Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2019-07-07

14:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Phrynne. :)
14:44 Phrynne hi
14:45 Phrynne I'm eating soup before the Q&A, soon as I get a working chair
14:47 Phrynne soup= homemade broth+parsley+noodles+shrimp+turmeric
14:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi, Andrea
14:51 Carl Metropolitan Hello
14:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Carl
14:52 OxbridgeFreebieManager Greetings Earthlings, I come in peace.
14:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, FreebieManager
14:53 Phrynne I do hope so; I've been getting questions from people about you
14:53 Phrynne (hi Carl, hi Andrea, hi OFM, am eating dinner early)
14:53 OxbridgeFreebieManager I'm here to help all the dudes and dudettes, new and old!
14:54 OxbridgeFreebieManager May I rez something?
14:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen As long as it doesn't fill the room.
14:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Lia
14:54 Lia (tokyorii) Thank you chancellor.
14:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hola, Larky
14:55 Lia (tokyorii) Kara!
14:55 Carl Metropolitan Hello
14:55 Kara2016 Hugs Lia
14:55 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Hi Wordsmith. Hello everyone.
14:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Kara
14:55 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Kara2016 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
14:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen and thank you. Much appreciated.
14:56 Kara2016 Greetings Deans, and everyone.
14:56 Lia (tokyorii) What are the boxes on the ground for?
14:56 Badass Fae (larkylouz) is glad Lia asked, as Larky is curious, too.
14:57 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) reboxed freebies for the gift center?
14:57 Carl Metropolitan Those are examples of the new format for freebies that I've been working on and repackaging along with my alt friend, Oxbridge Freebie Manager.
14:57 Lia (tokyorii) Oh nice nice
14:57 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Very nice boxes!
14:58 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Thanks for doing all that, Carl.
14:58 Carl Metropolitan I will talk more when it is my turn, but I wanted to have them ( and him ) ready.
14:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Rainy
14:58 RainyDayRecess Hello everyone ;)
14:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Tahisha
14:59 Lia (tokyorii) Hello Rainy ^^
14:59 RainyDayRecess Hi Lia ;)
14:59 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Lia (tokyorii) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
14:59 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Hi Rainy
14:59 RainyDayRecess Hi Larky ;)
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen Very nice format, Carl
15:00 Lia (tokyorii) So I misclicked
15:00 Lia (tokyorii) Sorry*
15:00 RainyDayRecess Thank you Lia ;)
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
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Have anything for us, Phrynne?
15:04 Phrynne Not much this week -- RL has been busy and, other than that, I've mostly been in the plaza. I'd like to give my time over to Carl Metropolitan, our Chancellor Emeritus, to talk about what he's been doing.
15:04 Phrynne Carl?
15:04 Carl Metropolitan Hi
15:04 Carl Metropolitan Across from me is Oxbridge Freebie Manager
15:04 Carl Metropolitan He joins Oxbridge Mint and Oxbridge Guardian as one of the Oxbridge alt accounts.
15:05 Carl Metropolitan He's going to be the account that holds and manages freebies as we update them in the Train Station.
15:05 Carl Metropolitan And he just rezzed some new format freebie boxes
15:05 Carl Metropolitan Let me have him re-rez them
15:05 Badass Fae (larkylouz) thinks you should bring back the Oxbridge Janitor!
15:06 Gronk Seriman I mess him! Hw was such a dodo!
15:06 Lia (tokyorii) Oxbridge Janitor?
15:06 Badass Fae (larkylouz) snickers at Gronk
15:06 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) The gorilla one?
15:07 Carl Metropolitan He should have been wearing his Dean hat I guess.
15:07 Kara2016 i like the new format
15:07 Carl Metropolitan Oxbridge Janitor was a role.
15:07 Carl Metropolitan Not an alt I believe.
15:07 Carl Metropolitan I've been going through and repackaging freebies.
15:07 Badass Fae (larkylouz) I remember him bucking for higher pay.
15:07 Carl Metropolitan I've also got to get some transfered to him than are no trans that I can't repackage
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen The janitor was a bot run Oxbridge account with an avatar of a cigar smoking Dodo.
