Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2021-08-22

14:34 Larky (larkylouz) Hi Word
14:36 Larky (larkylouz) Hey Ember
14:36 Ember (emberell) Hello, Larky!
14:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen Putting out notices
14:42 Casdetra Greetings Mr. Wordsmith
14:42 Casdetra Hello again Ember :)
14:42 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Casdetra ❤
14:43 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Tom
14:43 Casdetra Howdy Lady Larky
14:43 Casdetra Hi again Tom :)
14:43 TomSTomson hi Cas, Larky
14:46 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Gronk!
14:46 Casdetra Hello Lady Gronk
14:47 Gronk Seriman Good evening Ember, Casdetra, everybody!
14:47 Larky (larkylouz) Hi Cas, Tom, Gronk
14:47 TomSTomson hi Gronk
14:48 Casdetra ponders how a multitude of cucumber generations gave their lives to provide me with a pickle
14:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen Selective breeding
14:49 Gronk Seriman wonders why Casdetra ponders such a seedy question.
14:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Larky, Tom, Casdetra, and Gronk
14:49 Casdetra ponders puns :D
14:49 TomSTomson hello
14:52 Ember (emberell) Hello, Seveiron, Strandwind, welcome!
14:52 Casdetra ponders how countless plant lives are sacrificed to feed us
14:52 Strandwind Hello everyone. Heya Ember.
14:53 Seveiron Hello
14:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Aye, Casdetra, John Barleycorn must die.
14:53 Ember (emberell) Elfbiter, welcome!
14:53 Casdetra Wow look at Elf's new hairdo
14:53 Casdetra Oh, never mind, it was a rez thing
14:53 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
14:54 Ember (emberell) That's called a 'hatdo'
14:54 Ember (emberell) nods sagely.
14:54 Ember (emberell) Sandy, welcome
14:54 Larky (larkylouz) giggles
14:54 Sandy Burgess Hello Ember and all others
14:54 Ember (emberell) Hello, Lyn, welcome!
14:54 Strandwind Hello Sandy.
14:54 Casdetra Hi Lyn!!
14:54 Gronk Seriman wonders why only one of the three light switches are turned on.
14:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen Wonders when Miss Gronk started hanging around with Midas.
14:55 Seveiron laughs
14:55 Sandy Burgess Hello Strand
14:55 Control Panel Wordsmith Jarvinen turns on the lights.
14:55 Casdetra ponders how the other side always gets filled up
14:55 Gronk Seriman When I'm dressed like this, I should lead an orchestra. I'm a good conductor!
14:55 Ember (emberell) IF it is too dark, you can always use CTRL+_SHIFT+Y to set your local viewer to midday, too
14:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen But at high frequency, it's all superficial, Gronk
14:56 Sandy Burgess I can't wear my golden avatar - it won't fit inside here
14:56 Ember (emberell) You do look properly AUt of this world, Gronk.
14:57 Gronk Seriman Thank you. Hopefully you have Advanced Lighting on in order to see the effect properly.
14:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Lyn
14:58 Gronk Seriman Otherwise, I look like I'm painted in dried mustard.
14:58 Lyn (lyn.navarita) Hello!
14:59 Ember (emberell) Lizza, Lovejoy, welcome to you both
14:59 Ember (emberell) Carl, welcome!
14:59 lovejoy2199 Greetings everyone
14:59 Lizza Nikolaidis HI all
14:59 lovejoy2199 Hello Dean
14:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her, it's the kiss of death from Mr. Goldfinger...
14:59 lovejoy2199 Hello Carl
15:00 Ember (emberell) Kara, welcome!
15:00 lovejoy2199 Ohhh....Hello Chancellor
15:00 Carl Metropolitan Hello
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen Greetings, lovejoy
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 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 Have anything from Commons, Ember
15:02 Ember (emberell) I've been catching up on paperwork mostly the last week - and following up on a few tutor applications. We're still looking for more who are willing to help down at Oxbridge proper. If anyone is interested in volunteering, please do reach out to me (or one of the other tutors who has the application) for more information
15:03 Ember (emberell) Like before some of that paperwork involves upkeeping notecards of Landmarks and other resources for students new and old. So if anyone has something they feel may be of merit, please do send those to me as well.
