Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2014-04-27

15:01	Tali Rosca	Let us open the ball.
15:01	Tali Rosca	Welcome to this week's QA.
15:02	Tali Rosca	As most of you know, there is no set topic; we will answer as best we can, based on our areas of expertise, which you can see here: http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna_index.php
15:02	Meora (menchor)	it gets into a war with my AO so I turned sit off
15:02	Tali Rosca	So if anybody has a question, now is the time!
15:02	Meora (menchor)	click in the middle of the bench seat
15:03	Tali Rosca	Any questions or topics?
15:04	Tali Rosca	A quiet day today, it seems.
15:05	Tali Rosca	I do not think there has been much to report in SL in general over the last week.
15:05	Wordsmith Jarvinen	It does seem.
15:05	Dr. Flee (fleemingjenkin)	Mesh deformer. I've been away for a while. Does it exist? Does it work?
15:05	Tali Rosca	No, and yes.
15:06	Meora (menchor)	I ran into Jorge yesterday at the CAT terminal and he said they had solved a scripting problem, the line that goes to Oxbridge village is running
15:06	Larkylouz	;^)
15:06	Wordsmith Jarvinen	It uses an augmented set of volume shape bones.
15:06	Tali Rosca	It has taken the form of "Fitted Mesh", which is very close to RedRig/Liquid Mesh.
15:06	Tali Rosca	That is live and working; not Qarl's deformer.
15:06	Wordsmith Jarvinen	LL added bones for butt, breast, and "handle" shaping.
15:07	Dr. Flee (fleemingjenkin)	That is mostly what was needed
15:07	Tali Rosca	Mileage varies wildly, though.
15:07	Dr. Flee (fleemingjenkin)	"most of"
15:08	Tali Rosca	From what I've seen, Fitted has a tendency to overreact.
15:08	Tali Rosca	But I don't know if that is implicit in the system, or a matter of how creators have rigged the mesh.
15:09	Meora (menchor)	It seems from the demos I have gotten that they havn't quite figured this out yet
15:09		Martini Discovolante waves.
15:09	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Welcome, Saltwater. ;)
15:09	Tali Rosca	Hello
15:09	NaClH2O (jayleden.miles)	HI thank you
15:09	Tali Rosca	Yes, I have not been blown away by the results of Fitted yet, but it may be a matter of time and experience.
15:10	Very old leather fireside chair DINKIE whispers	(⇞PgUp or ⇟ PgDn ) change your pose. Touch for menu.
15:11		Larkylouz giggles
15:11	Tali Rosca	On another topic, about Caledon, it may be worth mentioning that The Great Race takes place next Saturday.
15:12	Wordsmith Jarvinen	If you're interested in the history of fitted mesh, the scheme was originally presented by Redpoly at the 25 June 2012 mesh users' meeting.
15:12	Larkylouz	I have been hearing wild things about said race. Do I need to invest in protective gear as a bystander?
15:12	Tali Rosca	Probably.
15:12	Tali Rosca	Part of the fun is watching people spin out at sim crossings.
15:12	Dr. Flee (fleemingjenkin)	Where can I learn more about the race?
15:13	Tali Rosca	There was a notice in ISC recently; I have the notecard.
15:13	Anna Darwinian	ahhh.
15:14	Tali Rosca	-I am also still worried about the addition of "... of Yith", but I have been assured that is not the case.
15:14	Josain Zsun	Yith?
15:15	Tali Rosca	The Great Race of Yith; Lovecraftian creatures.
15:15	Martini Discovolante	hmmm could be fun.
15:16	Tali Rosca	I don't know if a shoggoth would qualify as a vehicle for the race.
15:16	Anna Darwinian	when the great race meets the great race.
15:16		Martini Discovolante kasnortles
15:17	Wordsmith Jarvinen	The race notice is still in ISC notices. 04/21 by Aevalle.
15:17	Tali Rosca	The race is by foot, boat and air through quiet a bit of Caledon.
15:18	Tali Rosca	*quite
15:18	Anna Darwinian	I heard some good suggestions for new people things to do in Caledon.
15:19	Anna Darwinian	There is a very newperson friendly dance at Patty Poppy's on Mondays
15:19	Larkylouz	Anna, I want to commend you on the work you are doing on this topic.
15:19	Anna Darwinian	and a similarly new-person friendly pub event at Beth Ghostraven's pub.
15:19	Anna Darwinian	Hugs you Larkylouz, thanks so much.
15:20	Anna Darwinian	I remember how much Oxbridge meant for me when I was a shy inept new person
15:20	Carmsie Melodie	oooo yes get em drinking and dancing :)
15:20	Anna Darwinian	Now that I am a shy inept old person, I want to give back to the community!
15:21	Martini Discovolante	hello Carl!