15:08 Carl Metropolitan All of the old Denver Hax freebies have made it through nicely though
15:08 Lia (tokyorii) Seems my view has been blocked by some boxes haha.
15:08 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Oh! I'm glad you got the Denver Hax stuff saved!
15:09 Carl Metropolitan I've been working on this in my spare time.
15:09 Carl Metropolitan I hope to get all of them updated and start hunting for new ones in a few weeks.
15:09 Carl Metropolitan There is one stealth new one; a version of my builders grid and texture ruled for decimeters
15:10 Carl Metropolitan I will be sending out announcements about Oxbridge Freebie Manager and requests later.
15:10 Carl Metropolitan That's all but for any questions.
15:10 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Thanks, again, Carl. That's a lot of work!
15:11 Carl Metropolitan I have more boxes that are 'no trans' so I can't really put them out for display right now, too
15:11 RainyDayRecess Thank you for your hard work Carl ;)
15:11 Carl Metropolitan You are welcome
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen A lot of work and a very nice result.
15:12 Phrynne Very good graphic design, too
15:12 RainyDayRecess Yes
15:12 Carl Metropolitan Thank you
15:12 Carl Metropolitan Oxbridge Freebie Manager will now depart for my computer's health
15:12 Badass Fae (larkylouz) :^)
15:12 Oxbridge Freebie Manager (oxbridgefreebiemanager) Bye Dudes and Dudettes!
15:12 Gronk Seriman smiles
15:13 Gronk Seriman Great work, Carl!
15:13 Lia (tokyorii) Have a good one carl.
15:13 Carl Metropolitan I'm still here; just the alt that is gone
15:13 Lia (tokyorii) Oops read that wrong!
15:14 Carl Metropolitan Wordsmith and Phrynne also have the passwords to him.
15:14 Badass Fae (larkylouz) The burning question is, Who is the REAL Carl Metropolitan????
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen And the look of the alt as someone who can come up with needed things, sometimes not through official channels.
15:15 Badass Fae (larkylouz) LOL
15:15 Carl Metropolitan He's one of the more recent Linden default alts
15:15 Carl Metropolitan I think from the generation after the horrible mesh body attempts they did.
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Carl -- for the work and the report. :)
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea?
15:16 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) HI.
15:16 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Ok
15:17 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) The art show and fundraiser will be on the 3rd of next month
15:17 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) That way there is time for advertising and organization of the event
15:17 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I may try to get in something this month.
15:17 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) something small maybe
15:18 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Most of the land I have in Southend will be dedicated to the vent.
15:18 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) there may be 3 parcels linked through teleport pads.
15:18 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) A lot of it depends on participation and prims
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen nods
15:19 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) There are several thing yet to be decided.
15:19 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Like selling the art onsite or having the buyer contact the artist
15:20 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) and the dance will probably be held on the top of the mountain or a sky box
15:20 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) and have 2 events, one at 12 or 2, and 6 or 7
15:21 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) depends on volunteering dj participation
15:21 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Phrynne gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:21 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) notecard to go out tonight i think
15:21 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) otherwise I'm done.looks back at Wordsmith
15:21 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) oh,
15:22 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) we will be using easels again. i think
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Andrea.
15:22 Badass Fae (larkylouz) thank you for all your hard work, Andrea. Just the logistics is enough to floor me.
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen I've paid tier for this next quarter paying again on 2 October.
15:24 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Badass Fae (larkylouz) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:24 RainyDayRecess TY Larky ;)
15:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen After paying, we had about 247k $L in the account, about a 22k $L surplus from my nominal buffer of 225k $L.
15:25 Lia (tokyorii) 247k Linden ?!?
15:25 Lia (tokyorii) Woaaah
15:26 Carl Metropolitan That is not as much as it sounds like. Oxbridge pays its own tier here to Desmond Shang
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen That 22k $L is down from about 32k $L surplus after paying tier at the beginning of January. So, we managed to keep a surplus and only go down by 10k $L during the RFL fundraising season.
