Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2021-06-13

14:50 Ember (emberell) Lovejoy, welcome.
14:50 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi lovejoy
14:50 lovejoy2199 Greetings everyone
14:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen welcome, lovejoy
14:50 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I've given up the radio drama hour on Mondy nights and given that to MGB, So I can focus on other stuff
14:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Nods... lowers your event load.
14:53 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi frigid
14:53 Ember (emberell) Frigid, welcome.
14:53 Frigid Cryotank Andrea, good afternoon. Emberell, ditto.
14:53 Ember (emberell) Larky, welcome.
14:53 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) HI badass, I mean larky
14:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Larky and Frigid
14:54 Larky (larkylouz) Hi everyone. Thanks Ember
14:54 Larky (larkylouz) sticks her tongue out at Andrea
14:54 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) twitches her ears in response
14:55 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Larky I have not forgotten about the homecoming dance for the uni
14:55 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Just have had problems the past few weeks
14:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome Toms
14:55 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) and I want a big thing with build up
14:55 Larky (larkylouz) :^)
14:55 Larky (larkylouz) No hurry. Homecoming, in my experience, always happened in October.
14:56 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) nods
14:56 Larky (larkylouz) Are your computer issues fixed?
14:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Rainy
14:56 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) i have to start building for that and the 2 big Halloween parties we will have
14:56 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) sort of
14:56 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I can't do relay unless there are very few people there. but small venues like this I am fine
14:56 Strandwind Hello everyone.
14:56 RainyDayRecess Hello everyone ;)
14:56 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi rainy
14:57 Ember (emberell) Rodrigo, Strandwind, welcome!
14:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Rodrigo
14:57 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) Hello :)
14:57 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) i'm back :D
14:57 Ember (emberell) Soup, Rainy, welcome ❤
14:57 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi soup
14:58 RainyDayRecess Hello Ember ;)
14:58 RainyDayRecess Hi Soup ;)
14:58 Larky (larkylouz) Hey Rainy
14:58 Soup Jonson Hello, I am keeping Elf's chair warm he is an election official today!
14:59 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) Oh
14:59 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi katie
14:59 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) Thanks
14:59 Ember (emberell) Katie, welcome!
14:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Stormwind
14:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Katie
14:59 Strandwind giggles
14:59 Katie (katie.canningham) Hi! Thanks!
15:00 Ember (emberell) Rain, Buttons, Gronk, welcome.
15:01 Ember (emberell) Harper, welcome to you too!
15:01 Soup Jonson Hi Harper!
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome Lyn and Harperlass
15:01 Harperlass Hi EMber Hi SOup
15:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) HI All I missed
15:01 Harperlass Hi Wordsmith
15:02 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Schonberg.
15:02 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) oops sorry
15:02 Soup Jonson Schonberg!
15:02 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) done :D
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen And most definitely, welcome Gronk
15:02 Lyn (lyn.navarita) Hello All ㋡
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Sandy.
15:03 Strandwind Hello to all newcomers.
15:03 Larky (larkylouz) Hi everyone
15:03 Gronk Seriman Good evening, Chancellor, everybody!
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen And Welcome, Agatha
15:03 Frigid Cryotank quite the turnout. Will there be cake afterwards? :-)
15:03 Sandy Burgess Good evening
15:03 Buttons (sherabpawo) ^_^
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen And the hour has struck (with only minor injuries)
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome to this week's Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. This is an open meeting;
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen all are welcome apart from those who intend to misbehave in a disruptive manner.
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen Non-disruptive misbehavior is at your discretion.
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen Transcripts will be posted after the meeting.
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php
15:04 Gronk Seriman ...and not a moment before.
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen Ember, what's the news from Commons?
15:06 Ember (emberell) I've been able to install a Faculty Kit dispenser that all of the staff can use, in the campus break room. So for those who miss the notices/may want a new (and as up to date as possible) copy can go there, enable their faculty tag, and click the bag to get a copy. I have updated it with some notecards that have been updated for June - thanks to much hard work and help by Larky.
15:06 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) :)
15:06 Ember (emberell) We are still also looking for new tutor staff willing to work with new and old users in the plaza - anyone interested should reach out to me in IM, I can get you set up with the application cards or talk with you about what it may involve.
15:07 Strandwind Thanks to Ember and Larky.
15:07 Larky (larkylouz) nods. "Thank you, Strandwind."
15:07 Ember (emberell) I intend to put out another notice including the faculty kit when the June updates are completed, though that may be a few days/weeks as we polish notecards.
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen Shiny
15:07 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thank you Larky and ember. That is hard work
15:07 Ember (emberell) As always, too, if there's trouble on campus or anything off, please do send me an IM, even if I'm not online. I need to be in on the loop on trouble.
