Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2013-01-27

19:01 Marion Questi Let us begin...
19:01 Marion Questi Welcome to Oxbridge everyone!
19:01 Marion Questi This is an "open mic" Q&A which we hold at this time every week. We, the Deans of Oxbridge, assemble to answer questions from the attendees about Oxbridge, it's mission and operation, or about SL in general.
19:02 Marion Questi Who would like to pose the first question to us?
19:02 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) Too impressed ;)
19:02 Gronk Seriman A comment...I noticed somebody has improved the lighting in here. Congratulations, and thanks!
19:03 Carl Metropolitan Okay. In that case let me make sure and tell everyone about the Oxbridge class sponsorship program. It's a way you can advertise your business to Oxbridge users and help us pay tier and classes.
19:03 Marion Questi /me grins. "Wrath."
19:03 Carl Metropolitan I'm planning on keeping talking about it until someone asks questions, BTW :)
19:04 allison2489 :O
19:04 kat (ekaterin) Yay!
19:04 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) Okay - we dare ya
19:04 allison2489 i got one
19:04 Carl Metropolitan Class Sponsorships at Caledon Oxbridge offer access to a high value target market for advertisers. Residents in our classes are people who've passed through the winnowing of the first hour experience, and have decided to stay a while. Additionally many of our attendees who chose the Victorian Steampunk lifestyle when they chose Caledon Oxbridge, are ofttimes older, more experienced residents, here to learn a different aspect of SL.
19:04 Carl Metropolitan It's cut and paste. I can do this all night.
19:04 allison2489 is there going to be anything special for the anniversary thing
19:04 Carl Metropolitan Are you all sure no one has questions?
19:04 Marion Questi By the way, yesterday was Oxbridge's fourth anniversary. What a long strange trip its been...:)
19:04 Carl Metropolitan Ah! A question!
19:05 Chimp Hansome Perhaps you could expand on the Oxbridge class sponsorship program
19:05 Carl Metropolitan There will be Cake.
19:05 Marion Questi There is cake on the quad....more special than that?
19:05 allison2489 yay cake!! wooo
19:05 Carl Metropolitan Click on the cake in the pavillion on the green for free cavorite cake created by Dean Martini
19:05 Gronk Seriman Cake!!!
19:05 kat (ekaterin) let us eat cake!
19:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen There are sponsor boards outside and in here (look up at the corners)
19:06 Ravini T. Mephisto (thaumaturgist) Bottle rides as well, don't forget that
19:06 Larkylouz Explosive champagne!
19:06 Carl Metropolitan Are there other things planned?
19:06 Marion Questi And gifts courtesy of Dean Discovolante...including one of these cool hats...:)
19:06 Æʃ (ashiri) Cavorite cake? Does it fly?
19:06 Carl Metropolitan No, but it makes you weigh less the more you eat!
19:07 Martini Discovolante it is under control
19:07 Friends of Caledon Oxbridge Donation Medallion CashRefund Clarity gave a generous donation to Friends of Caledon Oxbridge to help support classes, tutorials, & tier at Caledon's Oxbridge
19:07 allison2489 cake!!
19:08 Chimp Hansome Cake!
19:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty M Clarity.
19:08 Carl Metropolitan Thank you !
19:08 Chimp Hansome ty for the meeting!
19:08 allison2489 is oxbridge going to get any new classes soon?
19:09 Carl Metropolitan I just noticed that Jayleden has undergone a major change!
19:09 Duchess Jayle (jayleden.miles) grins at Carl.
19:09 Carl Metropolitan Jayle is wearing shoes!
19:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, there's one in the making on steampunk culture and I'll be regenerating the scripting class.
19:09 Duchess Jayle (jayleden.miles) Just bought them today!
19:10 Marion Questi OMG...she is...the millennium has arrived!
19:10 Carl Metropolitan They look great.
19:11 Duchess Jayle (jayleden.miles) thank you
19:11 allison2489 i like that class
19:11 Carl Metropolitan Better update the sponsor list then
19:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen Prof Florian's basic building, btw, just moved from Thursdays to Mondays.
19:12 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) How long has Caledon Oxbridge been open?
19:12 Carl Metropolitan Four years, 1 day
19:12 Carl Metropolitan Approximately
19:13 allison2489 is glowing green cake safe to eat?
19:13 Second Life Items successfully shared.
19:13 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) wow
19:13 Marion Questi It opened for business on Jan 26, 2009.
