Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2019-08-04

14:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi lovejoy
14:40 lovejoy2199 Greetings Chancellor
14:47 Kara2016 Greetings Word and Phrynne and LoveJoy.
14:48 Carl Metropolitan Hello
14:48 lovejoy2199 Hello Kara
14:49 Kara2016 Smiles brightly.
14:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Carl
14:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Kara
14:49 Phrynne waves at everyone
14:49 lovejoy2199 Hello Carl
14:50 lovejoy2199 Chancellor emeritus
14:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Elf
14:56 Dhyezl Greetings all
14:56 lovejoy2199 Hello Dhyezl
14:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome Dhyezl
14:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Ali
14:57 Phrynne waves to everyone
14:57 Dhyezl Thank you
14:57 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Hi everyone
14:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hiya Badass ;)
14:58 Ali (alessandraphilolaus) Hello, ty Jarvinen good to be here :)
14:58 Lovely1114 Hello everyone.
14:58 Ali (alessandraphilolaus) Hi
14:58 Badass Fae (larkylouz) LOL.
14:58 Badass Fae (larkylouz) sticks her tongue out at Word.
15:01 Soup Jonson I like you
15:01 Soup Jonson All
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Lovely, Welcome
15:01 Lovely1114 Thank you Wordsmith.
15:01 RainyDayRecess waves to everyone ;)
15:01 Soup Jonson waves to Rainy
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Agatha. Nice to see you being upfront (so to speak)
15:02 Agatha Macbeth Bonsoir
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen okay, seems about time.
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome to this week's Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. This is an open meeting;
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen all are welcome apart from those who intend to misbehave in a disruptive manner.
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Non-disruptive misbehavior is at your discretion.
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Transcripts will be posted after the meeting.
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php
15:03 Agatha Macbeth strokes Ingo
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Ingo, straight off of the dusty savanna
15:04 Ingo (tkb158) puRrrRrRrrrrRrr
15:04 Badass Fae (larkylouz) creates a new folder for Non-disruptive Misbehavior.
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne, will you start off, please?
15:04 Phrynne I have a few things for today.

Two apprentice tutors have been promoted to full tutors: Eva Gaelle and Mowgli Soy. Congratulations! Good work!
15:05 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Congrats!
15:05 Ali (alessandraphilolaus) Bravo!
15:05 Ingo (tkb158) Congratulations!
15:05 Phrynne We have a new wishing well, or rather Wisdom Well, in between the College of Avatar Customization and the College of Money and Commerce. It's a Wisdom Well because if you pay any amount from $L1 or more, you receive a little wisdom -- it sends you a quotation.
15:05 Carl Metropolitan Oh cool.
15:05 Phrynne We're working on having the quotes show up on something like notecards that you can save, sort of the Oxbridge equivalent of baseball cards, but for the moment the quotation shows up in your nearby chat, in tan (just for you -- they don't spam chat), from Primavera in Toscana (which is the name of the well.) There are a couple hundred quotations, so it may take you a while to get all of them. And the small change donated goes to Oxbridge!
15:05 RainyDayRecess Nice!
15:06 Phrynne The original scripting for this was done by Taff Nouvelle; I collected the quotes over the past two years, and Word put it all together.
15:06 Phrynne Now, I'd like to say a bit about profiles.
15:06 RainyDayRecess Great work!
15:06 Phrynne Profiles are public. They are the SL equivalent of a resume. They can introduce you to everyone around you before you say hello, and they say a lot about who you are and what you are interested in. Linden Labs wants all profiles to be General rated -- no rude comments or naked sex photos.
15:06 Soup Jonson I'm Pro Profile
15:06 Phrynne Since profiles *are* public, if you don't want everyone in SL to know something about you, don't have that information in your profile. You can hide your groups, and edit comments, uncheck boxes, and leave the Real Life part of your profile empty.
15:07 Phrynne Two things to be aware of:
1. If you put significant information about your RL identity, like your address or phone number or a RL photo of yourself, in your profile, it may well be grabbed by identity thieves (because they are here as well as out there) or people who will use them to make profiles for bots -- who could be doing anything, really, without your knowing it.
