| 14:46 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome, Mellie |
| 14:46 |
Phrynne |
hi Mellie -- it'll be a few minutes before things get going |
| 14:49 |
Mellie (musicalmelody7321) |
Hello. Thank you. I know; I'll wait if I don't crash. |
| 14:52 |
Lyn (lyn.navarita) |
Oops early |
| 14:57 |
Kara2016 |
Smiles brightly. |
| 14:57 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Hello |
| 14:59 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Hi Carl. |
| 14:59 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome, Kara |
| 15:00 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Glorious Blue, Andrea. |
| 15:01 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Note that the comma is significant. Not glorious blue Andrea. |
| 15:02 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
At least not today. |
| 15:02 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
hi all |
| 15:02 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome to this week's Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. This is an open meeting; |
| 15:02 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
all are welcome apart from those who intend to misbehave in a disruptive manner. |
| 15:02 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Non-disruptive misbehavior is at your discretion. |
| 15:02 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Transcripts will be posted after the meeting. |
| 15:02 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php |
| 15:02 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
hi all |
| 15:02 |
Rob3rtNone |
hi |
| 15:03 |
darkspringtrapgamer |
hello |
| 15:03 |
Sengrinous |
Hi Deans /waves/ |
| 15:03 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Phrynne, what have ye? |
| 15:03 |
Phrynne |
Not a lot. We're in the midst of seasonal and festive change at the moment. |
| 15:04 |
Phrynne |
Halloween is over -- there may still be a few pumpkins out there, but I picked up all the skeletons. |
| 15:04 |
Mellie (musicalmelody7321) |
Even the ones in the closets? |
| 15:04 |
Phrynne |
But it's not time yet to decorate for Yuletide (generic term for any/all of the 27 or so holidays that occur between now and Jan. 2.) |
| 15:04 |
Mellie (musicalmelody7321) |
;) |
| 15:04 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
(we could use one or 2 in the NW corner) |
| 15:04 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
those we put under the buildings |
| 15:04 |
Phrynne |
If you really want one in the NW corner, Word, I have one that rides a shark and jumps it |
| 15:05 |
Kara2016 |
ouch. |
| 15:05 |
Phrynne |
But anyway, I'm digging out my holiday lights for the towers, finding the Christmas trees, and generally making sure we have what we need for the month of December. |
| 15:05 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Hopefully Oxbridge isn't yet to the point of jumping the shark. |
| 15:05 |
Phrynne |
We will have the big skating rink again, for instance. |
| 15:05 |
Phrynne |
And free skates for those who don't have them. |
| 15:06 |
Phrynne |
Beyond that... I'll see if I can get inventive. |
| 15:06 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
hi ti stereo |
| 15:06 |
Phrynne |
The Advent Calendar is nearly ready -- I am waiting for a couple of very last-minute gifts. |
| 15:06 |
Phrynne |
It will be in the stained-glass gazebo, as usual. |
| 15:06 |
Stereo Nacht |
Good evening Ms. Andrea, Ms. Phrynne, and all! |
| 15:06 |
Phrynne |
And that's about all I have for today |
| 15:06 |
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Phrynne looks back at Word |
| 15:07 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thank you, Phrynne. |
| 15:07 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Andrea? |
| 15:07 |
Salute to Veterans (tahisha.fairplay) |
hi |
| 15:07 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Greetings all |
| 15:07 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
let me change my tag, one sec |
| 15:08 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
OK, Ms Ti stereo is having her newcomers ball and associated events this week. |
| 15:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Sounds like a good time to learn to use dance machines and balls if one hasn't already. |
| 15:09 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
In support of that. I have placed games and rides out with hers in the village. The bumper car ride shows high in the sky there. So the main park and that parcel have rides and games |
| 15:10 |
Stereo Nacht |
Yesh! So if you have joined Caledon (or at the very least, the Independent State of Caledon chat group), let me know! ;-) |
| 15:10 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
There will be a Nov event towards the end of the month |
| 15:10 |
Stereo Nacht |
(Ahem. I hope I am allowed to speak up, I should have asked first... X-D ) |
| 15:10 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
I haven't setup anything exact |
| 15:11 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
yes of course stereo |
| 15:11 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
You are, Miss Stereo. |
| 15:11 |
Stereo Nacht |
Whew! |
| 15:12 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Caledonian nights is going on the road Tuesday night. We will be at Teddy Bears surfing sim, she is hosting the evening and providing the dj. So swimsuits etc and |
| 15:12 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Look to the group notices from last week for the notecard on it |
| 15:13 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
that's all for now Wordsmith |
