| 15:03 |
Phrynne |
It's a refilling plate; do pass it along to others. You won't be able to finish it all |
| 15:03 |
Lucia TopHat |
A refilling plate of cake? That's my ultimate fantasy. |
| 15:06 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
So you can have your cake and eat it too. Recalls the story of Thor and the mug of ale that drew on the oceans themselves. Thor did not drain the mug but did lower its level. |
| 15:06 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
:^) |
| 15:06 |
RainyDayRecess |
:) |
| 15:06 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And with that, Welcome to the Oxbridge Deans' Q&A |
| 15:07 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Our various titles and responsibilities are listed at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/admin.php |
| 15:08 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Tomorrow is both the summer solstice and a full moon, a combination known as a strawberry moon. |
| 15:08 |
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Agatha Macbeth howls |
| 15:08 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The last such occurred in 1967. |
| 15:08 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
When I was born |
| 15:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Yes, some of you might be growing a bit of extra fur about now. |
| 15:10 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Phrynne, I believe you have something to report before questions? |
| 15:10 |
Phrynne |
Yes -- even though it might seem a bit early in the year, we're starting to brainstorm ideas for gifts for the 2016 Advent Calendar. |
| 15:11 |
Phrynne |
This year's theme is 'home' -- could be anything to put into a house, or on land near a house. |
| 15:11 |
Phrynne |
Could be a house. Or window curtains. Or lighting, or carpets. |
| 15:11 |
Phrynne |
Gifts aren't restricted to that completely -- if you have something else you'd really like to share, please talk with me. |
| 15:12 |
Phrynne |
But that is the general theme. |
| 15:12 |
Phrynne |
Anyone who thinks they might like to donate something for the Advent Calendar, please contact me sometime after the Q&A. (Sometime being interpreted loosely, of course.) |
| 15:12 |
Phrynne |
And that's all for now. |
| 15:13 |
Phrynne |
Yes, ELO? |
| 15:13 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
hmm???? |
| 15:14 |
Phrynne |
sorry, thought you were typing something in response. |
| 15:14 |
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Phrynne carefully cleans his monocle |
| 15:14 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
I typed something into my memory - lol |
| 15:14 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
You are a mind-reader, aren't you? |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
No, I have my viewer set so that people's names and group tags change color if they are typing. |
| 15:15 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
wow - LOL |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
It comes in handy in the plaza for figuring out who's saying what. |
| 15:15 |
Phrynne |
It's somewhere in Firestorm preferences, I think. |
| 15:15 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Last week as was laid low by some random bug. Back at warp speed finally, but will be keeping my inworld time low until I've finished scripting projects. For tutors, I'm often reachable if needed. |
| 15:16 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
after the questions, may we have a short class on how to set that??? - Pretty please |
| 15:16 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Just not inworld. |
| 15:16 |
Phrynne |
I will have to figure out how I did it... |
| 15:17 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
For those of you who may not know, it is possible to set your IMs to hit your email inbox. Many of us have it set up so we see IMs even when we're not inworld. |
| 15:17 |
Phrynne |
yep. found it. |
| 15:17 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
You could make it a Oxbridge Guardian article, Phrynne, if it's not obvious now. |
| 15:18 |
Phrynne |
In Preferences, under Chat, the first tab is Visuals. Under that, there are check boxes. Near the bottom is "Show typing indicator in bubbles above avatars" |
| 15:18 |
Phrynne |
that's it. check that box and you, too, will see who in a crowd is talking. |
| 15:19 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
Got it - thanks soooo much |
| 15:19 |
RainyDayRecess |
Is that bubble chat in LL? If I may ask |
| 15:19 |
Phrynne |
I suspect it might be -- but I'm not in LL viewer at the moment. |
| 15:19 |
Lucia TopHat |
I didn't see it in preferences. |
| 15:19 |
Phrynne |
using bubbles for chat is an old thing in SL, so this might be there. |
| 15:19 |
RainyDayRecess |
Nevermind,....it is :D |
| 15:20 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
For the IM > email, in Firestorm, Preferences> Chat tab > Notices > email me IMs when I'm offline. |
| 15:20 |
Lucia TopHat |
I stand corrected. Under the Chat tab. |
| 15:23 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
Great help |
| 15:24 |
Phrynne |
And that's all I have to report. |
| 15:24 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Other questions? |
| 15:25 |
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Lucia TopHat raises her hand. |
