Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2020-01-12

14:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Mellie
14:39 lovejoy2199 Greetings everyone
14:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Greetings lovejoy
14:41 Phrynne hello Lovejoy and Mellie
14:48 Larky (larkylouz) Hi everyone.
14:52 Soup Jonson Greetings!
14:52 RainyDayRecess Hello everyone ;)
14:52 Fringe Element (fringeelement2) :)
14:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Lovejoy, I've temporarily moved your cheese -- using a medieval music stream
14:53 Phrynne hello, one and all
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 Mellie (musicalmelody7321) Hi everyone. Sorry. I was away.
14:57 lovejoy2199 Back. Hello to everyone.
14:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Nothing wrong with arriving and doing a tea or coffee run or laundry from washer to dryer
14:59 Caissa McCarey (lorelai.mccarey) oh, that reminds me I left all my canvas in the dryer
14:59 lovejoy2199 And, I noticed the music change Provost Emeritus.
15:00 Larky (larkylouz) << deep in sorting inventory
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen And as the chimes begin their peal, Dean Andrea appears.
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome to this week's Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. This is an open meeting;
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen all are welcome apart from those who intend to misbehave in a disruptive manner.
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Non-disruptive misbehavior is at your discretion.
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen Transcripts will be posted after the meeting.
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen At this time, this meeting is a 2nd Sunday of the month event. The other weeks we have General Q&A led by Carl and Andrea.
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne, do you have anything to report for today?
15:03 Phrynne Just a little bit
15:03 Phrynne First, Happy New Year!
15:04 Cychwynn best wishes :)
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen (and thank you, Kara)
15:04 Phrynne The holiday decorations have been taken down for use next year.
15:04 RainyDayRecess Yay!! Happy New Year to you too :D
15:04 Phrynne I have sent many of the Advent Calendar gifts to Carl Metropolitan, to go into the growing collection of freebies in the Railroad Station.
15:06 Phrynne The next major project for me is probably going to be updating the Faculty Info Kit, which is large and contains multitudes. Fortunately, I don't have to do it all alone; Badass Fae and Soup Jonson have been very helpful.
15:06 Phrynne I don't have a time-line on that; it will be out as soon as it is ready.
15:07 RainyDayRecess Thank you so much Larky and Soup ;)
15:07 Phrynne I will announce when it goes out, as well as sending a note to everyone on staff, so that people who don't read all their mail will realize it's available.
15:07 Soup Jonson We are good eggs
15:07 Phrynne And that's it.
15:07 Phrynne looks back to Word
15:07 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) still has too many RL eggs...
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Phrynne.
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea, what have you to speak upon?
15:08 Larky (larkylouz) thanks for all you do, Phrynne
15:08 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Nothing this week.Should have more later.
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen Okay.
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen As of this morning, I have 10 stipends to pay and we are 12 days from the first. The current $L balance is 221781. If I take my nominal starting float of 225000, ad 2500 for stipends and add 12 days of tier, we are about 15,600 $L below where I'd like to be.
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen The float value I aim for is slightly more than two quarters operating expenses.
15:12 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) RainyDayRecess gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:12 RainyDayRecess Thanks for the reminder ;)
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty, Rainy
15:13 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty, taspanda.
15:13 RainyDayRecess Thank you Taspanda ;)
15:13 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) its not much but ill try and give more when i can :)
15:13 RainyDayRecess It all counts ;)
15:14 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) yes ^..^
15:14 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Lady Aeval-Leigh of Speirling (aevalle.galicia) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen Now, I've got four graphs up here, three of them on the board behind me and one one the front porch. All of them have notecards and notecard givers.
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty, Lady Aev (bows)
15:14 Lady Aeval-Leigh of Speirling (aevalle.galicia) :)
15:15 RainyDayRecess Ty Lady Aevalle ;)
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen The upper graph on the wall is from monitoring visitors to Oxbridge and plotting the weekly summaries. The obvious dip is a data outage, not data. The peaks are the last 3 years of visitors during advent.
