Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2022-03-13
| 14:46 | Ember (emberell) | Chancellor, welcome ❤ |
| 14:46 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | ty, Ember |
| 14:47 | lovejoy2199 | ello Chancellor |
| 14:47 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome: Highlyadjective, lovejoy, Phrynne |
| 14:47 | lovejoy2199 | Hello |
| 14:48 | Phrynne waves | |
| 14:48 | lovejoy2199 | brb RL |
| 14:48 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome, Phrynne |
| 14:50 | highlyadjective | Hello Wordsmith, Ember, lovejoy, Phrynne :) |
| 14:51 | highlyadjective | Sometimes I'll see an egg, not I see the old orange smoke |
| 14:52 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | It's a three dean night |
| 14:52 | highlyadjective | Hello Andrea :) |
| 14:53 | Ember (emberell) | It's a good night, you cannot deany |
| 14:53 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hiyas |
| 14:53 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | (grins) |
| 14:54 | highlyadjective | Hello Kara, did you bring hamburgers? |
| 14:54 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Kara and Gronk |
| 14:55 | highlyadjective | Excellent |
| 14:55 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome, friends ❤ |
| 14:55 | Gronk Seriman | Good evening, everybody! |
| 14:55 | highlyadjective | What causes just one person to stay an orange cloud? |
| 14:56 | Gronk Seriman | Second Life. |
| 14:56 | Gronk Seriman nods seriously, then smiles. | |
| 14:56 | highlyadjective smiles | |
| 14:56 | Ember (emberell) | Sometimes, Second life has trouble loading or displaying avatars, for a number of potential reasons |
| 14:56 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hard to say. Sometimes complexity, sometimes dropped packets |
| 14:56 | Kara2016 | <..brb..have too finish cooking.. |
| 14:56 | Gronk Seriman | Sometimes leaving the area for another sim, then coming back fixes that. |
| 14:56 | Ember (emberell) | It can be part of the outfit, an issue with the servers, or an issue with the local viewer you are using. Sometimes you can narrow it down by asking about it |
| 14:57 | Ember (emberell) | There are a number of fixes for the potential issues, but not all of them work for every case. |
| 14:57 | highlyadjective | Well it's fine for now |
| 14:57 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome, Kyoko, Elfbiter. |
| 14:57 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi Rainy |
| 14:58 | highlyadjective | Hello Elf, Kyoko, RainyDay |
| 14:58 | RainyDayRecess | HI Andrea, and everyone :D |
| 14:58 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And the orange part is an indication that Firestorm prefers Nitrogen Dioxide clouds to water vapor clouds |
| 14:58 | Ember (emberell) | Orange you glad it isn't banana yellow? |
| 14:58 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Rainy |
| 14:58 | Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) | smiles and apologizes for her orange cloud |
| 14:59 | Ember (emberell) | You look fine from here, Kyoko, I see your outfit. |
| 14:59 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Kyoko. No cloud for you |
| 14:59 | highlyadjective | Phyrnne is a cloud to me, just wondered what causes that, it happens sometimes |
| 14:59 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Badgerofzen |
| 15:00 | lovejoy2199 | back |
| 15:00 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Cloud to me also, and on a different viewer we are |
| 15:00 | Gronk Seriman | Oh! Phrynne is cloudy for me, too! Didn't notice. |
| 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 |
| 15:00 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | highlyadjective gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:01 | Kara2016 | Smiles brightly. |
| 15:01 | Ember (emberell) | Thank you for your donation, Highly. Every bit helps so much ❤ |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | ty, Highly |
| 15:01 | highlyadjective | :) |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | What do you have for us from the Commons today, Ember? |
| 15:02 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:02 | RainyDayRecess | Thank you Kyoko ;) |
| 15:02 | Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) | yvw |
| 15:02 | Ember (emberell) | I've been a bit behind where I want to be on up-keeping some of the faculty information, so my plan is to catch up on that this week, and integrate some of the changes Larky sent me. For those of you with access to the faculty information kit, or who get handed out notecards - please always feel free to reach out to me if you find information that isn't up to date there. |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | ty Kyoko |
| 15:03 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | Kara2016 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:03 | Ember (emberell) | Besides that, I've been keeping an eye on campus. Oxbridge is always looking for new tutor staff to help out around the plaza, and otherwise encourage folk new and old to make use of our resources. So for those interested, reach out to me, or any of the other staff here. |
| 15:03 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | (and welcome, Agatha) |
| 15:03 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | ty Kara for the donation |
| 15:04 | RainyDayRecess | Thank you Kara ;) |
| 15:04 | Ember (emberell) | that is all from me this week, though I always remain open for folk to contact me in regards to campus activity, issues, or otherwise. |
| 15:04 | Agatha Macbeth waves to Word | |
| 15:04 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | As do I, Ember |
| 15:04 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Ember does not bite nor swallow whole |
| 15:05 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea? |
| 15:05 | Ember (emberell) | we make sure no one is harmed at Oxbridge. This is a place of help :-) |
| 15:05 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Hi all |
| 15:05 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Calli :) |
| 15:05 | Agatha Macbeth | Hello Andrea |
| 15:05 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | We have a party next week on the next Sunday. |
| 15:06 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Theme will be disco, stepping back a bit in time as most people like the music from the era |