| 15:25 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Lucia? |
| 15:25 |
Jorge Serapis |
i'm still waiting on the files for the tutorials. Could either of you follow up on those please? I'm tired of empty promises. |
| 15:25 |
Lucia TopHat |
A couple things. First of all, Samm's building class was great this week. It turned into a q&a before we made hats. She is great. |
| 15:26 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I'll speak to Lindall and see if I can get that moving, Jorge. |
| 15:26 |
Lucia TopHat |
My issues are the notecard in the schedule board is still 3 weeks old. |
| 15:26 |
Lucia TopHat |
It would be nice to have that updated each week. |
| 15:26 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Not as of this morning. |
| 15:26 |
Lucia TopHat |
Good to know. Thanks. |
| 15:26 |
Lucia TopHat |
Secondly, The Avatar Safety class has been canceled without warning 2 weeks in a row. |
| 15:27 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The schedule hadn't changed and I was under the weather enough to leave it. |
| 15:27 |
Lucia TopHat |
Not really canceled, just no teacher showing up. |
| 15:27 |
Phrynne |
The professor teaching Avatar Safety was unavailable in Real Life. |
| 15:27 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
If it helps, Lucia, when I checked the notecard last week, it was accurate, even if the date was old. |
| 15:27 |
Phrynne |
Real Life still does affect Second Life. |
| 15:27 |
Lucia TopHat |
I get that RL gets in the way and we can't always get online to tell anyone, but two weeks in a row seems excessive. |
| 15:28 |
Lucia TopHat |
I understand that classes must be canceled occasionally, but notice would be nice. |
| 15:28 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
It seems you've had some bad luck, Lucia, but that teacher is usually quite reliable about her classes, which are excellent. I expect she will be back on top of things soon. And I agree, no notice is quite unfair. |
| 15:28 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The place to look for cancellations that I'm not told of much in advance is on the schedules just outside and inside of the lecture hall -- I'll place a canceled prim over the class, and in group announcements. |
| 15:29 |
Lucia TopHat |
I always check group announcements. |
| 15:29 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Also, Lucia, please keep in mind that we are all volunteers. Sometimes RL just gets in the way. |
| 15:29 |
Lucia TopHat |
I've only been around Caledon for about a month, so it's nice to know that my experience isn't normal. |
| 15:30 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
No, I don't think htat it is, particularly with Lindal. She is an excellent teacher. |
| 15:30 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Still, and I'm going to write an announcement to faculty, it helps me if I know in advance when possible. |
| 15:30 |
Lucia TopHat |
Like I said, I understand that. I don't think anyone would dispute that RL gets in the way sometimes. I teach in SL, too. |
| 15:30 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Raises hand. |
| 15:31 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
But do look on the schedules at the lecture hall. |
| 15:31 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Andrea? |
| 15:31 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
A word. I think on the recent sign put up in the plaza.concerning vampire recruitment. Perhaps it is a bit grisly for the theme of the COU. Surely some other graphic could be used? |
| 15:31 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
And ruin Carl's fun? LOL. I haven't seen him that giddy in months. |
| 15:31 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
LOL |
| 15:31 |
RainyDayRecess |
:D |
| 15:32 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
acn we see it here? |
| 15:32 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
I am expressing thoughts voiced to me by others as well as myself |
| 15:32 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I can bring that up with the Chancellor (Carl). It may be just a temporary bit with him. |
| 15:32 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Thepoint has been made i think. |
| 15:32 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
perhaps it is time to change it? |
| 15:32 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
now show it , at least |
| 15:32 |
Phrynne |
it's down in the plaza |
| 15:32 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
I see your point, Andrea. I just got a kick out of Carl's activities. And we do need some sort of warning. |
| 15:32 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Certainly, there are other stakeholders. |
| 15:33 |
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Badass Fae (larkylouz) splurts tea. |
| 15:33 |
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Phrynne winces a little at the pun |
| 15:33 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
LMAO |
| 15:33 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
hehehe |
| 15:33 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Garlic gee, Wordsmith, must you? |
| 15:33 |
Agatha Macbeth |
Oh my |
| 15:33 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
we could show cute baby vampires, may be? |
| 15:33 |
Phrynne |
that's somewhat bloody unlikely, I think |
