| 14:49 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Hi, Andrea |
| 14:49 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
hi |
| 14:52 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Hi, Phrynne |
| 14:52 |
Phrynne |
hi Word |
| 14:52 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
hi Phrynne |
| 14:53 |
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Phrynne waves over Word's head to Andrea while eating a sausage |
| 14:54 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Greetings, Elf |
| 14:54 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Slow TP¨ |
| 14:55 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome, Soup. |
| 14:55 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
brb |
| 14:55 |
Soup Jonson |
ty kindly |
| 14:55 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome, Cymbal. |
| 14:56 |
Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.Constantine) |
Thank you |
| 14:56 |
Soup Jonson |
Hi Cymbal |
| 14:56 |
Evil Sociopath Beware (cymbal.Constantine) |
Greetings Soup! |
| 14:56 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome, Kara. |
| 14:56 |
Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) |
Kara2016 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 14:57 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
ty, Kara. |
| 14:58 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome, Miss Gronk |
| 14:58 |
Kara2016 |
Smiles brightly. |
| 14:58 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
and Welcome, Agatha. |
| 14:58 |
Gronk Seriman |
Good evening, everybody! |
| 14:58 |
Agatha Macbeth |
Hello sir |
| 14:58 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome, Myst. |
| 14:58 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
and Welcome, Rainy |
| 14:59 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome Lovejoy, Lia, and BadgerofZen |
| 14:59 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Greetings, Frigid |
| 14:59 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Thank you sir |
| 14:59 |
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badgerofzen waves |
| 15:00 |
lovejoy2199 |
Greetings everyone |
| 15:00 |
lovejoy2199 |
Hello Chancellor |
| 15:00 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Can I sit next to you soup? |
| 15:01 |
Soup Jonson |
Yes |
| 15:01 |
Soup Jonson |
Of course my friend |
| 15:01 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Thank you |
| 15:01 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
:) |
| 15:02 |
Soup Jonson |
Be careful though when you're in front row Word might call on you. |
| 15:02 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Wait what |
| 15:02 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Nopeee |
| 15:02 |
Soup Jonson |
lol |
| 15:02 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Ill be back here soup |
| 15:02 |
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Wordsmith Jarvinen Looks to the left and right, assuring himself that the apostrophe is correct. |
| 15:03 |
Soup Jonson |
Now that is a comedy team |
| 15:03 |
Phrynne |
Try the chicken; we'll be here all week. |
| 15:03 |
Soup Jonson |
lol Phrynne |
| 15:03 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
No, I only call on those who have a plausible reason to be called upon without volunteering. |
| 15:04 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Oh, whew, okay |
| 15:04 |
Frigid Cryotank |
Which means you call on those that haven't volunteered in some interval of time? |
| 15:04 |
Visven (vichchu.hermit) |
Greetings. |
| 15:04 |
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RainyDayRecess waves |
| 15:05 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Welcome to this week's Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. This is an open meeting. All are welcome except for those with the intent of mis-behaving in non-authorized ways. Transcripts will be posted after the meeting. |
| 15:05 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Phrynne, can you start out? |
| 15:06 |
Phrynne |
The Advent Calendar is open, and has been busy! |
| 15:06 |
Phrynne |
We had 270 people here on Dec. 1; it has been between 250-280 or so every day since. |
| 15:07 |
Phrynne |
And that also includes newcomers showing up at the same time as people coming for gifts, so staff have been very busy -- and I am very grateful for everyone. |
| 15:08 |
Phrynne |
We have one new apprentice tutor -- Mowgli Soy. He has been helping out since before Thanksgiving but decided to make it official. He is also experienced in speaking Spanish and very good at helping with visiting Spanish-speaking students. |
| 15:08 |
Phrynne |
And that is all I have for now. |
| 15:08 |
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Phrynne looks back at Word. |
| 15:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thank you, Phrynne. And congratulations on a nice start-off on the Advent Calendar. |
| 15:09 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Andrea? |
| 15:10 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
The Christmas fund raiser is up and running. There are decorated Christmas trees up on the 2 locations and voting has begun. |
| 15:10 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
There is a Caledon local and a international contest. |
| 15:11 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
The Christmas park is finished so there are rides and plenty of places to have photo opportunities. The props in the center rear have poses for the most part. |
| 15:12 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
there are some carts on the fence to the right as you go into the park. They are open to anyone wanting to put out some items for sale. Just get with me before you do so. |
| 15:12 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Ms Farshore has put in a great Christmas attraction in her downs regions |
| 15:13 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
The poster on the floor in front of the stage has a notecard with details |
| 15:14 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Voting for your favorite tree is done by linden donations, like the pumpkin contest. and it is not too late to add one |
| 15:14 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Lastly |
| 15:15 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
The ice skating party that was advertised for Tuesday night, has been moved to Southend. A notice will go out on that later tonight. |
| 15:15 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
All for now. |
| 15:16 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thank you, Andrea, for your efforts as well as your report. |
