Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2015-04-05

15:02 Carl Metropolitan Welcome to Q&A with the Deans.
15:03 Carl Metropolitan We are here to answer your questions about Caledon, Oxbridge, Second Life, and anything else.
15:04 Carl Metropolitan First let me take a moment for any reports from Wordsmith, Jayleden, or Larky (filling in for David) from their areas.
15:04 Carl Metropolitan Wordsmith?
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen Not a lot to report, a lot this past week has been coordinating. For example the security briefing that Josain has arranged.
15:05 Carl Metropolitan I'm going to ask him about that in a moment.
15:05 Carl Metropolitan Jayleden?
15:06 Jayleden Miles We have gained some new sponsors and had some past sponsors have renewed their sponsorships.
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen Good work on that.
15:07 Jayleden Miles thank you
15:07 Carl Metropolitan She's been doing excellent work.
15:07 Carl Metropolitan Larky, do you have anything to report from Commons?
15:09 Carl Metropolitan Weren't you going to take a break soon for a week or so?
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen She seems to be communing with that box
15:10 Carl Metropolitan Thank you.
15:11 Carl Metropolitan Josain, you have been organizing a session on security with Rockcliffe. Do want to say anything related to that?
15:11 Josain Zsun The workshop will be Thursday (4/9) evening at 6PM SLT at Rockcliffe University.
I can give a Notecard with LM if interested.

The goal being to prepare those here for more effective & efficient response in the event of an even.

What you would like the class to cover regarding counter-griefing events? Please let me know when you RSVP.

