Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2015-07-12

15:06	Carl Metropolitan	I think we should get started. It looks like everyone who is coming is here.
15:06	Carl Metropolitan	Welcome to Q&A with the Deans.
15:06	Carl Metropolitan	Part one: we talk; Part two: you talk
15:07	Carl Metropolitan	So let's go to Part One and start with Larky and Commons!
15:08	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	Well, let's see. I sent out a very long Tutor update last night - some medium old news, some new, depending on the reader. I have several other notecards I'm working on. The plaza is sometimes quite busy. We had a large class through earlier.
15:08	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Today?
15:08	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	Phrynne seems to be recovering well and is doing a lot of thinking about projects she's got going and is planning.
15:08	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	No, I think that was yesterday.
15:09	Wordsmith Jarvinen	kk Thanks.
15:09	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Do we know from where?
15:09	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	Aylaria has temporarily left tutoring to work on the Fall Festival. And so, so much thanks to folks who have helped out for long extra hours in the past couple of weeks!
15:10	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	I would have to look it up. A RL university of some kind, I believe.
15:10	Lindal Kidd	There was some sort of class being held in the Village last week. It appeared to be a discussion among educators about virtual worlds
15:10	Carl Metropolitan	Have you heard anything else from Charlotte?
15:10	Josain Zsun	South Florida University
15:10	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Thanks, Josain.
15:10	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	Elfbiter heard from her. I'll let him recap if he likes.
15:10	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Charlotte was on earlier.
15:11	Lindal Kidd	I just now had an IM from her. She seems in good spirits, all things considered
15:11	Wordsmith Jarvinen	(background being that she was mugged RL)
15:11	Aylaria (emberell)	Charlotte checked in in the ISC today and mentioned her injury. She is holding together, and looking forward - at least as I spoke to her in IM.
15:11	Aylaria (emberell)	She's a tough bird
15:12	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	Xymbers was down in Oxbridge earlier. I think she just logged off.
15:12	Carl Metropolitan	Aylaria has a get well notecard for her if anyone hasn't signed and wants to.
15:12	Aylaria (emberell)	Mhm, just send me an IM if you'd like, I'll pass a copy
15:13	Gronk Seriman	Oh, how nice!
15:13	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	I think she was mainly herself. Recovery from several broken arm bones is going to take a while.
15:13	Gronk Seriman	owch!
15:13	Sandie Harbour	shakes her head :(
15:14	Carl Metropolitan	Lindal, any news from your area?
15:14	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	She did not mention whether the assailants had been apprehended or not.
15:14	Lindal Kidd	A potpourri. Someone put back the "Class in Session" sign in the Lecture Hall. Thank you, it's a handy feature.
15:14	Lindal Kidd	I fixed a problem with the freebie box in the Appearance Hall
15:15	Wordsmith Jarvinen	I did the one there and up here, although uphere is a bit nuanced.
15:15	Lindal Kidd	After last week's discussion, I moved the Bunnehs at the chat circle by the Lecture Hall
15:15	Lindal Kidd	and that snowballed
15:15	Wordsmith Jarvinen	The front wall is over a Caledon Commonwealth parcel.
15:15	Lindal Kidd	now we have a completely redecorated area
15:16	Wordsmith Jarvinen	And, a reason for more mythical catgirls to visit Oxbridge.
15:16	Gronk Seriman	It is sooo much better now! Thank you, Lindal!
15:16	Carl Metropolitan	Thank you for making the koi pond I requested
15:16	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	The additional options of the Avatar Infor cube _were_ nice.
15:16	Lindal Kidd	yes, I wanted to ask about that, thank you Elfbiter
15:16	Lindal Kidd	it used to give render weight
15:16	Lindal Kidd	and script count
15:16	Aylaria (emberell)	I found that very useful, too. Does it no longer do so?
15:17	Carl Metropolitan	Unfortunately whoever put the old cube there made it no mod and did not give me rights to move it.
