Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2013-07-14

15:01 Marion Questi Although we are shy a dean or two, it is not 3 o'clock.
15:01 Marion Questi So let us begin.
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.

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
15:01 Marion Questi Which of you would like to ask the first quesiton? :)
15:02 Larkylouz Off hand, I have no particular questions.
15:02 Carlos Whitefalcon I don't really either. I just dropped in after several months away.
15:02 Carlos Whitefalcon I spend time in opensim but not sl much.
15:03 Ravelli Ormstein Larkylouz, perhaps you want to tell us about the ghosting before, if you like
15:04 Carlos Whitefalcon What do you mean by ghosting?
15:04 Ravelli Ormstein sorry, i meant the cloud issue you mentioned
15:04 Larkylouz The cloud? Well, when I logged on, as is typical, I was a cloud for maybe 15 or 20 seconds. A few days ago, I had at least one person through the welcome center who had cloud issues that required help. I'm sorry, but I don't remember details.
15:05 Ravelli Ormstein ah, some seconds are common
15:05 Marion Questi It sounds as though SSB has not been cut over yet..
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen It does.
15:06 Ravelli Ormstein and if it takes longer than 15 minutes and a restart don't help, there are several ways to fix it. strongest fix is to load the Default Avatar
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen Or .... not here.
15:06 Ravelli Ormstein Hello Elfbiter
15:06 Larkylouz I have a notecard with fixes on it. Tali checked it out and called it complete.
15:06 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
15:06 Ravelli Ormstein yes, it should be in the Faculty Kit
15:07 Larkylouz I added 'changing group affiliation' which helps in some cases. I believe Tali suggested that, as well.
15:07 Ravelli Ormstein i think so too :-)
15:08 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) It does help in occasion, for reason nobody seems to know...
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen And sometimes with permissions problems.... as in accessing a notecard you created that it balks at.
15:09 Ravelli Ormstein does it says something like "Loading..." for a couple of minutes then?
15:10 Larkylouz I don't know if it is related to SSA, but often the system refuses to save a notecard I've created or edited. I've noticed that as a recurring problem recently.
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'd just had problems where, trying to rez something for teaching, it would tell me I didn't have the permissions. to access that. Or evening opening a notecard. Toggling group worked to change that.
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen *even opening.
15:11 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Notecard saving problems usually mean server problems.
15:11 Ravelli Ormstein Hello biahgatinhas2, feel free to take a seat
15:11 biahgatinhas2 hello
15:11 Larkylouz I'll remember that! It is annoying to want to help someone and not be able to access the information.
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen No, these were saved. It was in the opening.
15:11 biahgatinhas2 BYE
15:12 Larkylouz Ola, Biahgatinhas. Voce fala ingles?
15:12 biahgatinhas2 N
15:12 Larkylouz Bem-vindo e Oxbridge.
Eu posso ajudá-lo a ir para um lugar onde as pessoas falam Português. Gostaria que?

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15:12 biahgatinhas2 SIM ADORARIA
15:13 biahgatinhas2 QUERO MT QME LEVE
15:13 biahgatinhas2 EM UM LUGAR
15:13 biahgatinhas2 Q FALAM POTUGUES
15:14 Larkylouz Nao falo Portugues. Podemos usar software tradutor, no entanto.
15:14 biahgatinhas2 ONDE FICA ISSO
15:15 Larkylouz I'll go to the Portuguese area and send you a teleport.
15:15 Larkylouz Resident Eu vou para th área ePORTUGUÊSe e enviar-lhe um teleporte.
15:15 Ravelli Ormstein good to have Larkylouz
15:16 Marion Questi Indeed. Very efficient.
15:16 Ravelli Ormstein have holidays started in the US? i wonder why it is calm today
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Nothing in particular this weekend. 4th of July (independence day) is already past.
15:17 Ravelli Ormstein yep
15:17 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I don't thik BAstille Day counts..
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen Perhaps good weather....
15:18 Larkylouz Sorry for the interruption, Deans.
15:18 Larkylouz Resident Desculpem a interrupção, Deans.
15:18 Ravelli Ormstein welcome back, Larkylouz
15:18 Marion Questi Well done Miss Louz. You are an asset to the institution.
