| 15:01 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Yay! Samm made it. |
| 15:01 |
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Samm Florian waves. |
| 15:02 |
Phrynne |
c'mon up, Samm! plenty of room |
| 15:02 |
Samm Florian |
Like, on stage? |
| 15:02 |
Phrynne |
Yes |
| 15:02 |
Samm Florian |
:o |
| 15:02 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Yes, on stage! |
| 15:02 |
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Badass Fae (larkylouz) places a flower for Samm to sit on |
| 15:02 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
No sign of Lindal and Carl ... YET. But we'll start anyway because starting seems the thing to do. |
| 15:02 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Do you need a chair? |
| 15:02 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
If you like |
| 15:03 |
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Samm Florian is good, thanks. :) |
| 15:03 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
:^) |
| 15:03 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Do the Deans of Commons have anything to say in common or otherwise? |
| 15:03 |
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Samm Florian can't promise not t'poof early. |
| 15:03 |
Phrynne |
I have one announcement |
| 15:04 |
Phrynne |
We are planning to have an Advent Calendar in Oxbridge this year, to give away gifts from Dec. 1-24. |
| 15:04 |
Phrynne |
But that means we need to have gifts to give away. |
| 15:04 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Wait! Was that an announcement already and then another? |
| 15:04 |
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Phrynne looks sidewise at Wordsmith. |
| 15:05 |
Phrynne |
(not done yet, sorry) |
| 15:05 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
(quiets down before unleashing the Wrath of Phrynne) |
| 15:05 |
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Badass Fae (larkylouz) giggles behind her hand. |
| 15:06 |
Phrynne |
I'd like to have things be on the theme of "What would make someone's Second Life even better?" -- so that things aren't just discarded after the holidays. Something fun, or useful |
| 15:06 |
Phrynne |
So -- If you make things in SL, and would like to donate something for this, please contact me. |
| 15:06 |
Samm Florian |
So mebbe practical-but-unflashy things like radar HUDs and stuff? |
| 15:07 |
Phrynne |
That would work. |
| 15:07 |
Phrynne |
Fun stuff and practical stuff. |
| 15:07 |
Phrynne |
Not just candy canes and snowmen. |
| 15:07 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Well, maybe candy canes and snowmen, if they work fancy! |
| 15:07 |
Phrynne |
It would have to be full perms when it's given to me -- it would be made no-transfer for the calendar. |
| 15:07 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
I bet you could make some sort of really amazing super candy cane, hehe |
| 15:08 |
Phrynne |
And after the holidays, if the creators agree, we would like to put the gifts in boxes as freebies in the Railroad Station. |
| 15:08 |
Phrynne |
or on the white gazebo. |
| 15:08 |
Phrynne |
which would help to update our freebie supply. |
| 15:08 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
It also seems to me that, even tho an advent calendar has Christian religious connotations, that this would be an excellent place to create gifts from all the other winter holiday traditions and cultures. |
| 15:09 |
Phrynne |
Yes! Definitely! |
| 15:09 |
Phrynne |
I do not want this to be about religion at all -- but about the end of one year, the beginning of another, and good things to come. |
| 15:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Since after all, the observances at that time of year were occurring long before Christians usurped them. |
| 15:09 |
Phrynne |
So, anyway, contact me -- and spread the word if you know someone who makes good things who might like to give things away. |
| 15:10 |
Phrynne |
I will be contacting all the people still in SL who have given freebies for Oxbridge in the past, but there are not that many of them. |
| 15:10 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Their names would remain on their gifts, if I'm not mistaken, so it is a way to get some free publicity. |
| 15:11 |
Phrynne |
The names would remain on. I'm not certain if we would leave LMs, but if someone wanted to put a notecard about how a gift works in with it, there could be a LM on that. |
| 15:11 |
Phrynne |
to go with Oxbridge's policy on no advertising. |
| 15:11 |
Phrynne |
That's all I have. |
| 15:12 |
Phrynne |
Oh -- btw -- send me a notecard, because my IMs get capped really easily. |
| 15:12 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Phrynne were you at a place with those interaction numbers where you wanted to share them? |
| 15:12 |
Phrynne |
I can, if you want. |
| 15:13 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Carl made a complete set of mesh dressing rooms, which Phrynne and I have put in place. There is also a 'temporary' one that we will be able to use later after more development. that will be a resource for folks who need more privacy, for whatever reason. |
| 15:13 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Sure, it's an indication of what stalwarts the tutors are. |
| 15:13 |
Phrynne |
All right. |
| 15:14 |
Phrynne |
When people misbehave at Oxbridge, and we have to eject or ban them, we keep records. I've gone through the records since last December, when I came on as a professor, up through August. |
| 15:14 |
Phrynne |
For the purposes of this, I'm counting the number of people with whom we have had adverse encounters at Oxbridge within each month. |
| 15:14 |
Phrynne |