15:17	Lindal Kidd	drat
15:17	Carl Metropolitan	Whenever someone does that and changes need to be made, the old item has to be returned.
15:17		Lindal Kidd nods
15:17	Carl Metropolitan	So I just replaced it with the closest thing I had
15:17	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Ask exactly what you want. Shouldn't be a prob to script it.
15:17	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	The plaza improvements are quite nice. I love the pond. Please remember to let Phrynne know when you make major changes to Grounds. Technically, it is her domain, as Dean of Commons.
15:17	Carl Metropolitan	If anyone has a script that does more, pleas let me know.
15:17	Carl Metropolitan	It is your domain, too.
15:18	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	Yes. We have drifted into taking on various responsibilities betweent he two of us. I mostly focus on tutors; she likes the other jobs - the landscaping and such, the freebies project, etc.
15:18	Carl Metropolitan	Speaking of stuff I can't move, Lindal, can you give me mod rights to your stuff.
15:19	Lindal Kidd	last item is an announcement for shoppers. It's Hair Fair season again. Go here for information: https://hairfair.wordpress.com
15:19	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Would be a minor type of script to put together Carl.
15:19	Lindal Kidd	of course, Carl
15:19	Carl Metropolitan	Thank you.
15:19	Carl Metropolitan	I want to make the new (and very helpful) third party viewer poster in the entrance hall match the others in the doorway in terms of a frame.
15:21	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Speak of viewers, I've noticed that two of the major "mostly text" viewers have lost support. Metabolt and Radagast.
15:21	Lindal Kidd	I heard Radagast had a recent update?
15:22	Lindal Kidd	someone mentioned it in the Firestorm support chat
15:22	Carl Metropolitan	Larky, can you give Wordsmith a breakdown of the split in commons responsibilities you and Phrynne have done so he can add that to the website?
15:22	Wordsmith Jarvinen	It might have, if community is taking over support.
15:22	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	I'd like to talk to Phrynne about taht before I do anything formal. We do discuss everything we do with the other. but yes, the three of us can talk.
15:23	Carl Metropolitan	Great.
15:23	Josain Zsun	Speaking of text, I was surprised when almost every attendee to this morning's class asked if it were in Voice. One even left because "Text is boring."
15:23	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Does look like a minor update was done to Radegast -- after the "road's end" post. http://radegast.org/wp/
15:24	Carl Metropolitan	That is sort of a cultural difference. Caledon operates nearly entirely on text.
15:24	Carl Metropolitan	Not all of SL does that.
15:24	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	I think the voice chat is still active withing the lecture hall..
15:24	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	And it shows in the address bar.
15:25	Gronk Seriman	I have my white dot right now.
15:25	Carl Metropolitan	Okay. On to me. I've talked to Aylaria, and she's going to take over planning and management of the fall fundraiser event. She is now the go to person on that. She is NOT taking over as Dean of Development. So any other stuff like that needs to go to me, still.
15:26	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	Woot, Woot!
15:26	Aylaria (emberell)	I've begun reaching out to the people involved on that end, and so far it seems to be good to go. A lot of folk haven't gotten back to me yet, but I'm hopeful it can stil ltake place
15:26	Carl Metropolitan	The patron program had someone drop out and Glorf Bulmer has stepped up to replace the person who had to leave.
15:27	Carl Metropolitan	Turnover was expected and planned for.
15:27	Wordsmith Jarvinen	kk Aylaria, I should talk to you then about some tasks I'd told Jayle I would do as well as any land questions or needs you have.
15:27	Carl Metropolitan	Though if anyone wants to sign up for our "waiting list" feel free :)
15:27	Aylaria (emberell)	Yes. I'll likely snag you after the Q&A here
15:27	Wordsmith Jarvinen	(looks at the foreclaws .... shouldn't be difficult)
15:28	Carl Metropolitan	I also made some changes to the entrance area this week. I should have waited for Phrynne, but I thought I should not bug her when she wasn't feeling well. So I will not make that mistake again.
