Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2019-06-23

14:39 lovejoy2199 Greetings everyone
14:39 lovejoy2199 Hello Dean
14:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen Greetings, lovejoy
14:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Carl :)
14:47 Carl Metropolitan Hi
14:48 lovejoy2199 Hello Carl. Nice seeing you again.
14:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi, Andrea
14:50 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) meow
14:50 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hm. Benches take lots of time to load
14:52 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Kara2016 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
14:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Kara. Much appreciated.
14:52 Kara2016 Greetings Deans and everyone.
14:53 Phrynne waves her tail in Kara's direction
14:53 Kara2016 Hugs the very cute Phrynne
14:53 Kara2016 And hugs the Adorable Andrea.
14:53 Phrynne *purrs*
14:54 Kara2016 Phrynne..is that a Noodle dragon?
14:54 Phrynne yes!
14:54 Phrynne it's relatively low-LI, and rezzes faster than a human avi today
14:54 Kara2016 I have not tried mine on yet.
14:54 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hugs Kara back, getting her claws stuck in Kara's hair
14:55 Kara2016 laughing.
14:55 Carl Metropolitan I can't see Andrea
14:55 Phrynne When you do, Kara, there is a funky 'developer
14:55 Carl Metropolitan BRB
14:55 Phrynne s kit
14:55 Phrynne developer's kit' attached to the right front leg. Be sure to detach it.
14:56 Phrynne I haven't figured out how to use it but it makes me walk funny.
14:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Do we refer the walk to the ministry?
14:59 Phrynne I don't think so.
14:59 Phrynne it's temporary
15:00 Kara2016 a developers kit? i will remember to look, Thank you, Phrynne.
15:00 Phrynne It may be possible to change body and eye colors, but I have not tried yet
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen And tis time
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Now if you could make the end of your tail slightly wider, at the right distance you would make an excellent fan
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome to this week's Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. This is an open meeting;
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen all are welcome apart from those who intend to misbehave in a disruptive manner.
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Non-disruptive misbehavior is at your discretion.
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Transcripts will be posted after the meeting.
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php
15:02 Phrynne waves her tail negligently
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne, have anything for today?
15:03 Phrynne I have two things:
15:03 Phrynne -- We are continuing work on updating the Faculty Info Kit, including disposing of out of date notecards and writing new ones to clarify changes when needed. This is being done as a team by Dean Emeritus Badass Fae, Assistant Dean Tasha, and me.
15:04 Phrynne -- Chancellor Emeritus Carl Metropolitan is working to replace the old sculpty columns in the Plaza with mesh ones. He is also updating the 'Explore Caledon' poster and notecard.
15:04 Phrynne That's all for now.
15:04 Agatha Macbeth Yay
15:04 Carl Metropolitan I've finished the columns
15:04 Carl Metropolitan That was a quick fix
15:04 Phrynne Yay!
15:04 Carl Metropolitan I've also finished the Explore Caledon poster.
15:05 Phrynne double Yay!
15:05 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) Nice!
15:05 Carl Metropolitan All four of the end posters have been updated now.
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen Wonderfulness
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Phrynne and Carl.
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea?
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) meow, meow...clears throat.Eh...Nothing today. sorry, I haven't been inworld much this week.
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen RL happens.
15:07 Kara2016 Smiles brightly.
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'll be paying Oxbridge's tier on the 3rd for the next quarter (13 weeks). I've paid instructor stipends through last night, so I only have to estimate one week of those.
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen We have a surplus of about 19k $L above the 225k $L buffer I try to maintain just after paying tier. That includes subtracting off the tier payment from the current balance.
15:11 Carl Metropolitan What is our weekly tier currently?
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen The upshot is that rather than being $20k down, as was the case last July, we are comfortable.
15:11 Carl Metropolitan thanks RFL for actually ending this year rather than going on forever.
15:11 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) ((Right?))
15:12 Phrynne ((definitely))
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen 5750 $L, Carl or 74,750 per quarter.
15:12 Kara2016 thats a lot.
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen Current balance as of this morning was 321,636. It takes about 107k $L per quarter tier + stipends, so the buffer is 2 quarters worth of tier.
15:13 Carl Metropolitan We have a good deal. That works out to just about 100USD per month.
15:14 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) Yeah, that's a really good deal.
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea and her helpers have done an exceptional job this last year, be it so officially noted.
15:14 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) Yes, thank you!
15:15 Agatha Macbeth Noted
15:15 Kara2016 Smiles brightly for Andrea/
15:15 Carl Metropolitan We get the sim essentially for zero profit to Desmond. He pays the grandfathered homestead rate for it, I believe.
15:16 Carl Metropolitan Or we get it at a 10,000USD loss if you count all the money he sunk in Oxbridge before LL screwed him over :)
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen 74,750 in tier per quarter and 32,500 in instructor stipends, assuming 10 classes taught per week.
15:16 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) ((oof))
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, there's the financial math.
