Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2017-07-23

14:56 lovejoy2199 Hello everyone
14:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Greetings, lovejoy.
14:57 lovejoy2199 Greetings Chancellor
14:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Andrea. You're definitely the most elegant builder I've seen to date.
14:58 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) oh this. waves at the tag
14:58 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) i pu tin a rfl vender
15:01 Peter from New York (peterfromnewyork) HI Andrea, Wordsmith, Phrynne!
15:01 Phrynne Hi Peter!
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Peter, Hi Rainy.
15:01 RainyDayRecess Hi everyone :D
15:01 RainyDayRecess :)
15:01 Peter from New York (peterfromnewyork) Hi Rainy!
15:01 Dodeca hi there
15:02 Agatha Macbeth waves
15:02 RainyDayRecess waves back ;)
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome all. This is an open meeting. Transcripts will be posted for those who can't be here at his time.
15:02 Phrynne waves to Agatha
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Why yes, Agatha did slide in to home.
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne, did you have anything for today?
15:04 RainyDayRecess :D
15:04 Agatha Macbeth Hu's on first?
15:04 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Hello everyone
15:04 Agatha Macbeth waves to Andrea
15:04 RainyDayRecess waves ;)
15:04 Phrynne One bit -- thanks to the work of Asst. Dean Tasha and our Chancellor, Wordsmith, the poster near the plaza that shows interesting places to go in Caledon has been updated.
15:05 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) claps
15:05 remi Enersly waves
15:05 RainyDayRecess Yay!
15:05 RainyDayRecess Great work!
15:05 Phrynne It has a new notecard with info on the places, and Tasha's wonderful photography illustrating them.
15:05 Phrynne This is a big thing -- the original poster was made by Carl Metropolitan many years ago, and it was not possible to make changes on it.
15:05 Phrynne so thank you, Word and Tasha!
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen (the one on places in the steamlands will follow shortly)
15:06 Kara2016 Smiles brightly.
15:06 Phrynne Other than noting that I am starting to change flowers and plants again, and we are acquiring ivy to give us ivy-laden halls, I'm done.
15:07 Phrynne I am trying to change at least one thing a week.
15:07 Peter from New York (peterfromnewyork) I love Ivy!
15:07 Phrynne Oh -- and we are getting sunflowers too
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks, Phrynne.
15:07 RainyDayRecess Yeah, great idea Phryne ;)
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea?
15:08 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) The Caledon Oxbridge University will be having a fund raiser on August the 19 th. We will have a bowling contest starting at 8 Am. and ending at 6 Pm. There will be a practice time on Saturday the 12 at 1 PM for anyone needing help with the bowling machines. The scoreboard will be reset at 8 am so anyone is welcome to practice before then.

The dance will be at 6 Pm and will be DJed by DJ Poppy. The theme will be Swing Era which was from roughly 1935 to 1946. The dance will be held at the Bowling alley.

There will be several auction items, some items for sale, and all proceeds from the dance and bowling go towards the operating costs of the COU.
15:08 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) notice to go out this evening
15:08 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) with the landmark
15:08 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) on a sde note
15:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) side
15:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Star and Poe did a build at the Castle Home & Garden Build contest for Team Aether Chrononauts Tiny Steps. I'm sure Olde will say more on this later but I wanted to get a notice out on it as the contest opens at 12. The included LM will deliver you to the corner of the build next to the RFL kiosk. Votes are based on money raised at the teams kiosk.

There is a bubble rezzer you can sit on and explore the build and it is right across from the kiosk on the parcel. It is pink. Come by and see the wonderful work Poe and Star has done. Explore the Sand castle, walk through the underwater garden, check out the statues, swim with the sharks. If you are able, donate.
15:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) CHG North (122,120,1002)
15:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) All from me.
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen Ahh. That's what CHG stands for (I was thinking Can't Have Grits)
15:10 RainyDayRecess ::D
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) wel i can. just not much
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen Rainy, anything new on the sponsors front?