| 15:34 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
or a more abstract image |
| 15:34 |
RainyDayRecess |
:D |
| 15:34 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
They tend to be a bit grey; at least the current image is colorful and decorative... |
| 15:34 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
I was under the impression that we were not to have grisly diplays like that anymore. On avatars or atttachments |
| 15:34 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
But, thanks for shining a little sunlight on others' feelings, Andrea. |
| 15:34 |
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Badass Fae (larkylouz) takes tongue out of cheek... |
| 15:35 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
i thought it was a nice graphic but expected it to be very temporary |
| 15:35 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Don't take our teasing personally, Andrea. I totally get your point and tend to agree. |
| 15:35 |
Phrynne |
For some, I think, the point needed to be made ... pointedly... for a few days. |
| 15:35 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
maybe it got the point across |
| 15:37 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
If it's art, made by an artist ..... would we still debate? |
| 15:37 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Btw, for those not away, the issue was a vampire group implicitly recruiting at Oxbridge. Saying stuff in open chat like "Oh, and who recruited you? .... and how about you?" |
| 15:37 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
I mean looking at Piccasso's Guernica is not very nice either |
| 15:38 |
Lucia TopHat |
I haven |
| 15:38 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And several of the participants had been at Oxbridge long enough to have known that's strictly forbidden (and on the entrance signs). |
| 15:38 |
Lucia TopHat |
't seen the picture, but it sounds like the issue is location. Just like you wouldn't hang a nude, however tasteful, in an elementary school |
| 15:38 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
sure not .. |
| 15:39 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
end of discussion on that - from my side |
| 15:39 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Yes, Lucia. The issue is that Oxbridge is a General area that we try very hard to keep as a safe place. Most of us don't care much what people do once they leave, but Oxbridge is as safe as we can make it. |
| 15:39 |
Phrynne |
There are some 24,000 other regions in Second Life, so there are sufficient other places for people to do vampire roleplay, run around with bloody shirts and bite people. |
| 15:39 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
And, we have fairly regularly had young kids show up there. RL kids. |
| 15:40 |
Phrynne |
Yes, we are getting kids showing up who are as young as 9 or 10 in real life, because of changes in LL's terms of service. |
| 15:40 |
Lucia TopHat |
wow |
| 15:40 |
Phrynne |
Keeping the horror imagery to a minimum is a good thing. |
| 15:40 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And/or academic classes touring through. So people coming in for various reasons. |
| 15:41 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
AND we do have some responsibility for them once they show up here ... |
| 15:41 |
Phrynne |
LL changed things so that anyone underage can be in SL if one of their parents signs for them -- and they don't have to stay on a parental region any more. |
| 15:41 |
Lucia TopHat |
That's terrifying. |
| 15:41 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
oh yeah. |
| 15:41 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Well, anyone 13+. |
| 15:42 |
Phrynne |
The problem is that younger kids don't generally have the patience or the reading ability to deal with the tutorial. |
| 15:42 |
Phrynne |
So they take a lot of tutors' attention and time -- which we are glad to do when it's helpful -- but they get frustrated easily with things like clothing. |
| 15:43 |
Phrynne |
It is something we are working on dealing with |
| 15:43 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Somewhat of a stake out. |
| 15:43 |
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Phrynne throws a water balloon at Wordsmith |
| 15:43 |
|
Agatha Macbeth groans |
| 15:44 |
RainyDayRecess |
:D |
| 15:44 |
|
Agatha Macbeth prefers a steak to a stake |
| 15:44 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Anyway, Carl will likely read this anyway, but if not, I'll bring it up. |
| 15:44 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Other questions? |
| 15:45 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
(or announcements of events?) |
| 15:46 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Elbiter, Gronk, and Rowan, anything from the tutor perspective? |
| 15:46 |
Gronk Seriman |
Nothing I can think of. |
| 15:46 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
there hasn't been much in the way of active problems when i am here |
| 15:47 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
no griefing i have witnessed |
| 15:47 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Andrea? |
| 15:49 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Some usual idiots like one probable throwaway account repeating short words referring to carnal matters. And nothing else. Flew away when ejected |
