Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2015-03-08

15:03 Carl Metropolitan Welcome to Q&A With the Deans
15:03 Carl Metropolitan This is your chance to ask the Oxbridge Deans anything you want to know about Oxbridge, Second Life, Caledon, or anything else you can come up with.
15:04 Carl Metropolitan I'm good at trivia.
15:04 Carl Metropolitan Let's start off with any announcement from Deans in their areas.
15:04 Carl Metropolitan Lindal, do you have anything?
15:04 Lindal Kidd not at this time, Chancellor
15:05 Carl Metropolitan Wordsmith?
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen No, I've been mostly busy elsewhere for the last week. Be more concentrated on classes etc this next couple of weeks.
15:06 Carl Metropolitan Cool. Tali? I know you have an updated Donation Coin, but I didn't get it out today.
15:06 Tali Rosca Not a whole lot from me either. I am fiddling with some UI for the Engines. (HTML and JavaScript in Angular)
15:06 Carl Metropolitan Jayleden?
15:07 Jayleden Miles I'm just working on items for the Fall Event.
15:07 Carl Metropolitan Coolness
15:07 Carl Metropolitan I've gotten rid of the strip of land next to the Oxbridge Home Spot that was owned by Desmond (with his help). That should no longer be a haven for clever griefers.
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen It looks like two strips there have been integrated.
15:08 Carl Metropolitan I'm also investigating the status of parcels in NW of Oxbridge Village. There is a building contest set up there for Oxbridge by Sauce Sorrowman who no one has seen in some time.
15:08 Tali Rosca He is around now and then.
15:08 Carl Metropolitan It looks like we may be able to get use of that land if we need it.
15:09 Carl Metropolitan I'm trying to get hold of him.
15:09 Tali Rosca He's on Euro time, and is not as much in SL as he once was, but he does drop by now and then.
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen Good. That was set up as a special building group. There's also a coin over there that can be replaced that's just off that parcel.
15:10 Carl Metropolitan Lastly, does anyone here have any connection to J J Drinkwater and the Caledon Library? I need to try to get him to make some our our people officers with Ban powers so we can patrol the Libary parcel.
15:10 Carl Metropolitan The Gold Coin is on the Stone Circle parcel, I think.
15:10 Carl Metropolitan I remember replacing it recently.
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen Right. Okay.
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen I've talked with JJ in the past, although not on the matter of land control.
15:12 Jayleden Miles JJ is in SL still. Host events for the Library.
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen And sometimes other events in the northlands.
15:13 Carl Metropolitan Okay. Maybe i should bite the bullet and approach him as Chancellor.
15:13 Carl Metropolitan Anything else from any of the deans?
15:13 Lindal Kidd It seems to me that our newcomer traffic is up this week. Do we have the numbers on that?
15:13 Carl Metropolitan Marion usually mails them out sunday evening.
15:14 Carl Metropolitan He says it was actually down a little
15:14 Tali Rosca Pretty sure they were... yes.
15:14 Lindal Kidd drat, so much for subjective impressions
15:14 Carl Metropolitan Newcomer traffic counts were down last week. The First-Day count fell 4% to 278 from 290, while the broader First-Week count was down 9% to 377 from 414.
15:14 Phrynne Do the numbers count the individual arrivals, or the different avatars?
15:14 Phrynne We have had several avatars lately who come in repeatedly
15:15 Tali Rosca This is well within the normal variance, though, and down from a high spike.
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen Different avatars. I believe it keeps a list.
15:15 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Attendance waxes and vanes
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen But, for example, this morning, there seemed to be a healthy crowd ... and some that had to be shown the door.
15:17 Lindal Kidd waves to Miss Harbour!
15:17 Carl Metropolitan New arrivals
15:17 Sandie Harbour :)
15:17 Carl Metropolitan I don't pay attention to the week to week numbers so much as the trend line, which is pretty steady
15:18 Minty Melody Oh my! :o
15:18 Tali Rosca Trend-wise, we have very slowly been rising over the last year.
15:19 Carl Metropolitan Okay. Any questions from the teeming masses :)
15:20 Yako-Tsuki (yakotsuki) raises her hand
15:20 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Airships?
15:20 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Fund raisers and our potion financially?
15:20 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) *position
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen I think our potion worked..... the auction was a good success.
