| 15:03 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Well, appear time to start. Welcome everyone. |
| 15:04 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Welcome everyone! |
| 15:05 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Wordsmith should probably run things today as I have a headful of snot and a headache to boot. |
| 15:05 |
Aggers (agatha.macbeth) |
Euch |
| 15:05 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Yes |
| 15:05 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Another weekly chance to here what been going on behind the scenes at Oxbridge and to ask questions on Oxbridge, SL, and beyond. |
| 15:05 |
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Phrynne passes Carl an embroidered handkerchief |
| 15:05 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Phrynne, anything of the domain of Commons? |
| 15:06 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
. |
| 15:06 |
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Carl Metropolitan looks at it and hands it back opting for something disposable without hours of work in it. |
| 15:07 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome, Elfbiter. |
| 15:07 |
Phrynne |
I have been continuing to work on the Advent Calendar -- at this point, working on finishing what I'm building for it. And I'm continuing to work with Jorge Serapis on the translation project. My part of that is to prepare the textures by removing the English text, and then to proofread them after Jorge has done the translation. |
| 15:08 |
Carl Metropolitan |
He's doing a great job, too. |
| 15:08 |
Phrynne |
It can be a little ticklish at times, since the background on all of the signs is a mottled parchment, not a solid color, so I work to make sure it all matches. |
| 15:08 |
Phrynne |
And yes, he's doing a superb job. |
| 15:08 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
He is. |
| 15:08 |
RainyDayRecess |
Yay |
| 15:09 |
Carl Metropolitan |
You do have the original parchment TGA, right? |
| 15:09 |
Carl Metropolitan |
It should be on the Google drive shared with all the deans in my folder. |
| 15:09 |
Phrynne |
The original parchment doesn't have the shading around the edges that is on all of the signs. |
| 15:09 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Ah |
| 15:09 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Let me look. |
| 15:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
By the way, I was playing this week with resynthesize in GIMP. Given a sample of a texture, it can synthesize a larger one. |
| 15:10 |
Jorge Serapis |
There are also additional graphics on the base template that need to be negotiated around. |
| 15:10 |
Phrynne |
I created a new one by copying parts of about 20 of the signs and making sure it all matched. |
| 15:10 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I am considering a new sign for the commons area "Attention Escorts! Newbies Are Broke. You Are Wasting Your Time Here." |
| 15:10 |
Aggers (agatha.macbeth) |
0.0 |
| 15:10 |
Phrynne |
Yes -- there are two sizes of medallion in the new textures that Lindal is making. |
| 15:10 |
Phrynne |
So I have backgrounds in each size. |
| 15:10 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Yay.... Welcome Lindal. |
| 15:11 |
Lindal Kidd |
did I miss much? |
| 15:11 |
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Phrynne hands Carl a farmer's-sized clean handkerchief. |
| 15:11 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Just some discussion on the ongoing sign projects |
| 15:12 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
A little bit on background textures for the translations. |
| 15:12 |
Carl Metropolitan |
And on the condition of my sinuses |
| 15:12 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Any seasonal changes to Oxbridge, Phrynne? |
| 15:12 |
Phrynne |
Not yet... |
| 15:12 |
Phrynne |
but I am looking at them. |
| 15:12 |
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Lindal Kidd slips Carl some Benadryl |
| 15:13 |
Phrynne |
I haven't had time to go check out the various places with greenery but I will again, to see if there is anything suitable. |
| 15:13 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Carl, anything new on your side? |
| 15:13 |
Phrynne |
Fortunately, most of the trees have huds and can change color fairly easily. |
| 15:13 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Not really. |
| 15:14 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Lindal? |
| 15:14 |
Lindal Kidd |
I have just about finished updating the posters for the College of Communications |
| 15:15 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Great! |
| 15:15 |
Lindal Kidd |
I need to make a couple of new ones, dealing with media |
| 15:15 |
Lindal Kidd |
we had a persistent little griefer today, but Tasha and Phrynne dealt with him |
| 15:16 |
Lindal Kidd |
I've also been adding updates to my classes, concerning the new Avatar Complexity features |
| 15:16 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I saw the ban card on that. |
| 15:16 |
Lindal Kidd |
that has a bearing on shopping choices |
| 15:16 |
Lindal Kidd |
but also on graphics crasher defense |
| 15:16 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Any vampires recently? Or have they mostly been scared off. |
