Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2020-03-08

14:41 Carl Metropolitan Hello
14:43 Kaitlin (jkaitlin) hello
14:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Kaitlin and Carl. :)
14:45 Kaitlin (jkaitlin) hello Wordsmith
14:45 Kaitlin (jkaitlin) Hi Carl
14:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen wb Spiral.
14:45 Kaitlin (jkaitlin) hi Spiral
14:46 Spiral Heliosense Wordsmith, good afternoon. Kaitlin, ditto. You to, Carl (just to get everyone...)
14:46 Kaitlin (jkaitlin) lol
14:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Elfbiter. ;)
14:50 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Greetings :-)
14:51 Kaitlin (jkaitlin) hi Elfbiter
14:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hola, Larky
14:51 Larky (larkylouz) Hi Word
14:51 Abby Rose (abigailmorgana) Thank you for the TP SIr Elfbiter.
14:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi, Caissa
14:52 Caissa McCarey (lorelai.mccarey) hi
14:52 Abby Rose (abigailmorgana) Bleess you Mister MEtropolitan. Love you Sir Wordsmith !
14:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hay, Gronk.
14:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Abby
14:53 Gronk Seriman Hello, Chancellor Jarvinen, everybody!
14:56 Gronk Seriman Wordsmith, you may have to move the apostrophe at this point.
14:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea is inworld, but I've been wondering about that.
14:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Rainy
14:59 RainyDayRecess Hello everyone, Hi Word ;)
15:00 Larky (larkylouz) Hey Rainy
15:00 Gronk Seriman Hi, Rainy!
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 Phrynne, I have no idea about. She's had the kind of PC troubles requiring a new PC.
15:01 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) She recently got a new one
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty Kara. :)
15:01 Kara2016 Smiles brightly.
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Moves the from Deans' Q&A to Dean's Q&A
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome to this week's Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. This is an open meeting;
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen all are welcome apart from those who intend to misbehave in a disruptive manner.
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Non-disruptive misbehavior is at your discretion.
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Transcripts will be posted after the meeting.
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen What I have to report for today is financial.
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen As of this morning, we have 280,819 $L in the Oxbridge account with no outstanding instructor stipends to pay.
15:06 Kara2016 Smiles brightly.
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen My nominal start of a quarter padding is 225k, a little more than two quarters operating expenses,.
15:06 Abby Rose (abigailmorgana) Here come L$1000 from a grateful student !
15:07 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Abby Rose (abigailmorgana) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:07 RainyDayRecess Thank you Abby ;)
15:07 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
15:07 Phrynne Apologies for the delay!
15:07 Carl Metropolitan So that looks like we are ahead by 55,000L$? Or am I reading that backwards?
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen Being 67 days into the current quarter, we have acquired 55,036 $L tier money. That adds to the 225k to make 280,036.
15:08 Larky (larkylouz) Yes!
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, the bottom line is a surplus of 783 $L, not a big surplus, but a surplus after running a deficit.
15:09 RainyDayRecess Nice ;)
15:09 Phrynne Yay surplus!
15:09 Gronk Seriman Woohoo!
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen (quietly shifts the apostrophe back to the other side of the "s")
15:09 Abby Rose (abigailmorgana) I love Oxbridge !
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen Many thanks to Andrea for organizing fundraisers, Cynthia for DJing, and our community for keeping us above the waves.
15:10 Carl Metropolitan I am not following the math, but trust your judgment.
15:11 Sulley Daviau sry im late
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen Carl, for 13 weeks (91 days), the tier is 74,750 $L. That's around 820 $L per day that we need as income after paying stipends.
15:12 Gronk Seriman Hopefully it will help going into the dry RFL season.
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, 67 days in we need (67 / 91)*74750 of the tier that will be due 1 April.
15:13 Carl Metropolitan What is the quarterly burn rate with stipends and other expenses included?
