Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2014-12-28
| 15:00 | Carl Metropolitan | Welcome to Caledon Oxbridge's weekly Q&A With the Deans event. We will answer any questions you have about Oxbridge, Caledon, Second Life, or anything else to the best of our knowledge. |
| 15:00 | Carl Metropolitan | Today we have two new Deans to introduce. |
| 15:00 | Larkylouz | You're sure you're gonna introduce them after that conversation???? |
| 15:01 | Carl Metropolitan | Lindal Kidd has agreed to become our new Dean of Information and David Cooper-Pentewyn has agreed to become our new Dean of Commons. |
| 15:01 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | Shoot one, 9 more spring up? Heh. |
| 15:01 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) busilly types his resignation letter | |
| 15:01 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) grins. | |
| 15:01 | Larkylouz | YEAH! Great choices! Welcome! |
| 15:01 | Glorf Bulmer emits a Dean-welcoming purr | |
| 15:01 | Gronk Seriman applauds! | |
| 15:01 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) applauds. | |
| 15:02 | Phrynne cheers | |
| 15:02 | Carl Metropolitan | Lindal will be following Ravelli in the Dean of Information job and David will be following Martini in the Dean of Commons job (split off from Chancellor because I'm lazier than Martini was) |
| 15:02 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | Great choices! But I am biased. |
| 15:02 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) looks at Lin.... Do we bow? | |
| 15:02 | Andrea The Lady of Ice and Snow (andreajonesms) | um whats withthe ray gun? |
| 15:02 | Lindal Kidd | That's the Dean of Science Fiction! |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | They and we are still working on assistant deans and those who may take on some tasks. |
| 15:02 | Carl Metropolitan | We also have the first Assistant Dean to announce. Larkylouz is Assistant Dean of Tutors working under the Dean of Commons. Several more Assistant Deans will be brought on and announced over the next week. |
| 15:03 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | Yay! |
| 15:03 | Josain Zsun | .-'`'-. APPLAUSE APPLAUSE .-'`'-. |
| 15:03 | Lindal Kidd applauds | |
| 15:03 | Glorf Bulmer | Congrats, Larky! |
| 15:03 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) is more than pleased with that choice | |
| 15:03 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The new Deans are listed on the web already. http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna_index.php |
| 15:03 | Larkylouz | thank you |
| 15:03 | Gronk Seriman | Yay, Larky! |
| 15:03 | Phrynne applauds | |
| 15:03 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | Congratulations, Larky |
| 15:03 | Larkylouz | Thank you. |
| 15:03 | Larkylouz blushes a bit | |
| 15:04 | Carl Metropolitan | Except for Larky (who preceded us finding a new Dean of Commons) the existing Deans will have the largest voice in finding their Assistant Deans |
| 15:04 | Carl Metropolitan | The point of the program is to provide continuity and reduce the workload on everyone. |
| 15:04 | Larkylouz | Perhaps this is the time to announce that Gronk has been given a very overdue Tutor's tag. More new tutors are pending. |
| 15:05 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | APPLAUSE |
| 15:05 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | You mean she wasn't? I always thought she was. |
| 15:05 | Lindal Kidd applauds enthusiastically! | |
| 15:05 | Phrynne | Yay Gronk! |
| 15:05 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | Granted, I have tags off normally, so. |
| 15:05 | Carl Metropolitan | So next time we have three deans leave in a few months it will not be a reason to panic, but we will have people already trained, experienced, and in place to take over. |
| 15:05 | Andrea The Lady of Ice and Snow (andreajonesms) | yay LArky an Gronk |
| 15:05 | Carl Metropolitan | Congratulations Gronk |
| 15:05 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We were waiting for her to stub her toe, and she finally did last night. |
| 15:05 | Glorf Bulmer | And congrats to Gronk! Not before time, either :) |
| 15:06 | Gronk Seriman smiles and curtsies. | |
| 15:06 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) was surprised to learn she wasn't already a tutor. | |
| 15:06 | Lindal Kidd | Gronk has been a tutor in fact if not in name since forever! |
| 15:06 | Lindal Kidd | in many location |
| 15:06 | Lindal Kidd | s |
| 15:06 | Gronk Seriman | Now I can Tut officially! |
| 15:06 | Carl Metropolitan | That's all the announcements I have for today. Let's open things up for questions. |
| 15:07 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Well, another one. The quest is up again. |
| 15:07 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | What's going to happen with the former gardens? |
| 15:07 | Carl Metropolitan | Desmond spoke of that last night |
| 15:08 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | Having been gone for almost a week, may I ask for an update on that? |
