Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A for 2023-06-25
| 14:29 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Frigid |
| 14:30 | Frigid Cryotank | Hello Wordsmith. |
| 14:36 | Frigid Cryotank | I'm curious about the ...elephant in the room... |
| 14:40 | lovejoy2199 | Greetings everyone |
| 14:41 | Larky (larkylouz) | Hey Lovejoy. Hi Word, Frigid |
| 14:41 | lovejoy2199 | Hello BA |
| 14:41 | Frigid Cryotank | Hello Larky. |
| 14:41 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Frigid |
| 14:41 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hi, Larky and Lovejoy |
| 14:42 | Frigid Cryotank | Oops... Hello LoveJoy. |
| 14:42 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Chancellor |
| 14:42 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Lovejoy, I have the stream fixed, but had to find a new classical station. Apparently, the old one blocked connections from SL. |
| 14:42 | lovejoy2199 | mmmmm |
| 14:43 | lovejoy2199 | I hear |
| 14:43 | lovejoy2199 | It was a PBS station |
| 14:43 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The old one? |
| 14:43 | lovejoy2199 | Yes |
| 14:44 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Here's the info on the new one, the last link being the stream: |
| 14:44 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | WCPE, The Classical Station - https://theclassicalstation.org/ http://19013.live.streamtheworld.com/WCPE_FM.mp3 |
| 14:45 | lovejoy2199 | Thank you |
| 14:46 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | They have 24/7 announcers who give specifics of the music they play, and on Fridays they play numbers that were requested. |
| 14:47 | lovejoy2199 | I have put it in my favorites. |
| 14:48 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Strandwind |
| 14:48 | Strandwind | Hello everyone! |
| 14:48 | Strandwind | Thank you Wordsmith! |
| 14:50 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Lovejoy, Ravelli also gave me his list of music streams. I'll be going through and vetting both those and what I've previously had. |
| 14:50 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Both Ravelli and I could connect to the old stream using external players, but could not bring it up on a parcel |
| 14:51 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Edmund |
| 14:51 | Edmund Broek | ty. Hi! |
| 14:52 | lovejoy2199 | Ok. I usually have music streams going somewhere here and around the house RL. |
| 14:53 | Strandwind | Hello Edmund! |
| 14:53 | Edmund Broek | Hi! |
| 14:54 | lovejoy2199 | btw Chancellor: Did you get the 'Pod Text' working ? |
| 14:55 | lovejoy2199 | I haven't been to SL20B today. |
| 14:55 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | No, apparently one needs a pod box, which I don't have |
| 14:56 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And then sets the description, and the pod box takes info from that. |
| 14:58 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Elf |
| 14:59 | lovejoy2199 | I do recommend that everyone here go and see the build. |
| 14:59 | Strandwind | Hello Ember, Elf and Elfbiter! |
| 14:59 | Ember (emberell) | Hello, all! |
| 14:59 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I'll give the link to it in a bit |
| 15:00 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Dean Ember |
| 15:00 | Strandwind | Thank you Elfbiter! |
| 15:00 | Strandwind | Hello Katie! |
| 15:00 | Ember (emberell) | Hello, Kate, Lovejoy! |
| 15:01 | Katie (katie.canningham) | Hi Strandwind! Hi Ember! |
| 15:01 | Ember (emberell) | welcome, Grimm |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Kim and Katie |
| 15:01 | KimDworkos | hello |
| 15:01 | Strandwind | Hello Kim! |
| 15:01 | lovejoy2199 | Sibelius !!!!! |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome to this week's Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. This is an open meeting; |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | all are welcome apart from those who intend to misbehave in a disruptive manner. |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Non-disruptive misbehavior is at your discretion. |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Transcripts will be posted after the meeting. |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php |
| 15:02 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome, Subaru |
| 15:02 | Subaru Arun waves | |
| 15:02 | Strandwind | Hello Subaru! |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Subaru |
| 15:02 | Katie (katie.canningham) waves | |
| 15:03 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Ember, What do you have from Commons this week? |
| 15:03 | Ember (emberell) | From commons, I've been catching up on decorations. I'm hoping to have things a bit more summery before long. |
| 15:03 | Ember (emberell) | Between that and reviewing our infocards, I've been fairly busy. |
| 15:04 | Ember (emberell) | As always, Oxbridge is looking for folk interested in becoming tutors - or otherwise helping out around campus. For those interested, please feel free to reach out to me, or any of the other staff here, and we can figure out how to get you involved |
| 15:04 | Ember (emberell) | That's it from me today |
| 15:04 | Strandwind | Thank you so much Ember for your work and energy. |
| 15:04 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thanks, Ember |
| 15:04 | Ember (emberell) | We're here to help! ❤ |
| 15:05 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And places and links to them are a continuing challenge to keep current |
| 15:05 | Strandwind nods. | |