15:08 Ember (emberell) That's all from commons for now.
15:08 Larky (larkylouz) May I comment that people who are fluent in other languages could be put to use editing the translations. Do contact me if you want to help
15:08 Larky (larkylouz) thanks, Andrea
15:08 Ember (emberell) Oh yes, we could VERY much use fluent translators to help with those cards.
15:08 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) raises his hand
15:08 Ember (emberell) Rodrigo?
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Rodrigo has been helping me with Spanish translations.
15:09 Ember (emberell) /ne nods
15:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) HI Agatha
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks yu, Ember.
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea?
15:10 Larky (larkylouz) Thanks, Rodrigo. Since you're helping Word with that huge project, I do have two other native speakers I can call on. JOrge helps me a lot!
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I don;t have any specific events coming up to list right now. I have had computer issues for several weeks
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) so I have not gotten a lot done
15:10 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) First of all, hello again :) I was here with an old account helping you .D I'm Spanish, I can continue helping with the translations. Now I don't offer my self to be a tutor like before because as many of you know, I had twice accounts and I erased those, but I offer to be useful to other newcomers :)
15:11 Ember (emberell) Always welcome, Rodrigo.
15:11 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) smiles
15:11 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I can say that thanks to the giving made by all of you our friends. we are well situated right now on funds for the Campus
15:11 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) We do keep a surplus in case we have an off month due to other issues.
15:12 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) and we look good for right now
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Andrea
15:12 RainyDayRecess Thank you for your hard work Andrea ;)
15:12 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I am making plans for some changes
15:12 Soup Jonson TY Dean Jones for all you do!
15:12 Larky (larkylouz) Hi Carl
15:12 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I hope to get some old programs back up and running
15:12 Carl Metropolitan Hello
15:13 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) . many thanks to all of you that have helped in the past
15:13 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) and I may be contacting you soon to see if you want to help in other projects
15:13 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) back to you Carl
15:13 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) i mean word
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen I also, several weeks ago, had a bought with computer problems when my system drive started predicting its own failure. I was able to replace the drive and clone from old to new without data loss. But it chewed some time.
15:15 Gronk Seriman Whew!
15:15 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) nods
15:15 RainyDayRecess Good thing you were smart enough to do that
15:15 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) glad you saved your work
15:15 Soup Jonson He is good at math, science and computers! I like that about him.
15:15 RainyDayRecess Me too ;)
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen That out of the way, I've completed the transition from doing Oxbridge finances in Excel 2010 to Libre Office Calc, Office 2010 no longer being supported by Microsoft.
15:16 Strandwind Sounds like much work, Wordsmith. Thank you for doing it.
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen The transition work was mostly coding macros in basic. Libre Office is free, well-maintained, and available on multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux)
15:17 Gronk Seriman I love Libre Office in general. It's never failed me.
15:18 Gronk Seriman It's like having the whole Microsoft Office suite for free.
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen I have a policy of trying to move Oxbridge to rely on software that is free or relatively inexpensive and is also of good quality. A look to the future.
15:19 Lyn (lyn.navarita) I have never had LO issues like M$O gave me...or the expense
15:19 Larky (larkylouz) I found out recently that Windows 10 users can use Excel and Word for free.
15:19 Buttons (sherabpawo) ^_^
15:19 Larky (larkylouz) I also have a free "reads all files" app that has saved my butt numerous times!
15:20 Sandy Burgess Its not free - you pay with your privacy 'cause you need a MS-account
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, once again I can now provide detailed financial information to Andrea.
15:20 Ember (emberell) If it can help any, I also have the ability to load the various office files, and am fairly adept at transferring them other places. (though scripting in excel still is a bit beyond me)
15:20 Carl Metropolitan I have also been using Libre Office for years now. The only issues are Word compatibility on some of the advanced features when Microsoft rolls out a change.
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen With the transfer to Calc completed, I turned to the class scheduler that broke with Google's move of their App-Engine accounts under their cloud.
15:22 TomSTomson Microsoft does that deliberately. Whenever there's a standard everyone uses, Microsoft goes out of their way to invent their own
15:22 Gronk Seriman That is the ONLY way Microsoft keeps Word alive. The alphabet hasn't changed in thousands of years.
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen A couple days ago, I got a temporary kludge running, giving me again the ability to schedule classes and create schedule images for inworld.
15:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen The "cost" is having to manually edit a couple of JSON files and then upload them.
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen This next week, I have a RL virtual conference (Society of Mathematical Biology), but even with that, I should be able to get back to working on the kiosk poster translations.
15:26 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) raises his hand
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, as Andrea mentioned, Oxbridge finances are solidly in the black, despite competing this season with RFL.
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen Rodrigo?
