Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2018-07-01

14:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Elf and Rainy.
14:56 Phrynne waves to Mr.Elfbiter and Rainy
14:56 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Greetings
14:56 RainyDayRecess Hello to all ;)
14:56 Phrynne waves over Word's head to Andrea
14:56 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) waves
14:57 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Phrynne gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
14:57 Michael Macbeth (michaelneff.macbeth) For the Deans! Dilly-Dilly!
14:58 Gronk Seriman smirks
14:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen It's a weekly wallow not a daily dally. ;)
15:00 Phrynne is unsure about wallowing in this many skirts
15:01 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Kara2016 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty, Kara. Very much appreciated.
15:01 Kara2016 Smiles brightly.
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome to the weekly Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A.
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen This is an open meeting. All are welcome until such time as individual mis-behavior requires otherwise.
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Transcripts will be posted after the meeting.
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne, anything for this week?
15:04 Phrynne A couple of things.
15:04 Phrynne One, since the tutorial will relatively soon be multilingual, we will be having more visitors who speak French or Spanish.
15:05 Phrynne And I'm thinking that we may want to do some sort of workshop for tutors and other staff members on helping people who are reading our tutorial but have questions-- in other languages.
15:05 Phrynne But at the moment that's as far as I've gotten.
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen (translator don't fail me now)
15:06 Phrynne So I'm throwing the question out to you who help visitors: what would help you most in that situation? What can we do to make the job easier? You do have Avatar Language HUDs that show what language someone is using to log in, and Word's Translators that help immensely.
15:06 Phrynne Do you need help with either of them? Is there anything else that would help?
15:07 Phrynne Please get back to me with ideas, if something occurs to you.
15:07 Phrynne Second, I am still looking for a few more Calendar gifts.
15:07 Michael Macbeth (michaelneff.macbeth) I could use the new translators, I have been using the 6.5 translator lately.
15:07 Phrynne The reason for this is that several of the people who have given us wonderful things in past years are unable to do so this year because of RL needing their time.
15:08 Phrynne So, if you come up with something you'd like to share in the Advent Calendar, please let me know.
15:08 Phrynne And that's it.
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty, Phrynne.
15:08 Phrynne The 6.5 translator, Michael? I have not heard of that one.
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen (and nice to see your here, Dimmie)
15:08 Michael Macbeth (michaelneff.macbeth) its a translator, unsure of the name, its model 6.5
15:09 Darlingmonster Ember ((always a pleasure))
15:09 Michael Macbeth (michaelneff.macbeth) Star asked me yesterday to make her something for the Advent. Can I just give it to you?
15:09 Phrynne yes, certainly!
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea?
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) Nothing this week. Too many projects on SL that had to be worked on.
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) I will be calling for volunteers for a big fundraiser project
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) but I need to go over it with the deans and Desmond
15:11 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) looks back at word
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen Okay. Thank you.
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen I got the email from the SL15B organizers that tomorrow is "take down your builds" day.
15:13 Gronk Seriman Awwww!
15:13 Darlingmonster Ember very creative this year, kudos folks
15:13 lovejoy2199 :-((
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen So if you haven't gotten by Stupendous 12 to see the Oxbridge build.....
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen Although there is a possibility of making it temporarily available back here.
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen And Thanks, Dimmie. Always nice to know someone saw it and liked it.
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen And it wouldn't have happened without substantial help from Rainy.
15:15 Darlingmonster Ember I see it almost every year. Oxbridge rocks.
15:15 Darlingmonster Ember woot Rainy
15:16 Gronk Seriman Yay, Rainy!
15:16 RainyDayRecess Thank you ;D
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen I try to come up with things that are interesting and also educational.
15:16 John (elijahjohnb) did i miss something everyone is standing up in a t pose?
15:17 Phrynne it's your viewer, John
15:17 John (elijahjohnb) frame zero, ok
15:17 Darlingmonster Ember we are all sitting down actually... your viewer may catch up
15:17 John (elijahjohnb) i have a slow connection or something
15:18 Darlingmonster Ember but you cut a dashing figure....
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen With the SL15B build behind us, I caught up on instructor stipend payments this morning and sent the end of quarter financial to Andrea and Rainy. I included this note in the email
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen I paid all due instructor stipends through yesterday and will pay tier on the 4th (it just worked out that way).

The nominal starting bank before paying tier has been 300k $L, leaving us with 225k $L after paying tier. We are about 27k $L below that 300k this morning. So that's the deficit figure, leaving us 193,451 $L after paying tier (of 74,500 $L) rather than 225k $L.
