Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2017-04-23

15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, all to this week's Oxbridge Deans Q&A.
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen We generally start out with short reports from staff who have anything new.
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne?
15:04 Phrynne The Oxbridge Spring Bunny Gathering is winding down, as the bunnies are leaving for their other haunts. This year we had about 30 bunnies of different shapes and sizes on campus over the week, conferring privately about the issues that concern them. We are glad to be able to host them for this event in a safe region where no guns are allowed.
15:04 Agatha Macbeth Yay
15:05 Phrynne Our guest here is a Caledon MerBunny, who is performing a spring dance for us.
15:05 Juneauberries *giggles*
15:05 Gronk Seriman How sweet!
15:06 Agatha Macbeth The mer the merrier
15:06 Phrynne Beyond that, it's been fairly quiet overall. I am continuing to work in quotes for the educational well, and considering new plants for the summer.
15:06 Phrynne That's all I have.
15:07 Phrynne *work on quotes
15:07 lovejoy2199 Duck Season!!!!
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen On the plant side of things, Des was on last night and is in a "having more time" phase. It sounds like he'll shortly be updating the trees on Caledon Commonwealth land.
15:07 Object If you sit on this block and all you see in sky, you need to select "Disable Camera Constraints" in the Advanced Menu of your Viewer. Îf you don't see an Advanced menu, press Control-Alt-D.
15:07 Gronk Seriman Wabbit Season!!!
15:08 Juneauberries *hand flips up*
15:08 Juneauberries how long are the bunnies going to be here for?
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen June?
15:08 Phrynne They're leaving today
15:08 Phrynne Most have gone already
15:08 Juneauberries ty :)
15:08 Gronk Seriman Awwww.
15:08 Agatha Macbeth :(
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen They were a nice visual variation. A little something to surprise the eyes.
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen and amuse the crows.
15:10 Gronk Seriman Can I assume Des is replacing the foliage with less prim-munching types?
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen More modern and perhaps one's that change season with a single command across the region.
15:11 Gronk Seriman Oh, nice!
15:11 Agatha Macbeth 0.0
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, was collecting recommendations as well as giving a heads-up.
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen Agatha, did you have something on the Advent Calendar?
15:12 Gronk Seriman Great to hear. Onless you live by a commonwealth tree you loved.
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen Des did mention that there would be such cases.
15:13 Agatha Macbeth I was thinking of using 'Hoildays' as a theme
15:13 Agatha Macbeth So as to be all-embracing
15:13 Agatha Macbeth And give creators scope
15:14 Agatha Macbeth I'll be messaging past contributors in the near future
15:14 Agatha Macbeth With a reminder
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen Okay, the go act and pro-actively create message.
15:14 Agatha Macbeth smiles
15:15 Agatha Macbeth Hopefully :)
15:15 Agatha Macbeth (Done)
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks. It's always nice to be able to provide gifts at Oxbridge during the "Holidays", whether a Mobius wreath or ....
15:17 Agatha Macbeth Indeed sir
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen And thank you again for taking on coordination of that.
15:17 Agatha Macbeth You're welcome
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen Classwise, Holly is iterating on the layout of an inventory class, so that's coming along and she won't escape.
15:19 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) lol
15:19 Gronk Seriman smirks
15:19 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) I need to be forced into it at this point
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen We'll sheepdog you through the gate.
15:20 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) ok good lol
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen Nip at your heels.
15:21 Phrynne It is not entirely impossible, Holly. It will work out.
15:21 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) Id like to bring up right now that anyone can take over for me
15:21 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) one last call
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen I talked with Zenmondo Wormser this week. He seems willing to come back and do a scripting office hour class.
15:22 Caissa McCarey (lorelai.mccarey) smiles.
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen I think Caissa may have gotten him onto campus.
15:23 Phrynne hurray!
15:23 Agatha Macbeth Woot
15:23 Caissa McCarey (lorelai.mccarey) I just mentioned your avatar monitor thing, and he was curious
15:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen He's taught here before, so it's a return rather than breaking in someone new.
15:24 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) *coughs*
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen You've been tutoring, Holly. Not like you're unfamiliar with Oxbridge or Caledon.
15:25 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) takes back my coughing
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen I've had the general avatar statistics scrip going for this last week. We're seeing about 185 avatars per day on the Oxbridge sim making 450-600 separate visits.
15:28 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) wow
15:28 Phrynne This is significant, especially at times when our official 'new avatar' count is lower
15:29 Gronk Seriman We are seeing more Returner5s, then?
15:29 Phrynne Yes, and returnees bringing others through.
15:29 Gronk Seriman *
15:29 Gronk Seriman Oh!