15:11 RainyDayRecess Phrynne has been helping me track down people for replacing the old En Garde games, since there is no way to replace them (the creator has left SL) Capt Blinker is the one re-building these and they are in testing mode now. I think it would help draw in more people here. I guess there is a Beta En Garde in Caledon Tamrannoch? Is that right Phrynne?
15:12 Phrynne That's what I understand. And there are four pistes-- playing areas -- in the Oxbridge Fencing Center in Oxbridge Village.
15:12 Phrynne There used to be several more pistes in Caledon, but people either took them down for some reason or left.
15:12 RainyDayRecess Okay, I really want to put the ad up soon so maybe these will work for now?
15:13 Phrynne They should.
15:13 RainyDayRecess Okay, and that's all from me for this week ;)
15:13 Phrynne They're the latest update in scripting; the older ones were somewhat buggy
15:13 Phrynne (latest being a few years old)
15:14 Phrynne I should mention that I teach En Garde by appointment at the Fencing Center.
15:14 Phrynne (no charge)
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen Sounds like they have a rescripter, so I'll stick with horses and winged lions aside from Oxbridge management scripts.
15:15 RainyDayRecess Right, that's why I'm trying to get the ad up, it's so that Phrynne can teach or maybe just have an LM for the Fencing Center?
15:15 Phrynne A LM wouldn't be a bad thing.
15:15 RainyDayRecess Thank you for working on that by the way Word ;)
15:15 RainyDayRecess Then they might be able to at least try it out and get familiar with it
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen (imagines "Pin Cushion Fencing")
15:16 RainyDayRecess I think it's an exciting thing for Oxbridge ;)
15:16 Phrynne The one problem with having a piste here is that we don't allow weapons on campus -- and the swords don't de-rez when the game ends.
15:17 RainyDayRecess Oh
15:17 Phrynne It is possible to play with other objects as weapons -- I've used a teapot, a rose, or an oil can
15:17 Phrynne if one has an invisible sword -- a script to attach to one's HUD
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen Caissa, anything from the tutor side?
15:18 Caissa McCarey (lorelai.mccarey) not that I can think of
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen Having been away at a conference this last week, I've nothing new.
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen Seems time to open for questions.
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen Or more explicitly, are there any questions on Oxbridge, SL, and beyond?
15:20 Her Royal Highness Princessa (beauty.haramori) Is there ever going to be a Intro to Mesh class, or is that going to stay in perpetual cancellation?
15:21 Her Royal Highness Princessa (beauty.haramori) And is there a way to be notified more than 5 minutes before it's to start?
15:21 Peter from New York (peterfromnewyork) Is there a class on how to make your own mesh clothing?
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes, there will be. It needs to be "refreshed" a bit and I've had limited time in the transition to chancellor and doing a SL14B build that I hadn't expected.
15:23 Peter from New York (peterfromnewyork) smiles
15:23 Her Royal Highness Princessa (beauty.haramori) So that's a no?
15:23 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Kara2016 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:23 Her Royal Highness Princessa (beauty.haramori) Just need to make plans to take it elsewhere.
15:24 RainyDayRecess May I ask what you would like to learn in that class Royal?
15:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen I try when a class runs to put out a notice at least 20 minutes prior. Also, the web schedule will be the most current. There's about a 90 minutes delay on the inworld schedules once I put in an update.
15:25 Agatha Macbeth It would be on the notice board in advance too
15:26 Her Royal Highness Princessa (beauty.haramori) The notice board? You mean the schedule board? That only shows cancelled in the final 5 minutes before the class is to start.
15:26 remi Enersly which program is used in the classes here to create the mesh file for import?
15:26 Agatha Macbeth Oh
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen It shows canceled about 90 minutes after I know to cancel something
15:28 RainyDayRecess Usually Blender 3D, Remi ;)
15:28 remi Enersly thanks
15:28 RainyDayRecess But you can use Maya or Autodesk or others
15:28 Camarillan i thought maya is autodesk's software?
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen The difference is that a non-educational version of Maya runs about $3k USD.
