| 15:01 |
Carl Metropolitan |
It is 3 PM, SL Time, and it is time to start. |
| 15:02 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Welcome to this Sunday's Oxbridge General Q&A. Andrea (who will be along soon—she's finishing up at the fundraiser) and I are here to answer any of your questions about Second Life, Caledon, Oxbridge, Steampunk, Linden Lab, Virtual Worlds, and anything vaguely related to any of the above. I'm also good at trivia questions. |
| 15:02 |
Carl Metropolitan |
If we don't know the answer, we can Google it. In other words, we know where to look, or at least can probably put you in touch with someone who does know the answer. |
| 15:02 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Before we start, I have a few announcements to make. |
| 15:03 |
Carl Metropolitan |
1) Headway is at last being made on the multi-language kiosks. I saw some examples Wordsmith had been working on this afternoon and they look good. |
| 15:03 |
Larky (larkylouz) |
Huzzah! |
| 15:04 |
Carl Metropolitan |
2) Ember has accepted the job as Acting Dean of Commons, replacing Phrynne who resigned a week ago. Congratulations, Ember. I hope you like the job. |
| 15:04 |
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Ember (emberell) tailwaves! |
| 15:04 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Hello Andrea—and everyone else who has come at once from the fundraiser. |
| 15:04 |
Ember (emberell) |
I'll do my best, of course. |
| 15:04 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
OK. Sorry we are late. the COU fundraiser ran over. |
| 15:04 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Congrats Ember. |
| 15:05 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Hi Carl. |
| 15:05 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Hi all. |
| 15:06 |
Carl Metropolitan |
And if you are completely anti-social like myself, you can avoid fundraisers by making a monthly pledge (and paying it of course) to Oxbridge. I donate at the 2500L$ per month Patron level, and I believe there is a 1000L$ a month Donor level, too. Social isolation—it's for SL too :) |
| 15:06 |
Soup Jonson |
Ember! |
| 15:06 |
Soup Jonson |
Way to go! |
| 15:06 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Nods. |
| 15:06 |
Larky (larkylouz) |
LOL Carl |
| 15:06 |
Soup Jonson |
OMG and miss my smooth dance moves? Never Carl! |
| 15:06 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
I was gong to work on the patron program this weekend. But RL illness got me. |
| 15:07 |
Ember (emberell) |
Oh, does Oxbridge have a Patreon? Or am I misinterpreting again? |
| 15:07 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
The patron program is part of the COU donation system |
| 15:07 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Oxbridge Patron is a level of donation in L$. [$2,500 L$ per month] |
| 15:07 |
Larky (larkylouz) |
It isn't Patreon, like they have on YouTube. |
| 15:08 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
I will be updating it soon. It is people donating a set amount each month. |
| 15:08 |
Carl Metropolitan |
We don't have a RL Patreon (a platform for supporting RL creators) |
| 15:08 |
Carl Metropolitan |
We have no need for one as all of our spending is done in the L$ economy |
| 15:09 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Except for Domain Name renewals which I cover, and webhosting which Wordsmith covers. |
| 15:09 |
Ember (emberell) |
I was wondering for a moment if there was some way to link the two easily. |
| 15:09 |
Carl Metropolitan |
That gets into the complicated area of taking RL money and taxes. So we would likely avoid that. |
| 15:10 |
Cynthia Farshore |
There's chance you could lose more than you took in. |
| 15:11 |
Carl Metropolitan |
About five or six years ago, I looked into what it would take for Oxbridge to become a 501(c)(3) in RL, and it was a big hassle. |
| 15:12 |
Carl Metropolitan |
If ever the laws on taxation of virtual income change it might be worth looking at again. |
| 15:12 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Okay. Let's go to questions. |
| 15:12 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Ah. Wait. Missed that. |
| 15:12 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Announcements from Andrea! |
| 15:12 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Hi all |
| 15:12 |
Ember (emberell) |
Hi Andrea ❤ |
| 15:13 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
So we raised a little over 6000 Lindens at the fundraiser. and at this time we are okay on our funding. Many thanks to everyone who donates. Every little bit helps. |
| 15:13 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
In two weeks, I hope to have the next one at the Guv’s mansion. |
| 15:14 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
The idea is to rotate through places in Caledon that can host and/or provide a DJ. |
| 15:14 |
Cychwynn |
sounds like great fun! |
| 15:14 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
A Dj can be provided if needed. |
| 15:14 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Sahsa will be at the Mansion. |
| 15:14 |
Carl Metropolitan |
There are a lot of places in Caledon that would work well for that, too. |
| 15:15 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
So expect to hear more form me in notices over the next few days. |
| 15:15 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
The notice for the Tuesday night event will go out a little later today in the Caledonian Nights group and the ISC group. |
| 15:15 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
There was a question last week on the status of the Caledon Quest. |
| 15:16 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Marion is working on it. Hopefully it will be be back up soon. |
| 15:16 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Back to you Carl. |
| 15:17 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Thank you. |
| 15:17 |
Carl Metropolitan |
One interesting article that might be of interest to Caledonians dropped this week (or last): |
| 15:17 |
Carl Metropolitan |
“Whoosh! What’s Up with Region Crossings?” |