| 15:05 | Ember (emberell) | yes, it's always work to review landmarks |
| 15:05 | Ember (emberell) | so if anyone does find one that doesn't work or goes to the wrong place do let me know |
| 15:05 | Ember (emberell) | I'm always happy to fix them up |
| 15:07 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thanks to Andrea somehow ending up with two parcels, I ended up with one of them for a last minute Oxbridge build at SL20B, which I "finished" last Sunday night. |
| 15:07 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | That's at SLB Celebrate (52,197,24) |
| 15:07 | Katie (katie.canningham) | YAY!!!! |
| 15:08 | Strandwind | Ohhh, much work, I guess, thank you Wordsmith and Andrea! |
| 15:08 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And it's different from what you might expect, with perhaps a slight nod to Caledon having catgirls (it's only a rumor) |
| 15:08 | Subaru Arun | =^o^= MEOW =^o^= |
| 15:08 | Ember (emberell) | Catgirls? What catgirl? |
| 15:08 | Ember (emberell) | :-) |
| 15:08 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Exactly, Ember (grins) |
| 15:08 | lovejoy2199 | Ohhh That is why the 'Cat ' build. |
| 15:09 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Well, Lovejoy, that and the building needed .... something. And I could do that in the time I had |
| 15:09 | Katie (katie.canningham) | I'm sure it's meowvalous |
| 15:10 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Give Grimm the landmark :-) |
| 15:10 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The rest of the build was based on a quintic polynomial for an S-curve. |
| 15:11 | KimDworkos | Ooo!!! are there inflection points? |
| 15:11 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Apart from that, I fixed the music stream on all Oxbridge parcels plus this one. It had abruptly quit working, right in the middle of my building. Things like to gang up. |
| 15:12 | Ember (emberell) | Thank you very much for doing that! |
| 15:12 | Ember (emberell) | IT makes the campus a cozier space for many |
| 15:12 | Katie (katie.canningham) nods | |
| 15:13 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | It's a different classical stream, but I think a good one. And the new one has 24/7 announcers who tell what they will play. |
| 15:14 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Apart from that, all instructor stipends are paid, we have an ample financial surplus, although from 10 June to today it reduced by about 9k $L, expectable with RFL activities at a maximum. |
| 15:14 | Strandwind | Thank you very much for caring Wordsmith! |
| 15:15 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I've got the webpage statistics up to day with the weekly and monthly visitor summaries. No changes to the graphs behind me done for today. |
| 15:17 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | As far as I know, there's a fundraiser dance at 4pm today, with a techno build and theme (it's black with blue lighting) |
| 15:17 | Katie (katie.canningham) | ooo! |
| 15:18 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Caledon Oxbridge Village (171,208,2242) |
| 15:19 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And Elfbiter continues to run his writers' workshop on Thursdays at 11am (with weird prompts) |
| 15:19 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Attendance varies |
| 15:19 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Also we may or may not end up in one of inworld magazines... |
| 15:20 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | As always, you don't have to be in theme to attend the 4pm dance and you don't have to donate. Both are optional |
| 15:20 | Katie (katie.canningham) | cool! |
| 15:20 | Ember (emberell) | All are welcome |
| 15:20 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And with that, open to general comments, questions, etc |
| 15:20 | Ember (emberell) raises a paw | |
| 15:20 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Ember? |
| 15:21 | Ember (emberell) | Caledonian nights also has a display at the Oxbridge Birthday event, for those looking for local displays. that can be found here SLB Outgoing (29,142,29) |
| 15:21 | Ember (emberell) | That's all. ❤ |
| 15:21 | Katie (katie.canningham) | And it's really neato |
| 15:22 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Oh, and the education consortium also has one: SL20BD VWEC Exhibit - SLB Beguile (138,53,23) |
| 15:22 | lovejoy2199 | That is in the same area as Andrea. |
| 15:22 | Katie (katie.canningham) | YAY!!!! |
| 15:22 | lovejoy2199 | Outgoing |
| 15:22 | Ember (emberell) | (that is andrea;s, LJ) |
| 15:22 | lovejoy2199 | Ohhh |
| 15:22 | Subaru Arun will need gps for all this | |
| 15:22 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And I know Aevalle has one -- an aquarium with a robokitty looking in, but I don't have the link handy. |
| 15:23 | Strandwind raises her hand | |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Strandwind? |
| 15:23 | Strandwind | Do you have any news from Samm Flories about her advanced building classes? (I really do miss her classes.) |
| 15:24 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | One newcomer also asked for the clock-building class. |
| 15:24 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | But I think it is up to Sandie |
| 15:24 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I haven't heard any more from her. She's still doing her Build-A-Rama events and is just taking a break from the building classes |
| 15:25 | lovejoy2199 | Yes. One question, Chancellor: Are you planning a group pic at the COU exhibit? |
| 15:25 | lovejoy2199 | You have done that before. |