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen Those are quarterly tier payments and, with instructor stipends added, we run about 107k $L operating expenses per quarter. (with free deans tossed in)
15:21 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) lovejoy2199 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen That's pretty much it for reports this week. Open for announcements and questions.
15:21 RainyDayRecess Thank you Lovejoy ;)
15:22 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) John (elijahjohnb) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:22 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) Ty lovejoy.
15:22 RainyDayRecess Thank you John ;)
15:22 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) Apologies. No give away item this week.
15:22 Darlingmonster Ember ((are free deans one to a customer, or is there no limit to how many deans we can take home?))
15:22 John (elijahjohnb) yy, i don't have much
15:23 Gronk Seriman That's OK. I heard Deans are Free!
15:23 RainyDayRecess Every bit counts John
15:23 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Darlingmonster Ember gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:23 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) hi Ingo
15:23 Kara2016 A lion that sails?
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen The deans are an somewhat of a timeshare basis.
15:23 Darlingmonster Ember aaah
15:24 RainyDayRecess Wow, thank you Ember ;)
15:24 INGO (tkb158) grins
15:24 Darlingmonster Ember Verra welcome
15:24 INGO (tkb158) whispers Hi, Andrea
15:25 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) Watches the coin cool down
15:25 Darlingmonster Ember hee
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen And we may get an upswing in traffic from the LL Sci-Fi learning site they are building as well as from going multi-lingual with the tutorial.
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea, what's up for Tuesday?
15:27 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) Probably Beach music
15:27 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) at the beach
15:28 Darlingmonster Ember yum
15:28 Gronk Seriman Yay!
15:28 Kara2016 YYaayy!! I will attend that.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen Good place for it. :)
15:28 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) I should mention that the summer items added to the store are reduced in price now.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen And Elfbiter has his Thursdays at 11am SLT writers' meeting.
15:30 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Yup
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Any other community announcements?
15:30 Darlingmonster Ember Caledon community or Oxbridge community?
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'll accept either.
15:31 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) I'm at Burn 2 if anyone wants a tp
15:31 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) Free bear skin rug at my build
15:31 Kara2016 *waves*
15:31 Darlingmonster Ember there's an AV drifting around... poeperson... I think he's harmless... however he's silent, curious, and bumping about properties... just a heads up
15:32 Darlingmonster Ember I've banned him from my parcels but he's come back again
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks for the heads-up.
15:32 INGO (tkb158) nods
15:33 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Gronk Seriman gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:33 Kara2016 how did he do that?
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty Gronk
15:33 RainyDayRecess (Thank you Gronk ;)
15:33 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) RainyDayRecess gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:34 Darlingmonster Ember well, let me clarify... he's come back and tried to get into the parcels... I would not remark on it ordinarily but he went after me up at skybox once I left him
15:34 Kara2016 Thank you, Rainy
15:34 RainyDayRecess :)
15:34 Kara2016 how odd.
15:34 INGO (tkb158) stands aback
15:35 Darlingmonster Ember ((it is within the realm of 'just odd'))
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen Which given Caledon is more than a little odd.
15:36 Darlingmonster Ember just so
15:36 Darlingmonster Ember :D
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen And many thanks to those who are able to contribute to Oxbridge either/or/and in personal time & funding.
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen It's a tough part of the year running in parallel with RFL fund-raising.
15:39 Gronk Seriman AND SL15B. AND Burning Man 2. Attention bleeding all over.
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen In the absence of anything else ....
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen we are ....
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen adjourned.
15:40 lovejoy2199 Question Chancellor
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming and participating.
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes lovejoy?
15:40 Darlingmonster Ember afk
15:40 lovejoy2199 When does the Cake/Chandelier go up?
15:41 [Second Life Items successfully shared.]
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen In 20 minutes.
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen 4pm today.
15:41 INGO (tkb158) Oh, Kara!!! What a patriotic outfit!!!
15:41 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Bedtime for me.
15:41 Kara2016 ??
15:41 lovejoy2199 Ok. No jump today.
15:41 Kara2016 Good night, ElfBiter.
15:42 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hold the fort
15:42 Phrynne thanks for coming
15:42 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing you
15:42 RainyDayRecess Nighty Elfbiter ;)
15:42 Gronk Seriman hold down her bench as bes she can.
15:42 Kara2016 Thank you, Deans, Gentlemen, ladies.
15:42 RainyDayRecess Thank you Deans ;)
15:42 Gronk Seriman Thank you, Deans!
15:42 Kara2016 and one lion.
15:42 Darlingmonster Ember ty
15:42 Darlingmonster Ember waves to all
15:42 RainyDayRecess waves back ;)
15:43 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms2) good night all. Andrea one needs the computing power. s i need to log off