15:28	Carl Metropolitan	Fortunately, she doesn't hate what I did, so it's mostly not going to change much.
15:29	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Speaking of land, it looks to me that the fountain owned by "mint" in front of the hall of avatar appearance isn't running. I tried (as mint) to reset scripts, but that was greyed out.
15:30	Carl Metropolitan	I will go check that.
15:30	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	It has not ran for some time now
15:30	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	At least for couple of weeks
15:30	Carl Metropolitan	Wordsmith? Your turn.
15:30	Wordsmith Jarvinen	If I "edit" I can see the invisible water streams.
15:31	Josain Zsun	The compass on the other statue/kiosk was inaccurate last time I checked.
15:31	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Not much since last week. Spent the early week down with post-airplane flu. Since then catching up on payroll, statistics, and posting Q&A's.
15:31	Carl Metropolitan	I just checked the fountain. It is running. I am not sure why you don't see it as on.
15:33	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Odd. To me it looked like it just had a residual trickle.
15:33	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Sounds like that's true for Elfbiter also.
15:33	Carl Metropolitan	That is all it ever had
15:33	Aylaria (emberell)	I haven't been hearing it on, lately, myself. I know it used to bother me
15:33	Carl Metropolitan	It's designed that way
15:34	Lindal Kidd	I don't see it running either
15:34	Gronk Seriman	The campus has been acting odd lately. A restart may be in order. Some of the benches in the Plaza have not shown up for me lately.
15:34	Carl Metropolitan	Let me go click it and make sure there is no control menu
15:34	Wordsmith Jarvinen	I think the menu is just for seating.
15:36	Carl Metropolitan	The fountain is doing all it ever did as far as I can tell
15:36	Carl Metropolitan	Okay. Let's take questions now!
15:37	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Oh one other thing. I did talk to Tali about the scheduling interface (moving to a true two-week).
15:37	Wordsmith Jarvinen	She said the back end and database parts are done, but she's had a lot to do at RL work and still needs to complete the user interface.
15:39	Aylaria (emberell)	I have a question, if I may
15:39	Carl Metropolitan	Please
15:39	Aylaria (emberell)	Does Oxbridge currently, or has it ever, done anythign of the sort of recurring staph photos?
15:40	Aylaria (emberell)	Staff photos, rather...
15:40	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Less infectious.
15:40	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	Please, no Staph!
15:40	Aylaria (emberell)	Yes, no taking pictures of staph. Not as fun
15:40	Carl Metropolitan	No. We have not ever done that.
15:40		Josain Zsun gasps and dons face mask
15:41	Wordsmith Jarvinen	What there are I'd guess are the photos on the 2nd floor of the Hall of Caledon.
15:41	Lindal Kidd	I'll take this on, Carl
15:41	Lindal Kidd	Everyone on staff, please send me a favorite photo of yourself
15:41	Carl Metropolitan	No, I think those are just photos from a contest a few years back in the Hall of Caledon.
15:42	Aylaria (emberell)	That's not quite what I meant! I meant like all of the staff together. I had a thought that that might be something that Oxbridge could do, just to help folk feel like more of a family. But I understand it'd be hard to put together
15:42	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	Which shape I should use? This one?
15:42	Aylaria (emberell)	I'm sure it'll take shape for you, EB
15:43	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	However, sort of a staff photograph _could_ be a splendid idea.
15:43	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	With names attached.
15:43	Lindal Kidd	oh, a group picture? We could do that. But I like the idea of a sort of staff directory too. The group pic could be in there
15:43	Aylaria (emberell)	Yeah, that was my thoguht. Staff photos with names of folks, and perhaps even a staff directory. Both of those would be a lovely thing to have!
15:43	Gronk Seriman	We could take it at the Annual Staff Picnic!
15:44	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	Buddha Center has that kind of staff directory, actually.
15:44	Lindal Kidd	NCI Kuula was working on a staff board, that would show which members were on duty.
15:44	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	Would that be on the website or on a wall somewhere?
