| 15:01 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Welcome to Q&A With the Deans. We start out by giving brief reports from our areas of responsibility, then take questions from everyone on anything having to do with SL, Caledon, Oxbridge, or anything else you think we can help you with. |
| 15:01 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Everyone is moving their chairs away from me. This is a bad sign. |
| 15:01 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Was leaving room for Lindal |
| 15:01 |
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Lindal Kidd smiles and waves |
| 15:02 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I feel so much more social now. |
| 15:02 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Larky, Phrynne, why don't you two start with Commons? |
| 15:03 |
Phrynne |
I've been continuing to work on the Advent Calendar, and on finding suitable seasonal decoration for the campus, and helping people in the plaza. |
| 15:03 |
Phrynne |
(and elsewhere) |
| 15:03 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
I don't have anything. I've been working on paperwork, mostly, and spending time in the plaza. |
| 15:03 |
Carl Metropolitan |
All very important things to be done. |
| 15:04 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Lindal, what about you? Anything interesting to report from Information area? |
| 15:04 |
Lindal Kidd |
not much! I've started going through the Faculty Kit and updating it (again!) but I'm quite a ways from being done. Well, it's never ALL done, but you know what I mean. |
| 15:05 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Rather like dishes. |
| 15:05 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Were you able to use the two scams posters I made for the Hall of Money & Commerce? Do I need to re-do parts of them. |
| 15:05 |
Lindal Kidd |
I have those. I'll put them in the Hall this evening |
| 15:07 |
Carl Metropolitan |
No hurry. Were you able to open the source files? |
| 15:07 |
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Lindal Kidd blushes. |
| 15:08 |
Lindal Kidd |
They're still in email! |
| 15:08 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Tell me if you need another format. |
| 15:09 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Okay. I've been able to spend more time in world this week. I've been following up on any late payments for the patron program and we are almost completely up to date now. |
| 15:09 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Ravelli delivered another mesh item for Oxbridge, and our Corners Under the Towers between halls have now been replaced with new mesh from him. |
| 15:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Good. |
| 15:10 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
On both counts. |
| 15:10 |
Carl Metropolitan |
We still need one new dean. A Dean of Development to work with me on fundraising. |
| 15:10 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Please contact me if you are interested. |
| 15:10 |
Carl Metropolitan |
We also technically need a Dean of Engines, but Wordsmith has been doing that so long, that anyone starting there, will probably be his Assistant at first. |
| 15:11 |
Carl Metropolitan |
As he has all our institutional knowledge on our IT stuff |
| 15:11 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Which I need to backup again. |
| 15:11 |
Carl Metropolitan |
And with that, let me pass over to Wordsmith. |
| 15:13 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Other than some discussion with other deans, I've not anything explicit for the week. I did pay Oxbridges Tier for another 13 weeks (up to 26 Jan). |
| 15:13 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
What I have worked on is refreshing some of my Blender and mesh knowledge in preparation for updating my mesh into class. |
| 15:14 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And perhaps having some side effects of items for the advent calendar. |
| 15:14 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Okay. Time for questions. Ask us anything! We may even know the answer, and I have Google open in another window. |
| 15:15 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Wordsmith, we may be in need of that cricket box... |
| 15:16 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
We may indeed. |
| 15:16 |
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Gronk Seriman raises a hand. |
| 15:16 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Proceed, Miss Gronk. |
| 15:16 |
Gronk Seriman |
I've been gone for a while. Any news about the CATs? |
| 15:17 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Distracted by laser pointers, I believe. |
| 15:17 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Slowing working on the scripting around other duties. |
| 15:17 |
Gronk Seriman |
Ha! |
| 15:17 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
But in progress. |
| 15:17 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
It may have been sheer group psychosis, but folks on ISC the other night claimed they saw some. I was quite puzzled. |
| 15:18 |
CheaDee |
I have a question on SL. I would like to add music to my linden home. I am not sure what is the norm for that. Do people usually stream or can you connect to the music that is already in some of the groups? |
| 15:18 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
There's the scripts in the CATS, the watchtower script that communicates with the ships, and the need for a means to program routes. |