15:17 Lady Aeval-Leigh of Speirling (aevalle.galicia) I was about to ask if the dip was when SL was down
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen The blue and gold colors at the top are designed to closely approximate Marion Questi's first day and first week statistics, with no double counting
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen No Aevalle, the dip is when something killed the monitor script.
15:19 Soup Jonson Does it track naked people flying ?
15:19 Soup Jonson If not I have been 3 thus far.
15:19 Lady Aeval-Leigh of Speirling (aevalle.galicia) grins. It might draw a crowd ;-p
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen The middle graph is specific to visitors to the advent calendar. The blue bars are the number of avatars who touched one or more boxes on the given date. The reddish bars are the total number of touches on the date by those avatars.
15:20 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Larky (larkylouz) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty, Larky
15:21 RainyDayRecess Ty Larky ;)
15:21 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Fringe Element (fringeelement2) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:21 RainyDayRecess Thank you Fringe ;)
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, something like 220 avatars per day average (until all the boxes were out), with multiple touches.
15:22 Phrynne Oxbridge is one of few places that makes gifts available for more than one day on the Advent Calendar.
15:22 Phrynne so it's possible to come late and catch up.
15:22 Larky (larkylouz) And I heard more than one comment that lead me to believe that some folks know we give quality gifts, not retreads of less-than-wonderful.
15:23 Cychwynn yeah i have had many friends make use of that
15:23 Lady Aeval-Leigh of Speirling (aevalle.galicia) That's what it looks like at the end of the month. Few individual avatars but they clicked on everything.
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen The bottom graph covers November and December and shows the touches to each of our freebies, including the advent boxes in December.
15:23 Cychwynn that way I could tell them about certain items they would be interested in and what day box it was in
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen Note that it's a log scale. The number on the left axis are powers of 10.
15:23 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Mellie (musicalmelody7321) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:24 Soup Jonson I enjoy a good log scale.
15:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen Just beneath the advent boxes, are Carl's new Info Pylon's
15:24 Lady Aeval-Leigh of Speirling (aevalle.galicia) Log scaling's nothing without kilts
15:24 Lady Aeval-Leigh of Speirling (aevalle.galicia) Wait...nvm ;-p
15:24 Larky (larkylouz) heee
15:24 Soup Jonson Yes Lady.
15:25 RainyDayRecess Thank you Mellie ;)
15:25 Carl Metropolitan Oh. I'm glad those are getting used.
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen There's a joke about Noah walking rounds to see how the various animals he'd off-loaded were doing. Everyone seemed okay except for a pair of very sad snakes who asked him if he could cut some trees to make logs. When he came back again, they were happy and had off-spring. They were adders and needed logs to multiply.
15:27 Phrynne owwww
15:28 Sanylle groans
15:28 lovejoy2199 Where is Sandie. lol
15:29 Larky (larkylouz) OMG....
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen Out on the front porch, there's a very tall graph. It shows how individual avatars came in on different days to access the advent calendar. 1116 avatars in all.
15:29 Larky (larkylouz) 1116 unique avatars? Not touches, but unique accounts?
15:30 Larky (larkylouz) And judging by their clothing or lack thereof, all from Southern Climes....
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes. And the dots represent a day that avatar came to Oxbridge and touched at least on box.
15:30 Lady Aeval-Leigh of Speirling (aevalle.galicia) I know the few times I stuck around for a bit, there was a constant stream coming through heading to the pavilion.
15:31 RainyDayRecess Good question Larky
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, the middle graph inside looks at the totals. This one shows individual behavior.
15:31 Carl Metropolitan Were those 1116 people unique avatars? Or do they represent a smaller group of avatars touching the boxes multiple times.
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen (that's 12 512x1024 textures on a 3 piece mesh display board)
15:33 Soup Jonson 22/23 whatever it takes.
15:34 Gronk Seriman giggles
15:34 RainyDayRecess :D
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen Those are individual avatars, Carl. The numbers are as we first encountered them.
