Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2020-11-08
| 14:42 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Greetings, |
| 14:42 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Welcome to Oxbridge Q&A |
| 14:43 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome, Goth, Phrynne |
| 14:44 | Goth Fire Woman (brandiclines) | I need to step away from the computer for a couple of minutes I will be right back |
| 14:44 | Goth Fire Woman (brandiclines) | afk |
| 14:48 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Goth, Elfbiter, and Phrynne |
| 14:48 | Phrynne waves | |
| 14:48 | Ember (emberell) | Hello, Carl! Welcome |
| 14:48 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Carl |
| 14:48 | Carl Metropolitan | Hello |
| 14:50 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | g'day everyone! |
| 14:50 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Sasha |
| 14:50 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | :D |
| 14:50 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Been awhile since I have been to one of these meetings |
| 14:51 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Ember I love your avi today! |
| 14:51 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Likely a few interesting things today. |
| 14:51 | Ember (emberell) beams! | |
| 14:51 | Ember (emberell) | Thanks Sasha! ♥ |
| 14:51 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | You are welcome! |
| 14:52 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Would love to have a griffon avi someday |
| 14:53 | Goth Fire Woman (brandiclines) | so this all text only or will there be voice? asking so I can unmute my speakers if needed |
| 14:53 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Text only |
| 14:53 | Goth Fire Woman (brandiclines) | ok. |
| 14:54 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Larky |
| 14:54 | Larky (larkylouz) | thank you. HI all |
| 14:55 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Badgerofzen |
| 14:55 | badgerofzen | hullo |
| 14:55 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome Larky, Badger! |
| 14:55 | badgerofzen | hullo |
| 14:56 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | HI Larky, Andrea, Badger! |
| 14:56 | badgerofzen | hullo |
| 14:56 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome, Kara! |
| 14:56 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | 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. |
| 14:56 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) hugs Kara | |
| 14:57 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Hey Phrynne and Elfbiter and Goth |
| 14:57 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Hi Comapp |
| 14:57 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Hi Carl!! |
| 14:57 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Wordsmith how are you? |
| 14:57 | Goth Fire Woman (brandiclines) | hello |
| 14:57 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome and thank you, Kara |
| 14:57 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Greetings Lilith |
| 14:57 | Larky (larkylouz) | Hiya Ember |
| 14:58 | Lilith Bloodmoon (blackbriarrose) | Hello! |
| 14:58 | Kara2016 | Greetings everyone. |
| 14:58 | Lilith Bloodmoon (blackbriarrose) | I'm settling in after work. will this be voice or text? |
| 14:58 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Text only |
| 14:58 | Lilith Bloodmoon (blackbriarrose) | cool beans thanks |
| 14:58 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | and welcome, Lilith |
| 15:00 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome to this week's Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. This is an open meeting; |
| 15:00 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | all are welcome apart from those who intend to misbehave in a disruptive manner. |
| 15:00 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Non-disruptive misbehavior is at your discretion. |
| 15:00 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Transcripts will be posted after the meeting. |
| 15:00 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Ember, do ye have anything from commons today? |
| 15:01 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi soup |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Ember must be afk for a moment. |
| 15:02 | Zaida Gearbox (zaida.gearbox) | we are cychie deprived |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea, what do you have? |
| 15:02 | Soup Jonson | :( |
| 15:02 | Ember (emberell) | My apologies, I am here. |
| 15:02 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | hi soup! |
| 15:02 | Soup Jonson | Greetings all |
| 15:02 | Soup Jonson | Sasha :) |
| 15:03 | Ember (emberell) | If I may? |
| 15:03 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Soup, your mic is on. |
| 15:03 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | hi lightweaver! |
| 15:03 | Soup Jonson | sorry |
| 15:03 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Okay, to Ember, to Ember |
| 15:04 | Ember (emberell) | I have been working to continue to organize some campus decorations and plan out how to sort that stuff on Oxbridge's storage alt. What categories to use, & etc to make it easiest to sort through. I need to reach out to Jorge to confirm some of that with him still, butThat's taken a bit of my time lately. Besides editing and working with some updates to other notecards for the faculty kit. |
| 15:05 | Ember (emberell) | When I have that all sorted I'll start transferring what I can to Oxbridge Groundskeeper |
| 15:05 | Ember (emberell) | That's all from me. |
| 15:05 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you, Ember. |
| 15:05 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea? |
| 15:06 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | For fundraising, We are coming out of October wih a small surplus in the bank. I hope to build on this later today and the second bi-weekly fundraiser event later this month. Keeping a healthy balance means we have security if hard times should come about. Many thanks to everyone who has donated, donations big or small add up for us. We will be having our bi-weekly event today in the Autumn grove. the SLURL Caledon Oxbridge Village (123,179,22). I appreciate everyone coming out to the fundraisers this last month. I know we had a few too many. I plan to incorporate what used to be our traditional fundraiser events into the regular ones, so we don't over do it again by doing the traditional ones with the bi-weeklies. |
