Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2015-03-01

15:03 Tali Rosca Should we officially start?
15:03 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) digs in his inventory for a huge mallet
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Tis time.
15:04 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Lynette Zisara (zisara) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen This is the weekly Q&A meeting of the Deans of Oxbridge. Your chance to ask question about Oxbridge, SL, and maybe more.
15:06 Carl Metropolitan Welcome everyone
15:06 Carl Metropolitan Sorry. I was afk for a moment.
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen Or alternatively, when questions are scarce we try to think of bad puns.
15:06 Beth Ghostraven I have a question
15:06 Carl Metropolitan Or like last week go home early!
15:06 Carl Metropolitan Go, Beth!
15:06 Beth Ghostraven The Social Committee for the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference, coming up later this month, would like to publicize the Caledon Quest as an entertainment choice for attendees.
15:06 Beth Ghostraven Would it be all right if I duplicate the poster in the Hall of Caledon and post it at the conference? I would include a notecard and a LM.
15:06 Carl Metropolitan Sounds great.
15:06 Beth Ghostraven I can send you a copy of the notecard if you'd like
15:07 Larkylouz I wasn't aware that deep thought was involved in the punning!
15:07 Carl Metropolitan If you want a duplicate of the Caledon Quest poster, you may need to talk to Martini or Marion
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen Only if you want an answer in a billion years, Miss Larky.
15:07 Carl Metropolitan If you want to put up a VWBPE poster go ahead.
15:07 Beth Ghostraven I plan to just copy the texture, using a photo
15:07 Carl Metropolitan Oxbridge will have a booth at VWBPE as usual.
15:07 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) bites his tongue 42 42 42 ......
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen I likely could just give you one.
15:08 Beth Ghostraven it won't have the same content, Mr Jarvinen; would I be able to modify it?
15:08 Tali Rosca Should that now be SCVWBPEC?
15:08 Tali Rosca was impressed by the name.
15:08 Beth Ghostraven tries to figure out that acronym
15:09 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) Hello Ms Gronk
15:09 Tali Rosca "Social Committee for the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference"
15:09 Beth Ghostraven oh yes, thank you
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Actually, you could get it off of the webpages. The quest images there change about every 30 seconds.
15:09 Carl Metropolitan I had forgotten that.
15:09 Beth Ghostraven I didn't realize there was a webpage for the Quest; I'll take a look
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/quest.php
15:10 Lynette Zisara (zisara) tries not to stomp any toes as she moves to another spot.
15:11 Larkylouz Why did the chicken cross the road???
15:11 Carl Metropolitan Oh, on a related point, when we are talking to non-Caledon people or new residents, I would like for people to call us "Caledon Oxbridge" or "Caledon Oxbridge Gateway" rather than "Caledon Oxbridge University". The reason being that too many people end up thinking we are a real life university with a place in SL. This is due to the fact that Oxbridge is better than what 90% of RL universities put together.
15:11 Beth Ghostraven Oh! Hello, Miss Jones!
15:11 Phrynne takes notes.
15:11 Beth Ghostraven pets the kitty
15:11 Carl Metropolitan We can be COU among ourselves and Caledonians
15:12 Tali Rosca We should probably not call it "Gateway", for historical reasons.
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen Awwww. But I like COG.
15:12 Carl Metropolitan LL canceled the Gateway program. We did not. We are still here.
15:12 Carl Metropolitan And COG is very steampunk :)
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen Exactly.
15:12 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) ^5, Carl.
15:12 Tali Rosca Yes, but it makes it sound like it's an old reference from when that program was still around.
15:12 Lynette Zisara (zisara) +1's C.O.G.
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen It's not clear that LL even remembers that they had a gateway program.
15:13 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) adjusts his neck cogs
15:13 Beth Ghostraven Caledon Oxbridge Geniuses?
15:13 Tali Rosca If I, as an SL resident, saw something for new residents called a "Gateway", I'd assume it was a dead link from way back.
15:13 Meora (menchor) Ha ha ha hahahaaa
15:13 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) hands Elf a can of wd40
15:13 Lynette Zisara (zisara) Caledon Oxbridge Greeting?
15:14 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) Part of the problem is that our layout *looks* like an university
15:14 Koko Carlucci why is that a problem?
15:14 Beth Ghostraven Rockcliffe is not an actual RL university either, is it?
15:14 Meora (menchor) notices the irony of this discussion being held in a lecture hall
15:14 Carl Metropolitan I'm not sure actually.
15:14 Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) How#s the Group called?
15:14 Carl Metropolitan About Rockcliffe
15:14 Carl Metropolitan COU
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen "The world is changed, I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air (Elvish translation). Much that once was is lost; for none now live who remember it."