15:21	Tali Rosca	As for events in the larger perspective, Fantasy Faire is also upcoming next week.
15:21	Anna Darwinian	HI there Carl, long time no see
15:21	Tali Rosca	And that is always a sight.
15:21	Carl Metropolitan	Hi
15:21	Tali Rosca	Though that is outside Caledon. I don't know if any Caledonians participate there.
15:22	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Along those lines, if there are weekly occurring new person events around Caledon, given the information and a slurl, it would be very possible to have a webpage for them.
15:22	Carmsie Melodie	also many of the KEA sims are gr8 to see
15:22	Anna Darwinian	I am sure some do.. it is very witty and entertaining
15:22	Carmsie Melodie	oops LEA
15:22	Larkylouz	On a topic slightly related to Ms Darwinian's, I have started routinely handing out my G-rated sims to visit notecard, which is a work in progress. I present it as a taste of things folks might do when they finise the orientation. *finish
15:22	Anna Darwinian	Dean Jarvinen, I think that is a great idea.
15:22	Anna Darwinian	Larky, I would love a copy of your notecard!
15:23	Larkylouz	Sure, Anna. anyone else, just IM me.
15:23	Anna Darwinian	Miss Carmsie, what are LEA sims?
15:23	Wordsmith Jarvinen	G-rated sims in general or Steampunk related?
15:23	Carmsie Melodie	they are Linden Arts sims .. amazing builds
15:23	Anna Darwinian	Ohhhh... thank you.
15:23	Tali Rosca	Linden Endowment for the Arts.
15:23	Anna Darwinian	ah.
15:23	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Linden Endowment for the Arts ....
15:24	Tali Rosca	They are rotating exhibitions by various creators.
15:24	Tali Rosca	To wit, we had some Caledonians involved recently.
15:24	Carmsie Melodie	3D art .. best of the best artists featured .. changes regularly
15:24	Tali Rosca	Martini, is that build still there?
15:24	Martini Discovolante	oh no, i was an interim sim artist
15:25	Larkylouz	In general, Dean Jarvinen. Sorted by category. I think there may be some steampunk sims included
15:25	Martini Discovolante	between the awarded grants, they offer up sthe sims for a month, to invited artists
15:25	Carmsie Melodie	great list Larky :)
15:26	Larkylouz	thank you
15:26	Anna Darwinian	That is a lovely list, Larky, thank you for making that!
15:26	Tali Rosca	...I am not sure if we should make the hall giant lizard *friendly*, or giant lizard *proof*...
15:27	Larkylouz	Xymbers decided sh should pose for the Photo Salon last night. Her tail didn't fit. . .
15:27	Carmsie Melodie	:))
15:27	Meora (menchor)	and it was a presentation night not a photo shoot
15:28	Wordsmith Jarvinen	I suppose it would be too much to remove the tail and then retail her?
15:28	Carmsie Melodie	sell her?!
15:28	Tali Rosca	See, this is why you have to ask questions. Otherwise this happens!
15:29	Anna Darwinian	All my problems seem lighter somehow when I realize I am not a giant lizard... at least not in real life.
15:29	Tali Rosca	Is that a sudden realization for you?
15:30	Anna Darwinian	It is just something I don't often feel grateful for, somehow.
15:30	Carmsie Melodie	irl ... in a coffee shop the other day ... i was clicking in the air try to "sit" at a table! lol
15:30	NaClH2O (jayleden.miles)	I've been visiting the Linden Island on the mainland getting all the LMs - I offered a notecard of them to one of the deans but wasn't interested - I could give you the notecard Anna if you want.
15:31	Martini Discovolante	i still try to cam around photographs.
15:31	Anna Darwinian	I may have 2 slideshows to prepare and a mind-numbing patent application to proofread tonight but.. I am not a giant lizard
15:31	Dr. Flee (fleemingjenkin)	I find myself prefacing comments with /m
15:31	Dr. Flee (fleemingjenkin)	me
15:31	Carmsie Melodie	teehee
15:31	Anna Darwinian	Oh, I am always wishing I could cam in real life and on the internet
15:32		Josain Zsun is always wishing for Camera control online & in RL
15:32	Tali Rosca	A notecard with the sims the *starting tutorial* leads to?
15:32	Wordsmith Jarvinen	SL as therapy ... just when you think things are all downhill, you realize that you aren't a giant lizard ... and breathe a sigh of relief.
15:33	Carmsie Melodie	but breath has flames .. then you're back to freaking out
15:33	Dr. Flee (fleemingjenkin)	But your shoes still don't fit.
15:33	Josain Zsun	Or Ruthed or a cloud
15:33	Larkylouz	Was that comment for me, Tali? It is just a notecard of G-rated sims. No connection with any tutorials, although there may be some listed.