| 15:06 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I placed my Thanksgiving cards out in front of the stage if anyone who didn't get one wants one |
| 15:06 | Soup Jonson | Oh good! |
| 15:07 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | All for me |
| 15:07 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Oh |
| 15:07 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | wait |
| 15:07 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | (waits) |
| 15:08 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | Carl Metropolitan gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:08 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | On other realms info. There is a fundraiser dance in steelhead bay Wednesday night for anyone who can make it. |
| 15:08 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | ty, Carl |
| 15:08 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | badgerofzen gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:08 | Carl Metropolitan | That's just my normal monthly donation. Finance report reminded me I needed to do that. |
| 15:08 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I'll put a notice in the ISC and union group |
| 15:09 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | ty, Badger :) |
| 15:09 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I'm done |
| 15:09 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you, Andrea |
| 15:09 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | the dance today is after the q&a |
| 15:10 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I caught up on processing visitor statistic this last week. A timeline of counts is behind me on the wall. |
| 15:11 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Weekly and monthly summaries of multiple visitor properties are on our website linked from http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/statistics/index.php |
| 15:12 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | You do have to have javascript enabled in your browser to see the plots |
| 15:12 | Larky (larkylouz) | So we have a lot more traffic from people older than 1 week than we do brand new folks? |
| 15:12 | Ember (emberell) | We may be seeing an uptick in visitors as we near Christmastime. |
| 15:13 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I also caught up on processing the General Q&A transcripts. Those are at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/gqna/gqna_index.php |
| 15:13 | Larky (larkylouz) | Is anyone working on Advent gifts for this year? |
| 15:13 | Ember (emberell) | I don't believe so, nno. It's a fairly large bit of work to wrangle that together. |
| 15:14 | Carl Metropolitan | I am not. I looked into it, but RL has not allowed me much time in SL the later part of the year. |
| 15:14 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | It varies, Larky but newbie and oldbie visits are both important, and that's consistent |
| 15:15 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | A lot of that uptick, was the advent calendar gifts, Ember. |
| 15:15 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi jan |
| 15:15 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hi, Jan Welcome |
| 15:15 | Jan Stroikavskoi waves :) | |
| 15:15 | Jan Stroikavskoi | Thank you |
| 15:16 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | So without those gifts being laid out, I'm not sure that we'll see much of an uptick. |
| 15:17 | Ember (emberell) nods | |
| 15:17 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I will be shifting to the classical Christmas music stream and putting out the marshmallow bonfire again, along with pulling up a sheep. |
| 15:18 | Lightweaver Balan | O.O |
| 15:19 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | One more item. I've finished the graphics on the first 10 (of 15 or 16) tutorial kiosks in the second building. So those will get set out as soon as I can finish the last 5 or 6. |
| 15:19 | Carl Metropolitan | What format are you creating these new graphics in? |
| 15:19 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Phrynne is reviewing the posters before I'm putting them into the kiosks |
| 15:20 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I'm creating them in Affinity Photo's native format and saving them as PSD and PNG. |
| 15:21 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Affinity Photo handles layers, is available on both Mac and Windows, and runs $50 USD (no subscription) |
| 15:22 | Zaida Gearbox (zaida.gearbox) | Is it similar to PS or Gimp? |
| 15:22 | Carl Metropolitan | So they should be updateable in photoshop later if they need to be? |
| 15:22 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Yes, Carl |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The interface is likely closer to Photoshop than to GIMP |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | That's it for me. |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Phrynne did you have anything on Landscaping? |
| 15:24 | Phrynne | I've taken away the majority of things that were out for Halloween, barring a pumpkin or two. At the end of the month I'll start putting up decor for the year-end holidays, including the big skating rink.... |
| 15:25 | Phrynne | I am transferring as much as possible of what I have used for decorating Oxbridge to Ember; by the end of the year she should have everything I have that is transferable. |
| 15:25 | Phrynne | and that's it. |
| 15:25 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you, Phrynne. |
| 15:25 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Elf? |
| 15:25 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Still hosting the Writers' Meeting in Thursdays 11:00 AM. |
| 15:26 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | And giving out weird writing prompts |
| 15:26 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | With that open for questions in general |
| 15:26 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | otherwise, business as usual in the plaza |
| 15:27 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Except that Lindal Kidd is missing in action. |
| 15:27 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Well, aside from that, yes |
| 15:28 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | None of us have heard from her, but she is in a hurricane zone. |
| 15:28 | Goth Fire Woman (brandiclines) | I am looking to set up some rental properties on my region but need to learn how to do that. |
