Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2022-02-12

14:32 lovejoy2199 Grettings Provost Emeritus
14:36 Ember (emberell) Lovejoy, welcome
14:36 lovejoy2199 Hello again to you, Dean.
14:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Lovejoy.
14:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Howdy, Ember
14:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Elfbiter
14:44 Larky (larkylouz) Hi everyone
14:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty :)
14:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Larky
14:46 lovejoy2199 Hello 'BA'
14:47 Larky (larkylouz) Thank you, Word. Hi 'LJ' ;^p
14:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen She is "BA" lovejoy, just let somebody jump on the stage and try to hijack her class and ....
14:52 Larky (larkylouz) LOL
14:52 Ember (emberell) BAP
14:52 Ember (emberell) :-)
14:52 Larky (larkylouz) I need a Badass emoji. I'll have to work on that.
14:53 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Phrynne
14:54 Phrynne waves, Baby Yoda gurgles, Tommy purrs
14:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Phrynne
14:54 Ember (emberell) nods at Phrynne. This is the way.
14:54 Ember (emberell) Andrea, welcome
14:54 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) gives Wordsmith a cold foot
14:54 Ember (emberell) Rainy, welcome!
14:54 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi Rainy
14:55 RainyDayRecess HI Ember! ;)
14:55 RainyDayRecess Hello everyone!
14:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome Rainy (mirage)
14:55 Phrynne I don't expect a full house, considering the Superbowl.
14:55 Ember (emberell) Strandwind, welcome
14:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Garret
14:56 Ember (emberell) I should have brought my Owl
14:56 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) There are the three guys who have seen every superbowl....
14:56 lovejoy2199 hummm..I thought it would be the 'Winter Olympics', lol
14:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome Strandwind
14:56 Strandwind Hello everyone!
14:56 RainyDayRecess waves
14:57 Strandwind Heya Wordsmith, thank you!
14:57 Strandwind Helle Rainy!
14:57 RainyDayRecess ;)
15:00 Ember (emberell) Shaerken, welcome
15:00 Shaerken Changeheart (changeheartshaerken) waves at Ember after finally getting on a seat
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome Shaerken
15:00 Strandwind Uuups, heya Ember!
15:00 Shaerken Changeheart (changeheartshaerken) waves greetings to all and sundry
15:00 Ember (emberell) Lia, Adjective ,welcome! ❤
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen and the bells having rung
15:00 Ember (emberell) Welcome,. Mowgli.
15:01 Strandwind Hello Shaerken!
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 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Lia and Highlyadj
15:01 highlyadjective smiles
15:01 Lia (tokyorii) Hello hello.
15:01 Strandwind Hello Lia!
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Ember, what do you have from Commons?
15:03 Ember (emberell) RL has been somewhat very busy for me lately, but I've been continuing to prod at some of the older notecards we offer to newcomers/staff. As always, Oxbridge is looking for those interested in becoming tutors, or otherwise just helping on campus. If your'e interested in being a tutor, please just reach out to me, or any of the other tutors here
15:03 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi badger frozen
15:03 badgerofzen hullo andrea
15:03 badgerofzen hullo all
15:03 RainyDayRecess ;)
15:03 Ember (emberell) Besides that, with the coming of spring., Oxbridge Campus is looking much greener. I've gone ahead and cycled in some of the spring foliage, and will be adding to that over the next few months as that lingers. That's all from me, though.
15:04 Strandwind Hello Badger.
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen The return of spring foliage always seems upbeat.
15:04 badgerofzen hullo
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Ember
15:04 Garret Black (pantau) What's the role of a "tutor" pls?
15:04 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) badgerofzen gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea?
15:05 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thank you Badger for the donation.
15:05 badgerofzen :)
15:05 highlyadjective BTW it is snowing for me IRL, can you fix that too? :)
15:05 Ember (emberell) Tutors help by keeping a presence at Oxbridge's plaza area, or in the help group ( Caledon Oxbridge University Group ). A tutor is someone who is officially on Oxbridge's staff as a helper, rather than the number of folk who come by to casually help.