15:44	Josain Zsun	Would we get sets of the wallet size to trade with friends and family?
15:45	Aylaria (emberell)	I was thinking it could go on the website, and maybe a wall at Oxbridge if there's room for it
15:45	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	White Tiger has a staff board. However, I have never seen it active. A lot of places do have something like that. How woul dit work?
15:45	Lindal Kidd	The White Tiger board just shows which people are on line, I think
15:45	Carl Metropolitan	I don't want it to devolve into a look how awesome we are gallery, though.
15:45	Lindal Kidd	there are lots of products like that on the MP.
15:46	Wordsmith Jarvinen	And online is not the same as on duty.
15:46	Lindal Kidd	the NCI board, you'd punch when you arrived, and it would show you were actually there
15:46	Aylaria (emberell)	Yeah, Carl. I was just thinking something small, taking note of the people who work here as we move forward.
15:46	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	Tasha has joked and I have put forth that I'd like some sort of Tutor of the Month recognition. I suppose that could fit in somewhere
15:47	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	Photograph of Tutors fishing from the koi pond? :-)
15:47	Carl Metropolitan	I have not seen the NCI board.
15:47	Carl Metropolitan	I will check it out.
15:47	Carl Metropolitan	A tutor of the month is well within your Common's remit.
15:47	Lindal Kidd	no one has, it was in development when I spoke to a staff member there last week
15:48	Carl Metropolitan	The website would be a good place
15:48	Wordsmith Jarvinen	nods...
15:48	Carl Metropolitan	Alternately, you could have a board with staff and tutor names with an "online" market next to them.
15:48	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	what about those of us who regularly change avatars? Would that be affected by staff photos?
15:48	Carl Metropolitan	I've seen those used
15:48	Lindal Kidd	one photo to a customer!
15:48	Carl Metropolitan	Link the board photo to the profile photo
15:49	Carl Metropolitan	So your profile photo is what shows up.
15:49	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Well, the photos wouldn't necessarily be in sync with the avatar at all times.
15:49	Carl Metropolitan	Sure, but they would be as close as you are likely to get.
15:50	Wordsmith Jarvinen	(thinks: my other avatar is still in the laundry)
15:50	Aylaria (emberell)	Man, I need to remember that. I can't, I left my keys in my other avatar...
15:50	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	Profile photos often do not have a fortuitous resolution..
15:50	Lyndon Boucher	why not just trying it - and see how it looks?
15:51	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	Number of stores have sciprts to show the profilepicture of the recent visitor but they often seem somewhat grainy.
15:51	Carl Metropolitan	Set the photo space in any such device to the aspect ratio of the profile portrait
15:51	Carl Metropolitan	We don't need big pictures
15:52	Carl Metropolitan	If they are over 0.5 x .065 they are probably too big
15:53	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	It might not be a big deal, but I value my privacy when I am not on campus. I don't mind if staff IMs me; sometimes that's necessary. But I'd rather not have visitors have free access to me.
15:53	Carl Metropolitan	Okay.
15:53	Josain Zsun	Paid access maybe?
15:53	Carl Metropolitan	Clearly this is something we need to think about more.
15:54	Wordsmith Jarvinen	That's why I said, online is not on-duty.
15:54	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	thank you word
15:54	Carl Metropolitan	Maybe a sign-in system is best.
15:54	Carl Metropolitan	I just hate the idea of something that seems like a time clock.
15:55	Wordsmith Jarvinen	The photos are separate. Who's onduty is whoever is there and wearing a staff tag.
15:55	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	from Phrynne: Ask them what about those of us who use multiple avatars. Do we have to have a mug book of every appearance? Why can’t we just have our tags?
15:55	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	She hasn't seen the whole conversation, by the way.
15:56	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	And people will adopt other appearances later.
15:56	Aylaria (emberell)	Maybe we can script the board to tell when a person wearing a tutor tag is on campus? That seems awefully complex and far to go, though....