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen It takes about 107k $L to run Oxbridge for a quarter (13 weeks), Lia
15:27 Lia (tokyorii) Ohhhh~ okay okay I understand
15:27 Badass Fae (larkylouz) And aside from a small stipend to teaching professors, all the staff is volunteer.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen 74,750 $L tier per quarter.
15:29 Gronk Seriman "Tier" = "Rent"
15:29 Lia (tokyorii) Okay thank you Gronk
15:29 Lia (tokyorii) I was actually confused haha
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen I've started work on the tutorial translations.
15:30 Gronk Seriman Everybody calls it Tier in SL. But it really is Rent. You never really own your land.
15:30 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Yup
15:30 Badass Fae (larkylouz) What is the status of the translations? Are any languages finished?
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Doing some scripting for Rainy and the horses.
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen No, Larky. Phrynne and I've agreed that it's best, however, to do a language at a time completely.
15:32 Badass Fae (larkylouz) That makes sense.
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen Have a couple of Blender projects I'm doing for Phrynne and the Advent Calendar.
15:33 Carl Metropolitan Does this prevent updates of the base English language tutorials?
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen No, although it would be good to know where the updates are and if there is any renumbering of the kiosks.
15:35 Phrynne It would be good if any changes to the tutorial would be accompanied by translations of the changes in French and Spanish, which are the languages that will be installed.
15:35 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:36 RainyDayRecess Wow TY Andrea
15:36 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) burn baby burn
15:36 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Disco inferno
15:36 RainyDayRecess :D
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne and I, as mentioned last week, have also been working on some dress policy clarifications, so that staff is applying a uniform policy and nobody is getting over-enthusiastic in restricting dress.
15:37 Lia (tokyorii) Uh oh
15:37 Gronk Seriman sings "Dat coin is on Fyaaaaaa!"
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen I consider this to be a clarification, not a basic change
15:37 Carl Metropolitan What are these clarifications?
15:38 Lia (tokyorii) ^
15:38 RainyDayRecess :D
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne, do you want to say anything to that (we haven't finalized a notecard)
15:39 Phrynne No, not really -- I am still writing.
15:39 Phrynne I will take questions, if there are any.
15:40 Lia (tokyorii) What are the clarifications for the dressing like Carl asked a bit ago?
15:40 Phrynne Lia, I am still working on writing that up.
15:40 Lia (tokyorii) Oh okay, Tyt.
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'll add that Des sent me a message on how we would feel about making Oxbridge a m-rated sim. I am resistant to that idea. We get 16-17 year olds in here and have a list of G-rated sims we can direct them to. We would lose those persons. I'd rather try to keep starting them out right.
15:41 Carl Metropolitan Why would he want to make it an M-rated sim? That seems strange.
15:41 Badass Fae (larkylouz) I still AR 12 year olds on a semi-regular basis.
15:42 Phrynne I believe that it would be impossible to keep Oxbridge a safe place for everyone if it were to be made Moderate.
15:42 Lia (tokyorii) We are mature but I can understand Oxbridge itself is rated G
15:42 Badass Fae (larkylouz) What is Des' thinking?
15:42 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) there would be some confusion I think. LL rates moderate ok topless etc
15:43 Lia (tokyorii) He maybe wants to attract more people? Sometimes people see a rated G sim and leave because they can't have certain things or wear certain things
15:43 Carl Metropolitan We could be moderate with our own codes of behavior and dress, but it would be harder to communicate and enforce those.
15:43 Lia (tokyorii) My opinion that is.
15:43 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) And others leave Adult region because they think they are only for porn...
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen There were no specifics in his letter other than that some concerns had been expressed based on the Q&A transcripts and one concern was after hours when staff was not around. But the last is likely the case with any G-rated sim.
15:43 Lia (tokyorii) Also true elf
15:43 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Yes
15:43 Gronk Seriman Maybe Des be thinking of taking Caledon to Adult, ant have us bump to Moderate?