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen And open to general questions about Oxbridge, Caledon, and SL as well as announcements
15:18 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) 423.73 us or close to it for the 3 months?
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes, Andrea
15:20 Carl Metropolitan I noticed you said that the model was based on 10 classes a week. There are 14 per week on the schedule. Is Oxbridge in a position where you can't afford any new classes?
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen No, the 10 per week is an approximate average of what I have been paying out.
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen After cancellations by the instructor for RL reasons, or no students showing and the instructor leaving before 15 past the hour.
15:22 Carl Metropolitan I see.
15:23 Sandie Harbour there are also instructors who donate their itme
15:23 Sandie Harbour time
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen Sandie being one of them.
15:23 Carl Metropolitan I used to do that when I did trivia games. I put my "fee" back into the prizes I gave out.
15:24 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) Funny, that's what I did at the fundraiser last week.
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, I don't see a barrier to adding classes. I've got one I'm trying to work on (as well as tutorial translation slides)
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'm also trying outreach such as the CVL-Caledon sci-fi short-story discussions. Every other month the discussion is held in Caledon.
15:27 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I still persist in hosting the Writers' Meeting in Thursdays.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen And ty for that, Elf
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other questions or matters?
15:29 Sandie Harbour Raises hand.
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen Sandie?
15:30 Sandie Harbour Twice this week I gave an impromptu building class. Is it okay to use the lecture hall if not being used?
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen I think so, as a recognized Oxbridge instructor.
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, if it becomes a recurring impromptu class, then we should schedule it.
15:32 Sandie Harbour understood, thanks
15:32 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) "Workshop of Ladyness Harbour"
15:32 Sandie Harbour blushing
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen Samm has something she is trying in a skybox she put under the sandbox. I'll be putting a class monitor there and putting it on the schedule.
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen It's something like a building contest.
15:35 Sandie Harbour oh, that sounds fun
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen So there are things in the works
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else?
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hearing nothing,
15:37 Samm Florian Nothing! Nothing!
15:37 Agatha Macbeth Talk of the devil
15:37 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) I'd wait....
15:37 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) contemplates emptiness
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Just mentioned your new effort Samm. Want to say anything about it?
15:38 Samm Florian Sure!
15:38 Samm Florian So on Saturday nights I'm hostin' an event called Buildarama.
15:38 Phrynne tried it; it was fun
15:38 Samm Florian If you've ever done a blitz build, it's like that, only not a contest.
15:39 Samm Florian You get a random word, and you have 40 minutes to make somethin' based on that word.
15:39 Samm Florian And then at the end folks admire each other's builds, ask questions, stuff like that.
15:39 Samm Florian It's mostly a chance fer folks to practice and learn.
15:39 Agatha Macbeth Poetry in prims...
15:39 Samm Florian Sure! :)
15:39 Sandie Harbour What time on Saturday?
15:39 Samm Florian 7pm
15:40 Samm Florian SLT
15:40 Samm Florian There's a special stadium fer it: Caledon Oxbridge Village (41,28,1390)
15:40 Agatha Macbeth will be extremely asleep
15:40 Samm Florian Aww. :(
15:40 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) wishes it didn't happen at about the same time as The Concordant...but that's life.
15:40 Samm Florian If other folks want to host at other times I'm happy t'accommodate 'em…doesn't take any work really.
15:41 Samm Florian When does The Concordant start?
15:41 Kara2016 7:30 SLT
15:41 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) 7:30
15:41 Sulley Daviau ((pls excuse me I have to depart a tad early I have an uber waiting for me)) :)
15:41 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) But people show up earlier than that sometimes.
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen tc Sulley
15:42 Samm Florian I'd move it to 6:30 only that doesn't fit in with th'Oxbridge schedule.
15:42 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) ((and people ask questions if I don't show up >.<))
15:43 Sandie Harbour that is an excellent point.
15:43 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) It's okay, Samm. Schedules don't always line up for me, so don't worry about it.
15:44 Samm Florian I know, but…. I believe it's gonna go up on th'Oxbridge schedule as a class, but it doesn't hafta be a class I s'pose, could be more like an event, like Prim Charades. Whaddya think, Word?
15:45 Sandie Harbour this may be a bad idea, but has any thought been given to adding the even hours to the schedule?
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen It depends if you want it on the schedule and want to receive a stipend for it (the two are closely connected)
15:46 Sandie Harbour I see
15:46 Carl Metropolitan Sandie, I think that Word was answering Samm's question.
15:46 Samm Florian Let's have it on th'schedule fer now, so folks learn about it, and mebbe we can move it later if it gets attention?
15:47 Samm Florian I like bein' paid, but it's not near so much work fer me as a normal class so that's not a big deal.
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen Sounds reasonable, Samm
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thought could be given to changing the hour format, but at the moment we are limited to a 1024 pixel height.
15:49 Phrynne Do we still need the 8 am time slot?
15:49 Phrynne We don't have anything in it now.
