Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2015-12-20

15:04	Phrynne	I need a better chair.
15:04	Aylaria (emberell)	I don't know, I kind of like your chair
15:04	Phrynne	Can you see if I'm talking?
15:04	Phrynne	I don't think I'm moving
15:04	Aylaria (emberell)	I can see you moving when you talk
15:04	Phrynne	ok
15:04	Phrynne	then I don't needone.
15:04	Phrynne	*need one
15:05	Phrynne	some scripted chairs interfere with talking animation.
15:05	Wordsmith Jarvinen	So, we can start the meeting with a welcoming wiggle from Phrynne.
15:05	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	:-)
15:05	Phrynne	wiggles
15:05	Phrynne	Hi, y'all!
15:05		Aylaria (emberell) waves her tail
15:05	Phrynne	I don't have a full-scale report, but I will say that there are four days more on the Advent Calendar,
15:06	Phrynne	and there are some excellent things still to come.
15:06	Phrynne	Don't miss any of them!
15:06	Wordsmith Jarvinen	And many excellent things still out.
15:06	Phrynne	And if RL keeps you busy, stop back before Jan. 1 and pick up anything there.
15:07	Wordsmith Jarvinen	And do come by Oxbridge, Phrynne has done a wonderful job of decorating.
15:07	Phrynne	(And, thinking ahead somewhat, if anyone has ideas of what they might like to contribute to next year's Advent Calendar, contact me.)
15:07	Aylaria (emberell)	Really, she has. It's just beautiful
15:07	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	Agreed
15:07	Phrynne	thank you
15:07	Phrynne	!
15:07	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	Georgehp agrees as well
15:07	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	With his usual enthusiasm
15:08	Wordsmith Jarvinen	I was sitting out the other (SL) night, looking at the glow from the decorations, which you don't notice as much when it's light.
15:08	Phrynne	That's one nice thing about the adaptability of SL weather -- you can have what time of day you want.
15:08	Wordsmith Jarvinen	I put up some snow along the path through the plaza yesterday.
15:09	Wordsmith Jarvinen	And will try to put up a stream with early Christmas music and a barrel of cider.
15:09	Phrynne	mmmm, cider!
15:10	Aylaria (emberell)	That'll be enough for me, but what about for everyone else?
15:10	Phrynne	People are being very good about opening their Advent gifts up in the sandbox.
15:10		Aylaria (emberell) grins
15:10	Aylaria (emberell)	I'm actually surprised at how few have taken to opening them on campus
15:11	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Since I've put up a holiday cancel for Thursday and Friday (although professors can do what they wish), the occupancy limit won't be quite as tight.
15:11	Wordsmith Jarvinen	(note the schedule to your right)
15:11	Aylaria (emberell)	The class cancel goes on to next week, as well?
15:12	Wordsmith Jarvinen	The following week is New Years eve and New Years day.
15:12	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Classes in between.
15:12	Aylaria (emberell)	Yes, I see. Makes sense
15:13	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	People still come in.
15:13	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Anything else you can think of on lands and commons, Phrynne?
15:14	Phrynne	Not at the moment. It's nice to see people dancing, testing out dance animations, and skating in various places
15:14	Phrynne	And there have been a few impromptu tea parties here and there.
15:14	Phrynne	All the reactions to the Calendar have been good.
15:14	Wordsmith Jarvinen	The last few years, we tried to make Oxbridge a place that people can wander into over the holidays and sit and chat.
15:17	Thunderstone (jeffrey0thunderstone)	Do we typically see an uptick in new arrivals during the holidays?
15:17	Phrynne	It's possible next week
15:18	Phrynne	when colleges and universities let out and people are off work.
15:18	Wordsmith Jarvinen	As for Oxbridge / Caledon tasks I've worked on this last week, that display behind me represents it.
15:18	Wordsmith Jarvinen	We certainly see an uptick in goofiness.
15:18	Aylaria (emberell)	Oh no wonder my orange count has been going up
15:18	Thunderstone (jeffrey0thunderstone)	:)
15:19		Phrynne tries to puzzle out whether the red chased out all the seasonal green up there.
15:19	Aylaria (emberell)	Lack of green means its all done, I'm sure
15:19	Wordsmith Jarvinen	And, among others thank Aylaria, Elfbiter, Brian, and other tutors for dealing and calmly coaching those coming in.
15:20	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Can anyone guess what the plots are about?
15:20	Aylaria (emberell)	Do they correspond to places on Oxbridge?
15:21	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Partly, but there are four squares.