| 15:07 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Notecard to come out later on location. |
| 15:07 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I've been out of it this weekend but expect to have something built by Tuesday or Monday night |
| 15:07 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | back to you Wordsmith |
| 15:08 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you, Andrea |
| 15:08 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | First to budget: |
| 15:08 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | With all instructor stipends paid to date: Days into Quarter: 67 Balance: 511,822 $L Tier Liability: 55,036 $L Reserve Liability: 225,000 $L Patron Liability: 45,000 $L Total Liability: 325,036 $L Surplus: 186,786 $L |
| 15:09 | RainyDayRecess | Wow |
| 15:09 | Kara2016 | hhmm..good or bad? |
| 15:09 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Patron Liability is for pre-donated support that I'm recognizing in the budget month by month. |
| 15:10 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Very good, Kara |
| 15:10 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Tier is 74,750 $L per quarter |
| 15:11 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Instructor stipends with about 8 classes per week runs us another 26,000 $L per quarter. |
| 15:12 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We have a good cushion to get through RFL season. |
| 15:12 | Kara2016 | Smiles brightly. |
| 15:12 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | :-) |
| 15:14 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I assume that what people will donate over six months has limited stretch. It may increase a bit, but after that it's redirection. RFL is a good cause and promotes heavily, so I expect some redirection from Oxbridge to RFL. |
| 15:15 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Having a good cushion at the start keeps the wolf of budget worries away from the door. |
| 15:16 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Next item is a bit more sad. |
| 15:16 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Wordsmith has enough on his plate. I try to keep that worry away. |
| 15:16 | RainyDayRecess | And you do an excellent job of it Andrea ;) |
| 15:16 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Larky has resigned effective immediately for RL reasons. |
| 15:16 | Ember (emberell) | Very excellent. |
| 15:17 | Ember (emberell) nods | |
| 15:17 | Gronk Seriman | Awwwww! |
| 15:17 | Agatha Macbeth | :( |
| 15:17 | Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) | :( |
| 15:17 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | RL intrudes |
| 15:18 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | She was teaching the Inventory class, running the general Q&As and posting classes to various calendars other than our own. |
| 15:18 | Agatha Macbeth | Will the intermediate QAs stop now? |
| 15:19 | Ember (emberell) | I can step in to host those on Sundays. I'm (usually) there when I can be already. |
| 15:19 | Agatha Macbeth | Yay :) |
| 15:19 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Continues on herself |
| 15:19 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And Andrea said something similar to me. |
| 15:19 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | nods |
| 15:20 | Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) | ♪♥♪·.¸♪♥♪·.¸APPLAUSE!!¸.·♪♥♪¸.·♪ |
| 15:20 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | So while I have next week's as canceled on the calendar, it seems that I can remove the cancel. |
| 15:20 | Agatha Macbeth nods | |
| 15:20 | Ember (emberell) | I feel those Q&As are important, helping people feel free to ask general questions. |
| 15:21 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | True |
| 15:21 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I may be able to pick up the inventory class again sometime in April. Depends on some other things getting out of the way. |
| 15:22 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Sometimes new people may not know enough to formulate a question |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | There's a sci-fi story about knowing enough to ask the right question, Elf. |
| 15:23 | Gronk Seriman | 42. |
| 15:23 | Agatha Macbeth | :P |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Fortunately, we are "programmed" to be able to help find the question. |
| 15:24 | Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) | smiles |
| 15:24 | Ember (emberell) | One way to help learn how to ask the questions you do not know you have is to listen. |
| 15:24 | Ember (emberell) | A lot of the questions I asked in IM at Oxbridge, are things that can be quite helpful on a general level, so it makes the Q&As that much more important |
| 15:25 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I think Yogi Bera said: "You can hear a lot just by listening". |
| 15:25 | Agatha Macbeth | True dat |
| 15:26 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | That's pretty much what I have to say for today, so open to questions, comments, announcements... |
| 15:27 | Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) | Alas RL is calling |
| 15:27 | Gronk Seriman | I'm happy to report that I rode a CATs out of Caledon. Even the station's teleporters up and down seem to work! |
| 15:27 | Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) | my apologies |
| 15:27 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | bye Kyoko |
| 15:28 | Gronk Seriman | *out of Oxbridge. |
| 15:28 | Ember (emberell) | Do let me know if the teleporters do cause issues. I set those up myself :-) |
| 15:28 | Ember (emberell) | (so I can fix them, also.) |
| 15:29 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The ones at the CAT stations, Ember? |
| 15:29 | Ember (emberell) | The one up and down from the station |
| 15:29 | Ember (emberell) | It's a simple sit teleport |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Right |
| 15:30 | Ember (emberell) | I put a copy of the script on the groundskeeper too, full perms |
| 15:30 | Ember (emberell) | so it could be reused |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Elf? |