| 15:16 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
oh be sure to check on my hat |
| 15:16 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
it's funny |
| 15:16 |
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Agatha Macbeth ponders a funny hat |
| 15:17 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
passes the baton to word |
| 15:18 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Miscellaneous efforts again this week. The more fun one was making the poster for the fundraiser. |
| 15:19 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Last week I mentioned that I'd discovered that the different language visitors weren't being summed in the statistics. Found the reason for that and reprocessing the statistics files. |
| 15:22 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
I also discovered that a file with the weekly totals and age histogram of avatars at the classes had gone missing. Got a backup one out of GIT, reprocessed the class data since then, updated GIT locally and then pushed all of that up to Bit Bucket. There are several projects that I'm handling that way (GIT and BitBucket). Samm Florian also has access to the Bit Bucket repository. |
| 15:23 |
Sandie Harbour |
git is good |
| 15:23 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
*raises my hand* |
| 15:24 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
This coming Thursday, 13 December, the Sci-Fi short-story discussion will be held in Southend at 5pm |
| 15:24 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That's it for the report. |
| 15:24 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Lia? |
| 15:24 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
What does GIT mean? |
| 15:25 |
Frigid Cryotank |
I think that's what Linus Torvalds screams when he's looking for a file? |
| 15:25 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
GIT is a program for version control of program source code and other documents. |
| 15:25 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Ohh, okay thank you |
| 15:26 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
So if you wipe something out, you can fetch back an earlier version, for example. |
| 15:26 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Understandable |
| 15:26 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Supposedly Torvald picked the name thinking "useful but not too bright". |
| 15:27 |
Frigid Cryotank |
<heh> |
| 15:28 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Elfbiter runs his writers' meeting Thursdays at 11 am SLt. |
| 15:28 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
Yup |
| 15:29 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The new bonfire in the plaza, with stumps and a log, give out a marshmallow stick if you sit on the same. |
| 15:29 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
That's thanks to Star for letting me know when that was a one-day advent gift. |
| 15:30 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And open for general questions, comments, announcements, and confusion. |
| 15:31 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Don't be shy, the only stupid question is the one that needs to be asked for understanding, and isn't asked. |
| 15:32 |
Visven (vichchu.hermit) |
How's Oxbridge doing with its stipends lately? Now we've got December's fund raiser coming up I'm hoping it'd do good. |
| 15:33 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
7me thinks there may not be stupid questions but there may be irrelevant questions |
| 15:33 |
King Alphadoom (aiphadoom) |
yeah i was wondering why is the meeting held in town when its a M-rated zone |
| 15:33 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
We are running a slight surplus, which hopefully becomes a big enough surplus on the 15th to get us through the drop in donations during RFL fund-raising. |
| 15:34 |
Phrynne |
Oxbridge is a homestead region-- we are only allowed 20 people there total at any time. |
| 15:34 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Because we should be mature enough to sit and be polite for this meeting |
| 15:34 |
Phrynne |
Look around -- how many do you see here? |
| 15:34 |
Phrynne |
Add in the number coming for the Advent Calendar. |
| 15:34 |
King Alphadoom (aiphadoom) |
more then 20 |
| 15:34 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The meeting is held up here because Oxbridge is a homestead and limited to a total of 20 avatars on the sim. |
| 15:35 |
King Alphadoom (aiphadoom) |
ok makes sense thanks |
| 15:35 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
yw |
| 15:35 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Does Oxbridge have uniforms? |
| 15:35 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
There is a chat relay between here and the lecture hall in the university, So a G-rated avatar can still participate |
| 15:35 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And there have been times in the past when just this meeting gathered 20+. |
| 15:36 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
and if not, could they be a future thing? |
| 15:36 |
Phrynne |
People have suggested uniforms in the past, but it has not worked out well. |
| 15:37 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Well, we have an Oxbridge Tartan, and we very well could have Oxbridge clothing items in the small store downstairs. |
| 15:37 |
Phrynne |
One of the joys of Second LIfe is the variety of avatars we all have. We don't have to look like anything. |
| 15:37 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Understandable :) |
| 15:37 |
Phrynne |
Yes, there is an Oxbridge tartan dress for sale in the Oxbridge Shop. |
| 15:37 |
Phrynne |
and a top hat. |
| 15:37 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
:D sweet! |
| 15:38 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Well, anything specific. It does help if we look like something, although I do have a "visibility aide" for those who come in invisible. |
| 15:38 |
lovejoy2199 |
And, I am still looking for a 'Formal Kilt' in Caledon tartan. |
| 15:38 |
Visven (vichchu.hermit) |
Andrea, if you are not snoozing, what are the chances we could expect a live performance being held here? Is there any possibility? Not that I'd volunteer to step up on the stage and be Mr Nightmare. |
| 15:39 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
live performances have not been a success in the past. |
| 15:39 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
(This is a live performance, unless we are being dead-boring) |
| 15:39 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
They cost a lot of lindens |
