Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2021-05-09

14:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Larky
14:38 Larky (larkylouz) Hey Word. The statues and so forth look nice. Did Jorge make those, too?
14:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen Stitches did
14:39 Larky (larkylouz) ooooh! Nice
14:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea did give me some plaques, but I haven't had time to look at them yet, so, work in progress.
14:43 Larky (larkylouz) Would you like me to do that?
14:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen It's simple enough, but she gave them to me at the dance last night, and I've been paying stipends and figuring financial balances all morning.
14:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen I do want to check the distance behavior.. Andrea has a chair with a plaque on it over by flight suit Red, but I don't see it from where I am.
14:47 Larky (larkylouz) Jorge made that. I have the same issue with it.
14:47 Larky (larkylouz) It's an Ember Dean!
14:47 Larky (larkylouz) All decked out in Oxbridge robes!
14:47 Ember (emberell) Always gotta be in style!
14:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen I do believe in Ember deans, I do, I do.
14:48 Ember (emberell) I am a dean, it cannot be deanied!
14:48 Larky (larkylouz) groans.
14:48 Ember (emberell) LArky and I have been hard at work on the faculty kit. A bit more of an in-depth workover than I'd intended.
14:48 Ember (emberell) But good for staff resources.
14:49 Larky (larkylouz) Yes a huge job! But I think we did some good work.
14:49 Larky (larkylouz) And I have plans for the future as well. Hey Rainy
14:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen OMG
14:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen Shock
14:50 RainyDayRecess Hello, and hello to everyone ;)
14:50 Ember (emberell) Rainy, hello! :>
14:50 Ember (emberell) Andrea, welcome.
14:50 RainyDayRecess I know, I know....
14:50 Larky (larkylouz) Hi Andrea
14:50 Ember (emberell) Lovejoy, Rainy, welcome.
14:51 RainyDayRecess Hi Ember!
14:51 lovejoy2199 Greetings everyone
14:51 lovejoy2199 Hello Dean Ember
14:51 Gronk Seriman Good evening, everybody!
14:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen Good eve, Miss Gronk
14:52 Ember (emberell) Elfbiter, welcome!
14:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Lovejoy
14:52 lovejoy2199 *smile* Nice Statue
14:52 lovejoy2199 Hello Chancellor
14:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome Strandwind
14:56 Strandwind Hello everyone.
14:56 Gronk Seriman Strandwind, the benches ARE kinda tricky.
14:57 Strandwind Aye, Gronk, at least I got it.
14:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome Señor Jorge :)
14:57 Jorge Serapis *waves hello to everyone*
14:57 RainyDayRecess waves back ;)
14:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome Cychwynn
14:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Greetings, Soup
14:58 Ember (emberell) Soup, Cychwynn, welcome!
14:58 Soup Jonson Greetings all
14:58 Soup Jonson Rainy
14:58 lovejoy2199 Soup !!!!
14:59 Soup Jonson Lovejoy!
14:59 Jorge Serapis I swear, Rav's gotta come out of retirement and fix the sits on these benches.. :_)
14:59 Ember (emberell) Always great to see you, Soup!
14:59 Soup Jonson Emer I love seeing you!
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen And the time has come.
15:00 Gronk Seriman Teehee!ff f the clock said "Bong."
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 Although, I'm behind on transcripts, but soon to catch up.
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Ember, what Have ye from commons?
15:02 Ember (emberell) The faculty kit has been delayed a little longer since I opted to go for a deeper inspection of the resources inside. With a lot of help from Larky, and a bit from some of the other staff here, I've been going through the cards, updating landmarks, and trying to fix up outdated information.
15:03 Ember (emberell) I'm not -quite- done with that, as I need to put in a lot of Larky's changes to the language notecards, and fix up a few information cards that have come to my attention, but I'm hopeful I'll get that out this week, if not in the next few days.
15:04 Larky (larkylouz) Yes, Jorge, Ravelli and Elfbiter helped me a lot with translations
15:04 Ember (emberell) Besides that, I've a few tutor applications to go through - and I do want to invite anyone interested to come to me! Oxbridge is always looking for more helpful plaza staff. Even if it isn't the right fit for you, come and be involved. Helping folk new and old is a wonderful thing. _>
15:04 Ember (emberell) Yeah, everyone has been SO amazing. I really appreciate everyone poking in on the project.
15:04 Ember (emberell) That's about it from me, though.
15:05 RainyDayRecess Thanks for you hard work Ember ;)
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Ember
15:05 Jorge Serapis BRAVO!!!!!!
15:05 Jorge Serapis ***** APPPPPPPLLLLAAAUUUSSSSEEEEEEE***********
15:05 Jorge Serapis .;:+*'`'* APPPPPPPLLLLAAAUUUSSSSEEEEEEE *'`'*+:;.