| 15:17 |
Lindal Kidd |
once bitten, twice shy! |
| 15:17 |
Phrynne |
No new ones. A few still visit, but not persistently |
| 15:17 |
Lindal Kidd |
oh, there seems to have been an upswing in a type of griefing |
| 15:17 |
Aggers (agatha.macbeth) |
Keep a stake handy |
| 15:17 |
Lindal Kidd |
fiends who gift victims with stolen $L to get them banned by LL |
| 15:18 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Nothing active. One comment that I heard, but nothing beyond the pale. |
| 15:18 |
Phrynne |
oh, that's horrid, Lindal |
| 15:18 |
Lindal Kidd |
it is! |
| 15:18 |
Lindal Kidd |
if you get a large gift from someone you don't know, like $L10,000 |
| 15:18 |
RainyDayRecess |
:( |
| 15:18 |
Lindal Kidd |
don't spend it! |
| 15:18 |
Lindal Kidd |
file a support case and ask LL to check it out |
| 15:18 |
Aggers (agatha.macbeth) |
How can they tell it's stolen? |
| 15:19 |
Phrynne |
Is there a way to return the money? |
| 15:19 |
Lindal Kidd |
if it's Bad, LL will take it |
| 15:19 |
Lindal Kidd |
it'll be paid to "Governor Linden" |
| 15:19 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
They would have the transaction records between accounts. |
| 15:19 |
Carl Metropolitan |
I'm sorry to see that scam is back. I thought LL had fixed the core issue. |
| 15:19 |
Lindal Kidd |
Aggers, I've heard that LL can track every single $L. |
| 15:19 |
Aggers (agatha.macbeth) |
Wow |
| 15:20 |
Lindal Kidd |
I'm not sure how, though |
| 15:20 |
Aggers (agatha.macbeth) |
Strange they're not so hot on IP theft... |
| 15:20 |
Jorge Serapis |
Prooly the same way bitcoins can be verified. |
| 15:21 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
all possible transactions are probably within the System |
| 15:21 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
logged in, and able to be accounted |
| 15:21 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
upon examination |
| 15:21 |
Lindal Kidd |
Anyway, that's it from me, Carl :) |
| 15:22 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
. |
| 15:22 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Jorge, any update on the translations? |
| 15:23 |
Jorge Serapis |
I'm up to 2.12 on the Spanish translations. I've given my Portugese (Brazilian born) friend (a fellow former PhD candidate) the first batch of translations to do for us. |
| 15:23 |
Jorge Serapis |
Stereo has also received a batch of NCs from me to pursue the French translations. |
| 15:24 |
Jorge Serapis |
Due to Lindal's creative blend of graphics and vectors, some of the new tutorial textures have needed... shall we say lateral thinking. ;-) |
| 15:24 |
Lindal Kidd |
eep! |
| 15:24 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Ahhh. |
| 15:24 |
Lindal Kidd |
what can I do to ease matters, Jorge? |
| 15:24 |
Jorge Serapis |
I've susbtituted graphics with the Spanish wording instead of the English ones, for example. |
| 15:25 |
Jorge Serapis |
Oh, it's quite alright, Lindal. I've been able to work with them. |
| 15:25 |
Lindal Kidd |
OK |
| 15:25 |
Jorge Serapis |
What I've been doing (and it may seem overkill) is give each block of text their own layers to futureproof editing them. |
| 15:25 |
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Lindal Kidd nods |
| 15:25 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Phrynne, btw, I did get a reply out to your font query. |
| 15:26 |
Phrynne |
I haven't looked at email. Thanks! |
| 15:26 |
Jorge Serapis |
The easier ones take me about 45 min to do... the more creative ones, about 90 min... so currently I've cloocked about 34 hours so far on them. |
| 15:26 |
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Lindal Kidd nods...that sounds about right, I am working at about the same speed...and I only have to worry about English! |
| 15:26 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Wow! That's an effort that I'm sure will be appreciated by many. |
| 15:27 |
Jorge Serapis |
Phrynne suggested a new font to distinguish the French tutorials... one thing that cme out in an afterthought is the delicious uniqueness of some French letters nd punctuation |
| 15:27 |
RainyDayRecess |
Thank you for your hard work Jorge :) |
| 15:27 |
Jorge Serapis |
... so that'd be something to consider. |
| 15:27 |
Jorge Serapis |
Very welcome. |
| 15:27 |
Phrynne |
Something with a little lighter weight, so the accent marks won't get lost. |
| 15:27 |
Jorge Serapis |
Hopefully the way i've saved the layers.. the other languages should go by fairly quickly. |
| 15:27 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
It looked like you were using something similar to Garamond or Caslon. |
| 15:28 |
Jorge Serapis |
I've been sticking with lightfoot for the headers and Junicode Bold for the body. |
| 15:28 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Both "Old Style" fonts. |
| 15:29 |
Jorge Serapis |
Both Word and Carl have copies sent as I finish them.. and as Phrynne said, she's been proof reading.. aka pointing out mistakes that have slipped by. |
| 15:29 |
Phrynne |
It's certainly improving my Spanish! |
| 15:29 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
There's a couple of Google fonts (free) that are based on Garamond and have a semi-bold weight. |