15:07 Phrynne 2. However, anyone older than a few months with nothing in their profile runs the risk of looking like a griefer -- because griefers usually have blank profiles.
15:07 Phrynne So find a happy medium, and let your profile tell us what you want us to know.

And that's what I have for today.
15:07 Phrynne looks back at Word
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Phrynne.
15:08 Orange Planer "And back to Wordsmith in the studio!"
15:09 Soup Jonson /applauds quietly
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen That's right, Orange.
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen Here in the studio, my week contained going through the Well/Quote script, making it a bit more robust, and adding comments.
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen I caught up on stipend payments this morning.
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen For being 32 days past paying tier, we are pretty much even with my nominal buffer. No remaining surplus but no huge deficit.
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, I'm about 85% done with a script to help Rainy test her horse and her animations (for horse and a rider).
15:14 RainyDayRecess Thank you Word ;)
15:14 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hee haw
15:14 Ingo (tkb158) lol
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen With that, with a diversion back into reports if Andrea makes it in, we are open for question and comments. Please let each person finish before jumping in. Everyone will get the turns they need.
15:15 Soup Jonson loves Horses
15:15 Agatha Macbeth Neigh lad
15:16 RainyDayRecess :D
15:16 Ember (emberell) raises a hand
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Ember, proceed.
15:18 Ember (emberell) I have a minor comment on profiles - one cannot currently hide picks, which are (in many cases that I've seen) used to describe RP characters/activities and so on. I just wanted to add on to that one should be careful about what information they have in their picks and what locations, if they're traveling across SL, from regions of all levels
15:18 Phrynne That's a good thought.
15:18 Ember (emberell) I do believe that it won't show adult picks to new/young individuals, but I'm not certain I've tested it
15:18 Ember (emberell) It's just something to keep in mind - if your profile picks is heavily combative or explicit, it's easy to forget
15:18 Orange Planer Also that if you have a pick in your profile to a region that is supposed to be for group members and their friends only, it could be a problem.
15:19 Ember (emberell) Yes, exactly. Like a pick of your best friend's house
15:19 Ember (emberell) They may get guests they do not want then, though it wasn't your intention
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen Good to know.
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anyone else?
15:20 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Lots of people got uninvited guests when their place was selected as Pokemon Go gym without their knowledge...
15:20 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) As for me: Still intending to host the Writers' Meeting in Thursdays 11 AM
15:20 Carl Metropolitan I would caution that it is okay to be aware of issues regarding Picks, but we should not get into policing people's profile picks. That is a never ending well of trouble, and is something we are not required to do by the ToS.
15:21 Orange Planer Speaking of wells, you could put that quote in the new well.
15:21 Carl Metropolitan Oh, please no!
15:21 Agatha Macbeth Well well
15:21 Badass Fae (larkylouz) I don't police people's picks or profiles, Carl, but I do check for Age Play and will continue to do so to keep children safe.
15:21 Carl Metropolitan I have a few comments on freebies
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen Go ahead Carl, you have the floor.
15:22 Carl Metropolitan I have been continuing to work on freebies. I've gotten up to 39 processed and repackaged and/or new freebies. I have four that are "on hold" as I can't seem to get hold of Fire Broono, but I hope to get those resolved, and out soon, too.
15:22 Orange Planer looks carefully to make sure the floor doesn't disappear.
15:22 Carl Metropolitan I've moved the Denver Hax free viewer with photos of the old Steam Sky City to a plinth in the Hall of Caledon, and have been able to save all of his freebies except one that is set to no mod, no copy, no transfer.
15:22 Carl Metropolitan That one will have to go, sadly.
15:23 Carl Metropolitan I've had a lot of luck with a nice collection of freebies Larky gave me that I'm slowly going through, too.
15:24 Carl Metropolitan The trouble is that clearing provenance on freebies is much harder than it used to be as over the years we've had licensed full perm mesh, copybotted materials, and stuff illegally uploaded from other games come in.
15:24 Carl Metropolitan I've started sending notecards to creators where I have questions, but many are non-responsive.
15:25 Carl Metropolitan But I'm continuing to plow through
15:25 Carl Metropolitan If anyone sees Fire Broono, please ask him to drop me an email or a notecard about the notecard I sent him.