15:21	Aylaria (emberell)	Well, yes
15:21	Aylaria (emberell)	each of the four squares could represent four different days of work
15:21	Aylaria (emberell)	With the little plots showing where that work went
15:21		Phrynne is confused at what looks like an interesting board game, tipped so the markers would fall off.
15:22	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Blue is commonwealth land. Lighter blue is SeÃ±or Serapis' land. The rest is just general map coloring based on owners (but not one owner one color).
15:23	Wordsmith Jarvinen	The four squares respresent Oxbridge, Village, Kintyre, and Southend.
15:24	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Oxbridge is mostly red because all the land is owned by the COU group except for two parcels.
15:24	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Kintyre is all orange because it's a duchy and all land is owned by the Kintyre Land Trust.
15:25	Aylaria (emberell)	So... it's not your newest quilt pattern?
15:25	Wordsmith Jarvinen	No. It's a start of route creation. for something that crosses sim lines (hopefully).
15:26	Aylaria (emberell)	Oh I see
15:26	Aylaria (emberell)	For the CATs?
15:26	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Aye.
15:26	Aylaria (emberell)	What would be the rout you would use? It hardly looks at al llike there's a path
15:26	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Jorge says he has land rights for the
15:26	Wordsmith Jarvinen	air rights that is, for the duchies.
15:27	Wordsmith Jarvinen	The commonwealth land in other sims is preferred, partly because it's not likely to be at its prim limit.
15:28	Jorge Serapis	nods in confirmation of Word's words
15:28	Aylaria (emberell)	Oh I see
15:28	Wordsmith Jarvinen	The CATs SHALL fly again.
15:28	Aylaria (emberell)	looking at it knowing that, there does seem to be a bit more of a path than otherwise it might seem
15:29	Aylaria (emberell)	We'e all looking forward to seeing them in the air again
15:30	Wordsmith Jarvinen	As long as the centroid (of the root prim) of a CAT is over commonwealth land, it should work.
15:30	Jorge Serapis	THere is. If I may junp in (apoloogies, Senor Word) when the nation's bordered experienced their upheavals, that and Kal's untimely RL death stole the tools we needed to fix the broken paths.
15:31	Jorge Serapis	Senor Word has graciously taken it upon himself to try and reverse engineer Kal's scripts to get them up and running, but more importantly, to be modifiable.
15:31	Wordsmith Jarvinen	By all means jump in SeÃ±or Jorge.
15:32	Jorge Serapis	So, hopefully, in time to come, the nation or the Secretary of ransport for Caledon will be able to keep them flying.
15:32	Aylaria (emberell)	Without needing to go through the work you guys are now to iron it out
15:33	Aylaria (emberell)	That's magnificent work you two are doing. I'm glad to know you've such a forward thinking view on it.
15:33	Wordsmith Jarvinen	As Jorge was reminding me yesterday, we do have to account for changes in elevation of the ground and for airships coming the other way.
15:34	Wordsmith Jarvinen	For others who also miss the CATs, I thought you'd like to see this.
15:35	Jorge Serapis	I've always viewed the CAT as a public utility, not a private venture, and my sincerest hope was that it would be adaptable come the day I'm no longer able to runb it.
15:35	Gronk Seriman	This is all great news!
15:35	Aylaria (emberell)	Yes, simply wonderful
15:36		Phrynne looks forward to renewed commuter air transportation -- and sightseeing
15:36	Wordsmith Jarvinen	It is surprising to see the definite paths of commonwealth land on the rented sims.
15:37	rebel rain (sootlock)	as do i.. when i first got on sl i spent an hour in one of the towers waiting for an airship.
15:38	Thunderstone (jeffrey0thunderstone)	Me too.
15:38	Wordsmith Jarvinen	There's one other thing I wanted to mention. There's a very small parcel on the east boundary of Village (it's 32 m^2)
15:40	Wordsmith Jarvinen	I suspect that Des may be keeping that in honor of a former Village shop owner -- her profile notes that she had metastic breast cancer in her spine and had had to closer her shop.
15:41	Wordsmith Jarvinen	That's along the railway, just north of the red square on the east edge.
15:42	Phrynne	That would be in front of where Montagne Noire was, an excellent clothing shop specializing in Victorian fashions.
15:42	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Yep, that was her shop.
15:42	Gronk Seriman	How sad.
15:43	Phrynne	She also ran the Victorian Shopkeepers Association for some time.
15:43	Phrynne	A very kind lady.
15:44	Wordsmith Jarvinen	The parcel will accept up to 14 prims and has none currently. One could lay a rose or two upon it.
15:45	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Open for questions.