| 15:29 |
Jorge Serapis |
So, end of story, hopefully in the next few weeks, two more languages will be in the pipeline. |
| 15:30 |
Lindal Kidd |
whoo! |
| 15:30 |
Jorge Serapis |
I don't know who will be handling the practical implementation in Oxbridge itself.. |
| 15:30 |
Carl Metropolitan |
There is a scripted multi-language kiosk over by the entrance. |
| 15:31 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Cormorant Garamond and Crimson Text. |
| 15:31 |
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Gronk Seriman giggles. He said "practical"! |
| 15:31 |
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Phrynne tosses Gronk a cookie |
| 15:31 |
Lindal Kidd |
I designed a poster to put at the arrival area, in the Introduction sequence |
| 15:32 |
Jorge Serapis |
I've asked Phrynne to pow wow with Word and Carl to decide on the two French fonts... one for the headers and footers, and a practical one for the text. |
| 15:32 |
Phrynne |
And we have been emailing -- but I can either read email or be here... |
| 15:32 |
Jorge Serapis |
Once they're chosen, do let me know and I'll install them. |
| 15:32 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Will do. |
| 15:33 |
Jorge Serapis |
....aand that's it from me. |
| 15:33 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Junicode should have all the special characters needed for the French fonts. It was designed to support multiple languages. The Lightfoot will most likely have to be changed though. |
| 15:33 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The problem was the weight. Have to see if it has a semi-bold. |
| 15:34 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I can take a look at that too. |
| 15:34 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Junicode weight? |
| 15:34 |
Phrynne |
Does it have to be semi-bold? |
| 15:35 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
regular, bold, and with some fonts semi-bold. |
| 15:35 |
Phrynne |
Wouldn't a regular weight do? |
| 15:35 |
Carl Metropolitan |
http://junicode.sourceforge.net/ |
| 15:35 |
Jorge Serapis |
Bold has the visual punch to it, but I'd be more than happy to do test textures. |
| 15:36 |
Phrynne |
The posters are large -- any text will already have visual weight just from size |
| 15:36 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
It loses some contrast against the mottled background, but for small letters, the bold can get obscured. |
| 15:36 |
Jorge Serapis |
i've no problem adjusting the kerneling or the leading. |
| 15:36 |
Lindal Kidd |
I discovered that Ravelli used fill only for his text, not stroke and fill |
| 15:37 |
Lindal Kidd |
the latter makes bold too fat |
| 15:37 |
Carl Metropolitan |
You can always drop a small white box behind very small text, too. |
| 15:37 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Nods. Anyway, there are options. |
| 15:37 |
Jorge Serapis |
Thank you for that, Lindal. i'll keep that in mind. |
| 15:38 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I've often done that, even with a semi-transparent box to increase the text contrast. |
| 15:39 |
Jorge Serapis |
As long as they have their own layers, those are workable. |
| 15:39 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Semi-transparent is even better. |
| 15:40 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
My own data effort for the week (more catch-up) was to scrape the data from the weekly emails on the ad panels and board touches (which give notecards) and get that into a spreadsheet sent to Brace and Carl. |
| 15:41 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Get Brace into collecting $L's from sponsors rather than just statistics. |
| 15:41 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
But we have data in the same format (weekly totals) from the beginning of last November until now. |
| 15:42 |
Gronk Seriman |
Wow! |
| 15:42 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Those are the boards in both lecture halls and the panels in front of the lecture hall downstairs. |
| 15:43 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
We also have unprocessed data (as of yet) on the freebies that Phrynne has put out. (I get daily emails). |
| 15:45 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
With that, open for questions. |
| 15:45 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
announcements on upcoming events |
| 15:45 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Go ahead, Andrea. |
| 15:46 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
There will be a dance event in Southend this coming Tues at 6PM. It will be at the blues juke joint. There ia a notice in the ISC group, Caledonian nights group and the sign/notecard giver on the roof of the Pub in the Oxbridge Village. and there is the wedding of Mr Paul Gaavin and Holly Deni coming up on the 5th of September at 2 PM Sl time. Everyone is invited and there is a notice in both the ISC and CN nights groups. I can provide NC on both events. Please IM me. Also Duchess Trilby is having a birthday bash for Mary Shelly the 30th at both 12 and 6 PM at the Moors. Also should be a notice in both the ISC and CN groups or I can send a NC or a poster that the Duchess made. |