| 15:31 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Still hosting the Writers' Meeting every Thursday |
| 15:31 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Weird writing prompts still provided. |
| 15:31 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | No bats, channels or bellfrys |
| 15:32 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Tuesday night is our early St PAtty day party at the pub in the Oxbridge Village 6 pm we start |
| 15:32 | lovejoy2199 | Ahhh...Whiskey in the Jar. |
| 15:32 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Nice! (and the pub is just across the line into Oxbridge Village) |
| 15:33 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | notices in the ISC and nights and student union groups |
| 15:33 | Gronk Seriman | If I miss that party, I'll be green with envy. |
| 15:33 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I have a green skin, probably use it |
| 15:33 | lovejoy2199 | Or, an 'orange' cloud. |
| 15:33 | Ember (emberell) | Caledonian Nights Access , Caledon Oxbridge Student Union |
| 15:34 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | ty ember |
| 15:34 | Ember (emberell) | Groups are free to join for those who want to be involved in Oxbridge social events. Everyone is welcome |
| 15:34 | highlyadjective smiles | |
| 15:34 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Other topics, questions, rousing from comas? |
| 15:35 | Ember (emberell) raises her paw | |
| 15:35 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Ember? |
| 15:36 | Ember (emberell) | Relating to a topic from earlier before the Q&A - we do have a handout that covers cloud issues (and some solutions for solving them), if anyone would like a copy |
| 15:36 | Ember (emberell) | That's all :-) ❤ |
| 15:36 | lovejoy2199 | Yes, please. |
| 15:37 | Ember (emberell) | Sent. |
| 15:37 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | On some broader issues, the VWBPE conference starts on the 31st. (that's Virtual World Best Practices in Education). |
| 15:38 | lovejoy2199 | Is there a 'LM' ? |
| 15:39 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | i take it VWBPE is not concerned about underwater basketweaving? :-) |
| 15:39 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Along with that, the education reserve core (welcome) sim will be opening. As that becomes active, I'm hoping that we get some referrals here from a portal there. |
| 15:39 | Gronk Seriman | What percentage of attendees to VWBPE are NOT SL based, would you guess? |
| 15:39 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I'd have to ask, Gronk, and I will. |
| 15:40 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Some are in SL but rarely, but come in for that. There's also generally some activities in open sim. |
| 15:40 | Ember (emberell) | It is a very good question, I am curious also. |
| 15:41 | highlyadjective | Sorry, yes please on the cloud NC, Ember :) |
| 15:42 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I'll see what I can find out, Gronk |
| 15:42 | Gronk Seriman | Just curious! |
| 15:42 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Good question |
| 15:42 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Anything else today? |
| 15:43 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | oh! |
| 15:43 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Everyone is welcome to join me at the Grand Opening of the Theater in Steelhead Bay this coming Sunday the 13th at 7 PM. Our feature movie this week is The Godfather. It's the 50th anniversary for the movie, so join us as we enjoy a classic! Come early as I'll have a short running and please check your media settings. Midnight sun setting is recommended. The theater seats provides popcorn, drinks are at the bartender on the first floor. |
| 15:43 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I can send you the LM if you need it |
| 15:43 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I'm done |
| 15:43 | Agatha Macbeth | An offer we can't refuse? |
| 15:43 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And the 13th is here now |
| 15:43 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | yes tonight |
| 15:43 | RainyDayRecess | :D |
| 15:44 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Already 14th here,,,, |
| 15:44 | Ember (emberell) | It'll be fun. Everyone is welcome |
| 15:44 | Ember (emberell) | irl date notwithstanding :-) |
| 15:44 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | nods |
| 15:44 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Anything else? |
| 15:45 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | If not, |
| 15:45 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | thank you for coming |
| 15:45 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | then we are.... |
| 15:45 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | see you all soon |
| 15:45 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | adjourned |
| 15:45 | RainyDayRecess | Thank you Deans! :D |
| 15:45 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thanks you all for coming and participating |
| 15:45 | Gronk Seriman | Thank you, Deans! |
| 15:45 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | welcomes |
| 15:45 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Going to crawl into bed |
| 15:45 | Agatha Macbeth | Thanks |
| 15:46 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Hold the fort |
| 15:46 | lovejoy2199 | Sleep well, Elf. |
| 15:46 | highlyadjective | THank you all very much |
| 15:46 | Gronk Seriman grasps her bench firmly. | |
| 15:46 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | night elf, night all |
| 15:46 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | poofs |
| 15:46 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Be seeing you |
| 15:46 | RainyDayRecess | Night Elf ;) |
| 15:46 | RainyDayRecess | sweet dreams |
| 15:47 | Gronk Seriman | Ah! It's light outside now! |
| 15:47 | Ember (emberell) | Ok, I should head out, too |
| 15:47 | Ember (emberell) | thank you so much for everything you do, Word |
| 15:47 | RainyDayRecess | Yes, thank you Word ;) |
| 15:47 | Ember (emberell) | And friends, you all are why we do this ❤ |
| 15:47 | RainyDayRecess | Thank you too Ember ;) |