15:15 Carl Metropolitan I don't wnat to change any existing names in the groups
15:15 Lynette Zisara (zisara) thinks "Gateway" would be fine though, as a nod to the campus's history.
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen COUG actually. COU being the faculty group.
15:15 Carl Metropolitan Hello Jayleden!
15:15 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) Hi Jayle
15:15 Jayleden Miles HI
15:15 Beth Ghostraven Hi Jayle!
15:16 Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) So if the group has the "IUniversity" in, why not the palce?
15:16 Carl Metropolitan The reason being that too many people end up thinking we are a real life university with a place in SL. This is due to the fact that Oxbridge is better than what 90% of RL universities put together.
15:17 Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) I don't get the second sentance you are asaying, Carl ..
15:17 Tali Rosca Most RL universities likely do not focus on teaching general topics in SL. If they are here, it is with some very specific purpose.
15:17 Larkylouz Oxbridge has a beautiful campus, with some awesome materials available.
15:18 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) Many of the RL uni sims are special purpose not build to replicate SL needs or their own campus.
15:19 Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) and how many are "too many people", if I may ask?
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen We are constrained to 20 or less.
15:19 Tali Rosca If it is a problem, it is when people assume we are teaching some specific "RL courses":
15:19 Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) No - lol - the "too many people" who think it's a real university ...
15:20 Tali Rosca I've never personally experienced it as an *problem*, I must say. Sometimes as an opening to explain what we're teaching.
15:20 Phrynne I have a handful of inquiries about that in a week, generally
15:20 Jayleden Miles For myself, I probably get 1 in 3 who ask about applying for a degree.
15:20 Larkylouz really? I've not experienced that often. Hmmm
15:20 Carl Metropolitan Batista, this is a suggestion from me; not a rule. If you want to call us "University" no one is going to ding you. I just hear it enough from the people on the front lines to think it is an issue.
15:20 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) I have had requests from others to use the facility on the basis that we are indeed a RL uni.
15:20 Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) What I'm after : It's just totally inconsistent to re-name the place, and NOT re-name the group ...
15:21 Tali Rosca Do they expect a RL degree, or some "degree in SL"?
15:21 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I have met one of two people a year, maybe. Thought I have not kept any kind of notes.
15:21 Larkylouz Tagging on Tali, are they attempting to RP or seriously after some RL recognition?
15:21 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) Consistency is a mark of a small and rigid mind, Mr Coirleone
15:22 Larkylouz not that it is an issue for me what you choose to do. I can go either way
15:22 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) That's a rare thing and IMO not particularly a problem.
15:22 Jayleden Miles You cannot change group names. You are stuck with what you name the group - or you have start a new group. That is pointless for us - we'd have to ask 3000 people to join a new group after paying for the new group. Easier and simpler to keep the group.
15:22 Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) Consistency is what makeds the world go round - it's probably, besides symmetry - the principle that holds the world together
15:22 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) And I believe that the Chancellor was addressing that to most of the faculty and tutors here. No one will require that of visitors
15:22 Phrynne welcomes people to Caledon Oxbridge because that's all that can be typed as they walk past.
15:23 Carl Metropolitan Let me repeat myself: Batista, this is a suggestion from me; not a rule. If you want to call us "University" no one is going to ding you.
15:23 SnoBound imagines a graduation ceremony with everyone in gowns and sheepskins being passed out and the golden coin spinning out of control
15:23 Larkylouz Oh, I think graduates must run around on a large, brightly colored chicken. Enough of this traditional stuff!
15:24 Meora (menchor) have the dodo hand out degrees
15:24 Larkylouz LOL Meora
15:24 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) On Bunny skin parchment?
15:24 Tali Rosca Dodogrees.
15:24 Phrynne or temperatures
15:24 Mr.Fox da'Alenfey (spooked.dreamscape) Good evening.
15:24 Carl Metropolitan Hi Mr. Fox
15:24 Beth Ghostraven I would think a simple explanation to inquirers, like "We are a non-accredited, non-degree-granting virtual institution" might be sufficient
15:25 Carl Metropolitan Do any of the Deans have anything to report from their areas?
15:25 Beth Ghostraven as one of the FAQs, perhaps
15:25 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Well, actually, that's a synonym for a diploma mill, so that might actully give a _worse_ image...
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen The more common problem seems to be those who immediately want to be an instructor.
15:26 Jayleden Miles I'm just busy plotting away for the fall event we'll have. Y'all get no details until then.
15:26 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Or claim to own the place...
15:26 Beth Ghostraven oh, Mr Jarvinen, they're probably after that hefty paycheck!