15:21 Carl Metropolitan We are in excellent positions.
15:22 Tali Rosca Yako-Tsuki had a question too?
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen With a next fund raiser planned for Fall.
15:22 Carl Metropolitan What is your question, Yako-Tsuki?
15:23 Yako-Tsuki (yakotsuki) ty ^^ You said something of building competitions? I have visited the land and have never seen anything on the platforms. Will there be competition in the future?
15:23 Carl Metropolitan Unknown. The people who organized the last one are not really in SL much.
15:23 Yako-Tsuki (yakotsuki) ok ty ^^
15:23 Carl Metropolitan If we do have one, it is going to be some time in the future
15:23 Tali Rosca If somebody wants to organize it, feel free to pitch in.
15:24 Carl Metropolitan I think there is more likelyhood of a new photography contest in the near future.
15:24 Minty Melody Ooohhh
15:24 Yako-Tsuki (yakotsuki) Oh!
15:25 Tali Rosca Elfbiter mentioned the airships. As usual, we'll have to direct any specifics to Jorge, but... are there still lines missing?
15:25 Tali Rosca I haven't really kept up myself.
15:25 Carl Metropolitan I remember hearing someone asking about missing airships in ISC chat last week, so I suspect some are still down.
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen Jorge had some running before, they might have gone down with some of the griefings.
15:26 Phrynne raises a hand
15:26 Phrynne If I may?
15:27 Phrynne Because of the changes in the different regions -- in particular the ones that were moved or are not here -- several of the routes need to be rescripted. This is in progress.
15:27 Carl Metropolitan Please, Phrynne
15:27 Carl Metropolitan Thank you.
15:27 Phrynne It is a slow job because the original scripter, Kaluura Boa, is no longer with us.
15:27 Carl Metropolitan Do you know when in Oxbridge Village will be up and running?
15:27 Phrynne I don't know.
15:28 Phrynne You would have to ask Jorge about that.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen I just IM'ed him
15:28 Jayleden Miles Did Jorge find a new scripter, yet?
15:28 Jayleden Miles RIP Kaluura. I spoke to him a few times. Great guy.
15:29 Phrynne There is another scripter -- I'm sorry I don't have the name off the top of my head.
15:29 Phrynne It's in the article I wrote for the Gazette.
15:29 Phrynne (I think.)
15:29 Jayleden Miles I thought he'd said he had someone he was talking to but I wasn't sure if it had worked out.
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen [15:27] Jorge Serapis: Current situation, situation normal all fouled up.
15:28 Jorge Serapis Some scripting issues which shouldn't be happening but are.
15:28 Jorge Serapis Until those are solved, nothing's happening.
15:30 Jayleden Miles grins at the situation status.
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen [15:28] Jorge Serapis: I'm hoping to trial a route tomorrow; fingers crossed it will work.
15:29 Jorge Serapis I know it seems like they're being neglected, but it's frustratingly slow.
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen I did offer to look over scripts if he needs someone to do that.
15:32 Jayleden Miles And not to mention, Jorge does have a day job so...
15:32 Carl Metropolitan Okay... Next question?
15:34 Carl Metropolitan whispers Someone must have a question :)
15:34 Carl Metropolitan Someone must have a question.
15:34 Aylaria (emberell) I'm sure the question can't or shouldn't be, "Who has a question?"
15:35 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) who is on second
15:35 Tempesta Clawtooth (tempesta62.clawtooth) no, who is on first
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen What's her name?
15:35 Phrynne I don't know who's on t hird
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen I think it all has Jayle over a barrel.
15:35 Sandie Harbour giggles
15:36 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) does not see user of blue police box with potential questions
15:36 Carl Metropolitan We can all go home early if no one has anything to ask us.
15:36 Carl Metropolitan We can also help with general Second Life questions.
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, before that....
15:37 Lindal Kidd puts on catcher's mitt for incoming questions
15:37 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) oh!
15:37 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Maybe they think they do not know enough to formulate good questions...
15:37 Carl Metropolitan Provide advice on how to save 15% or more on your car insurance?
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen Does anyone have things about SL they would dearly like to learn?
15:38 Yako-Tsuki (yakotsuki) raises her hand
15:38 Tempesta Clawtooth (tempesta62.clawtooth) where does someone who is not anything close to a newbie, but has been gone for years go to meet people, besides q & a sessions, lol
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes?
