| 15:01 |
Tali Rosca |
Welcome to the QA. |
| 15:01 |
Larkylouz |
Does no one but me see the extra floor? |
| 15:01 |
Tali Rosca |
As most of you know, this is a questions-and-answers session where we - the deans of Oxbridge - will answer questions with relevance to the mission and running of Oxbridge, which to some extent includes the general "state of the art" of Second Life. |
| 15:01 |
lovejoy2199 |
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charley Brown |
| 15:02 |
Tali Rosca |
We each handle a different area of responsibility, which you can see here: http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna_index.php |
| 15:02 |
Tali Rosca |
-And no, I don't see the extra floor. |
| 15:02 |
Jules Doghouse |
there i saw it! |
| 15:02 |
Jules Doghouse |
gone now |
| 15:02 |
Tali Rosca |
I toggled it to force an update. |
| 15:02 |
Beccha |
I did for a brief moment there |
| 15:02 |
Tali Rosca |
Larky, do you still see it? |
| 15:03 |
Jules Doghouse |
dang that was freaky |
| 15:03 |
Larkylouz |
yes, I do. Like Samm's floor, but only part way back Kind of U shaped |
| 15:03 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
This room does have an extra floor for building classes. |
| 15:03 |
Tali Rosca |
But let us start the QA. who has a question? |
| 15:03 |
Larkylouz |
I'll relog |
| 15:04 |
Gronk Seriman |
SL seems to be extra-flakey tonight. |
| 15:04 |
Ololo Petya (olopierpa) |
there's an elephant in the room! |
| 15:04 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Is that the crust choice? |
| 15:04 |
Tali Rosca |
I am hearing some mutterings about that, but I've not had any problems myself yet. |
| 15:04 |
Jules Doghouse |
whos asking the questions? |
| 15:05 |
Jules Doghouse |
will there be a quiz at the end? |
| 15:06 |
Beccha |
Welcome back, larky |
| 15:06 |
Larkylouz |
:^) Hi Beccha. thanks |
| 15:07 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Is the floor normal to ye now? |
| 15:07 |
Larkylouz |
Yes. And all the interesting boxes and such that I saw around the room are gone. Only the elephant remains. . . |
| 15:08 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That sounds ...... about right. ;) |
| 15:08 |
Meora (menchor) |
I thought we were supposed to pretend not to see the elephant |
| 15:08 |
Tali Rosca |
So, questions? |
| 15:08 |
Gronk Seriman |
It has been a long time since I've seen Dean Ormstein. Is he on extended sabbatical? |
| 15:08 |
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Larkylouz has no tact. "You should know that by now!" |
| 15:08 |
Larkylouz |
;^) |
| 15:09 |
Martini Discovolante |
it is very late for him . |
| 15:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
As it is for Tali. A midnight meeting. |
| 15:09 |
Gronk Seriman |
Ah. Thank you. |
| 15:10 |
Tali Rosca |
He has been around during daylight :-) |
| 15:10 |
Tali Rosca |
If there are no pressing topics, I'll mention that there is some talk about arranging a harvest festival. |
| 15:12 |
Tali Rosca |
-I don't know anything in particular, and it is not under Caledon's domain, rather than Oxbridge, but I just thought I'd help spread the word a little. |
| 15:12 |
Tali Rosca |
It *is* under Caledon's domain. Tripped up over the keys there. |
| 15:13 |
Gronk Seriman |
I believe Stereo Nacht is the ringleader? |
| 15:13 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Do you know who the organizers are? |
| 15:13 |
Martini Discovolante |
check ISC group notices for the announcement . |
| 15:13 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
It sounds like it would be a nice event. |
| 15:13 |
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Tali Rosca nods. "Stereo Nacht is the anchor, and looking for help." |
| 15:14 |
Tali Rosca |
"General organization: Stereo Nacht, Beth Ghostraven, Andrea Jones, Lenara Amell" |
| 15:14 |
Tali Rosca |
(To quote from the announcement) |
| 15:15 |
Gronk Seriman |
Sounds like it should be fun! |
| 15:16 |
Larkylouz |
Ms Nacht was online last night asking for volunteers. |
| 15:16 |
Tali Rosca |
It was a tradition a while back, but it has been some years since it was last held. |
| 15:16 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Fruit that bobs for you or bites back when you bob for it...... has a Caledonian ring to it. |