| 15:17 |
Carl Metropolitan |
https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/5560-whoosh-what’s-up-with-region-crossings |
| 15:18 |
Carl Metropolitan |
LL announced that region crossings (sim crossings) have gotten better as they found and fixed some code that was... less than optimal... as part of their effort to move SL to cloud-based servers. |
| 15:18 |
Cynthia Farshore |
I confirm, flying an airplane across sim border goes well now. |
| 15:18 |
Ember (emberell) |
I can confirm that, actually. I took a recent ride with my partner across the mainland. And we didn't end up in the ocean for once. |
| 15:19 |
Phrynne |
I suspect the effect has not gotten everywhere yet. |
| 15:19 |
Phrynne |
it certainly has not gotten to some parts of Mainland. |
| 15:20 |
Cynthia Farshore |
Well depends, if certain regions run a lot of script or colliders then it will be affected. |
| 15:20 |
lovejoy2199 |
I will have to take another train ride, and find out. |
| 15:20 |
Carl Metropolitan |
It is possible that the fix has not been rolled out everywhere, too. |
| 15:20 |
Cynthia Farshore |
nods. |
| 15:20 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I know that LL has different sims running different versions of the server code. |
| 15:20 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Okay. Let's go to questions now. |
| 15:20 |
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Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) remembers being stuck with ghosts of Caledon Parade members at the sim border years ago. |
| 15:21 |
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Ember (emberell) Raises her paw. |
| 15:21 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Please Ember. |
| 15:22 |
Ember (emberell) |
Has there been any word on LL's move to the cloud? The article you linked references it, and I had heard they were doing something along those lines recently. |
| 15:22 |
Ember (emberell) |
My understanding being they intend to (hopefully) open up new land purchases again when it is done. |
| 15:23 |
Carl Metropolitan |
They are still hoping to have it done in the last quarter of this year. |
| 15:23 |
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Ember (emberell) Nods. |
| 15:23 |
Ember (emberell) |
It is a huge task. |
| 15:23 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Though, I expect it to slip to 2021 1st quarter as I'm pessimistic :) |
| 15:24 |
Mowgli Soy |
*raises hand* |
| 15:24 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Mowgli? |
| 15:24 |
Mowgli Soy |
With this move to the cloud, will we be seeing better frame rates a la Bright Canopy or Onlive? |
| 15:25 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I don't know. |
| 15:25 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Might even get worse... |
| 15:25 |
Mowgli Soy |
Thank you. |
| 15:25 |
Ember (emberell) |
Expect it to be rough at first, I think this is new to them. |
| 15:26 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I think it will improve or at least appear to improve because LL has not been upgrading their existing servers since the move-to-cloud project was begun. So the server base has been aging for the past year. |
| 15:27 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Okay. Next question? |
| 15:27 |
Quistessa |
*raises a paw* |
| 15:28 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Quistessa. Please ask away. |
| 15:30 |
Quistessa |
This is a pretty newbie question, but is there a way to set the landing point of a landmark? Like if I wanted to have a link to this specific building for example. Is just pressing the star to the right of the top bar the best way to 'bookmark' a location? |
| 15:30 |
Carl Metropolitan |
That is the easiest way. |
| 15:31 |
Carl Metropolitan |
You can also select "Landmark this Place" from the World menu. |
| 15:31 |
Ember (emberell) |
However, do note that if a sim or parcel has a designated landing point, it will override a landmark. |
| 15:31 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Correct, Ember. |
| 15:31 |
Ember (emberell) |
You can get around that by offering someone a teleport from your intended destination, but otherwise I don't think there is a way. |
| 15:31 |
Quistessa |
I see. |
| 15:32 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Landing points do not apply if you own the land, though. |
| 15:32 |
Carl Metropolitan |
You can teleport anywhere within land you own. |
| 15:32 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Okay. Next question? |
| 15:32 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
If your home spot is in the Rose Garden, you can enter Oxbridge that way instead of the entrance hall. |
| 15:33 |
Carl Metropolitan |
That's correct. |
| 15:33 |
Quistessa |
Good to know, thanks! |
| 15:34 |
Carl Metropolitan |
You also could take Landmarks for areas of Oxbridge that are separately parceled, such as the Train Station or the Library. |
| 15:35 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Does anyone else have any questions this evening? |
| 15:36 |
Carl Metropolitan |
If not, we will adjourn a bit early, I suppose. |
| 15:36 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Thank you all for coming. |
| 15:36 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Thank you all for coming |
| 15:36 |
Carl Metropolitan |
See you next Sunday! |
| 15:36 |
Quistessa |
Thank you for hosting! |
| 15:36 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Have a great day. |
| 15:37 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Oh. One Thing. |
| 15:37 |
Cynthia Farshore |
good day |
| 15:37 |
Kara2016 |
My poor full stomach... |
| 15:37 |
Cychwynn |
Thank you Carl and Andrea for your time and information :) |
| 15:37 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
There is a skydiving platform up now. The teleport pad is to the left as you exit. |
| 15:37 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Bedtime for me, then. |
| 15:37 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Hold the fort. |
| 15:37 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Goodnight everyone. |