15:26 Tali Rosca As I mentioned last week, I've been a bit out of the loop lately, but plan to be ramping up and do some rework of the schedule system.
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen Indeed. Although we may be able to give it slightly more heft.
15:27 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) And I will only mention that Larky and the Commons team have been admirable in my absence.
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen They have been.
15:28 Beth Ghostraven .-'`'-. APPLAUSE APPLAUSE .-'`'-.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, one thing.
15:28 Tali Rosca I think it is probably also generally known by now that I am slowly extricating myself from the duties as dean.
15:28 Larkylouz I've been out of the loop, too. Phrynne and Mr. Elfbiter do much more to hold down the plaza than I do. Also Gronk, Charlotte and Josain
15:28 Larkylouz and Tasha.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen If you fall asleep on the sim and it fills up, you may see a notice that you've been banned but aren't banned.
15:28 Carl Metropolitan Yes. We need a replacement eventually for Tali.
15:29 Larkylouz We need a Dean of Engines. I'm not sure we can replace Tali.
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen In effect, you been ejected from the sim by banning and unbanning to make room.
15:30 Carl Metropolitan Everyone can be replaced :)
15:30 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) "the broom"
15:30 Carl Metropolitan I was replaced and things hummed along quite nicely.
15:31 Carl Metropolitan I was replaced here and things hummed along quite nicely. That does not necessarily apply to other places I've been replaced in the past :)
15:31 Tali Rosca I am working on getting things to a state with a good balance between functionality and maintainable simplicity.
15:31 Jayleden Miles awww
15:31 Carl Metropolitan But Tali will be missed.
15:31 Carl Metropolitan She's doing a great job of making sure all her projects are finished before leaving which we really appreciate.
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen Indeed she will be.
15:32 Jayleden Miles Glad for that. Thank you for all that you do, Tali.
15:32 Beth Ghostraven Tali, to clarify, you're just leaving the Dean's position, not Caledon, right?
15:33 Lynette Zisara (zisara) looks concerned. "Leaving SL? Or just the University?"
15:33 Tali Rosca nods. "Just the dean position. And I'll likely be around at the university still."
15:33 Lynette Zisara (zisara) sighs relief.
15:33 Beth Ghostraven oh good
15:33 Tali Rosca At the core, I just want a little more time to fiddle with my own projects.
15:34 Jayleden Miles I should add, I still am in need of an assistant. Please apply to me.
15:35 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) applies a Help Wanted sticker to Jayle's forehead.
15:35 Jayleden Miles grins
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen Jayle is Dean of Development -- funding, special events, ...
15:35 Beth Ghostraven Umm, Jayle, you might want to be careful where you go with that sticker on...
15:36 Carl Metropolitan All Deans have been heard from. Now lets take your questions.
15:36 Jayleden Miles grins at Beth....
15:36 Beth Ghostraven :p
15:36 Carl Metropolitan I still handle some special events, like the upcoming VWBPE display, but those will transition over to Jayleden in time.
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen Going to close to the Caledon mental hospital with a sign so position could be .... shocking.
15:37 Jayleden Miles erm...You can keep the VWBPE if you like!
15:37 Phrynne thought the hospital was in Cape Wrath?
15:38 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) Not in the Guv's cellar?
15:38 Jayleden Miles The Hospital was, but the mental one was in Tamrannoch for years.
15:38 Lynette Zisara (zisara) Hasn't Cape Wrath been replaced by Loch Avie?
15:38 Jayleden Miles Yes
15:38 Beth Ghostraven Oh! that reminds me
15:39 Beth Ghostraven On the Caledon Quest page on the aether, it refers to the "close to 50" Caledon sims
15:39 Beth Ghostraven that number's a bit lower now, isn't it?
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'll have to do a recount.
15:40 Tali Rosca 37
15:40 Lynette Zisara (zisara) sees 35.
15:41 Mae Best What happened to the other sims?
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen Tectonic instability....
15:41 Leelee 'Short Stuff' Rossini (leelee78) What "fix" did LL implement that broke group chat so badly?
15:41 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) I actually saw one sink beneath the waves
15:41 Tali Rosca Oh, yeah, 35, sorry.
15:41 Mae Best shakes her head... doggone fracking
15:41 Carl Metropolitan Caledon's population decreased and Desmond Shang (the estate owner) consolidated sims.
15:41 Tali Rosca I saw "Caledon Loch Avie" and counted that row.
15:42 Tali Rosca (The two others there are Europa and Winterfell)
15:42 Phrynne And Inish
15:42 Lynette Zisara (zisara) blames mad science gone wrong (or possibly right?)