| 15:49 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
the usual idiots, I guess |
| 15:49 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I did have a short ping from Brace and caught her yesterday. She's got some time to help me and I may use that to get some more classes online. |
| 15:50 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Only difference from the usual form was a female avatar |
| 15:50 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
well, they follow the gender theories ... |
| 15:50 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Excellent, Wordsmith |
| 15:50 |
Gronk Seriman |
I do want to mention, though, that some people get a little carried away with shenanigans in the plaza. They need t remember why we are hanging out there. It isn't for own fun. |
| 15:50 |
Gronk Seriman |
Well, yes it is, but we are there to help people, actually. |
| 15:51 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Excellent point, Gronk. Thank you |
| 15:51 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I've noticed that Gronk. |
| 15:51 |
Gronk Seriman |
I hate to say it, but I have felt a little Marini-like recently. |
| 15:52 |
RainyDayRecess |
:( |
| 15:52 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
Biagio Marini? |
| 15:52 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
????? |
| 15:52 |
RainyDayRecess |
Martini? |
| 15:52 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
We do want to keep distractions down that confuse or distract those entering from going through the tutorial. |
| 15:52 |
Phrynne |
Yes -- dancing is fine, but please don't block the road! |
| 15:52 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
lol |
| 15:52 |
Phrynne |
there are plenty of places in Oxbridge with better spaces to dance in. |
| 15:53 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
I'd rather sit. |
| 15:53 |
Phrynne |
And, as a general reminder, no vehicles in Oxbridge, please. |
| 15:53 |
Gronk Seriman |
Martini was the Chancellor of Oxbridge before Carl. |
| 15:53 |
RainyDayRecess |
Miss her :( |
| 15:53 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
excellent, i did not know that bit of history |
| 15:53 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
She also danced in tiny form :-) |
| 15:53 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Martini Discovolante, a previous and long-time dean of commons who reached a point of needing to disconnect from Oxbridge. |
| 15:54 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
it happens |
| 15:54 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
she wa brilliant ... |
| 15:54 |
RainyDayRecess |
very |
| 15:54 |
RainyDayRecess |
Great teacher too :) |
| 15:54 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
yes |
| 15:54 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
If you notice stained glass at Oxbridge, that was her work. |
| 15:55 |
RainyDayRecess |
The octopus above too? |
| 15:55 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That's Ravelli's work, along with the meshification of Oxbridge buildings. |
| 15:55 |
Phrynne |
No, that's by Ravelli Ormstein |
| 15:55 |
RainyDayRecess |
Oh, sorry |
| 15:55 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
A kraken, actually. |
| 15:55 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Ravelli designed and built these mesh buildings. We have many talented people at Oxbridge |
| 15:57 |
ELO (eloelephant) |
let's call it a day, wouldn't we , now? |
| 15:57 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Oh another BTW. If you see solid color avatars, that's a new LL viewer "feature". Your viewer now has an avatar complexity setting and any avatar whose rendering is more complex than your setting is rendered in solid color without attachments. |
| 15:58 |
Agatha Macbeth |
0.0 |
| 15:58 |
RainyDayRecess |
Thank you for that Word |
| 15:58 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Thank you, Word. |
| 15:58 |
Jorge Serapis |
That's only in the LL viewer, if Iam not mistaken. |
| 15:58 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
You can either up your avatar complexity setting in general, potentially lagging yourself or right click on a particular avatar and select "render in full". |
| 15:59 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
You don't have to empty cache, restart, reboot, and all that (like I did). |
| 15:59 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Anything else? |
| 16:00 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Then we're adjourned. |
| 16:00 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thank you all for coming. |
| 16:00 |
RainyDayRecess |
Thank you Deans :) |
| 16:00 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
thank you very much! |
| 16:00 |
Gronk Seriman |
Thank you, Deans! |
| 16:00 |
Badass Fae (larkylouz) |
Thank you everyone, |
| 16:01 |
Agatha Macbeth |
Auf wiedersehen |
| 16:01 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Bedtime for me. |
| 16:01 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
take care Elf! |
| 16:01 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
rest well |
| 16:01 |
RainyDayRecess |
'night Elf :) |
| 16:01 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Be seeing you |
| 16:01 |
Phrynne |
Sleep well, Mr. Elfbiter |