19:13 Larkylouz /me giggles.
19:13 Carl Metropolitan The island and the build and the original tutorial were a bit older, but we had to wait on LL to formally launch their (now defunct) Community Gateway program for the official launch.
19:13 Carl Metropolitan Martini is making me write a history.
19:14 Larkylouz I would love to hear the story of how COU was conceived and developed.
19:14 Larkylouz /me can wait for the written version.
19:14 allison2489 oooh
19:14 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) stories! please?
19:15 allison2489 stories!!
19:15 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) because we're all so very grown up ..
19:15 allison2489 :D
19:16 allison2489 ...
19:16 Marion Questi I wish I had an anecdote to share with you...but I think I'll have to wait for the official history...:)
19:16 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) okay we can ask real questions if we must .. like ... what's up with mesh?
19:17 Carl Metropolitan Certainly
19:17 Carl Metropolitan Please add your anecdotes to the history document draft I emailed.
19:17 allison2489 oooh
19:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen It will be going this Wednesday (mesh class)
19:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen I was (in RL) a bit down with some flu which slowed me down enough I canceled for a bit.
19:19 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) Ah, cool. There's always something new.
19:19 allison2489 i like the lights on the ceiling i just noticed them
19:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen What is supposed to come in some near future is normal and specular maps.
19:20 Gronk Seriman ...and what is this "server-side baking" i've been hearing about?
19:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen Those will allow better appearance of reflections and the sense of more detail without having to add more faces.
19:20 Larkylouz Still seeing plenty of avis appearing as clouds.
19:21 allison2489 well in the market place you can buy a cloud avatar
19:21 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) Heh I come in with 2 outfits and leave paws behind when I first get here
19:21 kat (ekaterin) :)
19:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes. LL is moving to server-based baking of avatars instead of having that done on the viewers.
19:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen Which should reduce the variation in what people see (hopefully for the better).
19:22 Æʃ (ashiri) There will be those who see correctly and those who refuse to see past grey
19:22 Duchess Jayle (jayleden.miles) Will that affect older computers, do you know?
19:22 Ravini T. Mephisto (thaumaturgist) The bad news is that LL is doing it ;)
19:22 allison2489 bye people
19:23 Carl Metropolitan Bye Allison on the ceiling
19:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen by Allison.
19:23 Carl Metropolitan Welcome Charlie!
19:23 Gronk Seriman So does that mean...what? Whey are taking on more computing, and chrging more tier for it?
19:23 Marion Questi It should take a load off clients and be better for older computers.
19:23 Charlie Navarathna :)
19:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen It will be rather the last straw for ancient viewers.
19:24 Carl Metropolitan Indeed, it is cited as the reason that the Firestorm people are ending support for their Phoenix viewer.
19:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen combined with Dean Q's reply.
19:24 Gronk Seriman Ah!
19:24 Æʃ (ashiri) It should also be better for the various tablet form and ultra books
19:25 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) If tablets can do it ... =D
19:25 Carl Metropolitan Yes. Everyone in the computer industry seems think that games are going to mobile phones and tablets.
19:25 Gronk Seriman So "Cloud Party" has put a chink in LL's armor.
19:25 Carl Metropolitan They are wrong, but they don't listen to me.
19:26 Larkylouz Cloud Party?
19:26 Charlie Navarathna nods
19:26 Gronk Seriman Google it. "Cloud Party".
19:26 Larkylouz I did. TY.
19:27 Carl Metropolitan Hopefully AetherVirtual will rule them all in the end :)
19:28 Marion Questi Next question?
19:28 Gronk Seriman Ooo!
19:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen In the end, there will be just one?
19:29 Larkylouz The War of the Worlds...
19:29 Gronk Seriman One to Rule Them All.
19:30 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) What's coming up for Caledon? Anything new or improved?
19:30 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) Hey, no one else is asking ...
19:30 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) and I thought Carl was mythical anyway.
19:30 Carl Metropolitan I suggest you direct that question to the man that just logged on. But he's going to have about fifty IMs ahead of you to deal with.
19:30 Carl Metropolitan Desmond just showed up.
19:31 Gronk Seriman We have lights in the Lecture Hall. That's New!
19:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen We do.
19:31 Larkylouz A new Gazebo in the Rose Garden.
19:31 Martini Discovolante for a week
19:32 Larkylouz That's a lot of work for a week!