15:46	Aylaria (emberell)	I do want to say, I have at this point finished my little map project of Oxbridge. That's going to be in the next faculty package, for those of you who work for OXbridge - and it's free for anyone who wants a copy. I'm quite happy fo r them to spread around as people see fit, so if anyone wants a copy or wants to give away a copy, please do!
15:47	Vallkeerie	I would love a copy to have and give to my friend too please.
15:47	Wordsmith Jarvinen	I'll also put that up on the web as an update to the map currently there.
15:48	Aylaria (emberell)	Did I send you the numbers for it too? You might (if you can) include the relevant LMs as SLurls on the Oxbridge site
15:49	Wordsmith Jarvinen	The one's in the main parcel wouldn't work, but others would.
15:49	Aylaria (emberell)	Right
15:50	Wordsmith Jarvinen	You didn't send me the numbers, although I could guess. But for consistency, send them on.
15:50	Aylaria (emberell)	I've sent you a copy of the map to peruse
15:51	Aylaria (emberell)	It has a short list of the names of the locations, as well as landmarks to the ones that can be landmarked
15:51	Wordsmith Jarvinen	kk That will work.
15:51	Aylaria (emberell)	That's al lI wanted to say, thanks for the time ^.=.^
15:51	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Of course.
15:52	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Before other questions, Jorge, does the landing area in village send chat out? Elfbiter has been hearing something about airships.
15:53	Wordsmith Jarvinen	(you might talk to each other re that)
15:53	Jorge Serapis	They shouldn';t; just the CATs themselves with arrival and departure data.
15:54	Jorge Serapis	I'll investigate.
15:54	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Thanks.
15:54	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Other questions?
15:55	Gronk Seriman	Are there any plans to revitalize the Atelier? It's such a wonderful place just going to waste.
15:56		Jenya Willowshade (jenyaw) goes there to build/experiment with related stuff because the desk is handy.
15:56	Wordsmith Jarvinen	I'd like to. Goes along with someone suitable stepping up to teach jewelry and clothing design.
15:56		Jenya Willowshade (jenyaw) is incompetent.
15:57	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	There has been people asking for clothing design. I have not been able to help them much.
15:57	Phrynne	People do use it from time to time.
15:57	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Yes, I've encouraged a few people to use it. It's a resource and also has some tutorials up there.
15:58	Phrynne	It is an excellent place for building with very small prims. I used to make hats up there.
15:58	Phrynne	I would encourage people to use the jewelry tables that are there, as well as the free textures and the reference books.
15:59	Wordsmith Jarvinen	And not competing with large object in the sandbox.
15:59	Phrynne	The jewelry tables have seats -- you can sit down and focus on what is in front of you much more easily than on the sandbox.
16:00	Phrynne	It is an excellent place for precision building.
16:00	Gronk Seriman	I hadn't thought of that!
16:00	Phrynne	I made all my teapots there, also.
16:01	Wordsmith Jarvinen	I'm hoping next year proceeds without major crises (they suck time and energy like crazy) and we can focus a lot more on getting classes in place.
16:01	Phrynne	The one thing to remember when building there is that the Atelier is located over the Lecture Hall --
16:01	Wordsmith Jarvinen	We could still use a Dean of Dev elopement (no, not THAT kind, funding)
16:01	Phrynne	which means that if there is a building class on, your available prims will be a bit restricted.
16:02	Vallkeerie	How do you get up to the Atelier?
16:02	Wordsmith Jarvinen	There's a TP next to the one to the sandbox. With a big A on it.
16:02	Vallkeerie	OK, thank you
16:03	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Anything else that's fairly quick?
16:04	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Then we adjourn without a dead space sufficient to read Vogon poetry.
16:04	Aylaria (emberell)	Oh god no
16:04	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	:-)
16:04		Aylaria (emberell) flees
16:04	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Thank you all for coming.
16:04	Phrynne	Dunk us all in bowls of barley, Hinky dinky dink an' polly voo! Chilly Filly's name is Chollie, Chollie Filly's jolly chilly view halloo!
16:04	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	Bedtime for me.
16:04	Aylaria (emberell)	Hehehe, thanks for taking the time to keep us informed, and to anseer our questions!
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16:04	Phrynne	Deck us all with Boston Charlie, Walla Walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo! Nora's freezin' on the trolley, Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!
16:05	Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter)	Be seeing you
16:05	Wordsmith Jarvinen	Sleep well, Elf.
16:05	Gronk Seriman	Thank you, Deans!
16:05	Jenya Willowshade (jenyaw)	Good night, Mister Skysmith.
16:05	Thunderstone (jeffrey0thunderstone)	Thank you (flees quickly!)