15:27 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) May I continue helping you with the translate :)
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen With my gratitude!
15:27 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) smiles
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen I've just had a few "distractions" along the way, as above.
15:28 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) No worries
15:29 Carl Metropolitan Wordsmith, the last two times I've had a General Q&A, people have asked about teaching classes at Oxbridge. I've sent them to you, but I was wondering if you had any general advice for people wanting to teach classes? And what the requirements are?
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen That's it for my activities (apart from a selected few music/dance events).
15:29 Strandwind Thanks for your time and creative work Rodrigo.
15:29 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) :)
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Carl, I do.
15:30 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Word?
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea?
15:31 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Due to my computer restrictions I may not be able to host as I used to due to large crowds. So I may be asking some of the current and past deans to help out at the events
15:31 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) as greeters and such
15:31 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) back to you Word
15:32 Gronk Seriman Can Tutors help, too?
15:32 Ember (emberell) I am always on paw to help if it's needed, Andrea.
15:32 Ember (emberell) I can host events if your computer can't handle it
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen In general classes should have some sort of direct or indirect benefit to those in SL, although that could include things like the social background and diversity of steampunk
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen I, in general want to see a class proposal that indicates that a person can organize information (informal, not letterhead), and some reason to believe that they can teach and answer student questions.
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen And that they are clear that Oxbridge classes are for the benefit of the students, not just role-play, and not a marketing ploy.
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen I am interested in occasional seminars as well as in weekly classes.
15:36 Carl Metropolitan Do you have a lower limit on avatar age?
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'm going to be working on a scheduling calendar that is more flexible in class times, but that's still a ways off.
15:36 Ember (emberell) For reference, we usually ask that Tutors have a year of experience IN SL with their avatar. That's both to ensure they've had the time to explore under that name, and intend to continue using it.
15:37 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) smiles and nods
15:37 Carl Metropolitan Is that the case for people who want to teach a class?
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen It's good if teachers are conversant in SL and familiar with Caledon culture, but there can be exceptions depending on background and skills.
15:38 Ember (emberell) nods
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen Ember's year in SL is likely a set point, but could be varied in either direction depending on the abilities of the individual.
15:40 Carl Metropolitan Who is the right person to talk to? Is it still you or do you have a Dean of Education now?
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Abilities and attitudes.
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Still me, starting week after next.
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen That last because of the conference this next week.
15:41 Carl Metropolitan Are you looking for someone to be Dean of Education? Or do you want to continue to handle that is one of you three jobs here :)
15:42 Gronk Seriman I've told people who would like to teach, two things. First, they'd have to confidently demonstrate knowledge in the subject they are teaching. Second, they would have to solidly commit to a regularly scheduled class time.
15:42 Carl Metropolitan (Chancellor, Webmaster, Dean of Education, Dean of Engines (part time) )
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen I want to continue doing that, although I've asked Larky to possibly do some preflighting with people.
15:43 Carl Metropolitan The other question people have asked in regards to classes are 1) What's the status of finding new people to take over Lindal's old classes? and 2) Will anyone teach an animation class?
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen Samm has nominally been my Assistant Dean of Education, but is generally to swamped with her own tasks.
15:43 Carl Metropolitan So we can send people to Larky for a first pass.
15:45 Harperlass I would really like to take a class or even a seminar on animation and SL physics
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen Carl, both of those questions depend on instructor availability with the needed knowledge.
15:45 Harperlass so I hope instructors would be given an opportunity to pilot curriculum
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen And there's recreating a class on mesh, and ones on BOM, materials,
15:46 Harperlass or perhaps in the interim a brown bag style group collaborative learning experience?
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen And yes, animation.
15:47 Carl Metropolitan So you are still looking for teachers for Animations, Avatar Safety, Smart Shopping, and... I forgot the other one Lindal taught.
15:47 Ember (emberell) We do rather need people who are able to and want to take those on. So those interested should come to us. We can't really offer anything without the people to run them.
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen Possibly, Harper.
15:48 Larky (larkylouz) Lindal also taught Buying and renting land
15:48 Harperlass It is merely that with technical subjects the subject matter often outruns curriculum development even when instructors are available so stop gap learning options are desirable
15:48 TomSTomson How are we getting the word out to subject matter experts that we are looking for instructors?
15:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen BTW, I do have material from Lindal's classes.
15:48 Buttons (sherabpawo) i like the brown bag idea
15:48 Gronk Seriman That would be a great idea. Hold not a taught class, but simply a meeting on a certain topic. Those who show up are interested in that topic, and can help each other.
15:49 Larky (larkylouz) I have a letter that I post monthly to Aetherchrononauts, ISC, COU staff and COUG groups. We're in the process of reworking that.