| 15:26 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Well, Teddy Bear will likely take her photo-salon class there and I will try to be there for that, but don't have other photo plans. |
| 15:26 | Strandwind | Oh, fine to hear, that Samm is just engaged at the school. But very sad, that she still is on vacation (I hope so) for the advanced building classes |
| 15:27 | Katie (katie.canningham) raises a tiny paw | |
| 15:28 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Oh, and Sasha just sent out notices for the Techno club dance |
| 15:28 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Katie? |
| 15:28 | Katie (katie.canningham) | I just wanted to add that there's a list of all the exhibitors on the web at https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/13614-sl20b-exhibitor-showcase/ |
| 15:28 | Katie (katie.canningham) | and Aevel's on the list |
| 15:28 | Katie (katie.canningham) | sorry - Aeval |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thanks Katie, although Andrea's build and mine are not on that list, but I believe that both are in Celebration. |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And from Sasha: Join us for an exciting night of electronic dance with an eclectic mix w/DJ Sasha at Andrea’s Techno Club. Teal and Blue ambience with This G rated event with proceeds to the house going to the Caledon Oxbridge University. The University is a user funded teaching area. |
| 15:30 | Katie (katie.canningham) | ah! |
| 15:30 | Katie (katie.canningham) | ok |
| 15:31 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Lovejoy has found both Andrea's and my Oxbridge one. |
| 15:33 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And, other topics, questions, .... |
| 15:34 | Ember (emberell) raises her paw | |
| 15:34 | lovejoy2199 | Anyone who wants them, just ask. |
| 15:34 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Ember? |
| 15:34 | Katie (katie.canningham) scurries up and Andrea and then scampers back to her seat | |
| 15:34 | Katie (katie.canningham) | *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*Hugs!!!!*:-.,_,.-:*'``'* |
| 15:34 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | :-) |
| 15:34 | Strandwind | Hello Andrea! |
| 15:34 | Katie (katie.canningham) reminds herself once again to fix that gesture | |
| 15:34 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Dean Andrea |
| 15:34 | Ember (emberell) | LL has announced they intend to bring back the mentorship progra (with a bit of a stricter leash on it. I mentioned it last week, letme fetch the link |
| 15:34 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi |
| 15:35 | Ember (emberell) | https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/13552-a-new-generation-of-second-life-mentors/ |
| 15:35 | Ember (emberell) | fantastic to see you andrea |
| 15:35 | Subaru Arun | hugs are good |
| 15:35 | Katie (katie.canningham) | hehe thankee |
| 15:35 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hi Andrea. Already mentioned the dance, gave a slurl and copied what Sasha posted about it. |
| 15:35 | Frigid Cryotank | Kind of curious ... will they be compensating the new mentors? |
| 15:35 | Ember (emberell) | Not at all |
| 15:35 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | okies |
| 15:36 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | ty |
| 15:36 | Frigid Cryotank | Feh. |
| 15:36 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thanks Ember |
| 15:36 | Ember (emberell) | (there' s a mention of /posibly/ gifts, but they're clear it's intended to be a pro bono thing residents do) |
| 15:37 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea, I emailed you the current financial workbook at summary this morning. |
| 15:37 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | k |
| 15:37 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | ty |
| 15:38 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Any other topics? |
| 15:38 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hearing none, .... |
| 15:38 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We are ...... |
| 15:38 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | adjourned |
| 15:38 | Katie (katie.canningham) | ♩♪♫♬ APPAWS! ♩♪♫♬ |
| 15:39 | Katie (katie.canningham) | Thankiee Wordsmith and Ember and Strandwind and Andrea! |
| 15:39 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | k |
| 15:39 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you all for coming and participating. These meetings would be really, really boring without you. |
| 15:39 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | nini |
| 15:39 | Subaru Arun | tc |
| 15:39 | Strandwind | Thanks to the team and the students! |
| 15:39 | Katie (katie.canningham) | gnight or g'day all! |
| 15:39 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And the dance slurl again: Caledon Oxbridge Village (171,208,2242) |
| 15:39 | Katie (katie.canningham) | nini Elf! |
| 15:39 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Attempted bedtime and so on |
| 15:39 | Katie (katie.canningham) | pheasant dreams! |
| 15:39 | Strandwind | Be well everyone! Bye! |
| 15:39 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Hold the fort. |
| 15:39 | Ember (emberell) | Rest well, Elfbiter |
| 15:40 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Be seeing you |
| 15:40 | Katie (katie.canningham) | We have a fort? |
| 15:40 | lovejoy2199 | Sleep well, Elf. |
| 15:40 | lovejoy2199 | A snow fort in winter time, Katie |
| 15:40 | Katie (katie.canningham) | Ah! |
| 15:40 | Katie (katie.canningham) | ok! |