15:03 Ember (emberell) That's all from me this week, Word, back to you.
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks, Ember
15:04 Seveiron smiles
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen As of the last report (look in the transcript for last Deans' Q&A) Oxbridge is in good financial shape and Andrea works to keep things that way, given pandemic economic uncertainty.
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen I don't have much else to report at this time, but I'm working up plots for class attendance. Preliminary information, but it looks like for 2020 and 2021 through July, that about 11 percent of attendees are less than 30 days in SL and about 45 percent are greater than 1440 days.
15:08 Gronk Seriman Wow!
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen If this holds, that's a marked decrease in newbie percentage attendance.
15:08 Seveiron Interesting
15:09 Sandy Burgess How is the over all attendance of classes?
15:09 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Ups and downs
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Before I'd seen peaks in early and late attendance with a dip in the middle.
15:09 lovejoy2199 Percentage?, But what about the numbers? Also a decrease?
15:09 Seveiron Are many of the classes canceled due to lack of attendance?
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Lately, as in over the summer, attendance has been light. Larky and I were discussing that yesterday.
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) We usually see a drop in summer?
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen Johann is taking August off partly to vacation and partly because of low attendance. Sandy canceled today not feeling well, but also with low attendance.
15:11 Seveiron Ah
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes, Andrea we do.
15:11 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Apologies for being late. I tried to TP in and had to force crash myself. It froze.
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'll have more on class attendance for the next Deans' Q&A.
15:11 Seveiron nods
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen I forgot I still needed to convert those scripts to Python3.
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything to announce, Andrea?
15:12 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) There will be a fundraiser event next Sunday. I'm not sure what just yet. Something summer
15:13 Seveiron Nice
15:13 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) With Sasha offline also for work. It is hard to coordinate. may be FDriday or Sat notice on it
15:13 Carl Metropolitan I've noticed that low attendance and teacher burnout tend to feed on each other. One thing I never had a chance to work on during my times as Chancellor was to look at seeing if some teachers might like to be rotated among classes to keep up interest.
15:13 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Nothing else at this time Word
15:13 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Hi Sandie
15:14 Seveiron Hey Sandie
15:14 Sandie Harbour waves
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen I've announced before that I'm open to occasional seminars or semi-regular classes.
15:14 Gronk Seriman smiles and waves to Sandie
15:14 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I don't know if it is the weather or what, but I'm worn down and napping on and off all day.
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Sandie, Welcome
15:15 Carl Metropolitan It is not just you, Andrea.
15:15 Seveiron I've done the same thing today
15:16 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Not that unusual in this end but...
15:16 Carl Metropolitan Hi Sandie
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen Oh, that reminds me Andrea. I found out a couple of days ago, that I've likely been running a sinus infection for most of the summer. That explains why my internal warp drive hasn't been working. Should be speeding up in the next day or so.
15:16 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) good to hear.
15:17 Larky (larkylouz) :^)
15:17 Kara2016 That is probably why Andrea is tired..a bug.
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen And with that, open for general questions
15:17 Gronk Seriman Sinus Infection. S'not funny.
15:17 Larky (larkylouz) groans
15:17 Lizza Nikolaidis No, they are not
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Ouch, Gronk ... like running through wet concrete
15:17 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Still hosting the Writers' Meeting [Ed. note: 11 am Thursdays]
15:17 Larky (larkylouz) I have a tip for tutors and other folks who work in the plaza.
15:18 Larky (larkylouz) Linden Labs has added a mini-orientation to their viewer. If you open help, you get directions like you'd see in an orientation. Worth a look.
15:19 lovejoy2199 Smiles, wondering how many people here have run through or worked in wet concrete.
15:19 Gronk Seriman Ooo! Nice!
15:19 Carl Metropolitan Is it in Firestorm too?
