| 15:06 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome to the Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. Our weekly time for letting our community know of what's going on under the surface at Oxbridge and for you to ask questions about Oxbridge, SL, and beyond. |
| 15:07 |
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Lindal Kidd waves, out of breath |
| 15:07 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome, Lindal. Glad you good add to our number. |
| 15:07 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Larky, since you're out of here early, let's start with you. |
| 15:08 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Okay. |
| 15:08 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
I don't have much to report, as I've mostly been doing paperwork and helping in the plaza. However, ZahZhaPocolypse |
| 15:08 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
is here, and she is our newest Apprentice Tutor. Congratulations! |
| 15:08 |
Lindal Kidd |
Yay! |
| 15:09 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Thank you. |
| 15:09 |
Lindal Kidd |
♥+*`*♥. APPLAUSE!!!!!.♥*`*+♥ |
| 15:09 |
Lindal Kidd |
♥+*`*♥. APPLAUSE!!!!!.♥*`*+♥ |
| 15:09 |
Lindal Kidd |
♥+*`*♥. APPLAUSE!!!!!.♥*`*+♥ |
| 15:09 |
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Gronk Seriman applauds |
| 15:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Indeed. Welcome to the crew. (the bailing buckets are in the corner). |
| 15:10 |
Agatha Macbeth |
Oo ar |
| 15:10 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
and I am afk - sorry folks |
| 15:10 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
See you nextime Larky |
| 15:10 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
I take it I missed something |
| 15:11 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
For anyone interested in the Oxbridge tutor program, Larky is the person/fae to talk to, BTW. |
| 15:11 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The annoucement of ZahZha as the latest apprentice tutor, Elf. |
| 15:11 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Ah. |
| 15:11 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Darn crashes |
| 15:11 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Dean Phrynne? |
| 15:12 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
back |
| 15:12 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
LOL |
| 15:12 |
Phrynne |
Oxbridge's Advent Calendar will begin on Dec. 1, this Tuesday. It will be under the big stained-glass pavillion in between buildings |
| 15:13 |
Phrynne |
I am very grateful to everyone who has donated or, indeed, who has built gifts especially for this event. |
| 15:13 |
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Badass Fae (larkylouz) wriggles in her chair and looks at Wordsmith |
| 15:13 |
Phrynne |
There will be a new gift box every day from Dec. 1-24, and many of the boxes contain more than one item. |
| 15:14 |
Phrynne |
You are welcome to all of them -- tell your friends -- they are available for everyone, and will be available (once the boxes are there) throughout December. |
| 15:14 |
Phrynne |
We would ask that people open the boxes up on the Sandbox, if possible, though. |
| 15:14 |
Phrynne |
Some of the gifts are quite a bit larger than the boxes. |
| 15:14 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The rumor that some of those items are bottles of rum is, AFAIK, only that, the supposed Oxbridge rum cache itself being just a myth. |
| 15:15 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
I hope it is Kracken Rum. |
| 15:15 |
Lindal Kidd |
why is the rum always gone? |
| 15:15 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Darn! That cache would have explained so much!!! |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
Last I saw, a certain Jack Sparrow took the last bottle |
| 15:15 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
And there is no catgirls in the Calendar, either? :-) |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
They didn't want to stay in the boxes, Mr. Elfbiter |
| 15:15 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Was he African or European? |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
You'd have to ask him. |
| 15:15 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Air speed Velocity |
| 15:16 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Many thanks to Phrynne that we have such a calendar this year. She's put a lot of time and energy into coordinating this. |
| 15:17 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
I apologize for the disruption. I need to leave. Take care all. |
| 15:17 |
Lindal Kidd |
bye, Larky! |
| 15:17 |
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Badass Fae (larkylouz) looks at Phrynne and offers a heartfelt round of applause |
| 15:17 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Journey well. |
| 15:17 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
See you son |
| 15:17 |
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Phrynne takes a small bow |
| 15:17 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
soon |
| 15:17 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Dean Lindal? |
| 15:18 |
Lindal Kidd |
whoops |
| 15:18 |
Lindal Kidd |
I too have little to report. |
| 15:19 |
Lindal Kidd |
except that we had a lot of newcomers wandering in and out of the classroom during lectures this week! |
| 15:20 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And indication the we have a lot of newcomers in general this week. I believe one of Aevalle's groups was on the 23. |
| 15:20 |
Phrynne |
Another was here on the 20th |
| 15:20 |
Phrynne |
though I am not sure how large it was |
| 15:20 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
I am unfamiliar with this Aevalle's Group |
| 15:20 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And that being the week prior to this week. |
| 15:21 |
Lindal Kidd |
that makes sense...Marion reported traffic was down a bit this week, via gmail |
