Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2020-04-12

14:41 Carl Metropolitan Hi Word, Phrynne
14:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Carl.
14:43 Phrynne It may be a small gathering today, but several people said they were glad we were having the Q&A and may show up.
14:44 Phrynne If they don't, we're done earlier.
14:45 Carl Metropolitan Why will this be a small gathering?
14:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen If there are many to egg us on...
14:45 Larky (larkylouz) I've run into a few staff members who hadn't read your COVID-19 memo. Might be good to reiterate.
14:45 Phrynne now, Word, the eggs are falling on me more than you.
14:46 Phrynne yes, I can talk about that.
14:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen Some may be off-world for Easter events
14:46 Phrynne and the eggs are particle -- ethereal -- so I am fulfilling my duty as Ether Bunneh
14:47 Phrynne I'd put the basket down on the stage but I don't want to accidentally return the stage again
14:47 Carl Metropolitan Right. I forgot it was Easter today.
14:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen They don't act as particles
14:47 Phrynne they go away
14:47 Phrynne temp rez, I think
14:47 Larky (larkylouz) Glad to hear my job is being carried on in my absence. <snerk>
14:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen More like temp rez physical objects.
14:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen They roll and bounce
14:48 Phrynne You'd have to ask Ravelli-- it's his creation
14:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi, Andrea
14:50 Carl Metropolitan Hi Andrea, Elfbiter
14:51 Phrynne hello Eric
14:51 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi all
14:51 Eric Coffeehead (eric556pvb) Hello
14:51 Phrynne please have a seat; we'll start in a few minutes
14:53 Phrynne waves to Andrea
14:53 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi Gronk
14:54 Phrynne hi Jan!
14:54 Jan Stroikavskoi Hi Phrynne :)
14:55 Gronk Seriman Wow. My current view of this place is missing the whole back wall. It's kinda nice. Just blue sky.
14:55 Phrynne There is a lot of lag today. We've got something more than 58,000 people inworld
14:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen And also some lagomorph.
14:57 Phrynne bunnehs!
14:58 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Kara2016 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
14:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty Kara
14:58 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thank you bunny kara
14:58 Kara2016 Smiles brightly.
14:59 ArtRango ~happy to be here.
14:59 Phrynne hi Art
14:59 ArtRango hi
14:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Art
14:59 ArtRango Thanks Jarvinen
14:59 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Larky (larkylouz) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
14:59 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Phrynne gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
14:59 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Hi Larky
15:00 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) thanks
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen The bell has rung.
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome to this week's Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. This is an open meeting;
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen all are welcome apart from those who intend to misbehave in a disruptive manner.
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen Non-disruptive misbehavior is at your discretion.
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen Transcripts will be posted after the meeting.
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php
15:01 Gronk Seriman ...and not a moment before.
15:01 Larky (larkylouz) Hey Andrea
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Quite true, Gronk
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne, what do you have for today?
15:02 Phrynne I have a minor thing and a major thing.
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen music?
15:03 Phrynne The minor one is that Spring has sprung and the campus is full of bunnies. They are friendly, they are not going to bite you and the black one is certainly not the Vorpal Bunny of Innslay.
15:03 Phrynne so fear not.
15:03 Phrynne they do not attack.
15:03 Phrynne The second thing is this:
15:03 Phrynne Oxbridge is a safe region. We work very hard to make sure everyone is welcome and safe, except for griefers, trolls and troublemakers.
15:03 Phrynne As part of that, Oxbridge is a COVID-free zone.
15:04 Phrynne This is Second Life. It is a refuge from what goes on offline. It cannot be a refuge if the enormous difficulties going on there are publicly discussed.
15:04 Agatha Macbeth Agreed
15:04 Phrynne I am not saying they can't be discussed in IM. People can have any sort of IM discussion they want.
15:04 Phrynne But not in public nearby chat.
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen Or discussed at the chat circle or perhaps Café Vox
15:05 Larky (larkylouz) points out that she doesn't spend much time policing anything at Café Vox.
15:05 Phrynne Further, the virus is a huge political issue in numerous countries. And, as a political issue, it is inappropriate to discuss it in the Plaza. Someone complains about country X's policy, and I guarantee you the next person to come in will be from Country X and not be happy about it at all.
15:06 Phrynne The only thing we police at Café Vox is to make sure people are wearing *something*.
15:06 Phrynne There are people in SL who are doing griefing based on the virus.
15:06 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Carl Metropolitan gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty Carl :)
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thank you, Carl
15:06 Phrynne There are people who want to cause trouble and upset just by the tags over their heads. They are not allowed to do this at Oxbridge.