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Larky has been doing some posts. Likely need to tune those more to specific expertise.
15:49 Ember (emberell) Elfbiter runs a writing workshop every Thursday - I imagine similar events could easily be hosted on other topics like Animation and the like, for those interested in event hosting.
15:49 Larky (larkylouz) Because Aetherchrononauts reaches so many steamlands residents, I stopped with the hassle of trying to get other places to post.
15:50 Carl Metropolitan Okay. Those are pretty much all the General Q&A Questions I've not been able to answer well. I do have a comment. I think our "year in SL" requirement is way to long. I think it leaves out some people who would be great.
15:50 Harperlass a difference in technical education is that it helps to collaborate on a loose topical structure in advance and then have somewhere to post the group's explorations so newcomers can sit in even though they may not have come in at first
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen And when I go to external places, I'm most often wearing my Chancellor tag. And when I run into people that I think might teach, I ask if they'd be interested.
15:52 Ember (emberell) Andrea, would you object to some of your builds being used for gatherings like that?I often do ask at other learning areas s well, when I find those who may be interestedThough I don't think any of those have followed up.
15:52 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Sure
15:52 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) np
15:52 Ember (emberell) nods
15:52 Ember (emberell) So if anyone is interested in hosting workshop style events, that is a possibility lacking classes.
15:52 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Just need to know in advance
15:52 Ember (emberell) Just reach out ot us.
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, there's also the possibility of articles for the Guardian. I have a 7 article series on scripting there as well as one on images in SL.http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/guardian/2018/08/20/the-environment-of-lsl-scripting/
15:53 Carl Metropolitan Oh. One other thing. I have finished the build for Oxbridge at SL18B and it has been signed off by the Linden Mole responsible. It is nothing spectacular; just a slight revamp of the VWBPE build. But we will be represented there.
15:53 Gronk Seriman Yay! Landmark?
15:53 Larky (larkylouz) http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/guardian/
15:53 Ember (emberell) Oh, thank you so much for doing that, Carl.
15:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen That you much for that Carl. My spare time has been a bit compromised lately.
15:54 Carl Metropolitan It will not open until the 17th I believe.
15:54 RainyDayRecess Nice work Carl;)
15:54 Carl Metropolitan And I think they are going to move some of the actual sims around, so I don't have a LM.
15:54 Soup Jonson TY Carl!
15:55 Gronk Seriman Aww, but thank you!
15:55 TomSTomson What is SL18B?
15:55 Ember (emberell) Second Life 18th Birthday celebration
15:55 TomSTomson ty
15:55 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Many thanks for your hard work carl
15:55 lovejoy2199 No LM yet??? Well, that answers one of my questions.
15:55 Ember (emberell) Every year, an event hosted to commemorating the creation and continued building of SL
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Oh reading last week's general Q&A (we are current on the website), making friends can be done in meetings or dances or ... But it generally requires that there is a conversation among those there and that the person wishing to become known participates as well as listens.
15:56 Lyn (lyn.navarita) Be sure to set to Show Friends Only and wear a lot of patience.
15:57 Gronk Seriman It's something many new people don't understand. SL has been around 18 years. So many features and quirks and traditions have grown. And so many other Online Worlds just came and went.
15:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen There are music venues small enough for a person to become known in. I've spent since last summer looking at a number of venues with life performers, for example.
15:59 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Oh caledonian Nights has a live performer night the last Tuesday night of the month.
15:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes, Sansar was considered to be a high quality graphics platform with no people to run into.
16:00 Gronk Seriman Heh!
16:00 Harperlass SL can feel that way too as a newcomer...and unfortunately people are like sharks when they spot an actual person
16:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen Any last quick topic?
16:01 Carl Metropolitan remembers helping fill a blank spot at SL4B (overnight) for the non-Linden who ran the entire thing
16:01 lovejoy2199 Yes. Does anyone have a LM for SLB18?
16:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen You meet people that way, Carl.
16:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen With the hour up....
16:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen We are adjourned.
16:02 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) :)
16:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming and participating.
16:03 Gronk Seriman Thank you, Chancellor and Deans!
16:03 RainyDayRecess Thank you Deans :D
16:03 Buttons (sherabpawo) wow thanks
16:03 Harperlass thank you all
16:03 Ember (emberell) Do take care, friends
16:03 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) Thanks to you, Chancellor and Deans :)
16:03 Katie (katie.canningham) many thanks!
16:03 Rodrigo Scott (panteraluchadora) You too Ember
16:03 Larky (larkylouz) thank you so much to everyone who has worked so hard for Oxbridge! Take care, all.
16:03 Buttons (sherabpawo) be well all ^_^
16:04 lovejoy2199 No one. Just a general LM. It start on the 17th.