| 15:08 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | I missed it. |
| 15:08 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | As, Marion noted (on the quest): Thanks to Miss Tardis, we now have a waypoint in Caledon Amber, and are back in business. |
| 15:08 | Carl Metropolitan | It is going to be an open sim for anyone to rez stuff on with a one hour autoreturn for about six weeks. After that time, it is going to be moved under a sparsely rented existing Caledon sim. |
| 15:08 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | Ah, so a giant sandbox. |
| 15:09 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The gardens as such will disappear, but the homesteadness of the sim will save another location, as yet unspecified. |
| 15:09 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | Is this an existing sim? |
| 15:09 | Larkylouz | Shall I send another announcement, Wordsmith? |
| 15:09 | Carl Metropolitan | Yes. |
| 15:09 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | Sandboxes tend to attract trolls, but at least then we can quarantine them if they do come about |
| 15:09 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Yes, Larky. |
| 15:09 | Larkylouz | Victorian Gardens is the sim to the north of us with the large manse. |
| 15:09 | Carl Metropolitan | It is a sandbox for people in the ISC group |
| 15:09 | Larkylouz | ok |
| 15:09 | Carl Metropolitan | Not for anyone. |
| 15:09 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | Oh, that makes things better then :) |
| 15:09 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | ahhh excellent |
| 15:10 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | Will it retain the PG rating? |
| 15:10 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | I don't see why it wouldn't |
| 15:10 | Tali Rosca | Is the six week to buffer it and see if another renter shows up for the full area? (Rather than having to pay setup cost for a new sim). |
| 15:10 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | We need a place for our youngest new residents to do stuff |
| 15:11 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | Maybe have a landmark giver at the end of the tutorial for there then, as well as doors into the dressing rooms if they teleport to said sandbox. |
| 15:11 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | No, Des indicated that was what he didn't want. It's a shuffle to save another area. |
| 15:11 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | I think if we were going to get another renter, we would have already gotten them. |
| 15:12 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | Does he have another renter lined up for the end of that 6 weeks? |
| 15:12 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I suppose if there was a sudden surge of rentals around Caledon, he might have to reconsider. But as things stand .... |
| 15:12 | Glorf Bulmer | Well, they'd have to be ISC members, Charlotte,a nd the overlap between ISC members and complete newbies is very small. |
| 15:12 | Tali Rosca | I was under the impression that the sim specifically would go away, so renters would not be diluted over semi-full sims. So the six weeks surprised me a bit. |
| 15:12 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | Yeah, maybe even add a sign for joining ISC... |
| 15:13 | Carl Metropolitan | No. The plan is for the sim to be slid under an existing sparsely occupied full sim. |
| 15:13 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | But I do not think that Des would decline if someone was willing to take over the Gardens |
| 15:13 | Carl Metropolitan | I confirmed that with Desmond last night in chat. |
| 15:13 | Tali Rosca | Ah, so a full is going away, to be replaced by a homestead. (And Des already has the homestead in what was Gardens). |
| 15:13 | Carl Metropolitan | He's seen no one who is likely to do that. |
| 15:13 | Carl Metropolitan | Right. |
| 15:13 | Andrea The Lady of Ice and Snow (andreajonesms) | I asked tha tfirst night about making a group to take over the tier for the gardens. he said no |
| 15:14 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | David, if that happened, Des would then be stuck with an unsupportable inland area. |
| 15:14 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | ahhhh |
| 15:14 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | (Beth and I had discussed it as a christmas prezzie to each other |
| 15:14 | Carl Metropolitan | Ah. |
| 15:14 | Carl Metropolitan | Well, I'm sure Desmond can get other homestead sims if there is the desire for them! |
| 15:15 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | We'll speak with him later |
| 15:15 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | If he had more renters in now sparse areas than homestead status would support .... he's have to replan. |
| 15:15 | Carl Metropolitan | Although if you two own a lot of land on existing full sims, he may be worried about destablizing those. It's a complicated balancing act for him. But he knows how to do it well. |