15:44 Lia (tokyorii) I hope Caledon does not ever become adult
15:44 Lia (tokyorii) Rules would be broken quite quickly
15:44 Carl Metropolitan I would be amazed if he were considering that sort of change, Gronk.
15:44 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I doubt Des would go adult
15:45 Lia (tokyorii) Thank you for the meeting deans ~ Must be leaving, Have a good one everyone!
15:45 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Unlikely
15:45 Gronk Seriman Pressure from his tenants, maybe?
15:45 RainyDayRecess Thanks for coming Lia! Take care ;)
15:45 Carl Metropolitan I'd be less shocked if say... Trump came out for single payer heath care or Bernie Sanders was suddenly doing "Build the Wall!"
15:46 John (elijahjohnb) laughs softly
15:46 Gronk Seriman I think it was pressure from tenants that made Caledon go from G to M.
15:47 Carl Metropolitan No. It was LL changing from two ratings PG & M to G, M, and A
15:47 Gronk Seriman Ah.
15:47 Carl Metropolitan They made the old PG limits closer to the new M limits
15:47 Carl Metropolitan And the old M limits became the A limits
15:47 John (elijahjohnb) raises his hand
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen John?
15:47 Carl Metropolitan G was very toned down compared to the old PG
15:47 John (elijahjohnb) iI is the M and G rating that attracted me to Caledon
15:48 John (elijahjohnb) i would prefer G rating
15:48 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) There is still lots of interpretation of how many region apply the rating.
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen There is good motivation for M in most of Caledon. It is flexible about art work, dance dress, ... while preventing sexually oriented advertising and public events.
15:50 Gronk Seriman Thus the Clarification Phrynne is writing. Good Luck, and don't pull out too much hair!
15:50 John (elijahjohnb) nods in agreement with Mr. Wordsmith
15:50 Phrynne I am trying not to go bald from this. It is an effort. Good thing that virtual paper does not come from virtual trees, or several of them would have been chewed up already.
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen I should note that there are only two LL documents that mention nudity.
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen One is the document on ratings, the other is terms and conditions which has one mention that G-regions can't have nudity.
15:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen The only pseudo-definition of nudity comes in the ratings document, something about being comfortable with your grandmother and appropriate for all ages. That's it. And they are obviously out of touch with the grandmothers in SL.
15:54 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) And elsewhere in the world
15:54 Phrynne Comfortable with grandmother or small children.
15:54 Gronk Seriman Who was the comedian who said Nude Beaches always sound like a good idea. Until you go there.
15:54 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Yeah, that grandmother line needs revising.
15:54 Badass Fae (larkylouz) hee hee
15:54 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Yes, because most nudists do not look like Playboy centerfolds
15:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Except, correct me if I'm wrong Phrynne, the TOS now explicitly limits access to 16-17 year olds under the G rating.
15:55 Badass Fae (larkylouz) When I've been at nude beaches, there's much less leering and such than sometimes goes on elsewhere.
15:55 Phrynne Yes. Anyone younger than 16 is no longer allowed here.
15:56 Kara2016 Smiles brightly.
15:56 Phrynne If you encounter someone who admits to being younger, you can AR them using the Age>Ageplay category and put Underage Avatar in the description heading.
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Which is a change that Phrynne wrote a notecard on in the recent past.
15:56 Cinnamon (tesnus) so wait, mature regions are also now restricted to people under 18?
15:57 Phrynne Nobody under 18 can go anywhere but General regions.
15:57 Phrynne That is not a change; that's how it was before.
15:57 Phrynne The change is that adults cannot sign for younger people to be here.
15:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen But the language was vague about the lower limit in G regions
15:58 Cinnamon (tesnus) ooooh ok
15:58 Phrynne For a few years we had kids age 9-12 around a lot, and even some down to 6 years old.
15:58 Phrynne Second Life was never intended to be a babysitter.
15:58 Phrynne and personally, if I'm going to have to oversee a region being used as a babysitter, I want a raise.
15:58 Carl Metropolitan We still have kids in SL. They just lie about their age when signing up.
15:58 Badass Fae (larkylouz) And LL *is* responsive when we AR kids.