| 15:17 |
Meora (menchor) |
Ha ha ha hahahaaa |
| 15:19 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Other questions or announcements? |
| 15:20 |
Meora (menchor) |
whats the status on the new hall |
| 15:21 |
Tali Rosca |
I honestly don't know. I haven't heard about it for a while. |
| 15:21 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Ravelli hasn't sent anything new to the collective deans about it. |
| 15:22 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome Miss Harbour. |
| 15:22 |
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Sandie Harbour smiles |
| 15:23 |
Tali Rosca |
It seems to be a slow day today. |
| 15:24 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I will use the slowness to remind everyone of the gazette. http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/gazette/ |
| 15:25 |
Sandie Harbour |
May I ask a question? |
| 15:25 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Please do. |
| 15:25 |
Tali Rosca |
Certainly |
| 15:26 |
Sandie Harbour |
recently I have purchased a few outfits with appliers. but I am not sure what they do. |
| 15:26 |
Sandie Harbour |
they attach to my hud |
| 15:26 |
Sandie Harbour |
but nothing seems to happen when I click them |
| 15:26 |
Martini Discovolante |
was ther a notecard with them? |
| 15:27 |
Tali Rosca |
They control the textures of "extra" body parts. |
| 15:27 |
Sandie Harbour |
I am looking |
| 15:28 |
Tali Rosca |
If you are wearing mesh body parts, normal system clothes will not cover those. |
| 15:28 |
Tali Rosca |
So the creators of such parts came up with a system where the textures can be applied to the body parts by script. |
| 15:28 |
Tali Rosca |
So clothes creators can create "appliers" which uses their textures on the mesh body parts. |
| 15:29 |
Tali Rosca |
There are a couple of standards for how the scripts communicate with which brand of body parts, but I think things are fairly cross-compatible. It's not really an area I know all that much about. |
| 15:30 |
Sandie Harbour |
since my avi has not mesh body parts, these do not apply to me? |
| 15:30 |
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Tali Rosca nods. "They are only used to apply the texture to non-standard parts." |
| 15:30 |
Tali Rosca |
LL avatar standard, that is. |
| 15:31 |
Tali Rosca |
SLink, Lola's Tangos and such. |
| 15:31 |
Josain Zsun |
Do those scripts then add to Draw Weight |
| 15:32 |
Tali Rosca |
No more than the mesh parts already do. |
| 15:33 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
So, really a workaround to the inconsistencies to layering and between mesh and standard "body". |
| 15:33 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Or parts thereof. |
| 15:34 |
Tali Rosca |
And a way to apply textures to no-mod items. |
| 15:35 |
Sandie Harbour |
thank-you |
| 15:35 |
Meora (menchor) |
Is there supposed to be a second generation library mesh avatar? |
| 15:35 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Similarly for sizing for no-mod non-rigged items. |
| 15:36 |
Tali Rosca |
If there is, nobody has heard about it. |
| 15:36 |
Meora (menchor) |
Steadman mentioned it in the article on eht Ebbe speech |
| 15:37 |
Tali Rosca |
Ebbe said some things about needing to research why the current mesh avatars are viewed unfavorably. |
| 15:37 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That could well be an SL2 feature; abandoning the need for back compatibility. |
| 15:37 |
Gronk Seriman |
You may mean the new Mesh Avatars. |
| 15:37 |
Tali Rosca |
But frankly, it was so much handwaving and "of course we care, and we may at some point do something about it". |
| 15:38 |
Meora (menchor) |
having looked at the commercial mesh avatars "they aren't there yet" |
| 15:38 |
Larkylouz |
They have to research when we can just tell them? |
| 15:38 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
LL rather forgot that just about the first thing people try to do is customize their avatar. |
| 15:40 |
Meora (menchor) |
if they wanted the staff to understtand SL they would have each new hire sspend a week here helping newbies |
| 15:40 |
Tali Rosca |