19:32 Martini Discovolante not really-- i made it Saturday morning, i think
19:32 Larkylouz :^)
19:33 Carl Metropolitan I am working on updating an old SL Glossary from NCI that I have the right to fork for us. And (as I may have mentioned) trying to get money for Oxbridge :)
19:33 Carl Metropolitan Desmond has responded: [19:33] Desmond Shang: hi
19:33 Charlie Navarathna :)
19:34 Carl Metropolitan Okay. Direct from the governing horse's mouth: [19:33] Desmond Shang: ah, am working on a few things but don't want to say just what, otherwise it would be 'oh when is it'
19:34 Carl Metropolitan So you know as much as me.
19:34 Marion Questi You must understand that we are merely the administrators of Oxbridge. The Guv doesn't share inside information with us...:)
19:34 Carl Metropolitan Hello Lili. Have a seat. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them.
19:35 Carl Metropolitan Good point.
19:35 Gronk Seriman He is the most Likeable Benevolent Dictator I know. Really.
19:35 Carl Metropolitan From our T&C for Oxbridge:
19:35 Carl Metropolitan "Caledon Oxbridge and the Classes at Caledon Oxbridge are operated by the Friends of Caledon Oxbridge group, and not by Desmond Shang, the Caledon Estate, or Linden Lab®"
19:36 Carl Metropolitan The upside of that for Desmond, is that he knows nothing about what we are up to :)
19:36 Gronk Seriman Ha!
19:36 Liliross hiii
19:37 Charlie Navarathna :)
19:37 Carl Metropolitan Desmond actually had some real answers to the previous question in the ISC group. I'm going to paste it here now.
19:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen Which means fewer IMs for him about what we do here.
19:37 Carl Metropolitan [19:34] Desmond Shang: it's kinda complicated, well ok I'll spill but it may blow their mind.
[19:34] Desmond Shang: I want to do some tie ins with the airships when I launch aethervirtual.
[19:35] Desmond Shang: that's pretty much it, maybe some other stuff related to that ~ a sort of RL/virtual RL/SL mashup.
[19:35] Desmond Shang: it will be mindblowing when you decorate Iowa with rainbows... laughs
[19:36] Desmond Shang: pathfinding has been on in caledon for a long while now, quietly. I've been testing
[19:37] Desmond Shang: and was working with vkc kennels a bit
19:37 Carl Metropolitan [19:37] Desmond Shang: yeah, I didn't announce it because I knew it would be drama
19:38 Carl Metropolitan Okay. If he says anything else intersting, I will try to pass it on.
19:38 Larkylouz /me laughs. Lurking in Caledon chat is always interesting.
19:38 Gronk Seriman Thank you!
19:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen Caledon chat is a phenomenon in and of itself.
19:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen And on those late nights when Desmond gets into story mode....
19:40 Charlie Navarathna nods
19:40 Carl Metropolitan [19:39] Desmond Shang: sorry I can't really explain better, Carl, you'd first have to explain the caledon scout and science airships over RL major cities first.
19:40 Larkylouz LOL
19:40 Carl Metropolitan (he means virtually, of course)
19:40 Carl Metropolitan Unless he's gone UTTERLY MAD WITH POWER.
19:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Augmented reality.
19:40 Charlie Navarathna lol
19:41 Carl Metropolitan Next question?
19:41 Carl Metropolitan Hello Cuge. Welcome
19:42 Cuge Lac´nala (cuge.causten) /me tilts his head in Thanks and greetings
19:43 Friends of Caledon Oxbridge Donation Medallion Charlie Navarathna gave a generous donation to Friends of Caledon Oxbridge to help support classes, tutorials, & tier at Caledon's Oxbridge
19:43 Carl Metropolitan Thank you very much Charlie
19:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen Indeed. ty
19:43 Charlie Navarathna :)
19:43 Carl Metropolitan Hit him up to teach for us again while he's vulnerable, Wordsmith :)
19:43 Charlie Navarathna smiles
19:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes. We are looking for a scripting teacher again.
19:44 Charlie Navarathna How is the sponsor finding program going for classes at Oxbridge?
19:44 Carl Metropolitan Decently, I could always use more, of course.
19:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen And open to other class proposals relevant to SL skills and/or Caledon culture.
19:44 Carl Metropolitan Especially as we add classes.