| 15:29 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Just letting you all know I am in-between RL jobs again, so if you need me to DJ for you, let me know! :D ~Sasha |
| 15:29 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | In general, dividing the region into separate parcels, and then renting parcel by parcel. |
| 15:29 | Goth Fire Woman (brandiclines) | I have been trying to make the class that Lindal does on land stuff but have trouble making a sat class, is there a way to get that class during the week ? |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Well, at the moment, we don't even have Lindal coming in. |
| 15:31 | Goth Fire Woman (brandiclines) | I have figured out that much, but I need help figuring out how to set up the monthly recurring charges and stuff like that. |
| 15:31 | Larky (larkylouz) | I think she has a FT job during the week |
| 15:31 | Sandie Harbour | when was the last time she was seen? |
| 15:31 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Is your region on the mainland or an estate sim? |
| 15:31 | Larky (larkylouz) | Looks like the last time she logged on was Oct 1st |
| 15:32 | Goth Fire Woman (brandiclines) | it is a private region. |
| 15:32 | Goth Fire Woman (brandiclines) | full sim |
| 15:32 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | That's likely a matter of setting out meters for each parcel, something I think would be available on MarketPlace |
| 15:33 | Goth Fire Woman (brandiclines) | ok, thaks. |
| 15:33 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | For Caledon, Des has meters that show how many days a renter has left, shows if the meter has expired, and accepts payment and emails Des. |
| 15:34 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | They may also email him when a meter expires. |
| 15:35 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The same script runs in lampposts, rocks, and likely other things. |
| 15:35 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | caspervend is the current front runner for parcel tier |
| 15:35 | Goth Fire Woman (brandiclines) | I was also wondering how much others normally charge per sq meter of land rented. |
| 15:36 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Caspervend is great |
| 15:37 | Ember (emberell) | Caspervend was dealing with a major outage today, from what I understand. Though it appears to be managed now. |
| 15:37 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | That varies (the charge). You want to cover what LL charges you per month and then some slack for those who bail without paying. |
| 15:38 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And it depends if you use part of the land as a prim farm to offer double prims on the rented land. |
| 15:39 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Other questions? |
| 15:39 | Goth Fire Woman (brandiclines) | I did not know that was possible. |
| 15:39 | Goth Fire Woman (brandiclines) | not from me, thanks |
| 15:40 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Much of Caledon is set up with unrented commonwealth land and rented parcels with double prims. |
| 15:41 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Other questions (2nd call) |
| 15:41 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Then, we are |
| 15:42 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | adjourned. |
| 15:42 | Gronk Seriman | What is the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything? |
| 15:42 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | 42 |
| 15:42 | Lilith Bloodmoon (blackbriarrose) | 42 |
| 15:42 | Gronk Seriman | Bah! Too late. |
| 15:42 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | :-) |
| 15:42 | Jan Stroikavskoi | Toodles! |
| 15:42 | Lilith Bloodmoon (blackbriarrose) | I was petting my dog. |
| 15:42 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | see you at the dance |
| 15:42 | Lilith Bloodmoon (blackbriarrose) | ✯✯ ℓOℓ ✯✯ |
| 15:42 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Look in the General Q&A's Gronk |
| 15:42 | Sandie Harbour | thank-you Deans |
| 15:42 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | See you at the dance if you are coming!! |
| 15:42 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Caledon Fundraiser: Mixed Tunes & Requests w/DJ Sasha 4-6pm Caledon Oxbridge Village (123,179,22) Attire: Causal/Autumn |
| 15:42 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you all for coming and participating |
| 15:42 | Lilith Bloodmoon (blackbriarrose) | thank you all for your time and effort. this place is beautiful |
| 15:43 | Zaida Gearbox (zaida.gearbox) | there's a dance tonight? |
| 15:43 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | yes |
| 15:43 | Carl Metropolitan | Goodnight. |
| 15:43 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Yes Zaida, you want AC/DC? |
| 15:43 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | :D |
| 15:43 | Zaida Gearbox (zaida.gearbox) | always sasha |
| 15:43 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | For fundraising, We are coming out of October wih a small surplus in the bank. I hope to build on this later today and the second bi weekly fundraiser event later this month. Keepin a helathy balance means we have security if hard times should come about. Many thanks to everyone who has donated, donations big or small add up for us. We will be having our bi weekly event today in the Autumn grove. the surl Caledon Oxbridge Village (123,179,22). I appreciate eveyone coming out tot he fundraisers this last month. I know we had a few too many. I plan to incorporate what used to be our traditional fundraiser events into the regular ones so we don't over do it again by doing the traditional ones with the bi weeklies. |
| 15:43 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Immediately after Q&A |
| 15:43 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Bedtime for me. |
| 15:43 | Soup Jonson | Take care Elf. |
| 15:43 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | see you all over at the dance! |
| 15:43 | Gronk Seriman | Thank you Deans! |
| 15:44 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Thank you all Deans and staff! |
| 15:44 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Hold the fort |
| 15:44 | Soup Jonson | Is there a theme tonight |
| 15:44 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Is not feeling well but will be there in a min |
| 15:44 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Be seeing you. |