Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2021-09-26
| 14:39 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hi, Ember |
| 14:39 | Ember (emberell) | Hi Word. ❤ |
| 14:40 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome, Larky |
| 14:40 | Larky (larkylouz) | thanks. Hi Ember, Hi Word |
| 14:40 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hi, Larky |
| 14:42 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | While you were tour-guiding Ember, I finished catching up on all the prior Q&As (General & Deans). There are all on the website now. |
| 14:42 | Ember (emberell) nods | |
| 14:43 | Ember (emberell) | Thank you for doing that, it's always good to have those available. |
| 14:44 | Ember (emberell) | Lovejoy, welcome |
| 14:45 | lovejoy2199 | Greetings everyone |
| 14:45 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Ember. Nice to see you again. |
| 14:45 | Ember (emberell) | Likewise, Lovejoy |
| 14:46 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome Lovejoy |
| 14:46 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Chancellor |
| 14:51 | Ember (emberell) | Denver, Elfbiter, welcome |
| 14:53 | Rodrigo (panther155) | Thanks Elf ^^ |
| 14:54 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome, Rodrigo |
| 14:54 | Rodrigo (panther155) | ☻♥ |
| 14:56 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome Soup, Gronk, Kara, Gerogiana |
| 14:56 | Gronk Seriman | Good evening, everybody! |
| 14:56 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | Kara2016 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 14:57 | Georgiana Penberg | Hello! |
| 14:57 | Kara2016 | Greeting all. |
| 14:57 | Larky (larkylouz) | thank you, Kara. Your donation is much appreciated. |
| 14:57 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Soup and Kara |
| 14:57 | Soup Jonson | TY |
| 14:58 | Ember (emberell) | Thank you, Kara ❤ |
| 14:58 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome Georgiana |
| 14:58 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | Soup Jonson gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 14:58 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | Georgiana Penberg gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 14:58 | Kara2016 | Smiles brightly. |
| 14:58 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | ty Soup |
| 14:58 | Ember (emberell) | Thank you both, Soup, Georgiana, for your donations. Every bit helps Oxbridge. |
| 14:59 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome, Strandwind. ❤ |
| 14:59 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome Strandwind |
| 15:00 | Strandwind | Hello everyone. Heya Amber and Wordsmith. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, BadgerOfZen |
| 15:01 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | badgerofzen gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | ty badger |
| 15:01 | badgerofzen | hullo and yw |
| 15:01 | DENVER (denverskye) | Soup, I brought you a pot of Crawdad étouffée. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And the chimes have chimed, so |
| 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 | Transcripts will be posted after the meeting. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Non-disruptive misbehavior is at your discretion. |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Agatha |
| 15:02 | Larky (larkylouz) catches sight of Kara and laughs! "Love the pumpkin head, Kara!" | |
| 15:02 | Agatha Macbeth waves | |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Ember, what have your for today? |
| 15:03 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | (Welcome, Sandie) |
| 15:03 | Ember (emberell) | A few matters - first, I've finally been catching up on updating the campus to be autumn rather than summer. As ever, if anyone finds anything neat and (preferably) free, give me a wave, I can see about adding it either to campus, or the groundskeeper catalog. |
| 15:04 | Soup Jonson whispers | oh how fun! |
| 15:05 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Ember has really Fallen into the landscaping. |
| 15:05 | Ember (emberell) | Earlier today I got a heads up from a friend that the VWMOOC community was going to stop by campus for a tour - so I took them through the campus and gave them an overview of what we offer here, our resources, and how we help students. They've indicated they'll be putting up a recording of that available to the CVL newcomers and others, encourage them to use Oxbridge where possible |
| 15:05 | Larky (larkylouz) | I'm glad she didn't leaf the change until winter! |
| 15:05 | Ember (emberell) | So made some good connections and impressions there. They had very kind words to offer the updated tutorial kisks and information as a whole |
| 15:06 | Ember (emberell) | Hey now, I try to manage it augustly |
| 15:06 | Ember (emberell) | Ahem. |
| 15:06 | Soup Jonson whispers | way to go Oxbridge> |
| 15:06 | Larky (larkylouz) | <grin> |
| 15:07 | Gronk Seriman didn't think she'd fall for that. | |
| 15:07 | Ember (emberell) | Besides that, I have been catching up on overdue work to update the tutor resource package - the latest available is from July, and Larky has been making some excellent edits to especially the foreign language stuff there. As usual, we are looking for more who may be willing to come on as tutors and help staff - those interested can get the application from tutors, or just IM me directly. |
| 15:07 | Ember (emberell) | That's it from me here. |
| 15:07 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Good work, Ember. |
| 15:08 | Ember (emberell) | Oh, and I'll be hosting the fundraiser dance after the Q&A, here : Caledon Oxbridge Village (148,213,2457) |
| 15:08 | Larky (larkylouz) | Anyone ever considered holding a pun competition as a fundraiser? I'll have to have a word or two to strike some embers with Andrea. |
| 15:09 | Larky (larkylouz) puzzles over puns involving the word "gronk" | |