15:07 Phrynne We have had, so far, one troll whining about how "the graves are sinking". Since the Caledon cemetery is in Moors, I conferred with other staff who were present, we came up with the name of the new Duchess of Moors and gave that and the LM to the troll -- who was so confused that she left.
15:08 Phrynne Let me spell out the most obvious bit of role-play that is not allowed -- no masks.
15:08 Agatha Macbeth 0.0
15:08 Phrynne by which I mean no medical-style or improvised masks such as those we see in RL.
15:09 Phrynne Anyone wearing one gets one request to remove it. If they don't, they have to leave.
15:09 Phrynne We had someone come in who wanted to sing a song about the virus. No.
15:09 Phrynne We had someone come in with COVID as part of his name. No. Ban and AR.
15:09 Phrynne LL removed him within half an hour.
15:09 Phrynne I am deadly serous about this one.
15:09 Phrynne If anyone has questions, send them to me.
15:10 Phrynne A world pandemic is not a joke, not an occasion for trolling or griefing, and not to be part of the SL experience at Oxbridge.
15:10 Phrynne And that's all I have to say.
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi jorge, great costume
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi red
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) long time
15:11 Red Quixote hello Andrea
15:11 Felícia Ferraz (jucastt) i'm glad Linden lab is finally pronouncing itself about something.
15:11 Phrynne Welcome, big pink bunneh
15:11 Larky (larkylouz) LOL Jorge!
15:11 Phrynne and welcome, Red
15:11 ArtRango agreed.
15:11 Felícia Ferraz (jucastt) hello both of you
15:12 Red Quixote ty Phrynne
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen And I concur with what Phrynne just said, and I was the one who stated the no COVID role-play at Oxbridge rule.
15:12 Jorge Serapis *WAVES THANKS AT EVERYONE*
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen As Phrynne posted earlier, "by order of the Chancellor".
15:13 Phrynne Discuss anything you like in IM, or in the Chat Circle.
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Jorge. Good to see that you're in the pink. ;)
15:14 Jorge Serapis Feliz Dia De Los Huevos.. :-)
15:14 Felícia Ferraz (jucastt) feliz pascoa
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else, Phrynne?
15:14 Phrynne No, that's about it.
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea?
15:15 Felícia Ferraz (jucastt) es
15:15 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) We will begin a bi-weekly Sunday fundraiser event this coming Sunday the 19th. It will be from 4 to 6.
Sasha Prismara will be our DJ. A tip Jar for the COU will be there if you wish to donate. A notecard will go out later today with the location and details.
15:16 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Our current level of money in the kitty is good. But we will begin adding to that
15:16 ArtRango great!
15:16 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) to make sure we are covered for the near future
15:16 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Jorge Serapis gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:16 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Ty Jorge
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Jorge.
15:16 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) We do want to make sure that we have money for rough times
15:17 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I will be doing some matching bids at the event
15:17 Jorge Serapis *raises hand*
15:17 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) and some give aways
15:17 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I'm done word
15:17 Agatha Macbeth read that as 'marching birds' for some reason
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty, Andrea
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Jorge?
15:17 ArtRango penguins march!
15:18 Jorge Serapis About how many months in reserve do we have?
15:18 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) looks for ti stereo
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen Let me cover that.
15:19 Felícia Ferraz (jucastt) as everyone knows i have a small decoration business here in second life and i can offer my helping to decorate and organize the fund-raiser event. i'm at disposition of yours.
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen I figured finances last weekend. With stipends paid until then and tier paid through 1 July on 1 April, we were about 3200 $L below my nominal target
15:20 Jorge Serapis So about 3.5 months. Groovy. Thank you.
15:20 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) lovejoy2199 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen That target is to keep 26 weeks of operating padding and have our income matching our outgo over the year.
15:20 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thank you lovejoy
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, as Andrea said, we are in good shape, with about 3200 $L deficit to our 225k $L padding.
15:23 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I feel confident we will raise that and more
15:23 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) next Sunday
15:23 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Jorge Serapis gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen which covers what I have to report for this week.
15:23 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Ty Jorge
15:24 Gronk Seriman sings "Dat coin is on fiyaaaaahhhhh!"
15:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen At the beginning of January, we were about 12k $L down, so we are better at this point.
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen With that, open for questions in general.
15:25 Gronk Seriman raises a hand
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen Gronk?
15:26 Gronk Seriman Hows' the horse and buggy project coming along?
15:27 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi sandie
15:27 Sandie Harbour Hello
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen Rainy has a rideable horse that we'll be putting in a rezzing sign. She also has the buggy finished. Last I talked with her, she was going to work on animations for buggy riders.
15:28 Red Quixote hi Sandie
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'm also a bit worried, in that I haven't seen Rainy inworld for a couple of weeks.