| 15:16 | Glorf Bulmer | On the subject of the Quest - is there a definitive cheat-sheet anywhere, so we can help out people who are terribly stuck on it? |
| 15:16 | Phrynne | There's me. |
| 15:16 | Phrynne | I've done it four times. |
| 15:16 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | Phrynne has notes that could be adapted |
| 15:16 | Larkylouz | That's a great idea, Phyrnne |
| 15:17 | Larkylouz | I mean, Glorf. Phyrnne is definitely a good resource thre. |
| 15:17 | Phrynne | though I am not sure that a full cheat sheet is needed |
| 15:17 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | With a bit of updating for changed waypoints. |
| 15:17 | Phrynne | I can always take another day and do it again |
| 15:17 | Carl Metropolitan | But Phyrnne isn't always around, either. |
| 15:17 | Phrynne | so I find the differences. |
| 15:17 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | Yeah, adapt it and put it in the notecard giver for the quest with a bit note "SUBJECT TO CHANGE" in big letters |
| 15:17 | Phrynne | If you can let me know just how much of a 'cheat' you want, I can write something up |
| 15:18 | Glorf Bulmer nods. "It'd be helpful to have the resource without needing to bother anyone!" | |
| 15:18 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | "Hint: There really is a RL tree called linden tree"....... |
| 15:18 | Phrynne | nods |
| 15:18 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Although, I think it is more something that should be provided only after one has made the effort. |
| 15:18 | Lindal Kidd | <---has never made it past the first waypoint |
| 15:19 | Larkylouz | thank you Wordsmith. that's what I was thinking. |
| 15:19 | Lindal Kidd looks admiringly at Phyrnne | |
| 15:19 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) laughs.... leads Dean Kidd by the hand...... | |
| 15:19 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | Yes, it shouldn't be something you could pick up in a notecard giver. |
| 15:19 | Glorf Bulmer | When it comes to recognizing trees, I only got as far as "Number 1: the larch." |
| 15:19 | Larkylouz looks at Lindal and is glad to have an ally | |
| 15:19 | Phrynne | I am usually asked about only five of the 23 or so waypoint markers. |
| 15:19 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Well, some of the waypoints have certainly passed the "how not to be seen" with flying colors... |
| 15:19 | Larkylouz | an ally in "Quit the Quest" Perhaps we should design an ugly hat for ourselves? |
| 15:21 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | Maybe add an extra hud that has a gesture of you looking around with a proximity sensor to the way point so it leads you. |
| 15:21 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | That's what a couple hunts I did a few years ago had. |
| 15:21 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | No, a quilt, so we may have the quit the quest quilt. |
| 15:21 | Gronk Seriman | Quoite! |
| 15:21 | Glorf Bulmer | With hunts, there's always a fine line to walk between "cleverly hidden" and "frustratingly hidden". |
| 15:21 | Lindal Kidd | eep! |
| 15:22 | Gronk Seriman | *Quite! |
| 15:22 | Carl Metropolitan | Marion is in charge of the quest, so please forward any suggestions about changes in the quest itself to Marion Questi |
| 15:22 | Glorf Bulmer | We want to be able to avoid frustrating people! |
| 15:22 | Carl Metropolitan | He really should be Assistant Dean for the Quest now, I guess :) |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Frustrating people will still show up. They are unavoidable. :P |
| 15:24 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | but we can avoid making nice people frustrated, I hope |
| 15:24 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Well, who will be the frustrated, us or the questers? |
| 15:24 | Phrynne | Both, at times. |
| 15:24 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | yes |
| 15:24 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | That, we should be able to accomplish, LL willing (which may or may not happen). |
| 15:25 | Carl Metropolitan | Oh, one thing to mention, we have still not filled the Dean of Development job. |
| 15:25 | Carl Metropolitan | Which is famous for chewing up and spitting out deans at a rapid rate. |
| 15:25 | Carl Metropolitan | But with the Patron program live, it should be much less of a challenge. |
| 15:26 | Carl Metropolitan | If anyone thinks they can do the job (initially in close colaboration with me) or knows someone they think might be interested, please contact me. |
| 15:26 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | You may also see a new tag of Oxbridge Patron. Each such person is one of ten. |
| 15:26 | Carl Metropolitan | My email is j.carl.henderson@gmail.com |
| 15:26 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Who have made a commitment that helps us remain in existence. |
| 15:27 | Carl Metropolitan | Our patrons are: |
| 15:27 | Carl Metropolitan | Carl Metropolitan Andrea Jones Jaz Beverly Stonehedg Magic Larkylouz Wrath Constantine Rosalind Ganymede Sha'uri DeerWalker Josain Zsun Fauve Aeon |
| 15:27 | Carl Metropolitan | Each who has pledged 2500L$ per month to cover our tier |
| 15:28 | Lindal Kidd applauds! | |
| 15:28 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) applauds. | |
| 15:28 | Gronk Seriman applauds! | |
| 15:28 | Carl Metropolitan | Plus Wordsmith who is our Patron of Engines, and has pledged to cover the RL USD cost of web server space! |
| 15:28 | Phrynne applauds! | |
| 15:28 | Glorf Bulmer applauds | |
| 15:28 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | Chancellor, You can add my name to that list. |
| 15:28 | Larkylouz | Applauds |
| 15:28 | Gronk Seriman applauds! | |
| 15:29 | Carl Metropolitan | I can add you to the standby list if you like. We needed ten and have have filled that. However, because of Real Life, people will have to drop from time to time. |
| 15:29 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We survive by force of community! |
| 15:29 | Carl Metropolitan | Is that okay David? |
| 15:29 | Gronk Seriman | /and the Ray Gun. |
| 15:29 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | Absolutely. |
| 15:29 | Carl Metropolitan | Consider yourself added |
| 15:30 | Carl Metropolitan | I love that this community is such that we had to have a waiting list for Patrons! |
| 15:30 | Glorf Bulmer has also offered to go on the standby list. | |
| 15:30 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | If I could afford it, I would too. |
| 15:30 | Glorf Bulmer | As I say, I'd only spend the money on shoes otherwise. |
| 15:30 | Carl Metropolitan | Added as well! |
| 15:30 | Carl Metropolitan | Thank you |
| 15:31 | Carl Metropolitan | Helping people is just as important as L$s, Charlotte |
| 15:31 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | There are many ways to help. Without tutors and others to teach, a sim would be of little use. |
| 15:32 | Larkylouz has really appreciated how much people of stepped up just to be present int he past few weeks, along with many other ways of helping. | |
| 15:32 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Note what the adboards say on the bottom on the left and on the top on the right (today). |
| 15:33 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The item that is first is first very intentionally -- The People. |
| 15:34 | Carl Metropolitan | Now to questions? |
| 15:34 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | I have one |
| 15:34 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | What does the dean of commons do? |
| 15:34 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) chuckles. | |
| 15:34 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) hides under his chair | |
| 15:34 | Lindal Kidd laughs! | |
| 15:35 | Larkylouz looks forward to working with David. | |
| 15:35 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) grins. | |
| 15:35 | Gronk Seriman | Anything the Dean of Extraordinaries doesn't do? |
| 15:35 | Carl Metropolitan | The Dean of Commons, D.B. Cooper-Pentewyn, is responsible for lands. This dean also hires and supervises the Oxbridge tutors, who provide onsite assistance at Oxbridge. |
| 15:35 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) juggles with trucks full of liquor candy | |
| 15:36 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | You may have noticed that things change a bit around Oxbridge with the seaons? |
| 15:36 | Tali Rosca | That includes banhammer disputes. |
| 15:37 | Carl Metropolitan | You adjudicate ban appeals. You prune the COUG list of people who have not logged in in six months. You update the non-tutorial stuff in the sim. |
| 15:37 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | The Tutor responsibilities are properly in the right hands with Assistand Dean Larky. |
| 15:37 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Yes, I've been having ban notices sent to me until we had a dean of commons. I can forward those to you. We generally clear the parcel ban lists periodically. |
| 15:37 | Carl Metropolitan | I will get mod rights on Martini's stuff and give you them on mine right now. |
| 15:38 | Larkylouz | Just for information's sake, I'd like to get a copy of ban notices, too. |
| 15:38 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The estate bans take EM status which, as far as I know has not transferred to anyone. |
| 15:38 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | Estate ban is for the whole sim? |
| 15:38 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | But we do have EMs available to deal with that if necessary |
| 15:38 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Well, since your role is now under David's and he should now get the ban notices ..... |
| 15:38 | Carl Metropolitan | Oh, you may also be an EM for Oxbridge. |
| 15:39 | Carl Metropolitan | I need to ask Desmond to do that. |
| 15:39 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | But I will copy Larky on any bans I receive |
| 15:39 | Tali Rosca | ...and in turn, I need you to install the "broom"; it needs to run with estate rights to kick sleepers out of the sim. |
| 15:39 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Part of that is so that we have a record of why people were banned. |
| 15:40 | Larkylouz | TY david |
| 15:40 | Glorf Bulmer | I remember Martini used to like to have an idea of who else was arround,a nd whether an AR was also filed.... |
| 15:40 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | I may need some coaching on that, Tali. But I will do so |
| 15:41 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | You should have just received a folder from me David. |
| 15:41 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | I did |
| 15:41 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | COU Bans. |
| 15:41 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | I will review it immediately |
| 15:41 | Larkylouz | I have a ban&eject instruction card in the works. I'll share when I have it to a readable state |
| 15:41 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Only 3 in it right now. |
| 15:41 | Carl Metropolitan | Okay. I just emailed Desmond with a request to add Dean Cooper-Pentewyn as an EM here |
| 15:42 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | You will find that you have a very useful Assistant Dean of Tutors. |
| 15:42 | Carl Metropolitan | Lindal, David, you also have just been emailed a shared file with all of the stuff Ravelli did here. |
| 15:42 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | Oh I knew that from day one |
| 15:42 | Larkylouz thinks her plate will be full with new duties and her longstanding assignment of keeping David's life interesting. | |
| 15:42 | Carl Metropolitan | Lindal, it turns out Ravelli did he tutorial posters in Paint Shop Pro, which photoshop should open |
| 15:43 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | *cough* |
| 15:43 | Lindal Kidd | excellent! |
| 15:43 | Lindal Kidd gives a relieved sigh | |
| 15:43 | Carl Metropolitan | My originals are in Illustrator, and I will get those to you for where they have not been updated by Ravelli's version. |
| 15:43 | Carl Metropolitan | David will also be the primary person organizing the upcoming Oxbridge Mentors program, too. |
| 15:43 | Lindal Kidd | since you mentioned the tutorial, I'd like to say something, Carl |
| 15:44 | Carl Metropolitan | So he has enough to keep him busy; he may even need a second A.D. |
| 15:44 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | Oxbridge mentors... a step up from tutors? |
| 15:44 | Carl Metropolitan | Go Lindal |
| 15:44 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | There is a little overlap between the instruction and the informational signs... so I will discuss my ideas with Lin and she can critique. |
| 15:44 | Carl Metropolitan | Different Animal entirely. |
| 15:44 | Lindal Kidd | The tutorial is wonderful, and it's our main means of instructing newcomers, but |
| 15:44 | Lindal Kidd | everyone here has information |
| 15:44 | Lindal Kidd | notecards they hand out |
| 15:44 | Lindal Kidd | useful landmarks, etc. |
| 15:45 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | I do think that we should keep things as consistent as possible |
| 15:45 | Lindal Kidd | I'd like to get copies of the things everyone finds most helpful for new people |
| 15:45 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | In both content and in look |
| 15:45 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | I do have copies of faculty handouts but they could be updated... |
| 15:45 | Lindal Kidd | and compile them into official resources |
| 15:45 | Glorf Bulmer | It'd make sense to consolidate all that information. |
| 15:45 | Lindal Kidd | I'm updating the faculty handouts already |
| 15:46 | Larkylouz | Phyrnne and I have been doing some work in that direction, too, Lindal. I'll send you what I have. |
| 15:46 | Lindal Kidd | please send me whatever you like...if possible, label it "potential COU info" |
| 15:46 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | I keep thinking a hud would also be useful. A "pocket book" to read and brush up with when away from Caledon, or if you're a returning person with a new account. |
| 15:46 | Carl Metropolitan | I've been updating the stuff in the Explore posters are the end of the tutorial, too. |
| 15:46 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | Most newbies might not get the idea of the hud but I think enough will that it would be useful in some way. |
| 15:46 | Carl Metropolitan | So you need those, too. |
| 15:47 | Glorf Bulmer | Perhaps we should send out scouts, to find interesting places about the Grid! |
| 15:47 | Carl Metropolitan | A HUD is a big project to create and maintain. It's not a bad idea, but it would have to be maintained to be good. |