15:33	Wordsmith Jarvinen	I wouldn't mind taking a look at such a notecard, Jayleden.
15:34	Tali Rosca	No, I meant Jayleden's landmarks from "the Linden Island".
15:34	Larkylouz	Me, too, Jay. Please.
15:34	NaClH2O (jayleden.miles)	No - the mainland islands are not part of the beginning tutorial.
15:35	Tali Rosca	Ah, ok, so another batch of landmarks. How are those selected? Are they "Destinations"-related?
15:35	Anna Darwinian	Oooh Jayle if you are giving out notecards I want one too!
15:36	NaClH2O (jayleden.miles)	I went to the mainland - and found them by exploring the water sims. ANd taking the Pod rides.
15:36		Wordsmith Jarvinen Wonders if Jayle is isotonic...
15:36	NaClH2O (jayleden.miles)	Very
15:37		Dáibhid Ó Slatraigh (daibhi.macintyre) listens in.
15:37	NaClH2O (jayleden.miles)	And no - they are not in the destinations
15:37	Carmsie Melodie	*sniffs* smells pip smoke
15:37	Carmsie Melodie	pipe too
15:37	Carl Metropolitan	We (and that may be me) probably need to updated the notecards in the "Graduate Studies" posters. I would like both Larky and Jayleden's notecard. And if Martini has someone who is doing those posters, I will email them my artwork.
15:37		Dáibhid Ó Slatraigh (daibhi.macintyre) grins.
15:38	Martini Discovolante	i can do the posters.
15:38	Martini Discovolante	i have checked the Explore posters and replaced some places in the last 6 months... some were no longer g-rated
15:38	Tali Rosca	Speaking of artwork, I'd like to mention that glass mosaics have started appearing on the tutorial halls.
15:39	Carl Metropolitan	Oh good.
15:39	Tali Rosca	Martini has done some amusingly charming stained-glass renditions of related scenes.
15:39	Anna Darwinian	Oh how wonderful!
15:40	Anna Darwinian	I look forward to seeing those!
15:40	Carl Metropolitan	Those are really nice work, Martini
15:40	Tali Rosca	Look over the entry archways to Movement, Communcations and Commerce.
15:40	Martini Discovolante	2 more to come , i believe
15:41	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Ways to increase Oxbridge's draw as an attraction as well as a learning place.
15:41	Tali Rosca	A part of the ongoing update of Oxbridge's look.
15:41	Larkylouz	Folks tell me frequently that they come here to listen to the music.
15:41	Tali Rosca	Or, perhaps we should say detail level.
15:41	Tali Rosca	The look is kept very much the same, but a lot of detail is added.
15:41	Anna Darwinian	The music here is wonderful.
15:42	Martini Discovolante	thank you Carl! they were fun! i used to do stained glass, RL, all of the fun, adn no flux or cuts
15:42	Tali Rosca	In the not-too-distant future, we'll have an update to this lecture hall.
15:42	Martini Discovolante	we will have some added functionality in the builds to come as well :)
15:43	Carl Metropolitan	What sort of functionality?
15:43	Tali Rosca	Including some fittingly mad science :-)
15:43	Anna Darwinian	Oooo mad science!
15:44	Martini Discovolante	different floors for different class needs, for one
15:44	Tali Rosca	As for the hall itself, it's mostly cosmetic effects, making a bit more of light and flattening the floor and such.
15:44	Gronk Seriman	What's a Steampunk Campus without a Tesla Coil?!?
15:44	Carl Metropolitan	Oh nice.
15:44	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Or a Jacob's ladder?
15:45	raphaelalima1	oieeeee
15:45	raphaelalima1	gato
15:45		Martini Discovolante looks around
15:45	Dr. Flee (fleemingjenkin)	gata?
15:46	Anna Darwinian	habla espanol?
15:46	Carl Metropolitan	I've signed us up for SL11B (or at least put in an application)
15:46	Tali Rosca	Anyway, I think I am running out of semi-newsworthy things from the last and upcoming week.
15:46	Tali Rosca	Anything else we should touch upon for the last part of the hour?
15:46	Anna Darwinian	We had a grand opening party for the Caledon Adventure Display on Friday night
15:47	Anna Darwinian	I want to schedule a similar party for a more Euro-friendly time.
15:47	Gronk Seriman	That was fun!
15:47	Carl Metropolitan	The trivia event is going well.
15:47	Anna Darwinian	We all danced and heard fun music on the theme "reinventing your self" and talked about ways to help new people
15:48	Tali Rosca	It's great to have the trivia back. That was always popular.
15:48	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Good. I'm glad to hear trivia is attracting people.
15:49	Carl Metropolitan	Tali made my scripts.
15:49	Anna Darwinian	Yes, trivia is a great idea
15:49	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Another mention, that I'm also open to one-time seminars if you have an idea that's topical to us.