| 15:09 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I've also been asked to lead a subgroup at a VWEC meeting the morning of 6 Oct, so we are keeping Oxbridge visible to the education world. |
| 15:10 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | That's a link to the Oriental Garden venue; dressing in theme is not required. |
| 15:10 | Rodrigo (panther155) | That's awesome ☻ |
| 15:10 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | This week's Oxbridge budget information follows: |
| 15:11 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Tier is 74,750 $L per quarter (91 days) All instructor stipends paid to date Estimated Instructor stipends per quarter 22.5k $L Estimated total operating costs per quarter 97.5k $L . Account Balance: 453,961 $L Tier for 81 days: 66,536 $L Base Reserve: 225,000 $L Total Liability: 291,536 $L Account Surplus: 162,425 $L |
| 15:12 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Instructor costs vary with the number of classes. As we get more classes in place, they will increase. |
| 15:13 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea has worked to create a surplus in case we end up with out of work donors due to the pandemic. |
| 15:14 | Ember (emberell) | She's done amazing work. |
| 15:15 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | All the prior transcripts from both General and Deans' Q&As are up to date on our web pages. |
| 15:15 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Except for today's. Still not able to post the transcript before the meeting, as Gronk has commented on. ;) |
| 15:16 | Gronk Seriman grins | |
| 15:16 | Ember (emberell) | At least, not until we get the time machine fixed. |
| 15:16 | Ember (emberell) | That's scheduled for last Wednesday. |
| 15:16 | Rodrigo (panther155) smiles | |
| 15:16 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | With that, open for other announcements and questions |
| 15:16 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | ...now wait for last year.... |
| 15:17 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Still hosting the Writers' Meeting every Thursday 11:00 AM |
| 15:19 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Casdetra, when her ISP problems are solved, has the same time on Fridays. Both Elfbiter and Casdetra also have slots on the ad panels for their community building efforts. |
| 15:19 | Rodrigo (panther155) | I agree ^^ |
| 15:19 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | I try |
| 15:20 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Questions? |
| 15:21 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Progress of multiple language signs? |
| 15:21 | Rodrigo (panther155) raises her hand | |
| 15:21 | Larky (larkylouz) | What is the status of other pending classes? I know Sandy Burgess' Beginning Scripting class has been added to the schedule. |
| 15:21 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Getting back to working on Building 3 (camera control) |
| 15:22 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Rodrigo? |
| 15:22 | Rodrigo (panther155) | Wordsmith, you know you have me to translate it into Spanish, I'll be pleased to help, as always I'm ^-^ |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Ty, Rodrigo. That's a big help when a kiosk requires changes from what it has been. |
| 15:24 | Rodrigo (panther155) | You're welcome |
| 15:24 | Rodrigo (panther155) | Send me a NC whenever you want that I'll translate it as soon as I can |
| 15:26 | Ember (emberell) | You may be able to coordinate with Larky, as well, if there may be spanish cards that need reviewing. |
| 15:26 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I have some scripting to do for a class that Nance Clowes has proposed. Kaitlin is working on a specific building class after some feedback from Larky |
| 15:26 | Rodrigo (panther155) | Oh okie :) |
| 15:28 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Anything else? |
| 15:29 | Larky (larkylouz) | Yes, Rodrigo. I think our notecards are fairly okay, as they've been reviewed (some of them) by other native speakers, but I can send you a notecard later in the week. Please put Word's projects first, however. |
| 15:29 | Larky (larkylouz) | Just an update, Word, that I'm close to a major update on the Faculty Kit, primarily the materials to give to non-English speaking visitors. I expect it within a week. |
| 15:30 | Rodrigo (panther155) | Of course Larky :) |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Okay. Thanks for the heads-up |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Since I've heard nothing more, |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | we are, |
| 15:31 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | adjourned |
| 15:31 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you all for coming and participating |
| 15:31 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Attempted bedtime, then |
| 15:31 | Larky (larkylouz) | thank you Deans. |
| 15:31 | Ember (emberell) | Do rest well, Elfbiter |
| 15:31 | Larky (larkylouz) | Good night, Mr. Elfbiter. |
| 15:31 | Soup Jonson stage dives! | |
| 15:31 | Rodrigo (panther155) | You're welcome and thanks to all of you as well |
| 15:31 | lovejoy2199 | Sleep well, Herra Skysmith |
| 15:32 | Rodrigo (panther155) | Bye Elf |
| 15:32 | Rodrigo (panther155) | Be seeing you! |
| 15:32 | Soup Jonson | Miss you Elf |
| 15:32 | Lia (tokyorii) | Goodnight elf!!!!!!! |
| 15:32 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Hold the fort |
| 15:32 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Be seering you. |
| 15:33 | Georgiana Penberg | Gronk |
| 15:33 | Georgiana Penberg | it's been so long |
| 15:33 | Gronk Seriman | Yes it has! |
| 15:33 | Georgiana Penberg smiles | |
| 15:33 | Georgiana Penberg needs a parachute skirt | |
| 15:34 | Gronk Seriman | We can visit more down in the Plaza. |
| 15:34 | Georgiana Penberg | ok |