| 15:39 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
What about a simple dance party? |
| 15:39 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
and the bigger the name of the band the more they cost |
| 15:40 |
Visven (vichchu.hermit) |
Oh, we do have plenty of dance parties, Lia. |
| 15:40 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Something is on the works for the COU |
| 15:40 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
but the date and time is still being discussed |
| 15:40 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Oh! well cant wait to apart of them then |
| 15:40 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Caledonian Nights (under Andrea) has a dance every Tuesday (pretty much) |
| 15:41 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
It should be noted that Caledonian Nights is a proud supporter of the COU |
| 15:41 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Note taken! |
| 15:41 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The upcoming fundraiser has two dance parties. |
| 15:41 |
Soup Jonson |
yes!!!!!!! |
| 15:41 |
Soup Jonson |
sorry I just love dancing |
| 15:41 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Same |
| 15:41 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The Bashful Peacock has a dance party going on now until 4pm. |
| 15:41 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
The poster at the base of the stage has a notecard with details |
| 15:42 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Soup after this, we go dance |
| 15:42 |
Soup Jonson |
Is there a winter ball |
| 15:42 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Caledon Wellsian (213,215,23) |
| 15:42 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
possibly |
| 15:42 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
right now all my prims and most of my land is tied up with the Christmas builds and fundraiser |
| 15:43 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
after the 15th the main parcel should be open |
| 15:43 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
There is a skate party this Tuesday night in Southend |
| 15:43 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
DJ Piper steampunk is the dj |
| 15:44 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
And, one reason for being fairly early in Dec is that there are multiple events that occur in Caledon and the rest of the Steamlands later in Dec. |
| 15:44 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Nods yesterday was packed with events |
| 15:45 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Here's the Aether Chrononauts calendar: http://www.aetherchrononauts.org/ |
| 15:45 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Hi, Sandie. |
| 15:46 |
Sandie Harbour |
smiles |
| 15:47 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
However, don't count on that Calendar for Oxbridge class times. |
| 15:47 |
King Alphadoom (aiphadoom) |
is there a teleporter pad for peoples homes that allow to teleport to town here or the university if not can we make one |
| 15:48 |
Phrynne |
You can always make a link for your home, and one for where you want to go, and use those. |
| 15:48 |
King Alphadoom (aiphadoom) |
ok |
| 15:49 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
The SL system has one, based on landmarks. The pads are pretty much for within sim transport. |
| 15:50 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Other questions? |
| 15:50 |
Gronk Seriman |
Most SL viewers now have a Favorites feature. You can drag a Landmark to the top of your screen and make a simple button that teleports you. |
| 15:50 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
Just a reminder, For those that like to skate and like room for it. There is ice over the steam sky city water . And there are skate givers along the shoreline on the Village side. |
| 15:50 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
little kiosks with coffee and cocoa |
| 15:50 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
too |
| 15:51 |
Phrynne |
And after the end of the Calendar giving, I plan to enlarge the Oxbridge rink. |
| 15:51 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
cool |
| 15:51 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Literally. |
| 15:51 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
:-) |
| 15:52 |
Gronk Seriman |
Ice Ice baby! |
| 15:52 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
the punss |
| 15:52 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
It's a tradition, Lia. ;) |
| 15:53 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
*prepares my pun list for the next meeting* Ill be prepared |
| 15:53 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Also, Lia, are you yet in ISC (group)? |
| 15:53 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Uhmmm.. |
| 15:53 |
King Alphadoom (aiphadoom) |
well i be going |
| 15:53 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Let me check |
| 15:53 |
RainyDayRecess |
Take care Alphadoom ;) |
| 15:53 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
I don't think I am |
| 15:53 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Okay, Alpha. Thanks for coming. pretty much at the end anyway. |
| 15:53 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Byee Alpha |
| 15:53 |
Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) |
badgerofzen gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:54 |
RainyDayRecess |
Thank you Alphadoom ;) |
| 15:54 |
RainyDayRecess |
Thank you badgerofzen :D |
| 15:54 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
You should have a group invitation to accept now. |
| 15:55 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Got it |
| 15:55 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Anything else? |
| 15:55 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Then, we are adjourned. |
| 15:55 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Thank you for the meeting |
| 15:55 |
Phrynne |
Thank you all for coming |
| 15:55 |
RainyDayRecess |
Thank you Deans ;) |
| 15:55 |
Wordsmith Jarvinen |
Thanks you all for coming and participating. |
| 15:55 |
Gronk Seriman |
Thank you Deans! |
| 15:56 |
Lia (tokyorii) |
Best first meeting :) |
| 15:56 |
Visven (vichchu.hermit) |
Thank you! |
| 15:56 |
Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) |
At least attempted bedtime for me. |
| 15:56 |
RainyDayRecess |
Sweet Dreams Elfbiter ;) |
| 15:56 |
Gronk Seriman |
SLeep well, EB! |
| 15:56 |
lovejoy2199 |
TC |
| 15:56 |
Visven (vichchu.hermit) |
Likewise, Elf. Never usually up this early. |
| 15:56 |
Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) |
night mr eb |