15:19 Seveiron Not yet
15:19 Carl Metropolitan And is this a new mini-orientation. I know a version of the viewer about five years ago had one included.
15:21 Larky (larkylouz) I'm not sure, but according to Inara Pey, it is. I've heard mixed reviews on it, however.
15:21 Carl Metropolitan I will check out Modem World for more info then.
15:22 Ember (emberell) the old one at least, was not very useful for residents
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen Seems to be Guidebook under help, or type F1
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen (F1 key)
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen It opens a window in the viewer
15:23 Lyn (lyn.navarita) I just get a volume slider
15:23 Carl Metropolitan Time to download a copy of SL again I guess.
15:24 Larky (larkylouz) I believe they have revamped their entry area, too. I haven't had a chance to check that out. I'll try for next week.
15:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other questions or announcements?
15:25 Casdetra Still doing the Guided Meditation [ed. note: 11 am Fridays]
15:25 Essence (djessence) hello everybody
15:25 Larky (larkylouz) Hi Essence
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome Essence
15:25 Larky (larkylouz) Welcome
15:25 Kara2016 <..still has not down loaded the new version of FS..
15:25 Gronk Seriman The problem with SL's official entry area is that you can only do it once. Never go back. I see why they did this, to cut down on griefers annoying new people. But it's a shame.
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen Elfbiter and Casdetra both at 11 am SLT on Thursday and Friday respectfully.
15:26 Lyn (lyn.navarita) Welcome Island
15:26 Ember (emberell) It is understandable, but it helps so much to have a resource to return to.
15:26 Lizza Nikolaidis ok would it have to be there exactly
15:27 Carl Metropolitan You can do it again; there are public versions of the island, but someone would have to know about it and tell you where to go.
15:27 Lizza Nikolaidis I mean you could give them a resource beyond the open gate but not so far beyond that they are already having difficulty
15:28 Lizza Nikolaidis There is a rather unflattering video on YouTube about
15:28 Lizza Nikolaidis a young man who visited here and had some trouble
15:29 Lizza Nikolaidis and was pretty outspoken about it
15:29 Ember (emberell) Yes, some troublemakers are quite intent on painting Oxbridge in an unflattering light.
15:29 Lizza Nikolaidis if he had found a little more help
15:29 Lizza Nikolaidis it may have helped
15:29 Ember (emberell) Overall I feel SL could do a lot more to guide people to places where they can get help
15:30 Lizza Nikolaidis I so agree
15:30 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I wonder if that was the guy who complained in front of me and Ember.
15:30 Lyn (lyn.navarita) There are White Tiger Guides that can go there and help newcomers get started in friendly sims.
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen That happens. Some won't abide by the rules or stop to listen to staff directives. However, harassing staff, going to COUG to gripe, and threatening only lengthens a ban.
15:30 Strandwind nods to Embers words.
15:30 Gronk Seriman ...Especially in their own native languages.
15:30 Ember (emberell) It's part of why we do what we can to help. Reach out to people through our group or otherwise, and spread awareness of resources in general
15:30 Ember (emberell) Otherwise people may not know something is there
15:31 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I give links to language-specific groups. Of course, I have no idea how active they may actually be
15:31 Ember (emberell) Some of them are quite active, though I always have a hard time judging how helpful. I hear mixed reviews on some
15:31 Lyn (lyn.navarita) When I encounter Day0 avatars that are confused I send them to COU.
15:32 Seveiron I can say it is fairly hard to get accurate help as a new avatar in the lands.
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen And I'm continuing to convert our tutorial to support English, Spanish, and French help.
15:32 Larky (larkylouz) Elfbiter, there is a lot of information and resources in the Faculty kit for use with people who speak other languages. I add to it monthly.
