Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2021-04-11
| 14:37 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hi, Andrea |
| 14:38 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hello |
| 14:43 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi Mr elfbiter and Frigid |
| 14:44 | Frigid Cryotank | Hello Andrea. |
| 14:44 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Soup. been awhile |
| 14:45 | Soup Jonson | Howdy ! |
| 14:45 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Larky |
| 14:45 | Soup Jonson | Yes tending to first life will be more steady pop ins now :) |
| 14:46 | Larky (larkylouz) | Hi everyone. |
| 14:46 | Soup Jonson | Howdy Larky |
| 14:46 | Larky (larkylouz) | Hey Andrea, Soup |
| 14:46 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, frigid, Cychwynn, Soup |
| 14:46 | Soup Jonson | I'm in costume for tonights fundraiser |
| 14:47 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Larky |
| 14:47 | Larky (larkylouz) | Hey Word. Thank you |
| 14:47 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | afk for a coffee run |
| 14:49 | Soup Jonson | WB cycher |
| 14:49 | Cychwynn | hello there |
| 14:49 | Soup Jonson shouts | Lovejoy! |
| 14:49 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Soup |
| 14:50 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Hi Carl, lovejoy, cych |
| 14:50 | Soup Jonson | Welcome |
| 14:50 | lovejoy2199 | Greetings everyone |
| 14:50 | Carl Metropolitan | Hello |
| 14:51 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Hi Gronk |
| 14:51 | Cychwynn | Hello all |
| 14:51 | Gronk Seriman | Good evening Andrea, everybody! |
| 14:52 | Zaida Gearbox (zaida.gearbox) wiggles in between her favorite grow'd ups | |
| 14:52 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Good evening, Miss Gronk |
| 14:52 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi zaida |
| 14:52 | Cychwynn snuggles zaida | |
| 14:52 | Zaida Gearbox (zaida.gearbox) waves to Andrea | |
| 14:52 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Good eve, Carl |
| 14:53 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Zaida and Lovejoy |
| 14:58 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi harper and bumble |
| 15:00 | Larky (larkylouz) waves at Ember | |
| 15:00 | Frigid Cryotank | <snort> |
| 15:00 | Frigid Cryotank | Ember, good job. |
| 15:00 | Ember (emberell) waves! | |
| 15:00 | Ember (emberell) | Sorry about the sudden landing, was helping family with stuff. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome to this week's Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. This is an open meeting; |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | all are welcome apart from those who intend to misbehave in a disruptive manner. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Non-disruptive misbehavior is at your discretion. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Transcripts will be posted after the meeting. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php |
| 15:01 | lovejoy2199 | Looks like a 'Royal' wave. |
| 15:01 | Frigid Cryotank | It's what happened AFTER you landed that had me in stitches. |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And Ember is in the nick of time for me to ask" What's the news from the commons? |
| 15:02 | Ember (emberell) | Commons has been well. I've been on a brief vacation, but it's given me time to work on updating the faculty kit. I plan to have a new iteration of it with updated notecards around April 15th. If anyone finds any out of date notecards do let me know |
| 15:03 | Ember (emberell) | Besides that, commons is still looking for new volunteer chat for the orientation - tutors and such. For those interested, please do contact me or other staff for applications. |
| 15:03 | Ember (emberell) | Besides that and some minor changes to campus (adding lights and such), that's it from commons |
| 15:04 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I will be giving you an update on the notecard that I recently gave to you. Minor wording changes (What else would a Word do?) |
| 15:05 | Ember (emberell) | Please do. I'll update what I have. Most of my time was taken organizing the notecards and boxes so I can easily make additions and changes. |
| 15:05 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you, Ember. |
| 15:05 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea? |
| 15:05 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | We are having our bi-weekly fundraiser dance today at 4 in the western township in Southend. This time of year we try to gather what we can for the COu as RFL is in full swing. The Address is Caledon SouthEnd (158,191,27) Theme is western or Victorian western. |
| 15:06 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Back to yo Wordsmith |
| 15:06 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you, Andrea. |