I'm not counting the number of incidents, only the people. |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
January --34 |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
(so about one a day, with a couple extra) |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
February --24 |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
March --38 |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
spring break, I think |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
April -- 30 |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
May -- 50 |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
June -- 35 |
| 15:16 |
Phrynne |
July -- 39 |
| 15:16 |
Phrynne |
August -88 |
| 15:16 |
Phrynne |
That last includes nine incidents where the same individual caused difficulties. |
| 15:16 |
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Samm Florian apologizes; that was much bigger'n I thought. |
| 15:16 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
There've aready been quite a few this month, too. |
| 15:16 |
Phrynne |
August was crazy time, really. |
| 15:17 |
Phrynne |
I haven't tallied September yet. |
| 15:17 |
Phrynne |
Also -- this is individuals. Some of them were ejected more than once, then banned for a few days, then unbanned, then banned again for other bad behavior. |
| 15:17 |
Phrynne |
Let's just say that the deans and tutors have been kept very busy. |
| 15:18 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
So, a big thank you to Phrynne, Larky, and all the tutors who deal with people who can't behave when asked to and not infrequently resort to verbal abuse. |
| 15:18 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Oxbridge couldn't run without the Tutors. And those Deans and Professors who spend time in the plaza do it at the expense of any other work they may be responsible for. |
| 15:19 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Larky, Did you have anything? |
| 15:20 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Just the comment about the dressing rooms. I have done a bit of paperwork, but nothing to share. |
| 15:21 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Samm, any comments or observations (apart from I'm slow getting you a list of teachers/classes)? |
| 15:22 |
Samm Florian |
Well, I wanna put together a list of class ideas that we could use teachers for, and mebbe a list of folks who've expressed a desire to teach or even jes substitute. |
| 15:22 |
Samm Florian |
And make it all publicly available so folks can see it and say "hey, that'd be a neat course, I'd like t'try to teach that" |
| 15:22 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I've got notes on some of that, but feel free to contribute more. |
| 15:23 |
Samm Florian |
I need a place t'store it too, like a webpage or somethin'. On th'Oxbridge website would be helpful. |
| 15:24 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
That's a great idea, Samm. |
| 15:24 |
Samm Florian |
Oh yeah, and Geoff Xenobuilder asked me if Oxbridge was gonna set up one-a these new "Experiences" |
| 15:24 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The public part, yes. I've also verified the info on the deans Google account (I'll send that out). |
| 15:25 |
Samm Florian |
We can hash that all th'details. |
| 15:26 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
A little demon that pokes a pitchfork at those who use certain vocabulary words to teachers and tutors? |
| 15:26 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Perhaps a land shark |
| 15:26 |
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Phrynne wonders if pitchforks count as weapons for purposes of the Behavior Notecard |
| 15:27 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Can the demon be called a Tiny Badass? Please, o please? |
| 15:27 |
Samm Florian |
Are we talkin' 'bout experiences here? |
| 15:27 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Ooooh! |
| 15:27 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Well the was actually pathfinding. |
| 15:28 |
Samm Florian |
Seems like experiences mostly letya avoid askin' fer permission lotsa differnt times, and provides fer some persistent data. Might be good fer the Quest. |
| 15:28 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Do they have a torch in adition to pitchfork? |
| 15:28 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That's something to think about, both in what an experience would be and who might create it. |
| 15:28 |
Samm Florian |
Geoff said ya need a premium member to set it up. |
| 15:29 |
Samm Florian |
Anyway, thought I'd mention it. |
| 15:29 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Glad you did. |
| 15:29 |
Samm Florian |
And that's my piece. Go ahead. |
| 15:30 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I've been able to squeeze a little more development time in on the CAT scripts, working now on the watchtower script. |
| 15:30 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Watchtower? Where they land, or a central guidance point? |
| 15:31 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That basically communicates with a ship by requesting its own URL from the sim, rezzes a ship when needed, and can tell a stuck ship to die. |
| 15:31 |
Phrynne |
As I recall, the old script kept the ship there if someone was in it. |
| 15:31 |
Phrynne |
It would not die unless they left. |
| 15:32 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The underlying problem is that a URL can become invalid for various reasons including restarts, and sometimes the restart notification to the script seemingly fails. |
| 15:33 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
So basically tightening up the logic and self-checking so we don't get the many ships rezzed again. |