15:38 Carl Metropolitan Please answer.
15:38 Carl Metropolitan Please ask.
15:38 Carl Metropolitan That's a hard one, Tempesta. I would start with some of the regular events in Caledon
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, there are ongoing events in Caledon.
15:38 Yako-Tsuki (yakotsuki) I have noticed that profiles are not updating quickly. Is anyone else reporting this problem?
15:38 Carl Metropolitan Check the Aether Chrononauts calendar
15:39 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Ya'll don't forget to look inthe notices on isc for the ones onthe music event onthe 15th of this month. There is also one in thereon free advertising for the event. And I am taking a limited number of venders.
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen and there are regular library sponsored events
15:39 Carl Metropolitan http://aetherchrononauts.org/
15:39 Tali Rosca Well, there is the Tea Dance going on right now. There's also the Hour of Frivolity... is that Wednesday?
15:39 Tempesta Clawtooth (tempesta62.clawtooth) thanks
15:39 Lindal Kidd tempesta: I would get involved with some group, and help with organizing the events, as well as simply attending them
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen I believe Miss Ghostraven is managing the Caledon schedule.
15:39 Yako-Tsuki (yakotsuki) Miss Patty's event last night was fun. I think she has them every Saturday?
15:40 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) and monday night
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen there's now also the Caledon Zephyr online.
15:40 Tempesta Clawtooth (tempesta62.clawtooth) I've seen messages for classes, but not events, is there another group I should join?
15:40 Lindal Kidd Independent State of Caledon is the general group
15:41 Tempesta Clawtooth (tempesta62.clawtooth) for these events I mean, lol
15:41 Tempesta Clawtooth (tempesta62.clawtooth) thank you
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen http://caledonzephyr.blogspot.com/
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen Are you in the ISC group, Miss Yako?
15:42 Yako-Tsuki (yakotsuki) Yes Sir ^^ Mr. Shang invited me when I rented my land
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen Good. Caledon is never far from a social event.
15:43 Carl Metropolitan Invite sent to Tempesta
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen I can also give you a notecard from the library events
15:44 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Lots of those events are somewhat late :-)
15:44 Minty Melody Oooh... are unicorns invited to social events?
15:44 Tempesta Clawtooth (tempesta62.clawtooth) thank you, Sir
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, yes ... as long as they are too pointed about arguing.
15:45 Tempesta Clawtooth (tempesta62.clawtooth) I'd appreciate that
15:45 Minty Melody :o
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen The library notices?
15:45 Tempesta Clawtooth (tempesta62.clawtooth) yes, please
15:46 Tempesta Clawtooth (tempesta62.clawtooth) (new laptop with a keyboard too small for my fingers, takes me forever to type anything
15:46 Almari (almariport) I ask a question.
15:46 Carl Metropolitan WHat is your quesation?
15:47 Almari (almariport) Ms. Aevalle Galicia promoted tours in various locations in Caledon and SL.
No plans for the tours back?.
15:47 almariport Resident Ms. Aevalle Galicia promoted tours in various locations in Caledon and SL.\nIn the plans for the tours back ?.
15:47 Carl Metropolitan That would be a good idea. She can't do it now, as she is in the home stretch of her PhD Dissertation in RL.
15:48 Carl Metropolitan Wordsmith, that's really your department.
15:48 Almari (almariport) Ah ok, thanks.
15:48 almariport Resident Oh ok, thanks.
15:48 Jayleden Miles The old tour notecards are available at her place in Caledon.
15:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen There are occasional tours for photo Salon, also.
15:49 Meora (menchor) Photo Salon is usually not Caledon
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen The tours Aevalle did weren't necessarily Caledon either.
15:49 Meora (menchor) ah
15:49 Almari (almariport) Good to know, thanks
15:49 Jayleden Miles Most weren't. I used to go on them.
15:49 Gronk Seriman The Caledon Quest is a great way to tour Caledon.
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Meora, can you say anything about what you seek in the ventures?
15:49 Almari (almariport) Good to know, thanks
15:50 Meora (menchor) usually a particular kind of photo environment
15:51 Aylaria (emberell) If I might, I have a question.
15:51 Carl Metropolitan What is your question?