| 15:13 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thank you, Andrea. |
| 15:15 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Following the last fundraiser, we had gone from a 21k $L nominal deficit to a 7400 $L surplus. |
| 15:16 |
Gronk Seriman |
Ooo! |
| 15:16 |
darkspringtrapgamer |
cool |
| 15:16 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I have the instructor stipends paid through last night, so I only have to consider tier for 39 days since I paid it. So as of last night, we had a 986 $L surplus. |
| 15:17 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
hi badger |
| 15:17 |
Stereo Nacht |
Whooo! |
| 15:17 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Meaning day to day we aren't bringing in quite enough, but we are able to catch up with a fundraiser or two. |
| 15:17 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Hi Laban |
| 15:17 |
badgerofzen |
hullo andrea |
| 15:17 |
Carl Metropolitan |
How are we doing on ad sales and patrons? |
| 15:17 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And I use the word nominal, because I do maintain a cushion. |
| 15:18 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That I don't know, Carl. |
| 15:19 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
One of he projects i'm behind on |
| 15:19 |
Stereo Nacht |
Ms. Andrea, with all you do, I'd feel more than inadequate if you were on top of everything! ;-) |
| 15:20 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
A second item, there was a mention of statistics in one of the general Q&A transcripts. Our weekly and monthly statistics are now up to date on the web pages. http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/statistics/index.php |
| 15:20 |
Carl Metropolitan |
We could interrupt ISC chat and hold PBS style pledge drives, "We are here to talk about Oxbridge, and if we make our fundraising goal we will shut up" :) |
| 15:21 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I have separate data on classes, that is not part of that data, btw. |
| 15:21 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
:-) |
| 15:23 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
We do have fairly extensive data characterizing avatar age, gender shape, and language of those who visit in addition to overall numbers. |
| 15:25 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And, although it's been announced, we now have a separate transcripts section for the General Q&As that Carl and Andrea have been hosting. http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/gqna/gqna_index.php |
| 15:25 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Both that index and the stats index are linked to the main navigation buttons. |
| 15:26 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I really like the new statistics page. |
| 15:26 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And that's it for the reports, open for questions on SL, Caledon, Oxbridge, and the like. |
| 15:26 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
how can we keep avatars in the middle age range interested in Caledon? |
| 15:26 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Still trying to host the Writers' Meeting... |
| 15:26 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
am i reading the age histogram correctly? |
| 15:26 |
Phrynne |
In Caledon or in Oxbridge? Not the same thing. |
| 15:27 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
sorry i interrupted |
| 15:27 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
Oxbridge |
| 15:27 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
You likely are. High at the newbie and well-established ages. |
| 15:27 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Dips in between. |
| 15:28 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Interestingly, that's also the age behavior for classes. |
| 15:28 |
Phrynne |
People come as newcomers, then go out and explore the grid. And then realize they'd like to know more, and return to take classes. |
| 15:28 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Do the stats take into account the presence of Oxbridge staff and helpers? |
| 15:28 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
that might be a good thing. that means the classes are effective |
| 15:29 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
? |
| 15:29 |
Kara Zor - El (superpantera) |
I can assure they are :) |
| 15:29 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
No Carl. Those aren't subtracted out. |
| 15:29 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
yes. i have learned a lot from the classes |
| 15:29 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
one day i will have a skill worth teaching |
| 15:30 |
Salute to Veterans (tahisha.fairplay) |
and there are plenty learning avatar safety from Lindal :) |
| 15:30 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
ok sorry again for the interruption |
| 15:31 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
But, looking at last week we had 555 unique avatars visit. We don't have anywhere near that many unique staff visits. |
| 15:32 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Not a problem, John. |
| 15:34 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And last month's statistics are large enough that staff is only a small bias. http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/statistics/statDisplay.php?name=monthlies/monthly_stats_2019_1001_1031.json |
| 15:34 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
BTW, you do have to have Javascript enabled to see the graphs. |