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen But from then on the avatar UUID was associated with that number in making the graph.
15:35 Carl Metropolitan How many unique avatars used the advent calendar boxes over the event?
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen Touches versus avatars on each day is shown on the middle graph behind me in aggregate
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen 1116
15:37 Carl Metropolitan Thank you. That is a number that could be easy to sell to possible sponsors
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen And with that open for questions in general
15:38 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) raises hand
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen I will be leaving those graphs up, for those who aren't making the meeting but will read the transcript and come by later.
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen Taspanda?
15:39 Larky (larkylouz) hi sandie
15:40 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) As you know recently in australia there has been bush fires across the country....
15:40 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) I am on sl with my rl parents and we live in australia..
15:41 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) My mother and I were wondering if it would be possible to have a bushfire animal appeal board rezzed in the courtyard of caledon?
15:41 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) no money is handled in world it is just a url link to the direct rspca victoria to help all of the animals affected by the australian bushfires.
15:41 Carl Metropolitan Caledon or Caledon Oxbridge? They are two different things.
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen Phrynne? Andrea? thoughts?
15:42 Phrynne First, yes, Oxbridge and Caledon are not the same.
15:42 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) Caledon Oxbridge where the class are
15:42 Larky (larkylouz) We've had at least one other request to rez such a board. Maybe by Jack C?
15:42 Phrynne yes
15:42 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) the board is copy and transfer..
15:42 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) so i can pass it to one of the deans
15:43 Phrynne I would not have an objection to a board that would provide information for people on how they could help. I would be opposed to any money being handled for it inworld, for legal reasons.
15:43 Lady Aeval-Leigh of Speirling (aevalle.galicia) I can place them in Caledon Prime and Victoria City, if you want to pass me one. Not the same through traffic as Oxbridge but any little bit helps, right?
15:44 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) All the board does is put a direct url link in local chat which you just follow to an external link
15:44 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) so it won't spam as you have to click it for the link
15:44 Phrynne That would work.
15:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen Acceptable to me.
15:44 Phrynne What do you think, Word? Andrea?
15:45 Phrynne I could set it out for you.
15:45 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Is concerned as to the door we would be opening for requests such as these. Have we done s in the paat?
15:45 Phrynne not that I am aware, Andrea
15:46 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I think we should discuss this between the deans.
15:46 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) i will pass it to you now i also gave it to Lady Aeval
15:46 Gronk Seriman And RL and SL troubles don't mix well.
15:46 Larky (larkylouz) Perhaps it should not be placed in the plaza, so not to affect Nearby Chat quite so much.
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen And responding to any such request is at the discretion of the deans (at least 3)
15:47 Larky (larkylouz) On the sidewalk to the Hall of Caledon, perhaps.
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen We could try the plaza, and if it becomes disruptive move it as you suggest.
15:48 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) Where its put can be decided by the deans i dont mind
15:49 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) I also understand your concerns of it causing trouble but that is not the cause it's only to be able to donate for the animals that are being affected by the fires
15:50 RainyDayRecess Very sweet of you TasPanda ;)
15:50 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) I have one up in my clothing store and a few clubs and galleries and there has been no issues caused
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, if you think it needs such, Andrea, we could call for a meeting with Lindal in addition.
15:50 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) but if you do not want to I do understand
15:50 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I think consideration would be wise
15:51 Lady Aeval-Leigh of Speirling (aevalle.galicia) Having a small section dedicated to causes/non-profit wouldn't be a horrid addition to the campus, I don't think...depending on how the funds were funneled.
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen Okay. Taspanda, it sounds like we need fuller discussion among the deans and then get back to you.
15:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen Off world, Aevalle. Only a URL to a webpage is provided.
15:52 Larky (larkylouz) It's certainly an excellent cause. And not overly controversial, I wouldn't think.
15:53 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) No linden is required you simply follow a external url link to the RCSPA Victoria where you donate money..