| 15:47 | Lindal Kidd | very good, Carl. And thank you Elfbiter, that was fast! |
| 15:47 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | I also think a little more info about mesh in the avatar customization is needed. How "You're wearing two avatars if you're wearing a mesh" |
| 15:47 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | :-) |
| 15:47 | Carl Metropolitan | Right now we are sending people to LarkyLouz tutorial from the Gazette |
| 15:48 | Carl Metropolitan | But that's a good thing to integrate. |
| 15:48 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | TRuly, we need to help those folks not look like they have some horrible disease |
| 15:48 | Carl Metropolitan | At least a basic poster with a link to that tutorial. |
| 15:48 | Glorf Bulmer | SLeprosy. |
| 15:48 | Lindal Kidd | Larky's Gazette tutorial is outstanding |
| 15:48 | Larkylouz | perhaps a notecard giver with the url to that article? |
| 15:48 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | I have not seen it! |
| 15:48 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) nudges Larky for a link. | |
| 15:48 | Carl Metropolitan | We also need to revive the Avatar Appearance class, but that's a matter of funding, teachers, and Wordsmith's time. |
| 15:49 | Larkylouz | http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/gazette/2014/08/02/avatars-reload/ |
| 15:49 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | thanks |
| 15:49 | Glorf Bulmer thinks about doing a picture showing a SLeprosy case, and a sign saying "Do you look like this? We can help!" | |
| 15:49 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | Well, me and Gronk have ideas... |
| 15:49 | Carl Metropolitan | http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/gazette/2014/08/02/avatars-reload/ |
| 15:49 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | We haven't coelesced them into anything useful yet though |
| 15:49 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | I have such photos, Glorf |
| 15:49 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | Mostly because I'm lazy and Gronk is usually busy. |
| 15:50 | Carl Metropolitan | There should be somewhere the notecard for the old avatar appearance class. |
| 15:50 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Likely as much the time of someone proposing and teaching it. |
| 15:51 | Larkylouz | that article in the gazette has some rudimentary photos of glitches |
| 15:51 | Carl Metropolitan | That is the hard part. |
| 15:51 | Lindal Kidd | I have that class about half built. Sigh. |
| 15:52 | Glorf Bulmer | Avatar Appearance would need very substantial updates from the old days! |
| 15:52 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Perhaps you can find someone to help with that Lindal. |
| 15:52 | Carl Metropolitan | Oh. |
| 15:52 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | I have a notecard for Avatar Appearance from Moonstone Eiren. |
| 15:52 | Carl Metropolitan | Let me send you the stuff I had in inventory on it. |
| 15:52 | Lindal Kidd nominates Larky! | |
| 15:52 | Glorf Bulmer | (though a lot of the information is still relevant.) |
| 15:52 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | I can come up with something, and I know if me and Gronk butt heads enough we can get a class proposed. |
| 15:52 | Larkylouz | thanks, Lindal, but I have my hands full at the moment. |
| 15:52 | Glorf Bulmer | I think I still have Vanessa Hamer's class notes somewhere, from when she did it. |
| 15:53 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | I think I'm probably the only one here -without- a full plate. |
| 15:53 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) glares at Lin | |
| 15:53 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | I have a full plate in RL. |
| 15:53 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) sighs. | |
| 15:53 | Carl Metropolitan | Those are from when Vanessa taught the class and the similar notecard from NCI called "looking good" that I co-wrote |
| 15:54 | Gronk Seriman hides her clean, empty plate behind her back. | |
| 15:54 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) smirks | |
| 15:54 | Carl Metropolitan | Anything I ever wrote for NCI I have rights to use, too. |
| 15:54 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Carl gave those to me also. And I'm more than willing to sit down and discuss or brainstorm a class. |
| 15:55 | Carl Metropolitan | Why don't the people who are interested (Charlotte, Gloft, Lindal) arrange a time to get with Wordsmith |
| 15:55 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | Maybe we could get Mariano to do avatar appearance... he certainly has more avatars than I do at this point |
| 15:55 | Carl Metropolitan | I remember it was a popular class, I think we offered it twice a week at one time |
| 15:55 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I might add that there is a piece of free software called Freemind, that is useful in graphically laying out concepts. |