15:58 Kara Zor - El (superpantera) Oh my god, under 6 years old!? I can't imagine that
15:58 Phrynne You know, Carl, a lot of them don't do that until someone suggests it to them.
15:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, anyone at Oxbridge younger than 16 is in violation of TOS and can be immediately ARed.
15:59 Cinnamon (tesnus) can also confirm, I've ARed a fair number elsewhere
15:59 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Maybe, Carl, but the young ones - like 12 - I can see 'em coming a mile away.
15:59 Cinnamon (tesnus) LL gets right on that
15:59 Phrynne Younger than 12, they have trouble going through the tutorial. Younger than 10, they have trouble changing outfits.
16:00 Phrynne And younger than that, they ignore everyone and do what they want.
16:00 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) has seen lots of supposedly adult people who should not have graduated from the kindergarten to not automatically think that people behaving like brats are always kids.
16:00 John (elijahjohnb) nods
16:01 Badass Fae (larkylouz) It isn't always brattiness that allows me to recognize them. It is that they have an unrealistic view of adult life. They're rotten liars. Or don't know enough to lie.
16:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anyway, there's a bit more discussion in last weeks Q&A transcript
16:02 Kara Zor - El (superpantera) I have one question, tell me when can I say my question, please
16:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne and I will be further discussing a clarification notecard.
16:02 Phrynne go ahead Kara
16:04 Kara Zor - El (superpantera) I don't know if this is the place where I've to ask, but my question it's about being a Tutor at Caledon oxbridge, I've sent to Tasha a notecard answering the necessary to be a Tutor and I'd like to know if my notecard has been seen and if am I able to be a tutor
16:04 Phrynne Kara, this is not the place.
16:05 Kara Zor - El (superpantera) Okay, sorry then
16:05 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Well, still hosting the Writers' MEeting.
16:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other than, I believe we can confirm that the application was received.
16:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty Elf.
16:07 Kara Zor - El (superpantera) Can I say one suggestion?
16:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes, but please be concise.
16:07 Kara Zor - El (superpantera) I'll be
16:09 Kara Zor - El (superpantera) In European time zone, where I live, in mornings, the Plaza it's used to be empty and some newcomers come here looking for help, I try to be in mornings here but could be anyone with more experience than me?
16:10 Phrynne What time SLT are you thinking of?
16:10 Badass Fae (larkylouz) There is always the COUG group help chat, if there is no staff around. We can't cover all the times.
16:10 Phrynne "morning" is a bit subjective
16:10 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Kara, feel free to IM me if you need help telling people how to access COUG chat.
16:10 Kara Zor - El (superpantera) Night, about 3 or 4 am the most it's about 6 or 7 am
16:12 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) No promises since I am usually otherwise occupied in local mornings
16:12 Kara Zor - El (superpantera) I know Elf, I use to be too, but now in summer I've more freedom
16:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen About all we can do is encourage Euro/UK tutors or East Coast tutors to add coverage if they have the time available.
16:13 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I have the Writers' Meeting the time it is because I know I will be home in those times.
16:13 Kara2016 ,..my vacation ends tonight and back too work tomorrow.
16:13 Kara Zor - El (superpantera) Of course! when they have time
16:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen With that, we are over our hour, and should adjourn.
16:14 Kara2016 Thank you, Deans
16:14 Badass Fae (larkylouz) Thank you, Deans, everyone.
16:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, we are adjourned.
16:14 RainyDayRecess Thank you Deans ;)
16:14 Phrynne Thank you for coming.
16:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen The transcript will be posted.
16:14 Kara Zor - El (superpantera) Okay, thanks
16:15 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Past medtime for me
16:15 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hod the fort
16:15 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) *hold
16:15 Kara Zor - El (superpantera) Bye Elf
16:15 RainyDayRecess Night Elfbiter ;) sleep well
16:15 Gronk Seriman Woohoo! Overtime! Thank you Deans!
16:15 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing you
16:16 Kara Zor - El (superpantera) Bye Be seeing you