15:53 Sanylle I think it would be urgent
15:53 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) so no lindens will be stolen from the campus
15:53 Soup Jonson I like it.
15:53 Sanylle Chances are something else will happen and people will think of that, instead
15:53 Dronejoe I like this
15:53 Cychwynn Me2
15:54 RainyDayRecess Me3
15:54 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) I can even grab the url link to give to you so you can see its a official webpage
15:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen Actually, we probably will have to act as a board of 3 (with input), since Lindal is on a sea cruise.
15:54 Sanylle Do you all three agree it is something worthwhile?
15:54 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) both me and my mother have done and do classes here at caledon oxbridge
15:55 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) since we first started sl 6 months ago
15:55 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) and we have seen how supportive the campus is and was hoping that with your help we can do something for the animals..
15:56 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) we have already lost 500,000 animals from the fire..
15:56 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) our native animals are going extinct because of the fires
15:56 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) And camels are shot, apparently
15:56 Sanylle add three more zeros to that number, dear
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen It seems so, non-frivolous and non-commercial.but I also respect Andrea's right to request more tome to think and more discussion.
15:56 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) we are just trying to be able to help the ones that are still battling to survive
15:56 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) so they won't go extinct
15:57 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) which i understand and respect
15:58 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) I'll leave you with the boards so you can discuss it more
15:58 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) and we can see what happens :)
15:59 RainyDayRecess Thank you TasPanda ;)
16:00 Gronk Seriman I know precedent has been set. SL has a huge Relay for Life to battle cancer. But I just don't like letting RL problems creep into SL. Second Life was named such for a reason.
16:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen The three deans up here on stage plus other interested parties can meet a bit later (today or tomorrow).
16:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other questions?
16:01 Phrynne Nobody is forced to participate in RFL. It is a choice, just as any donation to anything is.
16:01 Gronk Seriman Very true.
16:01 Lady Aeval-Leigh of Speirling (aevalle.galicia) First "Sandbox Saturday" coming up at the end of the week :) More to be announced soon
16:01 RainyDayRecess ?
16:01 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) exactly donations for rfl or this is not a requirement its only a choice of if you do or don't particpate
16:02 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) you should not be forced in anyay to particpate when you dont want to
16:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other questions with a different topic?
16:02 Dronejoe Some rl problems can become sl problems
16:03 Phrynne Excuse me, everyone, but I really do need to go offline now for RL matters.
16:03 Kara2016 Good night, Phrynne
16:03 Soup Jonson Take good care Phrynne
16:03 Phrynne I'll be back inworld later
16:03 RainyDayRecess Take care Phrynne ;)
16:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Okay. Sounds like we are
16:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen adjourned.
16:03 RainyDayRecess Thank you Deans ;)
16:03 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) Take Care Phrynne :)
16:03 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) night all
16:03 Cychwynn evening all :)
16:03 Sandie Harbour thank-you Deans
16:03 Lady Aeval-Leigh of Speirling (aevalle.galicia) Thankies :)
16:03 Larky (larkylouz) Thanks, Word, Andrea, all.
16:04 Soup Jonson Great meeting I enjoyed all the puctures.
16:04 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Good night Mr eb
16:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming and participating.
16:04 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Yup, bedtime for me.
16:04 Soup Jonson Elfbiter take good care.
16:04 Ϯღ Tყgεz Ãოᾄşίş ღϮ (taspanda13) Thank you Word and Andrea
16:04 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hold the fort
16:04 Skuld Aki (skuldaki) 10-4
16:04 RainyDayRecess Sweet Dreams EB ;)
16:04 Gronk Seriman Thank you, Deans!
16:04 Kara2016 Rest well, ElfBiter.
16:04 Cychwynn goodnight Elfbiter :0
16:04 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) badgerofzen gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
16:04 Kara2016 Good night everyone.
16:04 RainyDayRecess Thank you Badgerofzen ;)
16:04 Caissa McCarey (lorelai.mccarey) goodnight, Elfbiter :)