15:50	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Vulpine Eldrich put on one recently on "old timer" stories.
15:50	Tali Rosca	Though arguably, once you have written the material for such, it feels almost a waste not to reuse :-)
15:51	Carl Metropolitan	I could do one on how the SL new user experience sucks :)
15:51	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Tali's web interface for scheduling changes have made such things simpler than they once were.
15:51	Carmsie Melodie	a general qn .. perhaps not suitable here .. but are there any comments on Ebbe? think he'll help?
15:51	Tali Rosca	Too early to say.
15:51	Carl Metropolitan	I am still optimistic
15:52	Tali Rosca	He's been saying all the right things, but I've yet to see many actual changes.
15:52	Tali Rosca	Every new CEO says all the right things.
15:52	Carl Metropolitan	Though I suspect he's not going to take me up on my public offer redesign the second life new user experience on a contract basis :)
15:52	Carmsie Melodie	nods .. he spoke sensibly (albeit with closed mouth)
15:52	Wordsmith Jarvinen	What I've read would indicate some understanding of what SL is.
15:52	Carmsie Melodie	haha .. good try Carl
15:52	Carl Metropolitan	Me on his VWBPE talk:
15:52	Carl Metropolitan	http://jcarlhenders.tumblr.com/post/82453296228/a-tale-of-two-talks
15:52	Carl Metropolitan	I'm serious.
15:53	Carl Metropolitan	I could do a better job than anyone at Linden Lab
15:53	Tali Rosca	Yes, I noticed Oxbridge has been getting quite a few mentions recently in the current discussion about how bad the LL newbie experience is.
15:53	Carmsie Melodie	nods ... well the SL viewer update was a debacle
15:53	Martini Discovolante	which one?
15:53	Wordsmith Jarvinen	I do remember, however, that he wasn't familiar with Oxbridge or NCI .... but at least conceptually open to ad hoc educational institutions.
15:53	Carl Metropolitan	He was.
15:53	Tali Rosca	With people pointing to Oxbridge as a good example of how to do things.
15:53	Carl Metropolitan	We will see.
15:54	Carmsie Melodie	the big one .. the main change ... 1 yr ago? i use firestorm
15:54	Carl Metropolitan	I think most people who have been in SL over a year do :)
15:54	Carmsie Melodie	yup
15:54	Tali Rosca	That made me rather proud to see.
15:55	Anna Darwinian	Smiles, I see it recommended everywhere.
15:55	Martini Discovolante	i would not use FS if it was not a current necessity. i had a bad experience with it, and i prefer to stick with the viewer made by the folks that will need to restore my account should it go south.
15:56	Anna Darwinian	Hugs, dinner ready to go on, must fly off to RL, thanks so much for all you are doing here.
15:56	Carl Metropolitan	I left the LL viewer when I could not stay in world without crashing for more than five minutes.
15:56	Martini Discovolante	thanks Anna! see you soon!
15:56	Tali Rosca	I have reservations about Firestorm, too. But I am still using a 3rd party viewer; namely Kokua.
15:57	Tali Rosca	Anyway, I think that's about it for tonight.
15:57	Tali Rosca	A rather quiet hour.
15:58	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Thank you all for coming and participating.
15:58	Gronk Seriman	I think it's a good thing to have two viewers installed. You can compare one to the other.. And you have a backup if one fails.
15:58	Tali Rosca	...I guess it's not "tonight" for most here :-)
15:58	Meora (menchor)	anyone tried Black Dragon?
15:58	Friends of Caledon Oxbridge Donation Medallion	FleemingJenkin Resident gave a generous donation to Friends of Caledon Oxbridge to help support classes, tutorials, & tier at Caledon's Oxbridge
15:58	Carmsie Melodie	ty for having me here :)
15:58	Gronk Seriman	Thank you Deans!
15:58	Friends of Caledon Oxbridge Donation Medallion	Larkylouz Resident gave a generous donation to Friends of Caledon Oxbridge to help support classes, tutorials, & tier at Caledon's Oxbridge
15:58	Tali Rosca	I used Black Dragon a while back, when it was fairly new.
15:58	Friends of Caledon Oxbridge Donation Medallion	Menchor Resident gave a generous donation to Friends of Caledon Oxbridge to help support classes, tutorials, & tier at Caledon's Oxbridge
15:58	Dr. Flee (fleemingjenkin)	Thank you deans.
15:58	Larkylouz	Thank you, all.
15:58	Martini Discovolante	thanks eeryone! interesting as always!
15:59	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Same time next week.
15:59	Meora (menchor)	it was just updated
15:59	Ololo Petya (olopierpa)	Thank you. Good night.
15:59	Carmsie Melodie	byeeee