6 RSVPs sofar.
15:11 Josain Zsun event
15:12 Carl Metropolitan Thank you.
15:12 Larkylouz I strongly encourage any plaza staff who do not have land management skills to attend!
15:12 Carl Metropolitan And to RSVP to Josain!
15:12 Larkylouz yes
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen I think the basic goal is to have people stay calm, do what they have the powers to do, and avoid doing damage.
15:13 Carl Metropolitan Thank you for helping to organize this.
15:13 Carl Metropolitan Okay. Time for general question, comments, and suggestions.
15:13 Glorf Bulmer Josain, will you be providing transcripts to others in inconvenient time zones?
15:14 Josain Zsun I'm hoping to capture the chat.
15:14 Glorf Bulmer thanks Josain.
15:13 Larkylouz could you
15:13 Larkylouz comment briefly on the suicide griefing notecard I was sesnding around yestereday, please?
15:14 Carl Metropolitan Oh yes!
15:15 Carl Metropolitan There is a notecard going around about "suicide bomber griefers" who are supposedly able to use some sort of misshapen mesh item to "permanently destroy a sim and the avatars on it"
15:15 Carl Metropolitan This, of course, is nonsense.
15:15 Carl Metropolitan All such an item could do would be to crash a sim.
15:16 Carl Metropolitan And sim crasher scripts/items/etc have been something SL has dealt with for years.
15:16 Carl Metropolitan I would ignore that notecard.
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen As far as I know, there can be mega-sculpties, but not mega-mesh.
15:17 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Well, somebody is going to try. And It maybe that whoever wrote that misunderstood something.
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Since sculpties are just a visual transformation of a prim (and there are megaprims)
15:18 Jayleden Miles Griefers work on fear. People will believe 'warnings' and griefers tend to know that. Notecards like that are fear creating.
15:18 Glorf Bulmer heard something the other day about griefing using a tangle of long, thin mesh objects - sounds like it could be an exaggeration of that.
15:18 Glorf Bulmer Tales grow in the telling.
15:19 Carl Metropolitan Correct. Just ignore that. There is nothing anyone -- other than LL -- can do to permanently destroy a sim or an avatar.
15:19 Carl Metropolitan I will brb. I have to estate ban someone.
15:20 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hm. The one ninja griefer who caged me also used elongation script for avatar deformation.
15:20 Glorf Bulmer I still remember the time someone offered to "Blast" ISC chat unless we paid him 500 Lindens.
15:20 Josain Zsun Reading a megaprim discussion earlier made me search for mine. I think I deleted them when the max prim size was increased.
15:20 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I think I have some left.
15:20 Glorf Bulmer When he didn't get the money, he posted some sort of hex dump into the chat. I think he thought it would magically break the channel somehow!
15:21 Josain Zsun I have a couple used in different builds.
15:21 Josain Zsun I disliked they would shrink when building
15:21 Carl Metropolitan Wow. I went to Oxbridge to ban an exhibitionist/sex troll and when I come back I can not see the audience.
15:22 Carl Metropolitan Just empty benches!
15:22 Meora (menchor) we all left
15:22 Carl Metropolitan I will assume you all are still here.
15:22 Jayleden Miles They are.
15:22 Josain Zsun It was a Transparency Bomb
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen They are. I had some of that happen last week. Had to relog.
15:22 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Lots of things to load...
15:22 Jayleden Miles Well deformer shapes for avatars will make some avatars appear misshapen or elongated.
15:22 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) We are just digital ghosts now i guess
15:22 Larkylouz Larky is fading, fading, fading away from too much fun
15:24 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I had to relog to get non-elongated.
15:24 Gronk Seriman We can't lie or fib now. Carl will see right through us!
15:24 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Hi phrynne
15:24 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) wb
15:24 Carl Metropolitan Okay. Any questions, comments, suggestions?
15:25 Larkylouz LOL Gronk
15:25 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) No news about building contest possibilities? Some people were asking about that side in the Village...
15:25 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) *site
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, Elf, any interest in organizing such?
15:26 Carl Metropolitan I need to get Desmond to decide on what the status of it shall be.
15:26 Carl Metropolitan Aevale no longer needs it
15:26 Larkylouz Elfbiter? I am missing part of the conversation here.
15:27 Larkylouz And Word was missing mine when I was seated further back.
15:27 Carl Metropolitan But if we take it over, we probably have to pay tier on it.
15:27 Carl Metropolitan As we are already getting the sandbox and the stone circle free in the Village, i would not ask for that parcel as well.
15:27 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Unfortuantely not at the moment.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen Larky, the edges of this building are not in the same parcel as the rest of it. There's a wee bit of overlap.
15:29 Larkylouz thx
15:29 Jayleden Miles Carl, one of the sponsors was asking me if the Oxbridge Shop was in my department and I said I didn't know and suggested she ask you about the shop.
15:29 Gronk Seriman How does the sandbox work? Is the building over Oxbridge, but the sandbox itself over the Village?
15:30 Carl Metropolitan That was Martini's initiative.
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes, exactly Gronk.
15:30 Carl Metropolitan The sandbox is over public land in the Village and uses prims from the surplus and public land prims (Commonwealth land)
15:31 Carl Metropolitan Jaylden, I think the store falls under your department now.
15:31 Carl Metropolitan If you need to have anything moved, let me know.
15:31 Carl Metropolitan If you need, we can probably get you Martini's mod rights to support that.
15:32 Jayleden Miles Ok. Sounds good.
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen While I think of it, Carl has paid Oxbridge tier through 4 August. It's at a higher rate, about 74k per quarter (13 weeks).
15:35 Larkylouz I hope that's L$ and not USD?
15:35 Carl Metropolitan Yes. We are now paying high enough tier so that Desmond no longer subsidized the region's costs (save for the land occupied by the library)
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes, that's $L.
15:35 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) There is the thing with the library parcel used for griefing still...
15:35 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Raises hand?
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen And that change was not unexpected.
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen To my knowledge, the library is being negotiated.
15:37 Carl Metropolitan Yes. That's being worked on.
15:37 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) How are we set on the money being collected now that the tier has gone up?
15:37 Larkylouz thanks again to Josain for his help on that.
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen We are still in good shape with an additional Fall fundraiser planned.
15:38 Jayleden Miles One way, is that I've opened sponsorships to being able to pay more than 13weeks at a time. They can pay for a years sponsorship if they like.
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen And you're booking all of that, yes?
15:40 Carl Metropolitan I am about to go bug people for this month's patron donations, too :)
15:40 Carl Metropolitan Send out reminders to everyone who has not paid yet.
15:40 Jayleden Miles Yes.
15:40 Carl Metropolitan We are set up well
15:40 Carl Metropolitan I am just waiting for Wordsmith and others to have time to go spend it on more classes!
15:41 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Any new news on replacement staff?
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen Some good suggestions.
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen And some recent staff pinged and not necessarily responding.
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen RL can play havoc.
15:42 Larkylouz Were you asking about Dean staff, Andrea?
15:42 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Overall staffing?
15:43 Jayleden Miles No one has volunteered to be my assistant...guess after what happened to that last one it's scared everyone off.
15:43 Carl Metropolitan What happened to the last one? I wasn't aware you had one before here?
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen I've been pinch-hitting for some of the simpler "engines" tasks, letting Tali work on finishing up more involved projects.
15:43 Morpho (morpho65) Aw, if I was on at the right times, I'd assist you Jay!
15:43 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I am unfamiliar with how many people are needed to runthe COU properly and was wondering about our staffng needs
15:44 Jayleden Miles They made him a full dean. (Lucien was my assistant when I was dean of education)
15:45 Jayleden Miles Really - there is no 'time to be on' requirements. It's more about communication as to what is going on. Most of my communications with folks is through notecards.
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen We do need an assistant for Jayle, as well as a new Dean and Assist Dean of Engines.
15:46 Tempesta Clawtooth (tempesta62.clawtooth) how does one learn the pre-reqs to become staff?
15:46 Carl Metropolitan The Dean of Engines job does not have to be a Dean level job if possible volunteers don't want that level of responsiblity.
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, it will be good as David is able to come back to commons (and not before he is ready and able).
15:46 Carl Metropolitan We are happy to call you Mechanic of Engines!
15:47 Barbara Collazo what is Engines?
15:47 Jayleden Miles Folks who want to be tutors need to speak to Larky
15:47 Carl Metropolitan "Engines" = coding and web stuff for Oxbridge
15:47 Barbara Collazo nods--thank you
15:47 Carl Metropolitan Engines is a reference to the Analytical Engine of Charles Babbage.
15:47 Jayleden Miles To be a professor speak to Wordsmith
15:48 Jayleden Miles As for deans speak to Carl
15:51 Gronk Seriman Did I hear earlier that a Tutor Meeting was scheduled?
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Tempesta, often staff start out as tutors, to get to know us and vice versa.
15:51 Tempesta Clawtooth (tempesta62.clawtooth) thank you
15:52 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Sitting near a certain bench, oftentimes.
15:53 Carl Metropolitan Any final questions?
15:53 Glorf Bulmer If you hang around and try to be useful for long enough, you get drawn in....
15:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen There are exceptions to that, but often it's with people who have worked with staff as unofficial tutors.
15:54 Josain Zsun To be liked, just give me lots of L$. ;-)
15:54 Gronk Seriman wishes this Alternate Lecture Hall had a Class Schedule Board.
15:55 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) thinks it'd be a good idea
15:55 Carl Metropolitan Okay. I think that's it for today. I need for the deans and Larky to stay behind for a brief discussion, if you don't mind.
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen We can do the schedule kiosk, Elf.
15:56 Larkylouz okay