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen About 107k $L
15:13 Abby Rose (abigailmorgana) Ouch !
15:13 Carl Metropolitan Thank you.
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen 74,750 of that being tier.
15:14 Abby Rose (abigailmorgana) Where did we, as a community, fall behind ?
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other expenses are slight. Mostly landscaping.
15:15 Carl Metropolitan So we need to raise about 430,000 L$ per year (or ~1,660 USD per year)
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, starting about this time of year, we partly compete with RFL for donations, which can last well into the summer.
15:15 Carl Metropolitan And about 300K of that goes to tier.
15:16 Abby Rose (abigailmorgana) How can we help ?
15:17 Gronk Seriman whispers RFL=Relay For Life cancer fundraiser.
15:17 Carl Metropolitan Word smith's number show us right on track, though a bit more cushion could always help, I think. I was just trying to understand it on an annualized basis as I have not dealt with the numbers for nearly four years.
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen By the last two falls, we were in nominal deficit. Two years ago we made it up by October and had a 32 k surplus in January. This last year we started the year about 10 k below my nominal padding.
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen Because of the padding we try to keep, we can have short term deficits without any problem. What would eventually kills us would be a continually increasing deficit.
15:19 Carl Metropolitan is glad to have not dealt with the numbers for four years :)
15:19 Abby Rose (abigailmorgana) We have to make the University more exciting, an stimulate the newcomers.
15:20 RainyDayRecess Thank you Word for keeping such great records ;)
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen Multiple ways to help Abby. Helping Andrea organize fundraisers and donating what you can.
15:20 Phrynne Or attract their attention, considering that some are excited enough to run and fly as they get here.
15:20 Kaitlin (jkaitlin) i would like to help, I can't financially but still would like to help
15:21 Caissa McCarey (lorelai.mccarey) Andrea had been asking for item donations for an auction, though I haven't heard her mention it lately
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen And even if one can't donate $Ls, showing up and making the fundraisers a social success helps.
15:22 Abby Rose (abigailmorgana) I'll contact her.
15:22 Larky (larkylouz) If you have the skills to teach a class we don' thave on the schedule, that's another way to draw people.
15:22 Carl Metropolitan We need more people coming here. It be time to consider approaching working with LL again. Recent stuff coming out of the Lab indicates they have finally noticed they have a product called Second Life once more. They are always flaky, but the last time we looked at any sort of collaboration they were in complete loony mode.
15:22 Kaitlin (jkaitlin) working on that Larky
15:22 Abby Rose (abigailmorgana) I haven't been to one of her parties for a few weeks.
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea also uses a small gift giver that I created to randomly give out some donated gifts (gatcha items often)
15:23 Carl Metropolitan Andrea has regular parties; but she has fundraisers for Oxbridge every two months or so.
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen And something I want to clarify.
15:23 Carl Metropolitan The most recent one was the superhero themed dance. Previous to that was a winter fundraiser.
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen When I say we compete with RFL, I'm mentally using a limited elasticity model. People will donate somewhat more than usual for a good cause, but pressed beyond that, they'll start shifting donations. At least, that's what I believe happens.
15:25 Abby Rose (abigailmorgana) Oh, I have a Super Outfit ... Abby can be BAD !
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen :)
15:25 Sulley Daviau perhaps Oxbridge could host more live music performances. The ones i go to easily raise 10-20k lindens for the venue - per performance. they are so many live performers looking for venues
15:26 Carl Metropolitan That money goes to the performers though normally.
15:26 Sulley Daviau there are two pots
15:26 RainyDayRecess Welcome Jan ;)
15:26 Larky (larkylouz) Hey Jan
15:26 Sulley Daviau one tip jar for the performer
15:26 Phrynne hi Jan
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen Aye, welcome, Jan
15:26 Sulley Daviau and one tip jar for the venue
15:26 Jan Stroikavskoi Hi and thanks :)
15:27 Phrynne If you know any performers who would be willing to help Oxbridge, please tell Andrea.