15:33 Lizza Nikolaidis yes but even watching that video you could see how easy and fast they could turn on sl
15:33 Harperlass There is a fatigue element to all of this
15:33 Ember (emberell) Yeah, we keep those updated. I've been adding to and keeping an eye on those landmarks as well
15:33 Lizza Nikolaidis that really needs to be handled better
15:33 Harperlass there are so many small things that add up to overall frustration
15:33 Harperlass for newcomers
15:33 Larky (larkylouz) I regularly tell people to be easy on themselves. It's a lot to learn at first.
15:33 Lizza Nikolaidis He lost all interest in about an hour
15:33 Gronk Seriman Another reason SL is like RL. There are jerks everywhere.
15:33 Lizza Nikolaidis it was sad
15:33 Lizza Nikolaidis it made me sad
15:33 Ember (emberell) Yeah, exactly Harper. IT's often a cliff of learning, and so frustrating before people even get a chance to find help.
15:34 Harperlass Well I've been here 8 months actual time...and I get tired all the time
15:34 Lizza Nikolaidis yes they never get far enough inside to see the real beauty
15:34 Harperlass Things don't mean what you think
15:34 Harperlass the jerks abound
15:34 Harperlass and even sitting on a bench is an issue
15:34 Carl Metropolitan One thing I told people about our tutorial is that you don't need to do all of it at once. That you can come back and do it section by section. Only the Cathedral and Hall of Avatar Motion are vital for day one.
15:35 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Some newcomers are more impatient than others. Some outright refuse to read anything else but the chat.
15:35 Lizza Nikolaidis there are jerks everywhere
15:35 Lizza Nikolaidis that is to be expected
15:35 Wordsmith Jarvinen We do try to filter them here.
15:35 Lizza Nikolaidis you need to catch them before the slide show
15:35 Lizza Nikolaidis before the frustration
15:35 Essence (djessence) Pardon me but every game you play you are responsible to find help to learn how to play it. Mr Elfbiter helped me right away and I went through your tutorial. thats a good start
15:35 Lizza Nikolaidis and before they get lost
15:35 Lizza Nikolaidis :)
15:36 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I try
15:36 Essence (djessence) also anyone who's been online before knows you can get answers by youTube and Google
15:36 Lizza Nikolaidis I want to say one thing about that.
15:36 Lizza Nikolaidis There is entirely too much empty space in SL
15:36 Seveiron Its not always updated or accurate
15:37 Lizza Nikolaidis eEsier to fall between the cracks when the cracks are bigger right?
15:37 Seveiron Ive looked through YouTube and Google... what a mess to sort what is relevant I was lucky and a friend gave me a link to you guys.
15:37 Lizza Nikolaidis just a thought
15:37 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Some areas operate in different world time zones. Some emptiness is expected
15:37 Ember (emberell) Finding an accurate, up to date, and informative answer on Google for Second Life can be somewhat daunting unless you know what you're doing, sometimes, too.
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen A while back I did write up a notecard on the relationship between, LL, Caledon, and Oxbridge, I believe that Larky and Ember have that notecard.
15:37 Lizza Nikolaidis yes but we can't let newbies get into those areas
15:38 Ember (emberell) It's part of why we have the tutor program, so we can have people who know how to answer the questions on hand
15:38 Lizza Nikolaidis that guy did in the video from portal park
15:38 Ember (emberell) Oh yes, I believe I do have that card
15:38 Harperlass It felt very empty and lonely when I arrived and even now, places are usually empty
15:38 Lyn (lyn.navarita) Happy/Satisfied people don't post or make videos.
15:38 Harperlass true Lyn
15:38 Essence (djessence) :(
15:38 Lizza Nikolaidis yes they are busy being happy
15:38 Lizza Nikolaidis I agree
15:38 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I have seen videos about Oxbridge where somebody recommends us. In YouTube.
15:39 TomSTomson well, I did
15:39 Lizza Nikolaidis Great
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other questions?
15:39 Seveiron I have one.
15:39 Lizza Nikolaidis Thank you all so much for inviting me
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen Seveiron?
15:40 Seveiron Who do we speak to about sponsoring classes?