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen Here's the base info from last Tuesday on avatars and avatar age:
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen "avatar_count": 185,
"visit_count": 773,
"age_histogram": {
"lt10": 59,
"lt30": 11,
"lt90": 16,
"lt180": 8,
"lt360": 14,
"lt720": 15,
"lt1440": 16,
"ge1440": 46
},
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen lt stands for less than; ge for greater than or equal to
15:30 Phrynne and that's age in days
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen So the general age histogram is similar to what we've looked at previously for class attendance. High on both ends with a dip in the middle.
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen Looking at languages has also been interesting.
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen "languages": {
"": 2,
"de": 4,
"en": 101,
"en-AU": 1,
"en-us": 18,
"es": 9,
"fr": 1,
"it": 4,
"ja": 2,
"pt": 14,
"ru": 5,
"tr": 2,
"zh": 22
},
15:33 Phrynne zh was the Chinese class that came through one evening.
15:33 lovejoy2199 Digesting SL. That could explain the drop in the middle.
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen In fact, the last couple of Tuesday evenings.
15:33 Caissa McCarey (lorelai.mccarey) they've come through a few times, it's always interesting to watch the incoming flood
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen They move in all directions and move fast. Even bump into walls.
15:34 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) awwwwww
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, I'm not sure if they are crashing or moving in and out of the sim, but some racked up 10 visits in a relatively brief time.
15:35 Gronk Seriman Would it be good practice to call for help at thise times on the COU faculty group?
15:35 Caissa McCarey (lorelai.mccarey) from what I've seen, it's a bit of both
15:35 Phrynne I saw some trying to teleport by clicking on the ground, which doesn't work in a hubbed sim like ours.
15:36 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) yes I agree Gronk
15:36 Caissa McCarey (lorelai.mccarey) mostly they just do their thing and don't talk, so there's not much for backup to do
15:36 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) oh
15:36 Phrynne so they may have been inadvertantly re-entering in the Entry Hall while trying to go elsewhere
15:36 Caissa McCarey (lorelai.mccarey) only this last week did any actually respond to greetings and ask questions
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen Here's the distribution of visit times (in seconds):
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen "visit_time_histogram": {
"le30": 14,
"le60": 8,
"le300": 45,
"le900": 43,
"le1800": 22,
"le3600": 30,
"le7200": 16,
"le21600": 6,
"gt21600": 1
}
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen 21600 is 6 hours, 7200 2 hours. So grouped from 30 seconds to above 6 hours.
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen The peak is between 5 to 15 minutes, which has pretty much held for other days. The dip and upswing for 3600 is likely from those attending the one class that day.
15:40 Gronk Seriman Proof once again that SL isn't teaching their users. They are relying on us.
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen So again, that was one day with a few extra observations of what I've seen over the week.
15:41 Juneauberries would it not be prudent for them to provide the education for us to use their software so that they can recuperate their own finances?
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen One somewhat ironic note is I'm doing some rescripting to get the data shoved directly up to our website. I've already received nine separate emails in two data dumps this morning.
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen (Emails out of SL don't have a large capacity)
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen Linden lab has managed to avoid having a consistent or long-term effort on education.
15:45 Agatha Macbeth wonders if that's a good or bad thing
15:45 Gronk Seriman No doubt!
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen There's definitely been a split between prudent and actual.
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen Oxbridge itself was created under a community gateway effort. That effort was scuttled on short notice, following which Oxbridge has managed to survive on our own efforts and on substantial community support.
15:48 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) smiles
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Pretty much what I have for today.
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Open for general questions and comments.
15:50 Gronk Seriman It's true The effort for making lanuage chaning signs in the Tutorial was just a dream due to the work involved. It is coming along, I hope.
15:51 star (astarynite) Please feel free to stop by my maze in Caledon II and give it a shot. I could use the support. Caledon II (186,51,23)
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen As Jorge Serapis gets back in stride, yes. And the technology to include multiple languages in a kiosk is already in places.
15:52 Gronk Seriman Good!
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen And do notice the A-mazing Star's a-mazing maze.
15:53 star (astarynite) grins
15:53 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) is it for relay for life Star?
15:53 star (astarynite) I wull be having a dance on the maze in May, Poppy & I are still looking at eh schedule, it is a busy month
15:53 star (astarynite) yes, any donations go directly to Relay for Life
15:53 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) and you have gifts as well?
15:54 star (astarynite) oh yes, thank you Holly, gifts at the beginning and end and different dead ends in the maze, so please don't worry about getting lost, there are rewards
15:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else?
15:56 star (astarynite) shakes her head no
15:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Then time to adjourn.
15:57 Holly Gaavin (hollydeni) clapping
15:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming and participating.
15:57 Phrynne Thank you for coming, everyone
15:57 Juneauberries Thank you Phrynne
15:57 Juneauberries Thank you Wordsmith
15:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen yw
15:58 Gronk Seriman That was fast! Thank you, Deans!
15:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen 3:58p, not terribly short.
15:59 lovejoy2199 Base Jumping Time !!!!