| 15:19 |
Carl Metropolitan |
CheaDee--you would go to the World menu and select "Parcel Details" to bring up the "About Land" window. |
| 15:19 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Most often one uses an existing stream, for example Radio Riel has multiple streams: Revierie, Main, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, .. |
| 15:19 |
Lindal Kidd |
here's a forum thread that explains how to find and insert music stream URLs |
| 15:19 |
Lindal Kidd |
https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Answers/qac-p/Answers |
| 15:19 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Then you would go to the "Media" tab of that window and ... well, basically do what Lindal just said :) |
| 15:20 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Actually, the sound tab, Carl. |
| 15:20 |
Lindal Kidd |
you can also buy a "radio" that makes the process simpler |
| 15:20 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Ah. You are right. |
| 15:20 |
Jorge Serapis |
http://www.outworldz.com/secondlife/posts/streaming/ |
| 15:20 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I guess that's a question I should not try to answer off the cuff anymore. |
| 15:20 |
CheaDee |
ok thank you |
| 15:20 |
Jorge Serapis |
And hundreds of URLs to get you started. |
| 15:21 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Aylaria, I like your new dragon avatar. It fits! |
| 15:21 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Next question for me to get wrong? |
| 15:21 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
and is well-colored for the fall (but hopefully not for falling). |
| 15:21 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Hey, my other avatar fits, too! Maybe it just needs to squeeze, but... |
| 15:21 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
hehe |
| 15:22 |
Lindal Kidd |
DragonLite |
| 15:23 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Next question? |
| 15:24 |
Gronk Seriman |
With SL2 (I still call it AL2) on the way, has Oxbridge been contacted in any way to help out with the rollout? |
| 15:24 |
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Phrynne looks under the chairs for the cricket |
| 15:24 |
Carl Metropolitan |
No |
| 15:25 |
Gronk Seriman |
I thought such. They seem to be playing quite close to their vest. |
| 15:25 |
Carl Metropolitan |
We were contacted to participate in a new Community Gateway program back in regular SL, but we could not at the time due to the constraints LL was putting on participants. The Help Education Quorum is monitoring the situation, and if things change, we may participate. |
| 15:26 |
Gronk Seriman |
Ah. Good, I guess. |
| 15:26 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Help Education Quorum (HEQ) is an organization composed of about a dozen places like Oxbridge across SL |
| 15:26 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Founded by Brace Coral |
| 15:27 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That meets to share information. |
| 15:27 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I suspect LL thinks their shiny new SL2 will be so awesome no one will ever need any help :) |
| 15:27 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Hah. |
| 15:27 |
Gronk Seriman |
Ha! |
| 15:27 |
Carl Metropolitan |
And conspire. Don't forget the conspiracies... |
| 15:28 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Next question? |
| 15:31 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
With SL, some have trouble differentiating a lack of forethought by LL with a conspiracy. |
| 15:32 |
CheaDee |
Thank you all for your help. |
| 15:33 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Okay. Well, thanks for coming tonight. I think the Harvest Festival is still going on next door in Caledon Oxbridge Village sim. You might check that out if you have not already. |
| 15:33 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Of course, there is the factor pointed out by Gary Larson some time back. https://bigpicturereport.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/cartoon.jpg |
| 15:33 |
Lindal Kidd |
Play Dunk the Dean! |
| 15:33 |
Lindal Kidd |
uh...wait...forget I said that... |
| 15:33 |
Phrynne |
I've been dunked repeatedly already -- while reciting bits of Shakespeare to encourage the throwers |
| 15:34 |
Phrynne |
It seemed to work nicely. |
| 15:34 |
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Phrynne wrings out the hem of her dress |
| 15:34 |
Lindal Kidd |
to dunk or not to dunk...is that the question? |
| 15:34 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
You do look properly damp |
| 15:34 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Now don't dampen her spirits. . . |
| 15:35 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Whether it is nobler to fly upward from the water or to crawl slowly out, in the manner of a drowned rat. |
| 15:35 |
Phrynne |
I did have some sips of catnip cider |
| 15:35 |
Lindal Kidd |
I'll try to get over there before the end...for now, I must go deal with RL dinner! |
| 15:35 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Thanks for coming everyone. |
| 15:35 |
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Lindal Kidd waves and heads kitchenward |
| 15:35 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Thanks everyone! |
| 15:36 |
Aylaria (emberell) |
Thanks for taking the time, as always, to answer our questions and keep us informed! |
| 15:36 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thank you all. |