15:40 Lizza Nikolaidis Sorry I need to go
15:40 Lizza Nikolaidis thank you
15:40 Larky (larkylouz) Thanks for your feedback, Lizza
15:40 Lizza Nikolaidis nice to meet you too
15:40 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I can help you with that
15:40 Lizza Nikolaidis welcome always
15:40 Seveiron Thank you Andrea
15:40 Lizza Nikolaidis bye
15:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other questions?
15:42 Gronk Seriman Since SL went to Amazon Servers, there is no way to do any reliable Speedtest of SL anymore. Am I right?
15:42] Gronk Seriman: Just rely on the viewer's gages.
15:44 Harperlass (Whispers quiet excuses and tip toes out...thank you all.)
15:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen Since servers would be dynamically allocated, likely only in a sort of average, Gronk
15:44 Ember (emberell) From my understanding as well, there's no way to get a specific number that I'm aware of.
15:45 Ember (emberell) One might be able to use one of the devices that measures a sim's time dilation and such to do so, but I suspect it'd be somewhat roundabout. And not accurate for SL at large
15:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'll keep the question in mind, in case I run across anything on that, Gronk
15:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen Another question?
15:46 Gronk Seriman I must say that the most recent Firestorm version has been quite surprising. I see places rez in seconds, not minutes. Sometimes. Sometimes not. No rhyme or reason.
15:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen A friend of mine updated and suddenly had lost inventory reappear.
15:47 lovejoy2199 Any 'TP' issues, Gronk?
15:48 lovejoy2199 Me also, Word.
15:48 Gronk Seriman No TP issues I know of. And sim Crossings? Can't remember a recent failed one.
15:48 Larky (larkylouz) I'm loving that I can actually save outfits the first or second time I try!
15:48 Carl Metropolitan Has it made the teleport crashes happen less?
15:48 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I hope they have fixed the bugs of this version already.
15:48 Seveiron waves as he takes off
15:49 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) be well Seveiron
15:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else?
15:50 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) oh
15:50 Larky (larkylouz) Oh, yes.
15:50 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) yes
15:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea?
15:50 Larky (larkylouz) You go, Andrea.
15:51 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I will be having a test run at the space station at 5. Blake's 7 first episode is on the new TV. and there is some pics and stuff there. I'll send the LM [landmark] in a notice soon. i need to log and try to get my LMs back
15:51 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) seems top be missing
15:52 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) back to Larky
15:52 Larky (larkylouz) thanks
15:52 lovejoy2199 Blake 7 is back???
15:52 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) old show
15:52 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) i didn't see the new one
15:53 lovejoy2199 Ohhh...I though it might be a new version.
15:53 Larky (larkylouz) I have placed a new, unisex dressing room in the village. It's on a trial run to see if there is interest or issues. Please let me know via notecard if you have feedback. Tha landmark is in a lm-giver sign in the plaza and in the village chat circle.
15:54 lovejoy2199 Ok. Is there a new Blake 7, or not?
15:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen And Ember has located the notecard on how Oxbridge relates to Caledon and SL, and TOS, Community Standards, maturity ratings, and the Caledon Covenant, with COU being a renter entity to Caledon.
15:54 lovejoy2199 Blake 7
15:54 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) i think there was. maybe short lived
15:54 lovejoy2199 hummm
15:55 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, with that, the hour being up, we are adjourned.
15:55 Gronk Seriman Thank you Deans!
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming and participating
15:56 Essence (djessence) bye everybody Meow ^^
15:56 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) waves bye to all,
15:56 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Okay. Crawling to bed
15:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Transcripts will be posted
15:56 Casdetra Thank you
15:56 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) be back shortly
15:56 Larky (larkylouz) Thank you, Deans. Take care everyone.
15:56 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hold the fort
15:56 Gronk Seriman grasps her bench firmly.
15:56 lovejoy2199 wonders who will play Sevalan ?
15:57 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing you
15:57 Ember (emberell) Take care, Elfbiter
15:57 Casdetra TC Elfbiter
15:57 Gronk Seriman Goodnight, Elfbiter!