19:45 Charlie Navarathna My I love teaching
19:45 Carl Metropolitan And I'm going to do a larger "help pay our tier" fundraiser later this year.
19:45 Charlie Navarathna One student saying hey I learned something can make it all wort while.
19:45 Charlie Navarathna teaching is rewarding in itself
19:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen That is true..... Or one person whose creation problem goes away.
19:46 Charlie Navarathna yes!
19:46 Charlie Navarathna smiles
19:48 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) How much is the tier here, and do donations come even close?
19:49 Carl Metropolitan We had enough money to pay this year's tier in advance with a comfortable cushion. However, we had a few very generous gifts last year, we can't depend on every year.
19:49 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) good to hear!
19:49 Marion Questi This is a homestead. You can look up the tier yourself in the SL help pages. We depend entirely to the generosity of our sponsors.
19:50 Carl Metropolitan we pay for the land here, except for that owned by the library.
19:51 Alyshamonsta Dolly Im sorry, this is my first time here. I've played SL for a while but never stopped by caledon, which i love the environmeant of. how often are these meeting held?
19:52 Carl Metropolitan Every sunday night at seven PM SLT
19:52 Marion Questi This is a weekly meeting. Same time every sunday,
19:52 Carl Metropolitan Plus we have lots of other classes as shown on the schedule on the wall to your right and rear
19:52 Alyshamonsta oh alright, thank you.
19:54 Gronk Seriman I have a dumb question. If I take a copy of the class schedule, is it a snapshot of the moment, or will it update over time?
19:54 Marion Questi It's updated weekly as required.
19:54 Marion Questi It ought to be current.
19:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen It evolves.
19:55 Carl Metropolitan The prim objects you get when you click on a schedule update automatically
19:55 Gronk Seriman So my copy will stay accurate?
19:55 Carl Metropolitan Sorry. When you select "Take Copy"
19:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen The most common change is to have a class marked as canceled in a particular week.
19:55 Carl Metropolitan Yes
19:55 Marion Questi Oh no...you must get a fresh one...:)
19:55 Marion Questi Sorry...the prim version will update...
19:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Classes are changed over time -- we had one move from Thursdays to Mondays for the Spring.
19:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen they do stay mostly accurate from week to week, however.
19:56 Gronk Seriman Thus my confusion. I just come here and look at the display boards!
19:57 Charlie Navarathna Yes I see the Oxbridge schedual prim calendar in many places grid wide and it updates
19:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes. It takes an hour or two to propagate after I update it in the server.
19:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen The notecard is more or less instantaneous after an update.
19:58 Marion Questi We have two minutes left in our hour. Any last quesiton?
19:58 Alyshamonsta I had said earlier that i've only been stopping around the college for a while, so i was wondering if they ever offer some one-on-one building classes? ive played a while and would like to finally get into the minor building game.
19:58 Carl Metropolitan We may have time for one more quick question.
19:59 Carl Metropolitan The closest we get to one-on-one is the weekly Building Office Hour where you can ask specific questions of the teacher in an free form class
19:59 Carl Metropolitan It is noon on Tuesdays
20:00 Carl Metropolitan Wow. One quick question with a quick answer.
20:00 Marion Questi You may also ask questions of any of the tutors.
20:00 Alyshamonsta doesnt look like i can make it at that time, but thank you
20:00 Martini Discovolante the building classes tend to be small , adn quetions are welcoem in any class.
20:00 Gronk Seriman ....or ask any smart builder who hangs around here.
20:00 Martini Discovolante also.. if you have a question, or are stumped, ask in our Scholars' Group.. the Hive Mind is always willing to help.
20:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Samm Florian, who teaches Building Basics (on Mondays), has taught Building Office Hour in the past. She does tend to be open to questions.
20:01 Marion Questi With that, we are adjourned. Thank you all for coming!
20:01 Alyshamonsta `alright. its just sometimes i can be a little dumb and require some extra help heh. again i thank you.
20:01 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) Thank you for your time, Gurus
20:01 Larkylouz Thank you, Deans.
20:02 Carl Metropolitan Goodnight everyone.
20:02 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) I meant deans
20:02 Charlie Navarathna Thank you Deans
20:02 Corliss (cashrefund.clarity) /me wonders if there's really cake .. or if the cake is a lie.
20:02 Gronk Seriman Thank you, Deans!
20:02 Larkylouz /me giggles.
20:03 fadojado thank you Deans.
20:03 Carl Metropolitan Bye