| 15:08 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Tier is now paid up to 7 July. As of this morning and accounting for tier and stipend liabilities to date, we have a surplus of 127k $L over my normal 225k $L reserve. |
| 15:08 | Gronk Seriman | Wow! |
| 15:08 | Larky (larkylouz) gives a rousing cheer for Andrea! | |
| 15:09 | Harperlass | Woot Andrea! |
| 15:09 | Cychwynn | :) |
| 15:09 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi lyn |
| 15:09 | Lyn (lyn.navarita) | Hello! Everyone |
| 15:09 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Remember with normal class load we expend about 107k $L per 13 week (91 day) quarter. |
| 15:09 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | It's the lindens from everyone. Without our supporters. We would have no lindens |
| 15:10 | Ember (emberell) | Yes, we are so very grateful to all the people who support and help out at Oxbridge. |
| 15:10 | Larky (larkylouz) | Hey Lyn. Welcome |
| 15:10 | Gronk Seriman | Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it. |
| 15:10 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We don't have our normal class load with Lindal's retirement and Red Quixote's death on the night of March 16-17. |
| 15:11 | Larky (larkylouz) | Hi Sandie |
| 15:11 | Larky (larkylouz) | Welcome |
| 15:11 | Sandie Harbour | Hi Larky and thanks |
| 15:11 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea and I are playing it very cautious since we don't know the economic fallout of the pandemic. |
| 15:11 | Gronk Seriman still sad. Misses Red. | |
| 15:11 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Just a note |
| 15:11 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea is planning a memorial dance. |
| 15:12 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Angry Noob is creating a sculpture of Red. |
| 15:12 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And this hall will henceforth be the Red Quixote Memorial Lecture Hall. |
| 15:13 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Any pics or stories you would like to share. Please send to me thanks |
| 15:13 | Gronk Seriman | Woot! |
| 15:14 | Ember (emberell) | It is very fitting. Prof Quixote was a wonderful professor |
| 15:14 | Larky (larkylouz) | I love the memorial of renaming this building. Very suiting, I think. |
| 15:14 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I'm going to start replacing the tutorial kiosks in the College of Avatar Movement with the three language kiosks. |
| 15:14 | Larky (larkylouz) gives another rousing cheer, this time for Word! | |
| 15:16 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | yay |
| 15:16 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And, the class scheduler interface became partially broken. It still provides the class data that was in it, but the scheduler interface does not show any classes scheduled. So I'm delving into the Google app-engine, now in the cloud, Java, and javascript. |
| 15:17 | Ember (emberell) | Hopefully it won't bee too trying to fix |
| 15:17 | Larky (larkylouz) | If any of you know of Class Grid signs that have not been edited to cancel the Animation classes, please let me know and I'll arrange signs with the hosts of that sign. |
| 15:18 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | If it become necessary, I can kludge around it, but I'd as soon get it fixed. |
| 15:18 | Larky (larkylouz) | Also any other updates. The aetherchrononauts calendar and Beth Ghostraven/Patty Poppy's caledon calendar, both in Google Calendar are updated regularly. |
| 15:19 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And that's what's floating on my mind. Open for questions and other announcements. |
| 15:20 | Gronk Seriman | Wordsmith, have you snuck any usage counters in the multilingual kiosks in the Entry Hall? Are they being used? |
| 15:21 | Carl Metropolitan | I signed us up for SLB this year. I have not heard back from them as to whether we were accepted. I don't anticipate any issues. I'm going to be redoing the VWBPE build. Expanding and fixing some stuff. |
| 15:22 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Thank you Carl |
| 15:22 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | No, I haven't. Something for another month or so, after U.S. taxes and the scheduling interface. |
| 15:22 | Gronk Seriman | Ah. OK. |
| 15:22 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you so much, Carl. I can't stretch that far currently. |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We do get, for example, Spanish language visitors. |
| 15:24 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | And Portuguese |
| 15:24 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I need to update the visitor statistics again, but the potential users are there. |
| 15:25 | Ember (emberell) | Yes, we get a fair few foreign language users, actually. Many are quite happy to have help in their language when possible |