15:05 Jorge Serapis ♫~~♫~~APPLAUSE~~♫~~♫
15:05 John Laughing (thesoundofonemanlaughing) claps
15:05 Soup Jonson cheers
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea?
15:05 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thank you for your hard work Ember
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Our Bi weekly Dance for the Caledon Oxbridge University will be this Sunday the 9th at 4, after the Deans Q & A. We will be at the Wonderland Castle and Courtyard with DJ Sasha swinging the tunes. Fantasy is the theme. Come and party with us and feel free to explore the area. There is a lot to see. Surl Caledon Oxbridge Village (158,186,3825)
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) About it for me. A home coming dance event will be planned soon
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Looks back to Wordsmith
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, "this Sunday, the 9th" is today.
15:07 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Yes, so everyone come on over
15:07 Soup Jonson Happy Asparagus month to all.
15:07 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) any fantasy or myth looks good
15:07 Ember (emberell) And a happy mother's day, to all the mothers of SL and Caledon. :>
15:07 John Laughing (thesoundofonemanlaughing) Mmmm asparagus
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen First, the financial stats:
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen .
Balance: 396,524 $L
Stipend: -0 $L
tier (32 days) -26,286 $L
Reserve -225,000 $L
Total Liability -251,286 $L
Surplus 145,238 $L
15:09 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Kara2016 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:09 RainyDayRecess Thank you Kara ;)
15:09 Ember (emberell) Thank you for your donation, Kara. ❤
15:09 Kara2016 I needed a small break..
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen So, the last line says that we are in quite good shape, given we are in the midst of RFL fundraising season.
15:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Stipends needs to come from that
15:09 Soup Jonson Long live Oxbridge
15:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) also
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen Credit due to Andrea.
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) To the people that give us the lindens actually
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen We also have no idea what people's ability well be during this year, post pandemic.
15:11 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) and the lindens going up on rates
15:11 Lyban my apologies for my late arrival
15:11 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Larky (larkylouz) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:11 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) thank you Larky
15:12 RainyDayRecess Thank you Larky ;)
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen As of last night, the College of Avatar Motion, has been converted to the 3-language kiosks, except for two panels on the wall. They will follow shortly.
15:12 Ember (emberell) Oh, that is fantastic work, Word! Thank you so much!
15:12 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) yay
15:13 RainyDayRecess Nice work Word!
15:13 Larky (larkylouz) Welcome, Lyban
15:13 Lyban thank you
15:13 Larky (larkylouz) Good job, Wordsmith!
15:13 John Laughing (thesoundofonemanlaughing) Very nice :)
15:14 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Progress, progress
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen It's a long project with more buildings to go, but it is progressing.
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen Exactly, Elf.
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'm also behind on much else, and the class scheduler interface is still broken. This next week I'm finishing up RL taxes, attending a virtual conference on Forest and Fire meteorology, and giving a talk on Climate Risk Management to CVL next Friday, so likely won't get to much else this next week.
15:17 Jorge Serapis A handful of residents have told me they appreciate them, Word. :_)
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Good to know, Jorge :)
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen After the above, I should be able to get to transcripts and the interface.
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen That's it for off the top of my head, open for questions, comments, announcements.
15:19 Ember (emberell) I do have one other thing I'd wanted to bring up here
15:19 Ember (emberell) If I may?
15:19 Samm Florian raises her hand t'be part of the queue.
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen Sure, Ember
15:21 Ember (emberell) There was some mention the other night of doing more for the staff who work so hard at Oxbridge - especially our professors and other staff who don't get together all that often. I had wanted to raise that notion here at the Q&A, and invite people to get in touch with me on what may be ideal times to host something like a staff game/dance/movie night (all of the above, somethign different, etc).
15:22 Ember (emberell) I think it was a particularly good idea for bringing the Oxbridge folk closer together.
15:22 Ember (emberell) That's all. I think we can move on to Samm. :>
15:23 Kara2016 A good idea.
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen Samm?
15:23 Samm Florian I've gotta couple things
15:24 Samm Florian First, since this is the closest we get to a Caledon Public Forum, I wanted t'let folks know that the annual Rose Hunt will be from May 30–June 7 this year.
15:24 Kara2016 Smiles brightly.
15:25 Cychwynn hurray roses!!
15:25 Soup Jonson YES
15:25 Samm Florian If anybuddy feels inspired to make some roses fer the hunt, or to help find good hidin' spots, lemme know.
15:26 Samm Florian Jayleden is gonna be contactin' homesteaders to see if they wanna participate.
15:26 Samm Florian Like last year, the roses will not disappear after they're found, so it'll be easier to find as many as ya like.
15:27 Samm Florian I'll make a more formal announcement and put it on calendars and stuff, but thought I'd get that out.
