Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2015-09-20

15:10 Aylaria (emberell) Hi, Carl, Andrea, and everyone else. Sorry to be late
15:10 Badass Fae (larkylouz) whispers hello to the beach ball
15:11 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Hi everyone!
15:11 Badass Fae (larkylouz) We haven't started yet, Ayla.
15:11 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) No accouncement yet
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen Samm, if you wish to bring your beachball up on stage...?
15:12 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) you ok samm?
15:12 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) looks like you are having spasms
15:12 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) oops
15:12 Phrynne moves over to make room
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen She was having a rotational moment, Miss Andrea.
15:12 Samm Florian is better now, thanks.
15:13 Aylaria (emberell) I suppose now we can say with both literal and figurative meaning, you're really on the ball, Samm
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen (makes a little more room for Samm)
15:15 Carl Metropolitan Samm is on a Philip Linden original beach ball from ancient SL
15:15 Samm Florian 'preciates th'classics.
15:15 Carl Metropolitan I don't have anything to say much this afternoon. Why don't we start with Larky and Pyrnne
15:16 Phrynne points at Larky
15:16 Badass Fae (larkylouz) We have a new apprentice tutor, Thawkk. Also, I talked to another person who I referred to Wordsmith, as she could become a teacher here. Other than that, same old same old
15:17 Carl Metropolitan Oh good.
15:17 Phrynne I have nothing new to report today.
15:17 Samm Florian is dizzy.
15:17 Phrynne just doing the usual.
15:18 Carl Metropolitan Wordsmith, Samm?
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen Between travel on Monday/Tuesday and a high fever starting Wednesday, I haven't much, but do have one small item.
15:21 Samm Florian So "stuff" wins over specificity?.
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen Fire Broono was kind enough to instrument his freebie items so that we could gather data on them. The graph is about 140 "takes" since the beginning of September.
15:21 Samm Florian Or mebbe it's th'two exclamation point…
15:21 Samm Florian *s
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen Or the landmarks.
15:22 Aylaria (emberell) There's been a shortage of exclamation points lately
15:22 Carl Metropolitan !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
15:22 Carl Metropolitan Does that help
15:22 Aylaria (emberell) Excitement!
15:22 Carl Metropolitan Feel free to copy and paste as needed.
15:22 Aylaria (emberell) Yes, now I have spares. Thank you Carl.
15:22 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Geez, guys, drama much?
15:22 Aylaria (emberell) laughs
15:23 Samm Florian He oughta try offerin' a "Parachute!!" and see if it changes th'rankings.
15:23 Phrynne The parachute is fun -- but it does not open until you are 50 meters from the ground
15:23 Phrynne no matter how high you start out.
15:23 Carl Metropolitan Can I put that script into my freebies in the Hall of Money and commerce?
15:24 Aylaria (emberell) So, don't use it for skydiving onto platforms at 51 or higher
15:24 Samm Florian Aww, but faceplantin' is fun!
15:24 Aylaria (emberell) Oh, yes, I keep forgetting... hehe
15:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes. two scripts. One to gather and send the stats. And a give script that doesn't give itself or the stats script.
15:26 Carl Metropolitan I can add those. Do you want those recorded?
15:26 Samm Florian Have any thoughts on what t'do with th'data?
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'll give you the scripts Carl.
15:27 Carl Metropolitan Thank you
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen The also was a Health Education Quorum meeting Wednesday morning.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen Some discussion of whether one could return to a gateway (answer seems to be yes).
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Was a couple mentions of foreign language visitors. Tender Skytower mentioned that before VWBPE it gets intense.
15:30 Carl Metropolitan Good point.
15:31 Samm Florian Whadya mean by "returnin' to a gateway"?
15:31 Carl Metropolitan LL was originally going to set the new CGs up so that if you left, you could never return, like the old Orientation Islands
15:31 Carl Metropolitan One of the many reasons we didn't want to be involved.
15:32 Samm Florian Yeah, that'd be pointless.
15:32 Badass Fae (larkylouz) I have been to the vaious social islands recently; it is not difficult to get there. They don't seem to be as crazy as they used to be.
15:32 Badass Fae (larkylouz) At least the one I was at.
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen It's rather like haggling, LL proposes something, the community responds, and if the leakage is too great LL changes their proposal.
15:33 Samm Florian That sounds…like a reasonable process, actually.
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen implicit haggling
15:33 Carl Metropolitan Yes. It may get to the point where we can even participate. I was supposed to write up a formal proposal this last week, but I had a huge case of "fuck LL. I don't care"
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen Sensuous Maximus (builders brewery) talked about using a ban list bot that removes those no long active in SL. Wacoede, what we've gotten from Linden Lab is that you can post offworld as long as it isn't publicly accessible.
15:36 Badass Fae (larkylouz) that would be helpful. I live for the day that the ban lists are searchable!