15:25 Carl Metropolitan (I can't get IMs anymore due to SL sending error messages to me from items that are no longer in world; don't ask)
15:26 Dhyezl (Sorry, I need to go. Have a good day/evening)
15:26 Carl Metropolitan Also, I had one response from my open call for freebies from the Caledon Community. I guess most creators have left for greener pastures. Or maybe all their IMs are capped. Who knows.
15:26 RainyDayRecess Take care ;)
15:26 Orange Planer If the weather gets hotter, it will definitely be gooier.
15:26 Carl Metropolitan That's pretty much it on the freebie front.
15:26 Ali (alessandraphilolaus) Goodbye Dhyezi :)
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you Carl, Sorting through all of that is a lot of work.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anyone else?
15:28 Carl Metropolitan It is curiously relaxing in a perverse way similar to slowly cleaning out a huge mess.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen Meditative freebie cleaning and organizing.
15:29 Orange Planer I'm sorry, my brain is in reactive mode only today.
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anyone or anything else?
15:29 lovejoy2199 Zen and freebie cleaning
15:29 Phrynne Zen and the art of the freebie
15:29 Orange Planer Zen and the art of freebie cleaning, yeah.
15:30 Ingo (tkb158) I need to excuse myself. Thanks for all your work!!
15:30 Orange Planer Jinx!
15:30 Soup Jonson motions for security and points at Lovejoy
15:30 RainyDayRecess :D
15:30 Agatha Macbeth detects a group mind presence
15:30 Carl Metropolitan I even made a couple. They all should be out in a bit. I just want to get all the stuff out on the shelves now accounted for one way or another first. I'm just lacking a response from Mr Broono
15:30 Phrynne He may be on vacation; he was inworld last month, I think
15:31 Carl Metropolitan He was here on July 29th according to ISC
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hearing no other topics raised,
15:31 Carl Metropolitan I have another topic.
15:31 Badass Fae (larkylouz) What! I came ready for a brawl!
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen Okay, Carl, proceed.
15:32 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-P :-)
15:32 Carl Metropolitan Does anyone know where Desmond is? He's not been online in two weeks.
15:32 Carl Metropolitan I know he can't spend the time he used to in Caledon, but this is a long absence for him.
15:32 Agatha Macbeth On holiday?
15:32 Phrynne possibly on vacation?
15:33 Agatha Macbeth Snap
15:33 Carl Metropolitan I will ask in ISC tonight. Thanks.
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen And hearing nothing further ....
15:34 Soup Jonson I'd like to table my pending questions for several weeks.
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen Soup, do you have questions? (yes or no)
15:36 Soup Jonson No but ty
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen Ahh. you wish to table them for now. Consider it so done.
15:36 Orange Planer sets the table
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thus, we are adjourned.
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming and participating.
15:36 Soup Jonson TY Orange
15:37 Soup Jonson applauds
15:37 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Thank you, Deans
15:37 Phrynne Thank you all for coming
15:37 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Thanks all. thanks for the hard work, Carl
15:37 NickyIzzy I have a dress in my favorite colors on lucky chair HUD. See ya later, all
15:37 Soup Jonson Another good one Word! How do you do it my kind friend?
15:37 Carl Metropolitan You are welcome.
15:37 Orange Planer Likewise, Carl.
15:37 Ali (alessandraphilolaus) Thank you
15:37 RainyDayRecess Thank you Deans ;)
15:37 Ember (emberell) Thanks for your time and hard work, as always, deans
15:37 Skuld Aki (skuldaki) Thank you!
15:38 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) At least attempted bedtime for me.
15:38 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hold the fort
15:38 Soup Jonson Ok Elf
15:38 Skuld Aki (skuldaki) Bye Elf! Sleep well!
15:38 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing you
15:38 RainyDayRecess Sweet Dreams Elfbiter ;)
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Soup, I just see what Phrynne, and Andrea have accomplished, tell where my attention has been, then try to let anyone who has an item get their say.
15:41 lovejoy2199 shouts TALLY HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
15:42 Kara2016 Thank you deans!
15:45 Sandie Harbour Hello All
15:45 RainyDayRecess HI Sandie ;)
15:47 Carl Metropolitan Bye everyone