Ebbe has repeatedly stated that residents are usually wrong about how to fix things in SL, so he probably do not feel they have any reliable information about what is wrong. |
| 15:41 |
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Gronk Seriman laugh/coughs. |
| 15:41 |
Josain Zsun |
Even though many of them have been in SL longer than when he considered applying for the job. |
| 15:42 |
Tali Rosca |
He has a point, in that most residents have little knowledge about the servers and infrastructure, and what is easy and what is hard to fix. |
| 15:43 |
jh0n345 |
oi |
| 15:43 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And, many times don't have a united point of view. |
| 15:44 |
Larkylouz |
Oi jhOn345 |
| 15:44 |
Larkylouz |
Bem-vindo e Oxbridge. |
| 15:44 |
Larkylouz Resident |
Esta é uma reunião. Você está convidado a se juntar a nós. Ou sinta-se livre para me IM com perguntas. |
| 15:45 |
jh0n345 |
oi |
| 15:46 |
jh0n345 |
oi |
| 15:46 |
Martini Discovolante |
hello miss samilol45 |
| 15:46 |
Martini Discovolante |
welcome. |
| 15:46 |
jh0n345 |
oi saindie |
| 15:47 |
Tali Rosca |
In any case, we know little about the long-term plans for SL. There are some good technical updated upcoming Real Soon Now. |
| 15:47 |
Tali Rosca |
*updates |
| 15:48 |
Tali Rosca |
But even mid-range, I don't know what the next big thing is. |
| 15:49 |
Meora (menchor) |
It wouild make sense to try some things here to see if they make sense in SL 2.0 |
| 15:50 |
Gronk Seriman |
It's rare to see a company try to kill it's main product, and not succeed. |
| 15:50 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And yet, companies that continue to exist also evolve in what they offer. |
| 15:51 |
Gronk Seriman |
That is true. |
| 15:51 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And ones that were not as nimble, even large one, become historical. |
| 15:52 |
Meora (menchor) |
Atari anyone? |
| 15:53 |
Tali Rosca |
LL has been here since 1999. So they are not *all* off the mark. |
| 15:54 |
Tali Rosca |
(For reference, Google is from 1998) |
| 15:55 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Arie De Geus wrote a book on companies that have survived. "The Living Company" |
| 15:57 |
Tali Rosca |
Any question for the last minutes? |
| 15:57 |
Martini Discovolante |
anythign else? |
| 15:57 |
Martini Discovolante |
three minute warning. |
| 15:58 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Last bar call? |
| 15:58 |
Meora (menchor) |
Sometimes I wonder if those of us who are here every day notice the many changes in SL over time |
| 15:59 |
Martini Discovolante |
i certainly have in 8 years. |
| 15:59 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
You do when you've procrastinated on updating class material. |
| 15:59 |
Meora (menchor) |
Ha ha ha hahahaaa |
| 15:59 |
Martini Discovolante |
oh-- i was not going to mention that. |
| 15:59 |
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Gronk Seriman smiles |
| 15:59 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
You can mention the elephant instead. ;) |
| 16:00 |
Martini Discovolante |
elephant. |
| 16:00 |
Martini Discovolante |
Ding. |
| 16:00 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Sim crossings ... however... |
| 16:01 |
Tali Rosca |
I think most of us can tell tall tales about "back in the days." |
| 16:01 |
Meora (menchor) |
when prims were prims and thats what you built with |
| 16:01 |
Tali Rosca |
But let us save that for another time, and say this meeting is adjourned. |
| 16:01 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The had relocatable hair that moved with teleporting -- a lost capability. |
| 16:01 |
Sandie Harbour |
prims ar not prims anymore? |
| 16:01 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thank you all. |
| 16:01 |
Gronk Seriman |
I can't waer my Ruth Halloween costume any more. Nobody new gets it. |
| 16:02 |
Gronk Seriman |
Thankyou, Deans! |
| 16:02 |
Sandie Harbour |
Thank-you |
| 16:02 |
Meora (menchor) |
thank you |
| 16:02 |
Meora (menchor) |
deans |
| 16:02 |
Martini Discovolante |
bye all. |
| 16:02 |
Larkylouz |
Oh, I don't know about that. My hair often gets displaced upon teleporting. |
| 16:02 |
Martini Discovolante |
thank you for coming. |