| 15:21 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Aevalle Galicia did her academic thesis on virtual worlds and partly on and with the help of Caledon and Oxbridge. |
| 15:22 |
ShenKu Firelight |
somebody lose their shoe ? I just got the boot |
| 15:22 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Understood. |
| 15:22 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
So, the groups were from the academic side of her world rather than the SL side. |
| 15:23 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
A few unrelated threads on my part this last week. |
| 15:24 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
On the infrastructure side, I finally got rid of a glitch on the schedule page in the now device responsive web pages. http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/ |
| 15:26 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The website plus other scripting projects are now backed up and current on bitbucket.com and Samm Florian has access to those in addition to myself (including the website). |
| 15:27 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Wendyslippers Charisma, in addition to being back teaching herself, is working on a more advanced role-playing class with Michael Macbeth. |
| 15:27 |
Lindal Kidd |
nice! |
| 15:27 |
Phrynne |
I don't think there's an advanced role-play class anywhere in SL. |
| 15:28 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
There were some questions about the roleplaying class recetly but Imainly recommended they attend it.. |
| 15:28 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
and, as a side project, I was talking with Red Quixote last night about what it takes to animate a horse in SL. |
| 15:28 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Horse sense.... |
| 15:28 |
Phrynne |
hurray! |
| 15:28 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Something I've stacked on my side-project list for after the CATs are running again. |
| 15:30 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
With that, it seems time to open this up for questions (the alternative being bad puns). |
| 15:30 |
Lindal Kidd |
drat, RL is screaming at me. Sorry, everyone! |
| 15:30 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
tc Lindal. |
| 15:30 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
LOL... sorry couldn't resist. A actual horse sounds very neat. |
| 15:31 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Puns are allowed if not encouraged in Caledon. |
| 15:32 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
We had lost the former horse carriages via a too enthusiastic return via a griefing, and the creator is no longer active in SL. |
| 15:32 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Oh... was the railway a replacement? |
| 15:32 |
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Phrynne wonders if a wind-up mouse would run to Wordsmith and back or only go in circles in the middle. |
| 15:32 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And while animating a large snail might be easier, there seems little support for that. |
| 15:33 |
Brian (mannadrop) |
how about a giant slug? |
| 15:33 |
Phrynne |
There are already giant snail races in SL -- however, there are size considerations with the width of the road, and the walkway overhead. |
| 15:34 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
The Advent Calendar sounds very interesting. Do you do that every year? |
| 15:34 |
Brian (mannadrop) |
then there is the slime trail they leave |
| 15:34 |
Brian (mannadrop) |
we would have to hire a janitor |
| 15:34 |
Phrynne |
I can't speak for every year -- haven't been here that long. But there was one two years ago, and there was one for a while last year; it encountered technical problems. |
| 15:34 |
goteto77 |
/peek |
| 15:34 |
goteto77 |
/ Peek |
| 15:34 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Nice. |
| 15:34 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Yes, I'm not sure why Village residents object to sparkling sidewalks. |
| 15:35 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Sounds like Snails are a ride down a slippery slope... LOL |
| 15:35 |
goteto77 |
He utilizado un HUD TENER UN |
| 15:35 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Ravelli Ormstein did advents calendars for several years past. |
| 15:35 |
goteto77 |
I used a HUD HAVE A |
| 15:35 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
I was just asked in IM where is the home spot os a newcomer who have yet to find one.. |
| 15:36 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The Village chat circle (straight below) would be the best choice. |
| 15:36 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
I guess home is where you decide to peg it.. where the heart is. |
| 15:36 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Assuming they have not selected any home spot, that is |
| 15:36 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
For those having joined the COUG group (scholar tag) |
| 15:36 |
Gronk Seriman |
The Chat Circle in the Village is a fine home base. |
| 15:37 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
That is the one just near Andrea's Pub? |
| 15:37 |
Phrynne |
yes |
| 15:37 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
I should really pick a better place to teleport in. |
| 15:38 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
I"ve landed on a few folks this week. |
| 15:39 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That spot avoids the difficulty of having one's home spot unreachable when Oxbridge itself fills up (homestead sim with a 20 avatar limit). |
| 15:40 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
We ZahZha, hopefully they enjoyed such good company "dropping in". |
| 15:40 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Yes, I read that in the village circle. I will make a point of setting a new teleport spot. |
| 15:41 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