| 15:25 | Ember (emberell) | Some don't have their viewers set to their native language as well |
| 15:27 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | At the moment, we aren't including Portuguese, although that may happen later. |
| 15:27 | Gronk Seriman | I still grumble about how SL wants to be multinational, and multilingual. But do so little work to show for it. |
| 15:28 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Gives us an opportunity to extend beyond their efforts. |
| 15:28 | lovejoy2199 | There is a lot to 'grumble' about SL. |
| 15:28 | Gronk Seriman smirks at Lovejoy. | |
| 15:30 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | It is also up to people from those other countries... |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I've also been attending the Virtual World Education Consortium meetings and networking a bit with the Consortium of Democratic Sims (CDS). |
| 15:30 | lovejoy2199 | Meaning that if they don't get their act together, someone else will. |
| 15:30 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | LL is not to blame for the disappearance of EduFinland.. |
| 15:30 | Ember (emberell) | I don't think I've heard of the CDS. That sounds like a good resource. |
| 15:31 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | So keeping a presence in a few key places, CVL, CDS, and VWEC. |
| 15:32 | Ember (emberell) | That's very good though, thank you Word. |
| 15:33 | Gronk Seriman | Yes! Keeping connected is always a good thing. |
| 15:33 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Very nice |
| 15:34 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The notecard I gave to Ember recently also lays out that Caledon Oxbridge is a G-rated, homestead sim within Caledon, and the COU is an independent tenant entity paying tier to Desmond Shang. |
| 15:36 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thus we have the homestead limitations, fall under the TOS, community standards, and maturity ratings of LL, and the Caledon Covenant, but within that framework, we are independent. |
| 15:37 | Ember (emberell) | though we do encourage students to get to know and explore Caledon at large |
| 15:38 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Of course. |
| 15:38 | Gronk Seriman | What are the cost differences from upgrading to a Full Sim? Any additional benefits worth the cost? |
| 15:39 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We are supported by our community and give back to the community in multiple ways. |
| 15:39 | Gronk Seriman | I ask, but realize we seem to be nicely balanced now. |
| 15:39 | Zaida Gearbox (zaida.gearbox) wonders how much rent mr. des would charge for a homestead | |
| 15:40 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | As I recall, it's about a factor of 3 and the benefits are in the prim equivalents and number of simultaneous avatars. |
| 15:40 | Ember (emberell) | There is a higher prim limitation, and a higher allowance for avatars onsim. Besides some upgraded sim resources. But Oxbridge hasn't ever really been close to running out of either resource |
| 15:41 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Well, we have reached capacity on avatars in the past, but since LL upgraded the number of prims, we've been fine on prims in our current format. |
| 15:41 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | When I joined, Oxbridge was full sim. I think I was one of the last to use the dorms |
| 15:42 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Now, instead of the dorms, we have a train stations filled with freebies. |
| 15:42 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | It proved to be rather expensive at the time. Not sure what the situation would be now |
| 15:43 | Gronk Seriman | Yes, the dorms seemed to be popular. But at three times the cost....hmmmm. Nah. |
| 15:43 | Lyn (lyn.navarita) | I am not up on SL "land ownership". COU rents from D. Shang? |
| 15:43 | Gronk Seriman | Like I said. I think we are nicely balanced now. |
| 15:43 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Other questions? |
| 15:45 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hearing none except from my cricket box, |
| 15:45 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We are adjourned. |
| 15:45 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | see you at the dance |
| 15:45 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you all for coming and participating. |
| 15:45 | Larky (larkylouz) | Thank you Word, Andrea, ember |
| 15:45 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | BEdtime for me |
| 15:46 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Hold the fort |
| 15:46 | Larky (larkylouz) | Sweet dreams, Mr. Elfbiter |
| 15:46 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Be seeing you |
| 15:46 | Soup Jonson | Elf be seeing you. |
| 15:46 | lovejoy2199 | Slept tight, Elf. |
| 15:46 | Carl Metropolitan | Goodnight. |