15:50 Carl Metropolitan The two hour slots were originally set up by me on the first version of the schedule years ago to prevent classes from running into each other as had happened at other places.
15:50 Carl Metropolitan That's the only reason they are that way.
15:50 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) *coughs* NCI *coughs*
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Would have to keep it, I think, that any class reserves two-hours
15:51 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Some scripting classes have gone much longer than two hours
15:52 Samm Florian Yeah, we need that two-hour spacing I reckon.
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen And I would have to figure out Tali's Google engine interface and change it.
15:52 Sandie Harbour then it is probably not worth the effort
15:52 Sandie Harbour sorry fo asking
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen No, it's good to ask.
15:53 Samm Florian thinks Tali's engine might be overly complicated…
15:53 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) Very valid question, Sandie.
15:53 Phrynne (oops. was checking Oxbridge and accidentally teleported)
15:53 Samm Florian giggles.
15:53 Samm Florian I hate when I TP when I'm teachin' class.
15:53 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) ((happens *laughs*))
15:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Although Tali has a lot of what I specified, lecture definitions separate from time assignments, specification of the location.
15:55 Carl Metropolitan I am looking for another task to do for Oxbridge. I had hoped to do a revision of the Hall of Money & Commerce posters, but after talking with Word, it seems that Lindal may be hard to coordinate with due to RL timing issues, so I will probably wait on that. I had thought of attempting a freebies upgrade, expansion, and reorganization and discussed that with Phrynne, but realized that the task could get very large, very quickly. I was wondering if there was something I could try that would be bite-sized and needed to be done.
15:55 Samm Florian I remember when ya gave me access to Tali's engine, and my brain jes about melted. :D
15:56 Kara2016 ouch.
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Not that hard to use, Samm
15:57 Sandie Harbour <-- would love to see the underlying code
15:57 Samm Florian Use, mebbe; modify? *shrugs* Not my milieu I s'pose.
15:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anyway, have to go through that anyway, it's a matter of order and priority.
15:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'll keep that in mind Sandie. You may get that wish soon.
16:00 Samm Florian But that 9pm slot is empty too; I wonder if there'd be more interest in, like, 6pm and 8pm slots?
16:00 Samm Florian Or somethin' like that, I dunno.
16:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'll keep thinking of projects, Carl, one is that the the posters you have on the wall in the entry building have terrible LOD behavior.
16:00 Carl Metropolitan I can fix that.
16:01 Carl Metropolitan I will do that next.
16:01 Carl Metropolitan I checked them a few weeks ago to make sure all the links worked.
16:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen I figured you could. :)
16:01 Samm Florian wonders why th'control panel up here is differnt from th'one down in the Main Lecture Hall. This one is prettier.
16:01 Carl Metropolitan I made those when I knew nothing about mesh.
16:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen That enters the realm of interactions with Ravelli, Samm.
16:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen This one got an update after we had a griefing here.
16:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen (the management group is the same as the scholar group)
16:03 Samm Florian nods.
16:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen So Ravelli did an update so that we didn't have griefers turning the floor over .... and over and over.
16:04 Samm Florian Oh I see.
16:04 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) Oh gods, I remember that.
16:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen Didn't need the update down below, because the management group is faculty only.
16:05 Samm Florian What do ya hafta do to flip th'floor now?
16:05 Samm Florian Or is it a sekrit?
16:05 Phrynne and us stuck under them and unable to see who was doing what.
16:05 Phrynne (no fun)
16:05 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) Good thing we got names anyway.
16:05 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) was there
16:05 Kara2016 no, not fun at all.
16:05 Phrynne yes -- very good thing.
16:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, yes, the controls up here were redone, by Ravelli.
16:06 Samm Florian Well, they're pretty. :)
16:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen Maybe we can nudge Ravelli.
16:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else?
16:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hearing nothing, we are adjourned.
16:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming and participating.
16:08 Sandie Harbour Thank-you Deans
16:08 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) Whole hour, impressive.
16:08 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Bedtime for me.
16:08 Kara2016 Thank you Deans
16:08 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) Night, Elf.
16:08 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) night mr eb
16:08 Agatha Macbeth Zzzz
16:08 lovejoy2199 Very good Q&A.
16:08 Kara2016 Good night, Agatha
16:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) waves bye
16:09 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hold the fort
16:09 Agatha Macbeth I haven't gone yet
16:09 Carl Metropolitan Goodnight everyone.
16:09 Kara2016 That is a lovely outfit, Agatha
16:09 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing you
16:09 Agatha Macbeth Good to see you again Mr Carl
16:09 lovejoy2199 Hello Sandie
16:09 Sandie Harbour Hi Lovejoy
16:09 Caladon Rae'thiel (saeldurrae) Headed home. Thank you again.
16:10 lovejoy2199 And, welcome back Chancellor emeritus.
16:10 Carl Metropolitan Thank you.
16:10 Carl Metropolitan I will work on the posters with the bad LOD next and am talking to Phyrnne about freebies.