15:18 Larkylouz I do have something to discuss, actually
15:18 Larkylouz Resident Eu tenho algo a discutir, na verdade
15:18 Ravelli Ormstein lets hear
15:19 Larkylouz Dean Martini went to the Portuguese sim last week and negotiated some sort of trade agreement - you'll have to ask her - to trade services with them.
15:20 Marion Questi And?
15:20 Larkylouz She was apparently successful, and twice a man from there has come here to ask me to come to visit. I haven't been able to go either time (either tired, or busy here).
15:20 Ravelli Ormstein an agreement with the portuguese location?
15:20 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Ajuda BRazil?
15:21 Larkylouz I wonder if perhaps we / her should get together a few people to go socialize / kibbituz / meet them. Not the first time they've tried to make contact with us /me.
15:21 Larkylouz Yes, Ajuda SL Brasil.
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen We could appoint you as our ambassador. ;)
15:21 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Or one of the Argentinians?
15:22 Ravelli Ormstein usually i had a friend over there, who was an Oxbridge scholar too. she used to come over to care about Portuguese speaking visitors
15:22 Larkylouz Argentina is Spanish. Ligeia speaks Portuguese. She's the only one around who does that I'm aware of right now.
15:22 Marion Questi What sort of cooperation are we talking about?
15:23 Larkylouz Dean Martini gave them a poster of ours to put up to refer people here. I hope I am not speaking out of school; she said she wanted to talk to you all, as she has one of their posters but wanted to alter it to fit in with our theme here.
15:23 Ravelli Ormstein Tutor Daxeline speaks portuguese too, but she is seldom around these days
15:23 Marion Questi Not out of school at all.
15:24 Larkylouz I have sometimes 'drafted' someone from there to help me with difficult cases.
15:24 Marion Questi As Dean of Commons this is clearly something in her area. I'm sure she'll let us know when the time is right.
15:24 Larkylouz I have some RL issues right now that make spending much more time online difficult. Otherwise, I would enjoy the opportunity.
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen Ahh. Yes, we would not want to add to existing stress.
15:25 Larkylouz Surely, Dean Questi. I just don't want that young man to feel put off, and I don't have the energy (nor do I think of it often) to go back there.
15:25 Ravelli Ormstein Hello Miss Phrynne
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Phrynne.
15:25 Phrynne Thank you, Deans.
15:26 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Greetings
15:26 Marion Questi I am happy you have taken the initiative. Miss Louz
15:26 Larkylouz Hi Phrynne
15:27 Larkylouz Thank you, Dean.
15:27 Phrynne Hi Miss Larky, Mr. Elfbiter
15:27 Marion Questi Perhaps we should table this topic until next week when, Dean Discovolante ought to be with us.
15:28 Larkylouz I will try to remember to ask her about it next time I see her. And I'll send and IM to Senhor Graff to tell him I've not forgotten him.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen It sounds to be of mutual benefit to both groups.
15:28 Larkylouz Yes, particularly since they are eager to cooperate and do their share.
15:28 Marion Questi Agreed.
15:29 Marion Questi Who has another question for us then?
15:30 Phrynne raises a hand
15:30 Marion Questi Yes Miss Phrynne?
15:31 Phrynne I was wondering if you have a sense of when the beginning scripting class might be offered. I apologize if it has already been addressed.
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'm working this week with Mr. Bookmite on it. With luck, we may have it up in another week.
15:32 Phrynne thank you. I am looking forward to it.
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen As am I.
15:32 Marion Questi :)
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen It is something we both agreed on and worked on and then each had other things come up in sequence. My apologies for the delay.
15:34 Phrynne No need to apologize, Dean Jarvinen. RL and weather and so on often interfere with SL.
15:35 Marion Questi Are there any more questions?
15:36 Ravelli Ormstein Aloha Martini
15:37 Martini Discovolante hello! sorry so late.. i had errands to do between classes
15:37 Ravelli Ormstein no problem :-)
15:37 Marion Questi Your entrance is very timely!
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Although ... now that you're here....
15:38 Marion Questi Miss Louz had a question for you...
15:38 Martini Discovolante ohoh.
15:38 Martini Discovolante fire away Larky
15:39 Larkylouz Just talked in IM, Dean. I'll copy and paste here.
15:39 Larkylouz I should give you a heads-up. I have been approached twice by a man from the Portuguese Adjuda SL Brasil sim, wanting us to visit and talk. I mentioned it here as I am reluctant to keep putting himoff.