15:27 Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) Not being a native English speaker, I always have huge problems understanding Samm - so I turn off as soon as he speaks - sorry
15:27 Samm Florian I'm sorry Batista, I will try to ENUNCIATE more clearly. :)
15:28 Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) That would be great !!!!
15:28 Samm Florian (Sincere apologies.)
15:28 RainyDayRecess You're fine Samm
15:28 Samm Florian No, Batista is right.
15:28 Samm Florian Anyway
15:28 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Coming from the south of the us. is not a problem
15:29 Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) Coming from Germany , it's a problem ...
15:29 Samm Florian But I'm from Ohio… (Also a girl, by the way. But anyway…)
15:29 Samm Florian Second, there was some talk last night with folks asking why Buildarama ain't on the class schedule. The reason is that I wanted to start it at 6:30 and not 7. But I'm wondering if there would be some value to finding a way to include it anyway.
15:30 Batista Corleone (batistacorleone) I guess Samm and myself - we'll be friends very soon - lol
15:30 RainyDayRecess Wonderful ;)
15:31 Strandwind smiles
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen Right now, I can't include anything new, but it'would be problematic since the schedule also goes into a JSON files that is my basis for the class monitors and paying stipends.
15:32 Samm Florian nods.
15:32 Samm Florian Something to think about, anyways.
15:32 Samm Florian And I reckon that's it for me.
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen The JSON part, by the way, is still working.
15:32 Samm Florian Thanks!
15:33 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) has good anglic aural perception.
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen And the schedule images uploaded inworld are generated from the JSON files on our website.
15:33 Ember (emberell) Would there be some merit in including Elfbiter's weekly writer's group, too.
15:33 Ember (emberell) With a question mark, even?
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen That would be done, once if fix the interface, if Elf wanted to start at 10 am or noon.
15:34 Larky (larkylouz) Samm, could you put up a sign on the bulletin board outside the LH?
15:35 Samm Florian Yes, I was thinkin' I oughta do that.
15:35 Ember (emberell) nods,"It hs athe same issue being between hours. He might do the same thing as Samm though with a notice."
15:35 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Writers' Meeting is mentioned in the ad board
15:35 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Lyban gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:35 RainyDayRecess Thank you Lyban ;)
15:35 Ember (emberell) nods
15:36 Ember (emberell) Thank you, Lyban!
15:36 Samm Florian And I encourage everyone to come to Buildarama on Saturdays at 6:30pm SLT, either to build or to watch.
15:36 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) The current time is based on both the latest time I used to get back home from work and the time I used to host in the Book Island.
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen I also had Something else important to say (not on the above).
15:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen You are sitting in what is now the Red Quixote Memorial Lecture Hall. There are statues of Red done by Stitches (aka Angry Noob) at the room corners behine me.
15:38 Jorge Serapis Hear, hear.
15:38 Agatha Macbeth Wonderful
15:39 Samm Florian Huzzah!
15:39 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Yay
15:39 Gronk Seriman How nice!
15:39 Larky (larkylouz) Excellent!
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen There will likely be a plaque added -- work in progress.
15:39 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
15:40 Ember (emberell) It is very fitting
15:40 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Plaque in progress
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen With the loss of Red, we lost a friend, an instructor, and two classes on animation. I can't replace Red, but will try to replace the classes.
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen End of addition.
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen Any other matters?
15:43 Larky (larkylouz) How about an update on any other pending classes, please?
15:44 Gronk Seriman Does anybody have Red's teaching materials for the next professor?
15:44 Samm Florian I would love to teach an Advanced Building class, but I dunno if my typist will let me teach both that and Building Basics every week.
15:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen You did tell me that Carl asked for the materials from the Avatar Safety class.
15:44 Larky (larkylouz) Yes. I don't know his intentions.
15:45 Jorge Serapis Perhaps alternate, Samm?
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen I well see if I can find a basic building instructor, Samm
15:45 Samm Florian I've been doing some of that already, alternating I mean
15:45 Strandwind Advanced building classes would be awesome.
15:46 Samm Florian I think there's some value to having a regularly scheduled intro class for newbies so they're not trying to guess when the next one is.
15:46 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) has some of the land class materials - not all.
15:47 Larky (larkylouz) We could put class materials in the FK when appropriate.
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen I basically have materials from Lindal. Also the handouts from Red's classes.
15:47 Larky (larkylouz) We have some stuff from Lindal's avatar safety class.
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen FK, Larky?
15:47 Larky (larkylouz) Faculty Kit
15:47 Kara2016 I still have the info from Lindal's class.
15:48 Ember (emberell) Some of those cards are in it already, though a bit outdated
15:48 Larky (larkylouz) Not nearly as good as a class, but at leasst some of the info would be available. I'd be up for coding some of it for web page, too.
