Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2013-06-02

15:01 Marion Questi Time to begin I think.
15:01 Marion Questi Welcome everyonej.
15:01 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.
15:01 Marion Questi On the Oxbridge website you can find a list of all the Deans with summaries of their respective areas of responsibility, : http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna_index.php
15:02 Marion Questi Who would like to ask the first question?
15:02 faruquie How can a scholar contribute towards caledon
15:02 Marion Questi Are you a Caledon resident, Mr Faruquie?
15:03 faruquie Well, i enrolled for scholar today
15:03 Marion Questi Ah..OK.
15:03 Marion Questi The Scholars group is just for Oxbridge.
15:04 Marion Questi Caledon is a nation of some 40 sims....and Oxbridge is just one.
15:04 Tali Rosca Contributing towards *Caledon* is mostly a matter of being a resident and getting involved.
15:04 Marion Questi There is another group for the Independent State of Caledon...which is for residents and friends...
15:05 ?av?? (raven19saha) how can i become a Caledon resident ?
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen In the long run, it is those who rent land and pay tier who keep Caledon in existence.
15:05 Marion Questi You can support Oxbridge, simply by making a generous donation to the big coin on your right...:)
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen Which helps to keep Oxbridge in existence.
15:06 faruquie what are the returns
15:06 Marion Questi Returns?
15:06 Martini Discovolante we stay open
15:07 faruquie quiet a place... i like it here...
15:07 Larkylouz Delightful community, good friends, endless learning, outrageous puns.
15:07 Tali Rosca Very little, strictly speaking. Oxbridge runs primarily on volunteer work.
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen The return for Oxbridge is we continue to exist and teach. The returns for Caledon land are both that it continues to exist and provide the environment it does along with the direct benefit of having a place to create and leave out your own stuff.
15:08 Tali Rosca But being involved and having an ear to the ground that way is part of the returns.
15:08 Partial I have heard that some of the "Steampunk" balls can be quiet interesting affairs
15:09 Tali Rosca Well, the events is certainly one way to get involved in Caledon-at-large; as guest or host.
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Deligntful conversations, wonderful outfits, good music.
15:09 Marion Questi Have we addressed your concerns, Mr Faruquie?
15:10 Marion Questi Next question? Anyone?
15:10 faruquie oh yes you have, jus wanted to know if its possible to have an online class of some sort at oxbridge
15:10 Marion Questi What do you mean by an Outline class?
15:10 Larkylouz online
15:10 faruquie a room dedicated to a particular subject of learning
15:10 Marion Questi Sorry!
15:11 Tali Rosca The class schedule is really Jarvinens area, but Oxbridge primarily teaches SL-related skills.
15:11 Marion Questi Right..this is not a RL university.
15:11 faruquie yeah... right!
15:11 Tali Rosca Some spill over into, say, general 3D modeling, but it's always slanted towards how to use it in SL.
15:11 Marion Questi There is a class schedule posted on the wall behind you, to your right.
15:12 ?av?? (raven19saha) where is a good place to go to find an inexpensive piece of land in Caledon to put my art gallery on ?
15:12 Marion Questi Miss Raven, I would suggest you contact Desmond Shang directly,
15:12 Tali Rosca Oxbridge can always use new teachers, but a pretty thorough knowledge of SL is required.
15:12 Marion Questi Only he knows the current available parcels.
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen As well as of Oxbridge and Caledon culture.
15:13 Tali Rosca ...and it probably goes with saying, the topic you teach. :-)
15:13 Alamere What do you mean by Caledon culture?
15:13 Marion Questi Best to send him a notecard to get his attention...
15:13 lFuruichi hola
15:14 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Or e-mail.
15:14 Marion Questi Yes...email works great too.
15:14 Marion Questi desmond.shang@gmail.com
15:15 Marion Questi Caledon culture....well...Caledon has been in SL for ...6 years now I think...
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen Caledon does not have strictly enforced Victorian steampunk roleplay but it is still an element.
15:15 Marion Questi It is a Victorian Steampunk community and has its own ambiance...
15:16 Martini Discovolante a certain civility
15:16 Marion Questi Like any community with a history, it has a certain character of it's own.
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen And there is a particular aspect of civility and helpfulness (as well as humor) that are part of the culture.
15:16 Tali Rosca Obviously, when teaching, say, 3D modeling, you cannot do that in Steampunk terms, but as faculty, you represent (part of) the face of Oxbridge and Caledon.
15:17 Marion Questi Does that answer your question Miss Alamere?
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen There is a bit more on our webpage, also. http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/
15:18 Tali Rosca At the risk of sounding cliché, I'll point to
Caledon's motto: [15:18] Tali Rosca: "Tolerans, Civilis, Innovus, Laganum"
15:18 Alamere Mostly . . . I think I need to learn more about how steampunk
roleplay works [15:18] Tali Rosca: Caledon is not a roleplaying area as such.
15:18 Marion Questi RP is pretty light in Caledon.
15:18 Tali Rosca Other areas are more dedicated to actual *roleplay*.