15:27 Sulley Daviau usually - the venue gets less tips than the performer.. but it still gets a fair share
15:27 Sulley Daviau i am in a few performer groups - i will ask the organizers if their artists might consider Oxbridge as a venue
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen I believe that Andrea can (and is willing to) provide venues if someone else can organize, also.
15:28 Abby Rose (abigailmorgana) Mmmmm ... Let me look.
15:28 Gronk Seriman Sometime in the Fall, most RL universities throw Homecoming events to attract alumnae back to the campus. I don't thinl we've ever tried that.
15:28 Larky (larkylouz) I also believe Andrea has a limited budget for hiring DJs and performers, from what she's told me in the past.
15:29 Larky (larkylouz) That might work, Gronk! We continue to have people coming back to where they remember starting SL.
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen Well, if we had an Oxbridge Curling team homecoming .... ;)
15:29 Kaitlin (jkaitlin) i could live here to be honest
15:29 Carl Metropolitan How are the Patron and Sponsorship programs doing? How much do those bring in versus fundraisers? Should we be promoting those more?
15:29 Sulley Daviau that's a great point Carl
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Likely, Carl. Very likely.
15:30 RainyDayRecess Yes, I've fallen behind on that Carl ;(
15:30 Carl Metropolitan Patrons are a group of people, I am not sure how many, who donate 2500L$ per month to Oxbridge (USD 10)
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen I can send you a copy of the excel spreadsheet I update to today.
15:31 Carl Metropolitan Sponsors donate 3000L$ per quarter (and get ads in classes and on the boards)
15:31 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Phrynne gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:31 Phrynne which reminds me...
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen And I've exhausted what I had to say, so Phrynne, anything?
15:32 RainyDayRecess Oh, I thought it was 5,000L$ per quarter
15:32 Phrynne It's spring!
15:32 RainyDayRecess Yay!
15:32 Carl Metropolitan It must be my mistake.
15:32 Carl Metropolitan I thought it was 3000L$ per quarter for the sponsors
15:32 Phrynne I'm starting to change out the plants and trees a bit, and come up with different decor in some places.
15:33 Phrynne It's all highly experimental (as usual)
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi, Badger. Welcome
15:33 Phrynne I may see if I can get a later version of our beloved apple tree; I've heard one exists.
15:33 badgerofzen hullo
15:33 Phrynne That's about all; I've been kind of behind the weather in RL.
15:33 Carl Metropolitan Is that the apple tree in the Cathedral?
15:34 Phrynne No, not the one in the Entry Building -- I will call it a cathedral when it is the seat of a bishop, and since we are nonpartisan and non-denominational and non-religious...
15:34 Phrynne It's the one that I put up annually where the ice rink is in the winter.
15:35 Carl Metropolitan I have never heard it called anything else, Phrynne. I think it is the flying buttresses.
15:35 Phrynne I've called it the entry building (with or without caps) for six years
15:35 Phrynne but it doesn't matter.
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome back, Agatha.
15:35 Gronk Seriman I've always called it the Entry Hall.
15:35 Caissa McCarey (lorelai.mccarey) same, Gronk
15:35 Carl Metropolitan The spires and the stained glass also give that impression.
15:36 Phrynne I have not touched the decor or plants in that building; I don't think my charge includes working inside buildings that much.
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen The large building with the avatar rezzer.
15:38 Gronk Seriman I have always thought the Entry Hall was a mess. The intense circle at the beginning, then you have to walk past unusual thing, pagodas and junk till you get outside.
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anyway, open for questions.
15:39 Gronk Seriman Phrynne, I think your aesthetic hand could help a lot.
15:40 Phrynne *I am on the phone right now -- please talk t me later?*
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen questions? confusions?