| 15:33 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
I do remember getting stuck in the sky in occasion. |
| 15:33 |
Samm Florian |
Ya could use a remote server t'handle th'communication mebbe? |
| 15:34 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
It does, basically a DDNS on the Google apps engine (DDNS = dynamic DNS). |
| 15:34 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
So the watchtower gets a URL, registers it on the DDNS, and the ship can as for the watchtower's URL from the DDNS. |
| 15:34 |
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Aylaria (emberell) wonders if this conversation wil lbe available in english later |
| 15:35 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
;^) |
| 15:35 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
DNS = Directory Name Server |
| 15:35 |
Samm Florian |
I reckon you could do it without requestin' a URL from th'sim at all, if ya had an external server runnin' CGI stuff. |
| 15:36 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Anyway, about 80% done with that script and the there's the other side script for the ship itself. |
| 15:36 |
Samm Florian |
But that's probly got its own hassles and risks and all that, and mebbe not worth th'effort. |
| 15:37 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
It is another way to go at it, but I'm hoping this works. |
| 15:37 |
Samm Florian |
Me too! |
| 15:37 |
Samm Florian |
Oh wait, is th'DDNS thing new? |
| 15:37 |
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Phrynne looks forward to touring Caledon from the comfort of a CAT again. |
| 15:38 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Then there's creating a nonphysical vehicle to use for creating trajectory information (the path the real ship follows). |
| 15:39 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Well, the DDNS was in Kaluura's scripts. I haven't changed that, but I did find the source for creating it as a discussion on the SL wiki. |
| 15:40 |
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Samm Florian nods. |
| 15:40 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Darien_Caldwell/HTTP-DNS |
| 15:41 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
So now I know the list of commands it responds to and can get or change the routes. |
| 15:42 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That's the good news. The sadder news is that Josain decided to quit teaching his class after a former student copied it for teaching at NCI. |
| 15:43 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Is it possible to get a copy from him, with his blessing, for someone else to use? I can ask him, but I may not be the best one at the moment. |
| 15:43 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And apparently the NCI group decided Josain's cross post to their group was spam. |
| 15:44 |
Phrynne |
That's unfortunate, since we let NCI advertise their class on COUG. |
| 15:44 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
NCI politics are known to be ..... complicated. |
| 15:44 |
Samm Florian |
Is he mad at us 'cause of it? Or jes "disgusted at SL"? |
| 15:45 |
Samm Florian |
I could go over'n picket if ya like. |
| 15:45 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I think just feels undercut and his student count has dropped. |
| 15:45 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
LOL |
| 15:46 |
Phrynne |
everyone's student count has dropped; that happens in September. |
| 15:46 |
Samm Florian |
Yah, I had two weeks in a row with nobuddy. |
| 15:46 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And you can ask, Larky. |
| 15:46 |
Samm Florian |
Any chance we could coax him back, ya reckon? |
| 15:46 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Perhaps. |
| 15:46 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
He had a few students this morning, I hjadn't realized he had stopped teaching |
| 15:47 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
I mena, a few folk came for the class |
| 15:47 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Right. I'd posted cancel prims last night, knowing it would be a push to get the schedule update in to show before his class. |
| 15:48 |
Samm Florian |
If he's worried 'bout nobuddy comin', mebbe he could do it once a month or somethin'. |
| 15:49 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I'm flexible with that idea. I think it's a good class to have and I'm sorry to see it fold. |
| 15:49 |
Samm Florian |
With th'two-week schedule we got now, I reckon we can accommodate occasional classes like that a lot more easily. |
| 15:49 |
Samm Florian |
'Cause there's at least a week's worth of warnin'. |
| 15:50 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Yes and no, until I can do more with the next week than just cancel. |
| 15:50 |
Samm Florian |
Ohhh. OK, thought th'schedule was more flexible'n that. |
| 15:51 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Possibly, once Josain cools down, he can be coaxed back. However, I would respect his distance at the moment. |
| 15:51 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
It's the new interface I'm hoping Tali finishes. Then it will be. |
| 15:51 |
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Samm Florian nods. |
| 15:52 |
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Samm Florian goes afk fer a bit… |
| 15:52 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
. Questions on anything? |
| 15:53 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
OR rather, this is the period where the audience can ask their questions, assuming they're still awake |
| 15:53 |
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Aylaria (emberell) eyes the crowd |