| 15:46 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Thank you Andrea |
| 15:46 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Your welcome |
| 15:46 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Oh and CN nights will be at Trilbys event that tues night |
| 15:47 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
we won |
| 15:47 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
t have a dance |
| 15:47 |
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Lindal Kidd makes a note to harangue her dressmaker for new frocks to wear at all the social events! |
| 15:47 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Go see nyree rains store |
| 15:48 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Such an unsocial community. (hardly) |
| 15:48 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
.lol |
| 15:48 |
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Gronk Seriman grins |
| 15:48 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
I nmight do somnething this wensday night not sure yet |
| 15:48 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
I need to check the calender |
| 15:49 |
Carl Metropolitan |
My head is really killing me this afternoon. I'm going to pop off a bit learly and liey down |
| 15:49 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
kk Keep us all posted. |
| 15:49 |
Lindal Kidd |
oooh. So sorry, Carl |
| 15:49 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
ok night carl i know how you feel |
| 15:49 |
Aggers (agatha.macbeth) |
Get well soon |
| 15:49 |
Gronk Seriman |
Rest well, Carl! |
| 15:49 |
Carl Metropolitan |
Bye |
| 15:49 |
Phrynne |
take care, Carl |
| 15:49 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
kk Thanks for making it. |
| 15:50 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Other questions? |
| 15:51 |
Gronk Seriman |
Any CATs updates? |
| 15:52 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Let me slip this in. Is the Patron ranks back up to full strength? |
| 15:53 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Carl's the one who would know on patrons, but I suspect if he's feeling bad not a lot has happened. |
| 15:55 |
Gronk Seriman |
I would think that would be Brace's domain by now. |
| 15:55 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I got through all the watchtower / watchedover / engine scripting on the CATS. With the instructor stipends and sponsor data handled (and I'm functional again), the eta and mapping is what remains. |
| 15:56 |
Jorge Serapis |
Hay fever still, Word? |
| 15:56 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That's between Carl and Brace on handing that off, Gronk. |
| 15:56 |
Gronk Seriman |
Is there any way we can help with that? |
| 15:56 |
Gronk Seriman |
Ah. I see. |
| 15:56 |
Lindal Kidd |
donate huge sums? |
| 15:56 |
RainyDayRecess |
:D |
| 15:57 |
Lindal Kidd |
oh, you meant CATs! |
| 15:57 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
No, a bit of irritation from the CA fires, but I'm happily functioning again. |
| 15:57 |
RainyDayRecess |
Riiiight, hope you're okay |
| 15:57 |
Gronk Seriman |
Just think...the pollen is all burned up now! |
| 15:57 |
RainyDayRecess |
:) |
| 15:57 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
No problems in this area -- not a wildland / urban interface, but the air blows in from the fires. |
| 15:58 |
|
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) remembers effects of huge amount of smoke coming from Russian forest fires... |
| 15:59 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
It's one reason I decline to use Firestorm -- it just has different connotations to me. (still remembers driving past the Oakland hills glowing in the dark). |
| 15:59 |
RainyDayRecess |
:( |
| 15:59 |
Gronk Seriman |
ong |
| 16:00 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Oh! and I took some pics of one of Denver Haxs roadsters in the village this morning. |
| 16:00 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Neat! |
| 16:01 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Other questions? |
| 16:01 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Then, time to adjourn. |
| 16:01 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thank you all. |
| 16:02 |
Gronk Seriman |
Thank you Deans and Chancellors! |
| 16:02 |
RainyDayRecess |
Thank you Deans!! |
| 16:02 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Both for coming and for the many and diverse contributions to Oxbridge. |
| 16:02 |
Aggers (agatha.macbeth) |
TY too |
| 16:02 |
Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) |
Gronk Seriman gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 16:03 |
Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) |
Lindal Kidd gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 16:03 |
Gronk Seriman |
Sprry. I can't afford to make it burn tonight...ooo! Somebody did! |
| 16:03 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Ojay, bedtime for me. |
| 16:03 |
Phrynne |
and late dinner for me |
| 16:03 |
RainyDayRecess |
NIght Elfbiter :) |
| 16:04 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Be seeing you |
| 16:04 |
Aggers (agatha.macbeth) |
Stay blue girls |
| 16:04 |
Gronk Seriman |
g'night, EB! |
| 16:04 |
Rowan Entilles (rowan900) |
take care Elf |