15:40 deyanira Yalin hi Word abd Phrynne and every one
15:40 Carl Metropolitan The 13th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE 2020) will start in a little over two weeks from now and run March 26-28 (Thursday-Saturday). Oxbridge (as always) will have a booth. The theme this year is "Stellar" and I am building a steampunk observatory. I am finished with the observatory, and almost finished the texturing on the large telescope at the center (I bought the DAE for that). It should be ready to go by the 14th when they need builds finished.

, 2020
15:40 Carl Metropolitan Hello Deya
15:40 deyanira Yalin hi Carl
15:40 RainyDayRecess waves ;)
15:41 Cychwynn sounds super interesting!
15:41 Carl Metropolitan https://www.vwbpe.org/
15:41 Kaitlin (jkaitlin) sounds fun
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks so much for taking that on, Carl
15:41 Carl Metropolitan We are allowed a tip jar there this year, so maybe even a bit of money :)
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi, Dey. Welcome.
15:41 deyanira Yalin thank you ;o)
15:42 Carl Metropolitan Once I'm done with that I'm going to go back to working on expanding freebies.
15:43 Carl Metropolitan You are welcome, Wordsmith
15:43 Carl Metropolitan We should be able to recycle most of it for SLnB this year, too.
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen That's another area you've made a great improvement on. I'll do another freebie touch graph soon.
15:43 RainyDayRecess Welcome Jorge ;)
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hola, Jorge.
15:44 Jan Stroikavskoi Hi Jorge :)
15:44 deyanira Yalin hi Jorge
15:44 Carl Metropolitan I need to do more. I have not done much there since the newsstand and maps section were finished.
15:44 Jorge Serapis *waves to everyone and sneaks into the back pew*
15:44 Larky (larkylouz) Hey Jorge
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen For those who came late, my financial report will be in the transcripts, but the bottom line is we currently have a 783 $L operating surplus.
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else?
15:45 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Jorge Serapis gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:45 deyanira Yalin i was late so not sure what is going on but if i can be of any help let me know
15:46 RainyDayRecess Thank you so much Jorge ;)
15:46 Carl Metropolitan probably a good bit more after donations tonight.
15:46 Phrynne back
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen And that's beyond my two quarters of padding, which is fairly standard for non-profits.
15:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen And Andrea makes it in.
15:48 Agatha Macbeth Yay
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea, anything you want to say about the last fundraiser and plans?
15:50 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) It was a night of sfun.
15:50 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Sorry if you missed it.
15:50 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) we raised around 12 k
15:50 Sulley Daviau great!
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen And a fairly amazing build for it.
15:50 Cychwynn wish i could have been there!
15:50 Cychwynn sounded like such fun!
15:51 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) It will be the last ball for awhile. Using them as a stop gap monthly measue to raise funs may not be the best use for them
15:51 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Will be looking at some auction items
15:52 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) things like that
15:52 Carl Metropolitan I think they might work better if they were no more frequent than quarterly.
15:52 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) We may go quarterly on the dances and see if it helps make it a bigger event
15:53 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I will be looking at the patron program this week. I'm job hunting now so that is taking some priority
15:53 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) of my time
15:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Understandable
15:53 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) back to yo word
15:53 RainyDayRecess I'll have some time to help this week Andrea
15:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen Last fundraiser raised 9665 $L, counting what came in on the coins placed there.
15:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen Okay, last call for anything else.
15:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen And currently going on is the next to the last Bashful Peacock dance.
15:55 Carl Metropolitan I suggest some permanent, well-placed signs promoting the Patron and Sponsor programs. I will be happy to make such.
15:55 Carl Metropolitan Next to last? Why are they ending?
15:55 RainyDayRecess Oh, that would be great Carl!
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, with that, we are adjourned.
15:57 Larky (larkylouz) Thanks, Deans, everyone
15:57 RainyDayRecess Thank you Deans ;)
15:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming and participating.
15:57 Kaitlin (jkaitlin) thank you for all the information