I always wanted to be an Airborne Troop. |
| 15:41 |
Brian (mannadrop) |
Is the village under the same 20 avi limit? |
| 15:41 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
No, Village is a full sim. |
| 15:41 |
Brian (mannadrop) |
okay |
| 15:42 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Question... what determines the limit of Avitars on a plot? Is it a land owner restriction or ...? |
| 15:42 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Obviously to reduce lag etc... |
| 15:42 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And the chat circle is convenient to both Oxbridge and Miss Andrea's pub. |
| 15:43 |
Brian (mannadrop) |
yes I tried to start a movement to hang out in Chat circle more, but apparently I forgot to shower that day |
| 15:44 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
It's an official LL restriction. A homestead sim shares more resources, has a 20 avatar limit, a quarter of the prims, and costs about a third of what a full sim does. |
| 15:44 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
So is a regular sim then able to host up to 20x4 avitars? |
| 15:44 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Sorry Noob Questions. |
| 15:44 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
With some trepidation. |
| 15:44 |
Phrynne |
I think the limit is officially something like 100, but once you get more than about 40 the lag becomes significant |
| 15:45 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Understood. |
| 15:45 |
Brian (mannadrop) |
what she said |
| 15:45 |
Phrynne |
I think the most that have been anywhere I have been was about 50, and it was a good thing not everyone was wearing outfits with a lot of pieces or detail |
| 15:45 |
Agatha Macbeth |
I think 63 was the highest I ever saw on one sim |
| 15:45 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
The only issue I have with hanging out at the Village Chat area.. is too far from the entry portal... to help folks entering Oxbridge. |
| 15:46 |
Phrynne |
We did get the 'region is getting full, please move to chat circle' warnings a few times this week |
| 15:46 |
Wolfmec |
yeah use your mic |
| 15:46 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
But I guess if we aren't helping folks.. then best to leave the area and chat at the pub or something. |
| 15:46 |
Wolfmec |
it gets really silent here. |
| 15:46 |
Brian (mannadrop) |
Some of the other New User spots can be very difficult to navigate at times |
| 15:46 |
Wolfmec |
and i don't have a mic |
| 15:46 |
Wolfmec |
cause im poor as a big blue potatoe. |
| 15:47 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Staff need not stay there, but as a home point for those new enough not to have one, it works. |
| 15:47 |
Wolfmec |
Maybe |
| 15:47 |
Wolfmec |
your computer's got a microphon included |
| 15:47 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The "full sim" notices at Oxbridge exclude those in class and staff. |
| 15:47 |
Wolfmec |
let me check... |
| 15:47 |
Wolfmec |
nope |
| 15:47 |
Wolfmec |
nothing |
| 15:48 |
Wolfmec |
i'll get paid next moth, |
| 15:48 |
Wolfmec |
when i do |
| 15:48 |
Phrynne |
What often happens is that three or four people leave -- and then several more arrive almost simultaneously. |
| 15:48 |
Wolfmec |
i'll buy a cheap one |
| 15:48 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Right .. disgression. |
| 15:48 |
Phrynne |
Mr. Wolfmec, did you have a question? |
| 15:48 |
goteto77 |
LEt's put on a play |
| 15:48 |
goteto77 |
Mics not working |
| 15:49 |
Wolfmec |
Go goteto go |
| 15:49 |
Agatha Macbeth |
One of Samm's toys I think :p |
| 15:49 |
Wolfmec |
whut |
| 15:49 |
Wolfmec |
PUAHAHAHAHAAH |
| 15:49 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Hm |
| 15:49 |
Phrynne |
ahhh-- the voices are being mirrored from the other lecture hall. |
| 15:49 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Ah yes, transmissions from the main lecture hall. |
| 15:49 |
goteto77 |
IT's going to be random |
| 15:49 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
wait... WOOFFF!!! |
| 15:49 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Translator.. working... |
| 15:49 |
Wolfmec |
I actually believe they don't air Dora in places where spanish is speaked cause you know. |
| 15:50 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Turned of the relay. |
| 15:50 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
So... being that this is my first meeting of this kind.. it is weekly on Sundays? |
| 15:51 |
Phrynne |
yes |
| 15:51 |
Phrynne |
at 3 pm SLT |
| 15:51 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
I will try to come as often as I can. |
| 15:51 |
Gronk Seriman |
Same Bat time, same Bat channel. |
| 15:51 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
I work until 3PM PST Sundays usually. |
| 15:51 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
in RL |
| 15:51 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And the transcripts go up on the web. |
| 15:51 |
Brian (mannadrop) |
and I thank you for that |
| 15:52 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna_index.php |
| 15:52 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
I've favourited the page. |
| 15:52 |
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Phrynne smiles |
| 15:53 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Other questions or comments? |
| 15:53 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
I rest my case.... Guilty of Having no more Questions...your Honour. |
| 15:54 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
ty for asking. |
| 15:54 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Other questions from anyone present? |
| 15:55 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Then we stand or sit adjourned. |
| 15:55 |
Gronk Seriman |
Thank you, Deans, everybody! |
| 15:55 |
ZahZha Pocolypse (zahzhapocolypse) |
Thanks. Hope you all have a good week if I don't cross paths. |
| 15:56 |
Brian (mannadrop) |
Yes, thank you for everything you all do |