| 15:54 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
They ARE very quiet. Maybe they thought you were sizing them up for snacks. |
| 15:54 |
Phrynne |
*hears crickets* |
| 15:55 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
You know, they're only easier to catch when they're asleep |
| 15:55 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
the best way not to be a snack for a dragon is to get her talking - questions help! |
| 15:55 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Definitely. |
| 15:55 |
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Badass Fae (larkylouz) is cracking up over here. |
| 15:56 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
A dragon with vocabulary in her mouth (I'm not going to say Words) isn't putting anything else in it. |
| 15:56 |
Samm Florian |
It's 'cause I'm on stage, I reckon. |
| 15:56 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Stunned silence by the amazing work of the deans. It's a common affliction. Hehehehe |
| 15:56 |
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Samm Florian grins. |
| 15:57 |
Drazion |
............... I am personally not sure what kind I should even be asking to be quite frank |
| 15:57 |
Drazion |
of question* |
| 15:57 |
Samm Florian |
So ya should ask "What kinda question should I be askin'?" |
| 15:57 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Anything about Oxbridge, SL in general, ... |
| 15:57 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
You can ask anything. We'll eat you if it is inappropriate! |
| 15:57 |
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Badass Fae (larkylouz) claps her hand over her mouth in horror. |
| 15:57 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Anything! Basic questions on SL, complex questions about Oxbridge, anythign in between. We can even handle meaning of life stuff, too, but they might just throw numbers at you |
| 15:57 |
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Phrynne is suddenly not hungry at all. |
| 15:58 |
Drazion |
I have none since it is actually my first time here oxbridge know nothing about this place and simply crusing most adult sims here in sl on my own |
| 15:58 |
Drazion |
cruising* |
| 15:58 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
We do /try/ not to eat the students that mouth off. We're down to most students not eaten this semester, too! |
| 15:58 |
Phrynne |
If you're cruising adult sims, you're a little off course; Oxbridge is General, and most of Caledon is Moderate. |
| 15:58 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I'm told the COLT (Caledon Oxbridge Little Testship) is getting some use. |
| 15:59 |
Phrynne |
People *love* riding it. |
| 15:59 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
It is. I see folk riding it from time to time |
| 15:59 |
Samm Florian |
Nice of ya t'drop by, Drazion. :) |
| 15:59 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
it's quite popular as a little thing |
| 15:59 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
I think it's a wonderful addition to the campus, too, just a lvoely little novelty introduction to the variouskinds of ways avatars can eperience SL |
| 15:59 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
MAybe we can have a little sign or such mentioning that there are similar things around SL, and how they are used? |
| 15:59 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I'll likely improve it a bit and keep it going even after the CATs are cruising the skys again. |
| 15:59 |
Samm Florian |
I hafta get goin'. C'y'all later! |
| 15:59 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
I know the mainland has vehicles like that |
| 16:00 |
Drazion |
thanks for the compliment samm |
| 16:00 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thanks, Samm. |
| 16:00 |
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Samm Florian waves and scoots. |
| 16:01 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Well, seems time to adjourn. |
| 16:01 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Possibly. IT might be worht considering a little informational sign for the COLTs if they're to stay |
| 16:01 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Until next week, Thank you all. |
| 16:01 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
I think they can be used as learning tools, too! |
| 16:01 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Bedtime for me. |
| 16:01 |
Phrynne |
good night, Mr. Elfbiter |
| 16:01 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
But for now, it's been a good meeting |
| 16:02 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Be seeing you. |
| 16:02 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Well, I did think of: Ride the COLT. Cruise over Oxbridge. Perfectly safe. Perfectly. We're sure we've fixed the exploding fuel problem. |
| 16:02 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Good night, Mr. Elfbiter. thank you to everyone else. |
| 16:02 |
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Aylaria (emberell) grins, "That might be /too/ honest, Word." |
| 16:03 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Thank you, as always, for taking the time to keep us informed and answer our rather silent questions |
| 16:03 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
you're welcome. |
| 16:03 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
All of you, you know? You do good work here |
| 16:04 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
As do you, Ayla. As do you. |
| 16:04 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Anyways, I'm off for now. Family and such to tend to. Take care, here - I'll be around by IM if there's anything that might be helped ^.=.^ |