| 15:55 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | I think he'd jump at the chance to do something like that. |
| 15:55 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Well, Mariano could know several sources... |
| 15:56 | Carl Metropolitan | Moonstone's notes for when she taught the class should be in someone's inventory; if not, we can ask her. |
| 15:56 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | And his habit of changing outfits woud come in handy :-) |
| 15:56 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | I have Moonstone's notes |
| 15:56 | Carl Metropolitan | But then we'd need to talk extensively about mesh, standard sizing, Slink, various other stuff... the subject's grown quite a bit! |
| 15:56 | Carl Metropolitan | Oops |
| 15:56 | Carl Metropolitan | [15:55] Glorf Bulmer: But then we'd need to talk extensively about mesh, standard sizing, Slink, various other stuff... the subject's grown quite a bit! |
| 15:56 | Larkylouz | Avatar Appearance is more about how to edit an avatar than it is about having a big collection. Not that Mariano isn't knowledgable. |
| 15:56 | Carl Metropolitan | That was Glorf's comment. |
| 15:56 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | Mariano has one challenge... He often loses internet and or electricity |
| 15:56 | Phrynne | Would it have to all be at once? Could it be broken into Part One and Part Two? |
| 15:57 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | sometimes for days |
| 15:57 | Carl Metropolitan | Yes, we need to concetrate on the basics |
| 15:57 | Carl Metropolitan | It might be a two part or basic and advanced class |
| 15:57 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | I haven't seen him in a good couple weeks. Maybe more. |
| 15:57 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | So that might be why. |
| 15:57 | Glorf Bulmer | Ah, I have Moonstone's notes, but she made them no-trans. |
| 15:57 | Larkylouz | Yes, I think Mariano has been pretty busy latel |
| 15:57 | Carl Metropolitan | You guys need to look at what we have; what's needed, and what resources are available on the web |
| 15:57 | Lindal Kidd | a two part class is how I've outlined it |
| 15:57 | Glorf Bulmer | We'd have to talk to her for permissions.... |
| 15:57 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) glances at the clock. Before we run out of time I do have a question on a different subject. | |
| 15:58 | Larkylouz | Go ahead, DeanBee. |
| 15:58 | Carl Metropolitan | Go please David. |
| 15:58 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Avatar appearance also has an element of knowing when not to change outfits .... because it can become a distraction. |
| 15:58 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | Why is there an elephant in the room? |
| 15:58 | Larkylouz looks to Josain for approval on the use of his suggested nickname | |
| 15:58 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | lol |
| 15:58 | Glorf Bulmer | It's so we don't talk about it! |
| 15:58 | Josain Zsun ducks | |
| 15:58 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | yay |
| 15:58 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Because there is! |
| 15:58 | Phrynne | lol |
| 15:58 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Or perhaps as a reminder for transparency. |
| 15:59 | Carl Metropolitan | So I can say "I'd like to address the elephant in the room..." |
| 15:59 | Larkylouz | Elephants have *excellent* memories. |
| 16:00 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | And infrasound communications... |
| 16:00 | Lindal Kidd | they travel well, too, they always have their trunk handy |
| 16:00 | Phrynne | and they are wise |
| 16:00 | Larkylouz | and have adorable babies |
| 16:01 | Tali Rosca | All the right trunks in all the right places. |
| 16:01 | Carl Metropolitan | Thank you all for coming |
| 16:01 | Andrea The Lady of Ice and Snow (andreajonesms) | Sounds like we may need someone to orgnize meeting times for the varipous groups that need to comunictae withthemselves. |
| 16:01 | Larkylouz | Thank you, Deans |
| 16:01 | Carl Metropolitan | As you can see we have a lot to do, but we've also got a lot done! |
| 16:01 | Gronk Seriman | Thank you, Deans! |
| 16:01 | Larkylouz is impressed | |
| 16:01 | Charlotte Drake (xymbers.slade) | I'll show up anywhere I'm asked, so. :) |
| 16:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you all. |
| 16:02 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Unfortunately I have to get some sleeping done now. |
| 16:02 | David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) | Good night Elfbiter |
| 16:02 | Larkylouz's RL is barking at her. She'll be back inworld later. | |
| 16:02 | Carl Metropolitan | Before any of you use any of Moonstone's or Vanessa's class notes, in a new class , please make sure they are okay with it. |
| 16:02 | Beth Cooper-Pentewyn (beth.pentewyn) | Goodnight. |
| 16:02 | Gronk Seriman | Sleep well, Elf |
| 16:02 | Larkylouz | Take care, Elfbiter |
| 16:02 | Phrynne | Sleep well. |