15:52 Lindal Kidd looks up at the ceiling, which is emitting alarming creaks
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen There's also a Caledon Library group. Contact JJ Drinkwater if you are interested in that.
15:53 Aylaria (emberell) I've been doing my own reading up on and research of steampunk, and what all it means so that I can more easily understand how to integrate not just into the community but the land here. My question is, though, is there a community definition worded by the folk who live here that I might peruse, to better my knowledge of what the word means to you all?
15:53 Aylaria (emberell) I find that often, the single most definition is the one created by the people who live it, after all.
15:54 Tali Rosca Caledon is heavily fantasy-based, so it may not be "classic" steampunk.
15:54 Tali Rosca (...said the talking cat)
15:54 Carl Metropolitan We are also Vaguely Victorian :)
15:54 Lindal Kidd This definition is linked to at the COU website: http://www.steampunk.com/what-is-steampunk/
15:55 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Lots of anarchronistic technology (says a steampunk automaton)
15:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen There's some mention in the land covenant about it being Victorian based and not to venture too far out of theme. That's more along the lines of don't be a glaring standout.
15:55 Carl Metropolitan Caledon also has lots of Cavorite, an anti-gravity material, that is not part of most steampunk novels or media.
15:56 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) H. G: Wells material :-)
15:56 Carl Metropolitan Yes, but we've gone a bit nuts with it :)
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Sky platforms below 500m should have some visible means of support -- propellers whirling or airbags or ....
15:56 Aylaria (emberell) Oh yes, I did actually run across that definition, though it wasn't through Caledon. I will keep all of those things in mind, thank you for the answers!
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Cavorite.... yes.
15:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Brianna Nitely has talked with me about doing a class on different steampunk cultures.
15:57 Carl Metropolitan Oh, that would be excellent!
15:57 Jayleden Miles And there has been debates in the past between Caledon residents of what is steampunk and what isn't so even among Caledonians there is not a 100% agreement.
15:58 Tali Rosca If you're looking for references, the webcomic "Girl Genius" is probably what comes closest in fantasy and steampunk blend.
15:58 Carl Metropolitan We tend towards the loose definition in general.
15:58 Aylaria (emberell) I for one would fine a class on all of the different steampunk cultures both illuminating and fascinating!
15:58 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) though it is addictive to read.
15:58 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Caledon is closer to fantasy version, with furry and tiny population.
15:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen And partly what shows up in Caledon is a turn toward civility.
15:59 Tempesta Clawtooth (tempesta62.clawtooth) How refreshing! :-)
15:59 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Places like Steelhead go more into direction of bleak industrial revolution.
15:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen And a lack of neon and garishnes.
15:59 Carl Metropolitan You can also check out the Steamlands wiki at
15:59 Carl Metropolitan http://steamlands.wikia.com/wiki/Steamlands_Wiki
15:59 Carl Metropolitan Though some information is very, very stale :)
16:00 Jayleden Miles Steelhead is also exploring new genres of late. Not sure how far Lunar plans to go with it.
16:00 Sandie Harbour I come here for the polite conversations
16:00 Phrynne wonders what Lindal's chair has been drinking, since it seems a bit tipsy
16:00 Jayleden Miles Cavorite Gin
16:01 Yako-Tsuki (yakotsuki) napping?
16:01 Lindal Kidd ulp
16:01 Josain Zsun Back to Tours, if I may.
16:01 Carl Metropolitan Well, I think we've answered that as best we can, and that's a good question to leave this session on.
16:01 Carl Metropolitan (as it is 4:00 SLT)
16:01 Carl Metropolitan Thank you all for coming!
16:02 Sandie Harbour Thank-you Deans
16:02 Yako-Tsuki (yakotsuki) Thank you ^^ I am glad I came here.
16:02 Tempesta Clawtooth (tempesta62.clawtooth) thank you all
16:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all.
16:02 Marley Harley (marleyharley) oh, my coach... or pumpkin!
16:02 Marley Harley (marleyharley) runs
16:02 KarasuTouji Thanks Deans :)
16:02 Aylaria (emberell) Thank you very much for taking the time to answer all of our questions!
16:02 Almari (almariport) Thanks Deans, it was very fruitful today
16:02 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Bedtime for me, unfortunately.