15:29 remi Enersly yea I'll be using blender
15:30 RainyDayRecess Oh, might be
15:30 RainyDayRecess Camarillan, I'm not very familiar with Maya
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other questions?
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other confusions, befuddlements, comas, etc?
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen Then we are adjourned.
15:33 Dodeca I'm new to Caledon. Could you please explain how it got started and the education structure here. I see tags for deans, assistant deans, tutors etc but do not know what it all means.
15:33 Dodeca oh
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, here's the admin info http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/admin.php
15:34 Dodeca thanks
15:34 RainyDayRecess Welcome to Caledon and Oxbridge Dodeca :)
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen And some basic background on Oxbridge. http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/
15:35 Dodeca ty
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen Oxbridge got started as part of the first Linden Lab community gateway program, which they (LL) then abandoned. Oxbridge has continued on as a community supported learning center.
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen We used academic designations for administration, but you could equivalently think of the deans and myself as a board of directors.
15:39 Dodeca ok
15:39 Dodeca do you all live here
15:39 Dodeca in Caledon
15:39 Kara2016 Smiles brightly.
15:40 Phrynne Many of us do
15:40 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen We all, as on the webpage, have areas of main authority.
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen Mine, nominally extends over other domains, is more scattered, and includes picking up litter, camp counselor, and the kitchen sink (so to speak).
15:44 RainyDayRecess :)
15:44 RainyDayRecess Thank you Word
15:44 Dodeca Thanks. That's all the question's I have for now - a lot has been answered in the classes taught by Dean Lindal. I appreciate everyone's work in providing this space for the community.
15:45 RainyDayRecess It's wonderful here ;)
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne keeps the sim pretty and visually interesting, and Andrea and Rainy help keep us able to pay tier and provide a minimal instructor stipend per class.
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen Our tutors, such as Caissa, provide onsite help many hours of the day.
15:46 RainyDayRecess Thank you Caissa ;)
15:46 Caissa McCarey (lorelai.mccarey) smiles
15:46 Dodeca help with anything SL related?
15:47 Phrynne Fairly often, yes
15:47 Phrynne My assistant dean, Tasha, is in charge of tutors. We try to find people who have as varied experience in SL as possible
15:47 Caissa McCarey (lorelai.mccarey) usually...there was that time I got roped into helping someone with their ESL homework...I try to avoid that now
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen There are some things, like help with Firestorm, that might get referred to the FS help group.
15:47 Phrynne And I helped someone edit a sentence in a RL book he was writing.
15:48 RainyDayRecess :D wow
15:48 RainyDayRecess Above and beyond....
15:48 Phrynne The main thing is, we try to know where things are in SL and what might be helpful.
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen And manage Oxbridge to keep it safe and comfortable for those coming into SL for diverse reasons and abiding by the LL Terms of Service for general rated sims.
15:51 Peter from New York (peterfromnewyork) You've all be most helpful to me over time!
15:51 Peter from New York (peterfromnewyork) *been
15:52 RainyDayRecess So many helpful people here ;)
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen With that, unless someone has another question, I think we can re-adjourn
15:52 Phrynne thank you all for coming
15:52 Agatha Macbeth re-agrees
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen (we even have helpful dragons0
15:53 Kara2016 Thank you Deans. Smiles brightly.
15:53 remi Enersly thank you all for so much information
15:53 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) and the dragons give rides
15:53 RainyDayRecess Thank you Deans :D
15:53 Agatha Macbeth Dragons rock
15:53 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Dodeca gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:53 RainyDayRecess Thank you Dodeca ;)
15:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen You just don't want to be standing next to a dragon when it rocks.
15:54 Agatha Macbeth Yes they tend to be hot stuff too
15:54 Dodeca take care everyone, I'm off
15:54 Peter from New York (peterfromnewyork) time to think about dinner in rl
15:55 Peter from New York (peterfromnewyork) have a great week
15:55 RainyDayRecess Take care ;)
15:55 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) bye all be well
15:55 Agatha Macbeth waves