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen Greeter, helper, explainer, Garret
15:06 Ember (emberell) Generally tutors have access to the staff resources and notecard that I, Larky, and some of the others help maintain, and better lines of communication in times of trouble. Though if there IS ever trouble, everyone should always feel free to reach out to me. I have IMs sent to email
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Lyban
15:06 Garret Black (pantau) Thanks a lot ;o)
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I'm working on the new build for next weeks dance. will be spring related. I hope you can all attend. Now that I have a computer capable of running second life. I'm playing catch up on projects.
15:06 Lyban thank you, Wordsmith :smiles
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) So nect Sunday is a bi-weekly dance event
15:07 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Also, Caledonian Nights is under going a clean up on all parcels and that is time consuming
15:08 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Right now we are looking good on Funds. Though the Relay for Life events are starting up.
15:08 Ember (emberell) Agatha, welcome
15:08 Agatha Macbeth Hiya hiya hiya
15:08 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) One reason We bank back money for the year.
15:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I still have some special events for the COU in mind. But Rl has been tough.
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I will get things done as I can. Notices will be coming out to cover new events.
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Back to you word
15:10 highlyadjective Thanks for all your work Andrea
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you much, Andrea. and glad to hear you are back with a working computer.
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) welcome katie
15:10 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) highlyadjective gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:11 Ember (emberell) Thank you so much for your donation, Adjective!
15:11 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thank you highly.
15:11 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) every linden counts
15:11 Katie (katie.canningham) thankee Andrea!
15:11 highlyadjective nods
15:12 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Mowgli Soy gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:12 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thank yo Mr Soy
15:12 Ember (emberell) And thank you, too, Mowgli. Every bit is so, so appreciated. ❤
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen As of this morning, we have a bank account surplus of about 180k $L with all instructor stipends paid to date. That's after subtracting liabilities for 38 days of tier, a reserve of 225k $L, and a patron liability. And as Andrea mentioned, contributions tend to decrease somewhat during RFL fund-raising season.
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks to Andrea and her helpers, we are in a very good financial state to get past that, something that wasn't true a few years back.
15:15 Agatha Macbeth applauds Andrea
15:15 RainyDayRecess Thank you Andrea for all of your hard work ;)
15:15 Ember (emberell) Very lovely work, Andrea ❤
15:15 Katie (katie.canningham) cheers
15:16 highlyadjective Yes indeed :)
15:16 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thank you to all who donate. Every linden counts
15:16 Strandwind Thank you very much Andrea!
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen Visitor statistics on our website are up to date. http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/statistics/index.php
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, the graphs on the back wall are current to today.
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen We have Lindal Kidd back teaching Avatar Safety, helping our class hours taught (upper left graph)
15:18 Strandwind I just want to say: this week I had the possibility to take the class about “Avatar Safety” with Lindal Kidd. Awesome class! I already have been to a class “Keep calm and report griefers”, but Lindal had some more hints that are very useful. Thanks to Lindal and to Oxbridge. I can recommend that class very strongly ❤.
15:19 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I think we would still need someone to teach virtual land management....
15:19 Ember (emberell) It's one of the best for learning how to take care in this world.
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen If you think of Oxbridge as just serving newbies, look again at the graph on the upper right.
15:20 highlyadjective It looks like a slight overall decline, except that it starts in 2020, which was probably not a normal year
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'd like to bring the newbie part back up and am working with inworld educators who now have a single core sim under design in the new 5000 sim slot reserve
15:22 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi Sandie
15:22 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) evenings fellow students watsup
15:22 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) One mention, If you have become a patron or sponsor. Please note that Wordsmith is our only everything for the COU, he maintains all the scripts, the website, and translators, etc....So it takes time to make changes. This is on top of working in RL.
15:22 Larky (larkylouz) Woot, Woot!
15:23 Larky (larkylouz) Hello Night Rider
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen I have added Sig and Jan to the sponsor page on the web
15:24 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Two of our newest sponsors
15:24 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) sorry means nothing to me lol
15:24 Ember (emberell) Sponsors are what keep Oxbridge running, Night Runner. They're quite aprpeciated folk around here.
15:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/sponsors.php
15:24 Ember (emberell) Night Rider*
15:24 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) ah ok
15:25 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) i dont get enough money in RL to even sponsor a website as im on benefits
15:25 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Every linden counts, Thank yo so much to everyone.
15:26 highlyadjective Nothing to be embarrassed about Night Rider :)
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen When I mentioned Patron liability, Sig and Jan each donated for the entire year, but I'm only recognizing the funds month by month, so the unrecognized funds act as a liability on the account balance.
15:26 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) heres a question what does patron do
15:26 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) All our COU events are free to attend so don;t worry about donating if you can't.
15:26 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) ok
15:27 Larky (larkylouz) Patrons are those who provide significant financial support to Caledon Oxbridge Univ.
15:27 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) ah ok
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen A patron donate 2500 $L per month
15:27 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Patrons, sponsors provide a regular donation that we use with other donations to fund the university
15:27 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) righto
15:28 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) im thinking of going to the RL uni this year on a remote learning course
15:28 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) recovering from depression atm
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen So they go toward keeping Oxbridge's finances stable because they find value in what we provide.
15:29 highlyadjective Best wishes with that Night Rider
15:29 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) ty
15:29 Sandie Harbour sigh
15:29 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) were not for Caledon i would,ve gone crazy pffft
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi, Sandie
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, open to questions in general
15:29 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Second life is often a refuge for many
15:30 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Still hosting the Writers' Meeting every Thursday 11:00 AM SLt. Still no demands to writer specifically for the meeting
15:30 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Note, Caledonian Nights will have a after valentines dance Tuesday night at 6. Notice to come out no later than MOnday at 8
15:31 highlyadjective It's a nice library you have there for the meeting Elf :)
15:31 Strandwind I know that RL takes much time. But I am looking forward to a new scripting class by Sandy. “Ring the bell” was awesome. Are you preparing a new script class?
15:32 Larky (larkylouz) We have two Sandie/Sandy profs here! Sandy Burgess teaches the Ring the Bell class. Sandie Harbour teaches Time to Make a Clock
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen That would be a question and a nudge to Sandy
15:32 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) a time machine lol?
15:32 Strandwind Sandy Burgess I mean.
15:33 Strandwind (And sorry, if I seem to be a bit greedy.)
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen Contact her with a nudge that you'd like to see another class
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen Not at all, Strandwind.
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen I also have seven posts on scripting on the Guardian
15:34 Strandwind Thank you Wordsmith, I will do that.
15:35 Strandwind hopes that she is not too greedy for a new class.
15:35 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) lol
15:35 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) tick tock tick tock
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen Here's the start of the series I wrote http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/guardian/2018/08/20/the-environment-of-lsl-scripting/
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other comments, questions, or announcements?
15:36 Shaerken Changeheart (changeheartshaerken) makes a note and bookmarks the page.
15:37 lovejoy2199 Word: The inworld sim of 5,000. Where can I get more info about it? Will COU have a building there?
15:37 Strandwind Thank you Wordsmith!
15:37 highlyadjective Thank you indeed :)
15:37 Wolff Bikcin that was my question, too, lovejoy
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen yvw, Strandwind and highlyadj.
15:38 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) greetings Larky we meet again hehe
15:38 Larky (larkylouz) Yes we do
15:38 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) lol
15:38 Night Rider (colin.nemeth) brb 5 mins
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen Larky, you are keeping our classes listed on the Aether chrononauts Caledar?
15:39 Larky (larkylouz) yes, and on the Caledon Calendar and SL Events Calendars
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Is the Caledon Calendar a Google calendar?
15:40 Larky (larkylouz) yes
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen What's the link to that, please?
15:41 Wolff Bikcin Question: Can someone say a word about the "the new 5000 sim slot reserve"? Perhaps I missed it.