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen There's definitely more that we have the materials to do, the bigger problems is finding those with the knowledge, time, and willingness.
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen It's a commitment, not a bit of role-play.
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen tc, Samm.
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen anything else?
15:51 Samm Florian Have a good week everybuddy!
15:51 Strandwind raises her hand.
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Strandwind?
15:51 Strandwind Not to Calledon/Oxbrigde. But today I have a question/ a problem.
15:51 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) heads to the dance veue
15:51 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hoopes to see you all there
15:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Okay
15:52 Larky (larkylouz) Take care, Andrea
15:52 Strandwind I bought some new textures, they are full perm.
Normally, if I have a texture on an object and click on the texture in edit mode. The texture appears in my inventory, so that I may use it again.
My problem is: the new textures don’t appear. It seems as if they are not in my inventory. But this is false. They are in my inventory.
What do I do wrong?
15:52 RainyDayRecess Take care Andrea ;)
15:52 Ember (emberell) The textures are Copy/mod/transfer?
15:52 Strandwind Yes, they are.
15:53 Kara2016 Have a wonderful evening, everyone!
15:53 RainyDayRecess You mean you can't find the textures while in edit mode?
15:53 Strandwind Yes. In edit mode I cannot find them if I click on them.
15:53 Ember (emberell) Hm, sometimes that happens - if you know the name of the texture, you should still be able to search your inventory for them and find them that way
15:54 Gronk Seriman Which viewer are you using?
15:54 RainyDayRecess Were they supposed to be in a PSD format to download?
15:54 Strandwind I use firestorm, but tries it with the SL-viewer too. Same problem in SL viewer.
15:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen If they are on an object, they aren't PSD
15:55 Strandwind Sorry, what is PSD?
15:55 RainyDayRecess Exactly
15:55 RainyDayRecess Photoshop Document
15:55 Strandwind Ahh, ok. No,
15:55 RainyDayRecess Some textures are only for download elsewhere online
15:55 Ember (emberell) Yes. Usually after applying it it should still be in your inventory - so I would double check that you can find it after applying it.
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen So clicking on the texture square in edit mode is essentially an inventory search, that brings up the name of the current texture in inventory.
15:56 Strandwind I can apply the textures. That's not the problem. But if I click again on the texture in edit mode, they don't appear in my inventory.
15:57 RainyDayRecess Also, did you make a copy?
15:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Make sure your search is by name and that filters are reset
15:57 Ember (emberell) nods
15:58 Ember (emberell) One of the better ways to find the texture again if it doesn't' mediately jump your selection to the texture in your inventory is search for it by name.
15:58 Strandwind I did not make a copy, but I shared one of them to my beloved partner. She did not had this problem. - So I guess it must be my preferences or something else with ME:
15:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen First I would simply do an inventory search to see if you can find it (or go to where you have it in inventory)
15:58 Strandwind Ok, I have to check name and filters.
15:59 Ember (emberell) Yeah. Sometimes SL won';t be able to find it (despite you just having applied it). I'm not sure what causes that, but despite that it is still in your inventory, just make an ote of the name of the texture your'e using so you can find it even if the object is being silly.
15:59 Strandwind nods
15:59 Ember (emberell) I always favor descriptive texture names for that reason (metalbarstransparent, or etc, some way for myself to find it again in the future
16:00 Strandwind nods.
16:00 Strandwind Yes, that is a minor problem.
16:00 Strandwind I will check the filter. That may be a resolution.
16:00 Strandwind Thank you.
16:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen That's how I generally fool myself, set the search to creator, or filter by type and forget to reset.
16:02 Strandwind I will try that. Thank you.
16:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen We've reached our hour, so adjourned
16:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming and participating.
16:03 RainyDayRecess Thank you Deans ;)
16:03 Larky (larkylouz) Thanks, Word, Ember (Andrea). Take care all.
16:03 Gronk Seriman Thank you, Deans!
16:03 RainyDayRecess Take care Larky ;)
16:03 Strandwind Thank you all. Have a good time and take care. Bye!
16:03 Larky (larkylouz) waves at Rainy
16:03 RainyDayRecess Take care Strandwind ;)
16:04 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Okay. My brain is about to switch off
16:04 Ember (emberell) Rest well, Elfbiter
16:04 Ember (emberell) And thank you for your hard work, Word.
16:04 RainyDayRecess Sleep well Elf ;)
16:04 lovejoy2199 Sleep well, Elf
16:04 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hold the fort
16:04 Lyban Take care, Elfbiter
16:04 Fringe Element (fringeelement2) smiles :)
16:04 Fringe Element (fringeelement2) bye Elf :)
16:04 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Gronk, remember to use the gloves :-)
16:05 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing you
16:05 Gronk Seriman Ni-night, Elfbiter!