautiful skins here |
| 15:23 |
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Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) tends to mix and match |
| 15:23 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Yay. We've got Andrea also. |
| 15:24 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Hi all |
| 15:24 |
Kara2016 |
Smiles brightly. |
| 15:25 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That's part of the problem Elf. Mix and match doesn't always work |
| 15:25 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Yup. Mesh does not mix well with prims |
| 15:25 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Yes, but it is so much fun, Word. ;^) |
| 15:25 |
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Badass Fae (larkylouz) would live in the dressing room, given half a chance. |
| 15:25 |
Phrynne |
There are some dresses that are both mesh and prim, but the prims are usually to make the skirt move. |
| 15:25 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
If only the floors didn't keep falling out. |
| 15:25 |
Phrynne |
lol |
| 15:26 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I was going to mention the floors, Larky. :P |
| 15:26 |
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Badass Fae (larkylouz) reaches for the snowballs she has stashed against the spring. . . |
| 15:27 |
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Phrynne pokes the spring and makes it go boingggggg and scatter the snowballs |
| 15:27 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
hee |
| 15:27 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Andrea, have anything for this week? |
| 15:28 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Been offline due to my ISP. But the plan is to setup a spring event soon. In march. I'll get with Ms Nacht and see what her plans are for her spring event. |
| 15:28 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Then I can better plan from there |
| 15:29 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
I might do the art show again this year |
| 15:29 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
The garden build I used seems to have disappeared along with a lot of old builds from inv. So I'll rebuild it |
| 15:30 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Good, I think this last year we managed some good coordination. |
| 15:30 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Just a matter of remembering what we did the year before in time to implement it. |
| 15:31 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Nods |
| 15:31 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Anything else, Andrea? |
| 15:31 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
This weekend I was busy setting up builds for the next three Tuesday nights. I should be able to focus on COU stuff now. |
| 15:31 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
More on that later |
| 15:31 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Okay |
| 15:32 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
looks back to word with big puppy eyes |
| 15:32 |
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Lindal Kidd sputters with laughter |
| 15:32 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
(grins back at Andrea) |
| 15:32 |
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Lindal Kidd offers Andrea a cookie |
| 15:32 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Apologies for being late, |
| 15:33 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
chops the cookie |
| 15:33 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
thanks |
| 15:33 |
Sandie Harbour |
did Word just toss cookies? |
| 15:33 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I'm mostly trying to catch up on transcripts (Q&A and the CVL-Caledon ones), stipends, statistics, and translations. |
| 15:34 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
A lot of stuff that's invisible until it's up. |
| 15:36 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I had a note from Valibrarian this morning that she has a conflict with 5pm 21 Feb (CVL board meeting), so I think we are going to postpone the next sci-fi short story discussion until March and still hold it in Caledon Southend. |
| 15:37 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I'm also away at a RL conference next weekend, and Phrynne and Andrea decided that next week's Q&A will be canceled. |
| 15:38 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
So, with that, Open for general discussion comments, questions, announcements, .... |
| 15:38 |
Lindal Kidd |
Apologies to all...RL is hollering again. :( |
| 15:38 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Still hosting the Writers' Meeting in Thursday's 11:00 AM |
| 15:38 |
Phrynne |
good to see you, Lindal! |
| 15:39 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
mumbles around the cookie, bye |
| 15:39 |
Lindal Kidd |
got it Gronk, thanks |
| 15:40 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Anything? |
| 15:41 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Announcements? |
| 15:42 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Questions? |
| 15:42 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Confusions? |
| 15:42 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Conclusions? |
| 15:42 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Confabulations? |
| 15:42 |
Brenda (brendaharden) |
Confessions? |
| 15:43 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Convocations? |
| 15:43 |
Sandie Harbour |
I have a confession |
| 15:43 |
Sandie Harbour |
oops, wrong venue |
| 15:43 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
:-'9 |
| 15:43 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
*:-) |
| 15:43 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Sandie? |
| 15:43 |
Sandie Harbour |
no thanks |
| 15:43 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Comas? |
| 15:43 |
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Brenda (brendaharden) is nervous about Sandie's confession. |
| 15:43 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Colonnades? |
| 15:44 |
Gronk Seriman |
Connotations? |
| 15:44 |
Phrynne |
Contestations? |
| 15:44 |
Phrynne |
Commiserations? |
| 15:44 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Colosseums? |
| 15:45 |
Brenda (brendaharden) |
Compromises? |
| 15:45 |
Phrynne |
Conglomerations? |
| 15:45 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I think we a getting into writing prompts now |
| 15:45 |
Sandie Harbour |
<-- waiting for comissions |
| 15:45 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Who wants one? :-) |
| 15:45 |
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Gronk Seriman smiles |
| 15:45 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
If there are no further discussion topics, |
| 15:45 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
then, we are |
| 15:46 |
Josain Zsun |
Have those present given any thought to what will happen to your "stuff" if/when you are no longer able to login? |
| 15:48 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Some. A fair amount of stuff I've developed is on bit bucket and Samm has the access keys. |
| 15:48 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
(something else to update) |
| 15:49 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Okay, hearing nothing more |
| 15:49 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
We are |
| 15:50 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
adjourned. |
| 15:50 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thank you all for coming and participating. |
| 15:50 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Thank you, Word, Andrea, Phrynne. Take care all. |
| 15:50 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Attempted bedtime for me. |
| 15:51 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Hold the fort |
| 15:51 |
Brenda (brendaharden) |
Thanks to everyone for all the work they do here |
| 15:51 |
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Eva Gaelle (jucastt)Eva Gaelle (jucastt)thank you, team. |
| 15:51 |
Gronk Seriman |
Thank you, Deans! |
| 15:51 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
If anyone runs into someone with the knowledge and attitude for teaching, send them my way. |
| 15:51 |
Kara2016 |
Thank you wonderful Deans. |
| 15:51 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Be seeing you |
| 15:58 |
lovejoy2199 shouts |
TALLY HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 16:00 |
Catseye Tennen (katsii.tennen) |
interesting...first time i've ever come to the Q & A but i had to sort of multi-task :( |