15:18 Marion Questi You won't have any trouble fitting in at all...:)
15:19 Tali Rosca Caledon is more a home for people who enjoy the aesthetics and the general mood.
15:20 Jesse (sltesterl2) Hello everyone! ^_^
15:20 Jesse (sltesterl2) waves
15:20 faruquie a lil role play would be good...
15:20 Tali Rosca If you feel the urge to go build one of Jules Verne's machines after reading about them, you belong in Caledon.
15:20 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Or drive one :-)
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen Caledon does have a covenant on the land. No ban lines. No security orbs below 500m. No neon malls.
15:21 Marion Questi Who has another question for us?
15:21 Martini Discovolante no jarringly anachronistic items on the land
15:21 faruquie what does laganum mean?
15:22 Marion Questi Cake.
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen Things hanging in the air below 500m should have means of support ... airbags, propellers,...
15:22 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Cavorite...
15:23 Jesse (sltesterl2) Sorry, but this is my first time attending this sort of thing. What do you discuss? Questions in general or just relating to Caledon? :)
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen We are open to questions in general.
15:23 Martini Discovolante questions about SL.
15:23 Jesse (sltesterl2) Oh nice! Well I have one just hang on a sec ^_^
15:24 Tali Rosca Incidentally, the mention of cavorite as valid support is a good example of "Caledon culture".
15:24 Marion Questi grins
15:25 Tali Rosca The shared literary reference.
15:25 Marion Questi And the fact that our cavorite works differently...:)
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen You might say that cavorite takes a rather Celtic outlook on gravity .... opposing it just because it's there and is the normal "rule".
15:26 Jesse (sltesterl2) Alright, so I'm planning on purchasing an alienware m14x this summer and I'm worried about buying one since the GPU it includes is up-to-date and heavy duty but I heard of some stories in which that even if the video card is so good it can be TOO good which leads to SL not recognizing it at all thus switching it to the integrated GPUR instead of the discrete one (in this case Nvidia optimus)
15:26 Alamere I discovered a lot of cavorite while passing through Caledon Wellesian
15:27 Jesse (sltesterl2) Sorry I took so long ^_^; But do you have any idea on what I should do? I don't want to spend 1.2k for a laptop and turns out I can't even use it for SL since that's 57.98% of what I'm going to be using it for
15:27 Marion Questi Mr Jesse, suspect this is not the best forum for that sort of question.
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen Probably the best places to look might be SLUniverse forums. and the SL forums.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Forums/ct-p/Forums
15:29 Jesse (sltesterl2) I have tried. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten a clear answer and the others who had the same problem were suggested solutions but never returned stating wether or not the problem was fixed.
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Forums/ct-p/Forums
15:29 Jesse (sltesterl2) But thank you, I appreciate you reading ^_^
15:29 Tali Rosca I do recall some issue with the list of recognized cards not being up to date a while back, but I don't think that's a problem anymore.
15:29 Tali Rosca Don't come haunting me if it's wrong, though.
15:30 Jesse (sltesterl2) Lolololol I totally will XDDD
15:30 Tali Rosca It's *quite* a while back. I don't know if they just keep the lists more up to date now, or if they use a different way to detect.
15:31 Marion Questi Let us move along...Next question?
15:32 Larkylouz When in the forums such as ISC, one has to have activated chat or be online to read what has been posted, right? What is a good forum for a small group that functions somewhat like a Yahoo! email group?
15:32 Larkylouz Is there such a thing?
15:33 Tali Rosca Reading your question, Yahoo groups came to mind before I read the last words :-)
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen There's a somewhat conscious decision on the Guvnah's part to not go that way.
15:34 Larkylouz The Yahoo group may be the best option. Dean J, are you saying that the Guvnah has designed the ISC chat so that it doesn't all pile up when one is offline?
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen It tends to move the focus offworld. If that happens too much, the inworld community is dead.
15:34 Larkylouz Oh, yes, I see.
15:34 Tali Rosca Information easily becomes scattered in too many places.
15:35 Marion Questi ISC chat is no different that any other group chat....Des didn't design it.
15:35 Tali Rosca That said, SL severely needs a better group management system, but that's somewhat tangential, and out of our hands.
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen No, Miss Larky. Inworld chat is what it is.
15:35 Larkylouz My attention is already scattered in too many places. LOL
15:35 Larkylouz Yes, Dean, I think I understand. Was trying to clarify before all had been explained.
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen He has commented on that aspect, in the past, however.
15:36 Larkylouz I have no issue with respecting that.
15:37 Larkylouz Can one establish a group to post notecards to all members? Would that be an option, I wonder?
15:37 Larkylouz Obviously, membership is by choice, so spam should not be an issue.
15:37 Marion Questi You could build something like our Dean's Postbox...but in it's current design, it doesn't scale well.
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Now, notecards could be done via the website, apart from including objects in them.
15:38 Larkylouz I think we would want to include hyperlinks at the least, perhaps prims or textures (for a photography class)
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen Even sending out group notices doesn't guarantee that all see them.
15:39 Larkylouz I was thinking of the notifications of new clothing that I get when I log on. From clothing stores.