15:38 Larkylouz I asked / exlained a little about what you have been doing in that arena in connection with the Q&A discussion this afternoon.
15:39 Martini Discovolante oh-- sorry i did not see that.
15:39 Martini Discovolante \
15:40 Martini Discovolante oh-- they asked for us to put up a poster there so when they get englush-speakers there they can send them here
15:41 Martini Discovolante so i gave him the notecard, LM and a texture to use there.
15:41 Martini Discovolante and he jpjed me to their group.. but group chats are relatively useless, as translators do not work for them
15:42 Martini Discovolante and i really do not see any point visiting there, if you do not want to.
15:42 Martini Discovolante was it Roth Grut?
15:42 Larkylouz I have been talking to a Mr. Jr Graff. Yes, I have to cut and paste so much from Google Translate.
15:42 Martini Discovolante jr grut?
15:42 Martini Discovolante same guy
15:42 Larkylouz No, that name is familiar, but this was a man who's name was Graff - oh, okay.
15:43 Ravelli Ormstein Grut, that was a lady usually, and a friend of mine. she tend to change her display name...
15:43 Martini Discovolante just say thonks, but you are needed here if you do not want to go
15:43 Martini Discovolante i had a boy chold
15:43 Martini Discovolante child.
15:43 Larkylouz The translator just rendered Grut as 'coffee grounds' LOL
15:43 Martini Discovolante and hten he was a teddy or something.
15:43 Martini Discovolante some sort of tiny
15:43 Martini Discovolante heh
15:44 Martini Discovolante but the language logistics are just too much for me.
15:44 Martini Discovolante i simply do not have that kind of time in world
15:44 Martini Discovolante lol--- ravelli, you must weight more than ido!
15:44 Larkylouz I just felt too busy to go. He had a woman with him, but he spoke more english, so she didn't say much. I was under the impression you had initiated this contact. Yes, I was telling the Deans here that I don't feel like I have the the time for a lot of visiting.
15:44 Martini Discovolante to me it looks liek the bench is tilting!
15:45 Larkylouz hehe
15:45 Martini Discovolante yes.. honestly-- it is too difficult.
15:45 Martini Discovolante but i was thinking to put travel posters up in the train station, to other language centers
15:46 Marion Questi Good idea!
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen That sound appropriate.
15:46 Martini Discovolante they would be available, but not distract people who have english fromthe tutorial here
15:46 Ravelli Ormstein Silvana Grut (silvanaf.demina) was my friends name from Ajuda Brazil
15:46 Martini Discovolante i had Roth Grut
15:46 Larkylouz I'll write him a polite notecard and try to narrow down his intentions. I hate to discourage initiative, but honestly, I'm not sure how much energy I have.
15:46 Ravelli Ormstein it seems she canceled our friendship
15:47 Larkylouz Grut may be the Portuguese for 'Ruth' and we'll never know. . . ;^)
15:47 Martini Discovolante they have a notecard giver there for us, tho i have not been back to check
15:47 Martini Discovolante hee.
15:48 Martini Discovolante i will have to look for old travel posters to use -- with a few type changes, it would be easy to do.
15:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen Sounds like it...
15:50 Marion Questi So...despite my initial misgivings, we seem to have filled another hour...or nearly so...:)
15:50 Marion Questi Any last questions anyone?
15:51 Larkylouz Thank you, Deans. I always learn from these sessions.
15:51 Phrynne yes, thank you, Deans.
15:51 mMoonShadow (icestron) >> sorry I was late - not sure exactly what questions youre answering << first time visitor
15:51 Martini Discovolante thanks for showing up!
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all, for coming.
15:51 Ravelli Ormstein Greetings Miss Shadow
15:51 Marion Questi Thank you all for coming, and thanks to our tutors for their service.
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen Questions about Oxbridge (here) and SL in general.
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen We do this every week here, at 3pm SLT (aka pacific time)
15:52 Larkylouz I'll go check on the notecard giver while I'm thinking of it, Dean Martini. Good day, all.
15:52 Martini Discovolante seey ou!
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen tc Miss Larky.
15:53 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I'n afraid it's bedtime for me...
15:53 mMoonShadow (icestron) nods. Thank you. Will try and show up for the next one. :)
15:53 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing you
15:53 Ravelli Ormstein thank you everyone