15:42 Larky (larkylouz) I'm looking for it, Word. Just a sec
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen Sure Wolff.
15:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen Linden Lab has, after a lapse, become interested in promoting education in virtual worlds and Second Life and appointed a liaison to work with VWEC (Virtual World Education Consortium)
15:44 Strandwind Ahhhh! Awesome!
15:44 Wolff Bikcin And they're setting aside 5000 sims for that purpose?
15:45 highlyadjective Very nice
15:45 Wolff Bikcin I'm impressed ㋡
15:45 Katie (katie.canningham) Wow!
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen As part of that, they have reserved a global map area of 5000+ sims in which educational sims can be brought into proximity. That includes the ability to have locked-down K-12 blocks within the reserve. Some sims may have adjacency, but that's optional by mutual agreement.
15:47 Wolff Bikcin That was such a loss when so many universities left SL. I delighted to hear that
15:48 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I wonder if EduFinland could expand again...
15:48 Strandwind Uuuuiehhh! Very good news!
15:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen They could, within the reserve
15:49 lovejoy2199 btw: Are the 'sims' on mainland?
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen No, lovejoy. This is separate from mainland. The Lindens provide one core sim. the rest will be estate sims, but there will be an educational discount on tier.
15:51 Phrynne Is it located near any of the mainland regions? or off in some other direction?
15:51 lovejoy2199 So, any idea of the 'tier'?
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Off in some other direction, I believe
15:52 lovejoy2199 In, other words, they are still working that out.
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen Not that I have yet, lovejoy.
15:52 Ember (emberell) Yeah, from my understanding and what I know, they are still putting the finer details together
15:52 lovejoy2199 Work in progress. No problem.
15:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen The global coordinates of the reserve have been set, and the core sim has been created but not yet designed. This is just a couple of weeks old.
15:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen But part of it is to have a place where education administrators can come in and feel that it looks and smells of education, opening up outside policy opportunities.
15:55 highlyadjective I hope those who tried before and left will feel comfortable returning :)
15:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen And I've managed to end up on several of the committees.
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen And the VWBPE conference is coming up in March, btw
15:58 Wolff Bikcin https://www.vwbpe.org/
15:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty Wolff.
15:59 Wolff Bikcin yvw
15:59 highlyadjective I've been sick this weekend so I am going to bow out and rest
15:59 Katie (katie.canningham) Feel Better Soon!
15:59 Agatha Macbeth Get well soon
15:59 highlyadjective Best wishes to all here and those not here but not quite so much
15:59 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) feel better
15:59 highlyadjective Thank you !
15:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen And I'll be co-presenting a seminar on violent weather to Science Circle (inworld) at 10am on the 26th.
16:00 Agatha Macbeth Interesting
16:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen And time to adjourn
16:00 Katie (katie.canningham) that hour went fast!
16:00 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) ty all for coming. be well
16:00 Katie (katie.canningham) Thankeees!
16:00 RainyDayRecess Thank you Deans! ;)
16:01 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Attempted bedtime
16:01 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hold the fort
16:01 Wolff Bikcin thank you, Wordsmith and Deans. This was informative.
16:01 Larky (larkylouz) thank you for all you're doing, Word. I had no idea. Thanks, Ember, Andrea, et.al
16:01 RainyDayRecess Sweat Dreams EB
16:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) see you all soon
16:01 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing you
16:01 Katie (katie.canningham) cheers and good night!
16:01 Lyban Goodnight, Mr Elfbiter
16:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) night elf be well
16:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks all, for coming and participating
16:01 Strandwind Thank you very much!
16:02 Strandwind Take care and good bye!
16:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Next week, Larky will be moderating the General Q&A
16:04 RainyDayRecess Have a good evening everyone ;)
16:04 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) night
16:04 RainyDayRecess I''m going to get back to RL, night
16:04 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) me too
16:04 RainyDayRecess See you all soon
16:04 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) gotta go shopping for food
16:04 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) fee you all soon
16:05 Ember (emberell) Time for me to head back to RL for now
16:05 Ember (emberell) Take care friends