| 15:34 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I see. |
| 15:36 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I was looking at the LSL wiki. There is no good way to look up someone's active group and tell a script to subtract them from a count it seems. |
| 15:37 |
Carl Metropolitan |
It looks like you would have to have a lot of sensor scripts running constantly over the entire populated area of the sim. |
| 15:38 |
Stereo Nacht |
Hm. Could you have a list of name on a notecard, and not add people whose name match those? |
| 15:38 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Instead, I use the Avatars on Sim function. |
| 15:39 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
The notecard and counting could be cumbersome. |
| 15:39 |
Carl Metropolitan |
It seems overly complex for the benefit gained. I'm sorry for raising the issue. |
| 15:39 |
Stereo Nacht |
Heh. You got smart people here; you could have gotten a solution, who knows? ;-) |
| 15:41 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
What I just put up behind me is older data, but shows an age distribution for classes |
| 15:42 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
So again, a lot of participation among older avatars. |
| 15:43 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I do subtract off the instructor from the class data. |
| 15:45 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Oh, and just looking at the data for a couple weeks, the same is true for your general Q&A's Carl |
| 15:46 |
Kara2016 |
Smiles brightly. |
| 15:46 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Other questions? Puzzles? Confusions? |
| 15:47 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Comas resulting from statistics? |
| 15:47 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Is Phrynne sitting on an invisible chair? |
| 15:47 |
Phrynne |
No, it's there. |
| 15:47 |
Stereo Nacht |
I'd like to point out that it's normal that people "in-between" aren't that many. |
| 15:47 |
Phrynne |
It's one of the old One-Prim Victorian Chairs from Oxbridge. |
| 15:47 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Quite visible; quite red. |
| 15:48 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Weird |
| 15:48 |
Salute to Veterans (tahisha.fairplay) |
i see it |
| 15:48 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I must have something set up wrong. |
| 15:48 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
it took it a while to show on my viewer also Carl, it is there |
| 15:48 |
Stereo Nacht |
Firstly, they get to be "in-between" for a shorter time than one gets to be an "old-timer", and... |
| 15:48 |
Kara Zor - El (superpantera) |
I can see it too |
| 15:48 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
may have to refresh the textures in your viewer |
| 15:48 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
There have been some returnees this week in my watch. |
| 15:48 |
Stereo Nacht |
After learning the basics, it's normal that they'd go explore SL as a whole, learn more, get some interests, and *then* come back to learn more. |
| 15:49 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I agree, Stereo. |
| 15:49 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
That Is a keen observation Stereo. |
| 15:49 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
i was thinking the same thing |
| 15:50 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And also they may just see us as a relatively safe and congenial place to come back to. |
| 15:50 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Thought today's returnee looked like her avatar would have been from prims-only era |
| 15:50 |
Stereo Nacht |
So, in a way, it's a good thing they come back to COU when they are ready to learn more of a skill (or many). |
| 15:51 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
they go explore their world, then come back to learn to build it |
| 15:51 |
Salute to Veterans (tahisha.fairplay) |
the basics are important.. it's best to always come back to where you started |
| 15:51 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Yes, and the statistics help us realize that we serve a wide audience. |
| 15:51 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Anything else? |
| 15:52 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Hearing nothing, we are .... |
| 15:52 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
adjourned. |
| 15:52 |
Phrynne |
Thank you all for coming |
| 15:52 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thank you all for coming and participating. |
| 15:52 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
bye all, be well |
| 15:53 |
Kara Zor - El (superpantera) |
:) |
| 15:53 |
John (elijahjohnb) |
Thank you on the panel for having us |
| 15:53 |
|
Stereo Nacht waves and head out to the dance |
| 15:53 |
darkspringtrapgamer |
thanks |
| 15:53 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Past my bedtime |
| 15:53 |
Stereo Nacht |
Good night (or good bye) everyone! |
| 15:53 |
Kara Zor - El (superpantera) |
My bedtime too |
| 15:53 |
Gronk Seriman |
Thank you, Deans! |
| 15:53 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Hold the fort |
| 15:54 |
Kara Zor - El (superpantera) |
Yes^^ |
| 15:54 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Yes, there's a dance currently happening at the Bashful Peacock in Wellsian. |
| 15:54 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Be seeing you |
| 15:54 |
darkspringtrapgamer |
bye |
| 15:54 |
|
Lothí Rose (luran.mortal) waves |
| 15:54 |
Kara Zor - El (superpantera) |
Bye! |