15:42 Mae Best blames the chicken
15:42 Carl Metropolitan I'm more concerned with a possible cavorite shortage since the mines closed last year and the sky mountain deposits are getting played out.
15:43 SnoBound blames the egg
15:43 Phrynne we'll just have to find enlightenment some other way
15:43 Mae Best Hire more dwarves?
15:43 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) Hamsters
15:43 Jayleden Miles Group chats break at times, it's happened occasionally over the years. It's nothing new...just happens once in a while. The cause is suspected to be the tiring of the hamsters running on the wheels. Possibly during shift changes.
15:44 Rollo (rolotomasi) you should try oven spit dogs
15:44 Jayleden Miles Lots of Cavorite in Wellsian...I'm surprised the whole sim isn't floating.
15:44 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) LL laid off a bunch of hamsters years ago and it has never been the same
15:44 Rollo (rolotomasi) stronger than hamsters
15:44 Mae Best Poor hamsters... I wonder if they need help with their resumes?
15:45 Larkylouz Up with Guinea Pigs!
15:45 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) Hydration and hemp seeds are all they need
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything new on the tutor side of things, Miss Larky?
15:47 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) judges Larky.
15:47 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) Nudges drrrrrp
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other staff quandaries?
15:47 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) I can't see my keyboard anymore.
15:47 Phrynne none current.
15:48 Larkylouz No, I have been out sick all week, I am afraid.
15:48 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Well, there is the potential Rose Garden loophole..
15:48 Beth Ghostraven David, that means it's time to rest your eyes
15:48 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) ?
15:48 Mae Best whispers to David... lay off the twinkies
15:48 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) Elf, what's up with that?
15:48 Carl Metropolitan I've got that on my list to talk to Desmond about, Elfbither
15:48 Jayleden Miles Rose Garden loophole?
15:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen We'll do the broom later... not contiguous with a meeting.
15:48 Lynette Zisara (zisara) For the latest info: http://isslgroupchatstillbroken.com/
15:48 Jayleden Miles oh that parcel.
15:48 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Some banned people still seem to have access to a spot in the Rose Garde.
15:48 Carl Metropolitan There is a small strip of land next to it that's owned by Commonwealth
15:49 Beth Ghostraven Band name!!! Rose Garden Loophole
15:49 Liška Bystrouška (liska.fuchs) :)
15:49 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) One banned guy was floating over that... I think it was yesterday.
15:49 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) But it is in the sim, so later this week I will apply the bans there
15:49 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) Please remind me later Elf.
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Unless it's an estate ban (which David handles) or another EM, it's a parcel ban.
15:50 Carl Metropolitan I'm going to get Desmond to transfer that to Oxbridge.
15:50 Mae Best waves...Time for Class, Night All!
15:50 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) smiles. I have no qualms about estate bans for that reason until Des repairs the loophole
15:50 Jayleden Miles I was looking at that parcel - almost looks like someone didn't know how to plot a parcel and just left it...
15:50 Carl Metropolitan It's supposed to be under our name
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen And there are a couple parcels that aren't group deeded.
15:50 Carl Metropolitan Where are the others?
15:50 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) Hello Ms Roxie. Welcome
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Library, which isn't in the COU group (and won't be)
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen There are other parcels for special purposes that a person could still be on after the main and lecture hall bans.
15:52 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) Folks, my vision has gone south on me again. I best take the advice and retire to RL and my audio book.
15:52 Jayleden Miles Night David. Get better soon.
15:52 Larkylouz Take care, David.
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes.... tc
15:52 David Cooper-Pentewyn (deebeecooper) Be well all.
15:52 Meora (menchor) goodnight David
15:52 Carl Metropolitan Bye!
15:53 Carl Metropolitan He's still got some recuperation to do.
15:53 Carl Metropolitan We can't do anything about the library.
15:53 Carl Metropolitan Any other questions?
15:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen Nods, except possibly get some staff abilities to eject from it.
15:54 Larkylouz A note, please, to plaza workers. Particularly while David is out, please send your eject/ban notieces to me and to Wordsmith.
15:54 Jayleden Miles Ask questions or we'll start singing and it's a dean rule that we all sing badly and out of tune!
15:54 Larkylouz turns off her sound
15:55 Carl Metropolitan Added to the list, Wordsmith.
15:55 Phrynne hands out pitchpipes-- and earplugs
15:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks
15:55 Carl Metropolitan Okay. Since there are no more questions, everyone can go home five minutes early!
15:55 Meora (menchor) suggests deans sing "fighting Dodo's" fight song
15:56 Jayleden Miles Doesn't know the words!
15:56 Carl Metropolitan Goodnight everyone.