15:56	Meora (menchor)	how about detecting if they are on the sim
15:56	Carl Metropolitan	I think we are overcomplicating this.
15:57	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	IMO sort of faculty picture could be nice.
15:57	Aylaria (emberell)	I'm not sure we need something like that - most of the tutors are active about helping when they're around, and not as statuesque as some places can be
15:57	Carl Metropolitan	Let's table this idea and think about it.
15:57	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Except, if they aren't wearing a group tag, they aren't on duty.
15:57	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	But the rest would require lots of scripting and dealing with various issues.
15:57	Aylaria (emberell)	Exactly, EB
15:57	Carl Metropolitan	Any other questions?
15:58	Lindal Kidd	I think perhaps we'd best just stick with a staff directory. There seems to be too much diversity of opinion about duty status indicators
15:58	Carl Metropolitan	We started late, so I'm happy to stay a bit late. Some of the other deans may have to run.
15:58	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Plus, if one is running a sensor to determine if someone is onsim and wearing a tag, it doesn't add much.
15:58	Hare Frankenstein (zenptiness)	There is an empty region in Caledon. Has it always been that way or is there a plan to fill it?
15:59	Carl Metropolitan	It will be filled if Desmond can rent out the space.
15:59	Wordsmith Jarvinen	It's recent, with the loss of Caledon Amber.
15:59		Josain Zsun with good Yadni's news.
15:59	Josain Zsun	Yadni's got a last minute reprieve. Another Paypal/LL communication issue with LL knee jerk response.
15:59	Carl Metropolitan	You have to be kidding me? Yadni's closed because of LL?
15:59	Carl Metropolitan	They are idiots.
15:59	Aylaria (emberell)	The same thing almost happened to Grendel's this week
16:00	Josain Zsun	Credit card with Paypal had expired.
16:00	Lindal Kidd	holy cow
16:00	Gronk Seriman	OMG!
16:00	Frigid Cryotank	<snort>
16:00	Lindal Kidd	you'd think LL would send an email...We couldn't Get Paid.
16:01	Frigid Cryotank	That would require a people to settle billing problems. Too much money.
16:01	Hare Frankenstein (zenptiness)	I'm pretty much a noob but is seems to be LL is all about $$ & don't really care about the quality of experience in SL
16:01	Carl Metropolitan	Someone needs to give LL a lists of "Vital to SL; Don't Fuck With" places.
16:01	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	PAyPal has had similar things elsewhere, not linked to LL...
16:02	Frigid Cryotank	<snort> LL is a business. Rule #1 of businesses: "Show me the money."
16:02	Carl Metropolitan	No. They are just really disorganized and have nearly no institutional memory.
16:02	Josain Zsun	They updated their CC info with PayPal, but it took a lot of actions to get LL to back off.
16:02	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	But LL should have learned that by now..
16:02	Carl Metropolitan	They look like they don't care because they are just that incompetent.
16:02	Lindal Kidd	well, they did save the SS Galaxy
16:02	Lindal Kidd	sort of.
16:02	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	Or the LL staff dealing with accounting is overzealous.
16:03	Josain Zsun	Or undertrained and off shore
16:03	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	I doubt the rest of the company even hears about those things.
16:03	Frigid Cryotank	I doubt they would want to.
16:04	Josain Zsun	Probably why it took a Contact your LL Friend email campaign.
16:04	Carl Metropolitan	Any last questions?
16:05	Hare Frankenstein (zenptiness)	anyone? I have another if nobody else does
16:05	Gronk Seriman	What is the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything?
16:05	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	42
16:05	Gronk Seriman	Thank you.
16:05	BadAss Fae (larkylouz)	16 thumbs, Gronk. 16 thumbs.
16:05	Josain Zsun	Do I hear 43?
16:05	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Hare?
16:06	Carl Metropolitan	Thanks for coming everyone!
16:06	Carl Metropolitan	See you all soon.
16:06	Aylaria (emberell)	Thank you for taking the time to keep us informed, and to answer our questions