15:40 Marion Questi There are group mailing scripts/systems that you can buy in the market place.
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Basically IM's unless they are notices to store groups.
15:41 faruquie i would like to be excused, thank you
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks you for coming.
15:41 Marion Questi Thank you for coming Mr Faruquie
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome. Miss Nirabely.
15:41 Larkylouz Thank you for your input, Deans. I think I need to do a bit of research online.
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen The is a question and answer session. Feel free to take a seat.
15:42 Marion Questi Who has another question for us?
15:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen No questions?
15:45 Marion Questi Anyone?
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen To go a bit furhter on Miss Larky's questions.
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen The Primgraph, for example, has a subscribe kiosk and then sends out notices. As does the Alexandrian library system.
15:47 Partial what types of events are held in Caledon? I mean like build-offs or sporting events such as airship races and the like.
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen In contrast, NCI runs freebie boards.
15:47 Marion Questi But these systems may not allow individual subscribers to send things.
15:47 Larkylouz The boards that give out NCI's clothing?
15:48 Marion Questi Subscribers are generally just passive recipients...you will need to do some research.
15:48 Larkylouz Yes, and I do not want to get very complex in terms of technical savvy. A group like ISC may be my best bet, even if it doesn't fulfill all my needs.
15:48 Larkylouz Thank you, again.
15:48 Martini Discovolante Mr Partial, ther eare all kinds of events in Caledon.
15:48 Tali Rosca As for events, there are regular, weekly dances/gatherings. Those a primarily social events; a place to draw a crowd.
15:49 Martini Discovolante you may check the social calendar in The Steamlander for dates and times.
15:49 Marion Questi Mr Partial, there are a variety of events in Caledon. There is a calendar for all the Steamlands here: http://aetherchrononauts.org/
15:49 Tali Rosca Then there are more themed, seasonal events, from parades to, indeed, airship races.
15:49 Martini Discovolante they are all hosted by private parties, there are no municipal events.
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen And a number occurring this time of year as part of Relay for Life activities.
15:50 Alamere I do see smaller groups for Caledon in search, and I see notices for various events in the main group too. What sorts of events are considered out of bounds (besides, of course, adult content and similar)?
15:50 Marion Questi Right...in fact one of the best ways to enter Caledon society is to host some events.
15:51 Tali Rosca I fondly remember the Harvest Festival, for example, though it was not held last year.
15:51 Tali Rosca Promenade, stalls with Caledonian merchants selling their wares, live music and a puzzle hunt. It was quite an event.
15:51 Partial thank you very much for the information
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, adult content (mature is fine).
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hate speech
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen Caledon as it's own appropriate risque element.
15:53 Alamere Yes, but I meant to ask if there are restrictions such as: it had to have existed in Victorian England or something like that. Or are things really wide open?
15:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Pretty much wide open.
15:53 Tali Rosca Caledon is very loosely themed, ranging from fantasy over steampunk into dieselpunk and gaslight fantasy.
15:53 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I have yet to see piano leg restrictions :-)
15:53 Marion Questi Steampunk generally is understood to be an alternate history...so no, things dont' have to have existed in Victorian England.
15:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen And above 500m ....
15:54 Martini Discovolante honestly-- if you announce hat you are offering somehtignin appropriate, you will hear about it.
15:54 Marion Questi The Nautilus didn't exist but would be fine here.
15:54 Martini Discovolante inappropriate*
15:55 Marion Questi We have about 5 minutes left in our hour.
15:55 Marion Questi Any last questions?
15:55 Tali Rosca The "Victorian England" is just sort of the common baseline for Steampunk. But they were low on talking cats.
15:56 Alamere Ok! quick followup question. I rented some land, and read the covenant. Nowhere does it say I have to get approval to run a specific type of business or area. So I'm really free to create anything as long as it fits the theme? Shop, restuarant, hotel, park, anything?
15:56 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) And gentleman automatons :-)
15:56 Marion Questi Anything.
15:56 Marion Questi All Second Life is user created. Go for it.
15:56 Tali Rosca Caledon is a whole nation, so there's everything here.
15:57 Martini Discovolante to rent out rooms or cottages, you really need the Guv's permission.... there is a rule against subletting here.
15:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen But there is no separate "zoning"
15:58 Marion Questi We once had a lady who had built a series of Tesla tower all over Caledon..
15:58 Martini Discovolante one should be considerate of the neighbors, however
15:58 Marion Questi The airships that ply our skys...the CATs, are privately owned and operated.
15:59 Tali Rosca The basic idea is, if it fits and enhances Caledon as a whole, go for it.
16:00 Alamere Thanks!! It clears up a lot
16:00 Marion Questi I think we have exhausted our time this afternoon.
16:00 Marion Questi Thank you all for coming.
16:00 Martini Discovolante thanks everyone
16:00 Marion Questi We are adjourned.
16:00 Tali Rosca -Though a thing like the roaming CATs do of course require extra permission and coordination, as it crosses into other people's parcels.
16:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all.
16:00 Larkylouz Thank you, Deans.
16:01 Alamere Thank you!
16:01 Partial very informative, thank you all