15:28 Gronk Seriman Oh, wow. Nice!
15:28 Sandie Harbour Hello Everyone
15:29 Gronk Seriman waves and smiles to Sandie
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Sandie. Nice you could make it here on Easter Punday.
15:29 Sandie Harbour And that's no yoke :)
15:29 lovejoy2199 Ohh. You would have to say that. Now it will start.
15:30 ArtRango LOL
15:30 ArtRango I will laugh out loud for that.
15:30 Gronk Seriman Oh, please, don't egg it on!
15:30 Red Quixote egg puns?
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen You couldn't get it started before?
15:30 Red Quixote exactly WHAT was the Easter bunneh doing with those chikkins?
15:30 Phrynne you'd have to ask the chikkins
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen Further questions?
15:32 ArtRango ~raises hand
15:32 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Gronk Seriman gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen Art?
15:32 Eric Coffeehead (eric556pvb) no questions. Thank you :-)
15:32 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) ty gronk
15:32 ArtRango Thanks for being here..I was wondering if you have a request box for classes that could be taught?
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'm the request box.
15:33 ArtRango good to know...
15:33 ArtRango I was looking forward to the inventory class..I really need help...
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen Which reminds me, Vanessa contacted me about teaching a two-week cycle on mesh bodies, male and female.
15:34 Sandie Harbour I don't carrot at all about how many chocolate bunnies I'm eating today.
15:34 Carl Metropolitan She would be good at that.
15:34 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) you eating bunnies!
15:34 ArtRango uh no!
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'm hoping to teach inventory class again next Saturday.
15:34 ArtRango there are some giants ones i saw this morning..
15:34 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) wonders is he should talk about the Writers' Meeting or not.
15:34 ArtRango Yes..Jarvinen..i saw that..I am planning on being there.
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen Got waylayed for a few weeks by a minor flu plus allergies
15:35 Sandie Harbour My surgeries are postponed so I can teach again
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen Okay, Sandie. I'll take the cancels off the schedule
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen Do so, Elf.
15:36 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Well,I still host the Writers' Meeting in Thursdays 11:00 AM SLT. Attendance varies as always.
15:36 Kara2016 surgeries being back logged?
15:37 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) And I do encourage people to bring what they have written in notecards.
15:38 ArtRango nods ok
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Many medical centers are postponing any non-critical procedures, Kara, as they are or expect to be at capacity with COVID cases.
15:38 Kara2016 Yes, that's reasonable.
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other questions?
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen or announcements?
15:40 Gronk Seriman raises a hand
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Gronk?
15:40 Gronk Seriman How are the Orientation translations coming along?
15:40 Phrynne You know, life got in the way of that.
15:41 Gronk Seriman Of course.
15:41 Red Quixote life finds a way
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'm hoping to get back to those soon, however. Soon being May.
15:41 Phrynne And I still have to finish updating the Faculty Information Kit as soon as possible.
15:41 Sandie Harbour May be soon :P
15:42 Phrynne If you have written a notecard that is currently in it, please update it and send me a new one -- dated to 2020 -- so I can include the most current info.
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen May May be soon.
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else? Anyone?
15:43 Gronk Seriman I still wonder when the tipping point will be. If we wait till they are all perfect, that will never happen. If it's introduced unfinished, at least it will show the potential. And maybe gain some help.
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen Note that there often are staff in the Oxbridge plaza who can answer questions, and I will respond to IMs and notecards.
15:44 Phrynne The tipping point of what, Gronk?
15:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen translations.
15:44 ArtRango yes~
15:44 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Or at least try to answer
15:44 Gronk Seriman Of how done the translations are.
15:44 Phrynne Well, if there were more people willing to do the graphics work, it would go faster.
15:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, maybe
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen But one benefit to that work of the COVID sheltering is that I'm not going to be traveling anywhere.
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen What I have on my schedule at the moment is a sci-fi short story discussion on 14 May and a presentation for Science Circle on 23 May.
15:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else?
15:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen In that case, we are
15:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen ...
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen adjourned
15:49 Gronk Seriman sees you quiver with anticip.....
15:49 Phrynne Thank you all for coming
15:49 Gronk Seriman pation.
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming and participating.
15:49 ArtRango thank you for being here..
15:49 Sandie Harbour Our pleasure Art
15:49 Gronk Seriman Thank you Deans!
15:49 Carl Metropolitan Goodnight. Thank you all.
15:50 Larky (larkylouz) Thank you. Take care, all.
15:50 Red Quixote good night all
15:50 Gronk Seriman Goodnight, Mr. Skysmith!
15:50 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) BEdtime and so on
15:50 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hold the fort
15:50 Gronk Seriman places her hands firmly on her bench.
15:51 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
15:51 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing