Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A for 2023-03-12

14:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hello, Larky
14:33 Larky (larkylouz) Hi Wordsmith
14:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome Edmund
14:38 Edmund Broek Thank you and greetings, Wordsmith.
14:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen Larky, according to Marian Questi's stats our visitor traffic has gone up. "The First Day traffic was up 23% to 16 from 13, while the broader First Week traffic count rose 10% to 22 from 20.". I haven't done my own version of first day and week numbers yet.
14:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen Howdy Samm. I reckon you be here to talk about roses?
14:45 Samm Florian A bit mebbe, if there was call fer it.
14:46 Larky (larkylouz) There was an animated mushroom wandering around campus last night looking for roses. :^)
14:46 Samm Florian grins.
14:47 Larky (larkylouz) Yes, Word, I noticed there'd been a bit of an upswing.
14:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, lovejoy :)
14:55 lovejoy2199 Hello Chancellor.
14:59 Larky (larkylouz) awesome bling you got there, Samm!
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi, Andrea
15:00 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi
15:00 Rocket Speed Assist All Go
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Jorge
15:02 Jorge Serapis *waves to the Word and to everyone!*
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Elfbiter
15:03 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Teleport crash...
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Kyoko
15:04 Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) Thank you Chancellor
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 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Duncan
15:04 Duncan Loppez (yeahthatone) Thanks you
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea, what have you for today?
15:05 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) we have our biweekly fundraiser dance today at the gypsy camp
15:05 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) we get started at 4 and run 2 hours
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) fantasy is also a co-theme
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) so about anything goes
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) as far as dress theme
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) let me get you the SLURL
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Caledon Oxbridge Village (141,190,3106)
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) other wise. we are good
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen Donation coins are out as of last night
15:07 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) yes thak you
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen And I emailed you the spreadsheet through yesterday this morning.
15:08 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) great
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen We remain in excellent financial shape thanks to your efforts (with helpers)
15:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) the donations come from everyone. and they are appreciated
15:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) not just from the dances
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen I don't have any worries on going through Relay for Life (RFL) season this year.
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen All instructor stipends are paid through yesterday's classes.
15:11 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) thank you for all your work and worry
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen I haven't done my own visitor statistics for last week yet, but Marion Questi reports that both first day and first week visits were up last week.
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen I consider Larky to be among the reasons for that.
15:14 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) yay
15:14 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) good work Larky
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen I haven't updated any of the graphs this week. I'm expecting an update from Madori Linden, but she reported that she had had some technical difficulties moving some resions out of the education reserve (ones there when it was established)
15:15 Larky (larkylouz) thank you
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen That's it from me. Elfbiter is still doing his 11 am Thursday writers workshops
15:16 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Weird prompts provided
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen And Samm, yes, you are called upon to inform us.
15:16 Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) grins
15:16 Samm Florian The Annual Rose Hunt started last evenin' and is still runnin' strong. The roses will be out until next Sunday.
15:17 Samm Florian There are 42 roses hidin' in every region except Moors, Dream, and Kintyre.
15:17 Samm Florian Includin' one in Oxbridge and one in th'Village.
15:17 Samm Florian Happy huntin'. :)
15:17 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Steam Hunt is also ongoing.
15:18 Samm Florian Oh right, you can find more info at rose.CalSL.com or samm.nfshost.com/Rose/
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Samm.
15:19 Samm Florian nods.
15:19 Samm Florian Also, fer the first time that I can remember, the Caledon map hasn't changed since th'last Rose Hunt. That seems like a good thing. :)
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen BTW, if you want the title or description of your above advanced building class updated, send me a notecard. Based on something Larky had shown be, note that the names "Sculpt Studio" and "Mesh Studio" refer to pieces of software.
15:20 Larky (larkylouz) yeah!
15:21 Samm Florian I've been callin' it "Building Studio", open to other ideas. It's less of a formal class and more like "let's build stuff together"
15:21 Samm Florian With an eye to education of course.
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Ben
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, with that, open to any other announcements, questions, comments, comas, ...
15:22 Ben (benvietnam) hello sir !
15:23 Jorge Serapis *raises hand*
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen Jorge? (I was just thinking of pinging you) ;)
15:24 Jorge Serapis Aev and I have set up a display in the NE corner of Caleon Cay,the Field Of Roses.. showing off a collection of roses from the hunts from years gone by. Well worth a look see, and anyone is welcome to put one on a plinth for display. It will run until Sunday.
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen Very nice. Can yo give us a SLURL to that?
15:25 Jorge Serapis Caledon Cay (168,194,23)
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you. And I'll expedite getting this weeks transcript up, given the rose hund and the rose display. (have to catch up on some prior weeks).
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen Any other topics?
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen And be aware that time differences with Europe and the UK will be different for a couple of weeks. The U.S. (mostly) went onto daylight shifting time today. Europe and the UK don't do that until the 26th.
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen And with that,
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen hearing nothing else raised....
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen we are....
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen adjourned.
15:30 Jorge Serapis What's the capital of Paraguay?
15:30 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) see you soon
15:30 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Acuncion?
15:30 Jorge Serapis *fills in the crossword*
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming and participating.
15:30 Jorge Serapis Thank you.
15:30 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Okay, Bedtime and dental appointment tomorrow.
15:30 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) So attempted bedtime
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'll try to get some graph updates done for two weeks from now.
15:31 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hold the fort
15:31 Jorge Serapis Sleep tight, Elfie.
15:31 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing you
15:31 Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) hope the appt goes well