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, via Tender Skytower, Patch Linden apparent said that gateway sims can be rated as the organizations wishes.
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen Wait, our master list is. If you want more options.... SPEAK!
15:37 Samm Florian Woof!
15:37 Samm Florian Oops, sorry.
15:37 Samm's Typist is NOT a dog, nope.
15:37 Badass Fae (larkylouz) I'm speaking of the land tool, Wordsmith. The master list is great!
15:38 Phrynne woof!
15:38 Phrynne more options are always good.
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen You realize one can add and remove from the lists with scripting, but not list the list -- despite have permissions.
15:39 Badass Fae (larkylouz) I know. That land tool is just tedious.
15:40 Phrynne It's especially fun if you're walking around checking bans on several separate parcels.
15:40 x (chriscaos) excuse me.. what is the master list?
15:40 Samm Florian Th'Firestorm folks might consider fixin' that, if ya suggest a change.
15:41 Badass Fae (larkylouz) a list that the staff uses to track avatars if needed.
15:42 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) The badums are kept there
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen Larky and Phrynne maintain an over-all incident list with avatars, which includes dates of planned unbans.
15:42 Samm Florian Excuse me, I hafta leave in a minute and I had somethin' to add.
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen kk Samm
15:43 Samm Florian I'm collectin' ideas fer classes that we either need or wanna add to th'schedule. Gonna put up th'list somewhere, see if it'll inspire folks to step forward and say "yeah I'd like t'teach that!"
15:43 Samm Florian I dunno if it can go up on th'Oxbridge website, or if I'll put it up somewhere else. But a few folks've already sent me ideas so I thought I'd open th'floor.
15:43 Samm Florian pulls a lever and th'floor starts t'move…
15:43 Samm Florian Oh wait, can't do that up here. Never mind.
15:43 Phrynne eeps
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen No reason it can't go on the website.
15:44 Badass Fae (larkylouz) someone was reminiscing about a vehicle building class today. That sounded like fun
15:44 Samm Florian On th'list. :)
15:44 Badass Fae (larkylouz) You're way ahead of me, Samm
15:45 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
15:45 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Ihave a question. Is the Harvest Festival that Stereo Nacht is working on the same event that Aylaria is doing?
15:45 Aylaria (emberell) No
15:45 Samm Florian 'k, gotta go. Bye evrybuddy!
15:45 Aylaria (emberell) They're two different events
15:45 Badass Fae (larkylouz) bye samm
15:46 Samm Florian waves and scoots.
15:46 Badass Fae (larkylouz) bummer. I hope the dates are significantly different?
15:46 Aylaria (emberell) She's hosting her own events from a broader perspective celebrating harvest in Caledon as a whole, I think
15:46 Phrynne They are a week apart, I think
15:46 Aylaria (emberell) Let me check my notes here, I think I have those dates around
15:46 Badass Fae (larkylouz) I remember going last year.
15:47 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) there is a seperation of events
15:47 Phrynne I believe Stereo's festival is the one that was in Rothesay last year
15:47 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hers is the week before and the festival materail will stay up
15:47 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) for a week
15:49 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Greetings, Brian
15:50 Ololo Petya (olopierpa) Hallo Brian
15:50 Brian (mannadrop) Hello
15:50 Brian (mannadrop) sorry to be late
15:50 Aylaria (emberell) Looks as though I don't have the actual dates here. I'll get those from her as I can
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Meanwhile a push forward with some photo processing for Aylaria.
15:52 Aylaria (emberell) Oh, Word, did I send you Tali's photo for the event?
15:52 Badass Fae (larkylouz) no worries on my account, Aylaria.
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen I don't think you did, Aylaria.
15:52 Aylaria (emberell) I'll do that, then
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty
15:52 Aylaria (emberell) RL's been RL, haha, as it tends to be! Has kept me quite overwhelmed here
15:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen It does that.
15:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen i may be able to chip in a bit more time than I'd thought.
15:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other questions in these remaining minutes?
15:56 Carl Metropolitan Any final questions or comments from anyone today?
15:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Notes that the Thera eruption occurred in the mid second millenium BCE.
15:59 Aylaria (emberell) furiously takes notes
16:00 Phrynne recalls her great-grandmother look up from gardening to see Vesuvius erupt in the mid-1800s
16:00 Badass Fae (larkylouz) those physicists are now tracking volcanos in mid-seconds? Wow
16:00 Jorge Serapis once dropped a Stebuen glass ashtray on his big toe
16:00 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) thinks Platon's proto-science fiction is still thought by some believers to be based on destruction of a real place.
16:01 Brian (mannadrop) wonders what time dough nuts will be served....
16:02 Carl Metropolitan See you all soon
16:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen We have with that, seemingly adjourned.
16:02 Phrynne thank you all for coming
16:02 Aylaria (emberell) Thank you all, as always, for taking the time to keep us informed and to answer the questions we did not even know we had