Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2022-04-24

14:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Shae
14:44 Shaerken Changeheart (changeheartshaerken) Hello Wordsmith! My mind is running down the hall at the moment. I'll be back to listen to y'all shorty.
14:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen Time enough :)
14:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hello, Andrea
14:48 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi
14:50 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Tora :)
14:50 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) hiya word!
14:52 lovejoy2199 back. Greetings everyone
14:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen I haven't forgotten you, Tora. Updating and getting the class materials to you is now at the top of my list.
14:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen wb, lovejoy
14:53 lovejoy2199 Hello Chancellor
14:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Elfbiter
14:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi, Ember
14:53 Ember (emberell) Hello, Word ❤
14:54 Ember (emberell) Andrea, Shaerken, LJ, Chris, Tora... ❤
14:54 Ember (emberell) :-)
14:54 lovejoy2199 Hello Dean
14:54 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) okies, word. I'm not worried if you're not :-)
14:54 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) I'll plan on starting my work whenever you get the materials to me
14:55 Chris (chrismillernhs) Hello
14:55 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) oh, sorry, hiya everybody!
14:55 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) didn't mean to be rude.
14:55 lovejoy2199 Hello Tora
14:55 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) *waves up at lovejoy!*
14:55 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) shouts hiya lovejoy
14:56 lovejoy2199 *smile*
14:56 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) hiya agatha
14:56 Agatha Macbeth Hello :)
14:56 Ember (emberell) Agatha, welcome ❤
14:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Agatha
14:57 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) ohmyGOSH shaerken, you're a flat bee!!!
14:57 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) this is shocking :-D
14:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Kara. Ribbit
14:58 Ember (emberell) Kara, Harper, welcome, friends
14:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Gronk
14:58 Kara2016 ooo where do I find one of those?
14:59 Shaerken Changeheart (changeheartshaerken) returns finally having found her mind halfway down the hall
14:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Harperlass
14:59 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Kara2016 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
14:59 Shaerken Changeheart (changeheartshaerken) It's from PaperFriends Tora and Kara - Living Echos at the Faire
14:59 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) lmao your mind is too young to be wandering around by itself like that, shaerken
14:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Kara, much appreciated
15:00 Shaerken Changeheart (changeheartshaerken) /me sitz on her paws to listen to the meeting
15:00 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Harperlass gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:00 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) i shall have to go take a look
15:00 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) thank you Kara for the donation
15:00 Kara2016 <..brb..checking on dinner..
15:00 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Ty Harperlass for the donation
15:00 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) *hushes up to listen to the bosses*
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen And the hour has struck
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 Ember (emberell) Thank you, Kara, Harper, for your donations ❤
15:01 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Do we fine the hour for striking
15:01 lovejoy2199 turns down Mozart. Time to start the Q&A
15:01 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Batista
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Batista
15:02 Wordsmith Jarvinen What do you have for us from Commons this week, Ember?
15:03 Ember (emberell) I've had a bit more time to work on my catchup work this week. I've sorted and updated Oxbridgegroundskeeper to get him up to date with campus necessities, and I've made good progress on updating the faculty kit.
15:03 Ember (emberell) It's not yet at a point where I'[m comfortable putting out an official update, but staff are welcome to grab the most recent edits from the faculty lounge on campus.
15:04 Ember (emberell) Besides that, Oxbridge IS always looking for new help staff, tutors and guides. For those interested in joining the Oxbridge family, pelase do reach out to me, or any of the other tutors or staff here, as we all have information on how you can get involved or help out.
15:04 Ember (emberell) (It doesn't need to always be answering questions in the plaza - hosting events, teaching classes, editing notecards, working on landmarlks, all include ways one may be able to help)
15:04 Ember (emberell) That's it from me.
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Ember. For the report and the work :)
15:05 Gronk Seriman (translating signs, too.)
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea?
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Still doing the bi weekly dances to try and keep us way above where we need to be on fundraising.
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Other wise not doing much else.
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) One change to the bi weekly events
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yes?
15:07 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) There will be some events setup for flying "thrown" objects. Thus a safe zone will be built into some builds and it will be mentioned ahead of time that throwers are usable.
15:08 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) So those that wish to be where they can be not hit, will have a place to go
15:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Some other restrictions will be added. But we need a staff meeting on those
15:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) back to you word
15:09 Gronk Seriman Like Frisbees? Rotten fruit? Snowballs?
15:09 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) That was from the sleepover dance, huh?
15:09 Shaerken Changeheart (changeheartshaerken) popcorn!
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks, Andrea. Sounds like water-balloons in the summer and snowballs in the winter
15:09 Gronk Seriman Ah.
15:09 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) rubber chickens, vegetables, doritos
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) We want people to have fun at these events. We just need too plan ahead so everyone is comfortable
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen No major updates from me.
15:10 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) it DID get a bit out of hand
15:10 Ember (emberell) Whatever else may be thrown in the event. Pillows, chickens, etc. We've had a few people asking for a safer experience when dancing (as it sometimes gets out of hand, so we want everyone to be comfy)
15:10 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) no dwarf-tossing
15:11 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) no sir, not until they make a gun that fires dwarves
15:11 Gronk Seriman Awww. Shucks.
15:11 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) lmao!!
15:11 Shaerken Changeheart (changeheartshaerken) hicznortz at Elfbiter
15:11 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) i'm working on scripting and blender. i'll try to make one for you, Gronk
15:11 Gronk Seriman Nice!
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen I was talking with Madori Linden and mentioned that we seemed to be missing from the inworld new-user friendly destination guide. Madori said whe was going to be meeting with Strawberry and would get that fixed.
15:12 Ember (emberell) Oh good, I'm glad to hear that.
15:12 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) oh nice ty
15:13 Ember (emberell) I think that's happened to a few different places now.
15:13 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) hey, that's right, huh?
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen In "return", I created a notecard for Madori on different types of SL coordinates.
15:13 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) i explore A LOT. i've never seen hide nor hair of caledon in the user guide
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen And this was not a request for Caledon as a whole, but for Oxbridge.
15:14 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) except with the one guy we pissed off, and i don't blame him. He kinda stomped out
15:14 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) oh okies
15:14 Gronk Seriman Caledon DOES get mentioned in Destinations sometimes, but Oxbridge specifically doesn't.
15:14 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Caledon comes and goes from the destination guide.
15:15 Ember (emberell) right
15:15 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) i certainly haven't seen anything of it in the last few months,
15:15 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) i'm on the guides most nights
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen The map of the Education Reserve on the wall behind me is now out of date. Madori has been moving sims that won't stay out of the education reserve, so I need to resurvey.
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen I've caught up with past Deans' Q&A transcripts on the website (apart from today's).
15:17 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) ty for your hard work
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen I still need to catch up on the General Q&As but I'm placing that behind updating the Inventory class materials and getting those to Tora.
15:18 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) thankee very much :-)
15:18 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) i know that's got to be hard to set time aside for it
15:19 Ember (emberell) The education nreserve can be found here, I believe?: VWEC Eduverse (217,105,45)
15:19 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) current survey?
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen Not, too bad with the education reserve welcome sim open and operating (still a work in progress) and RL tax stuff behind me.
15:20 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) alright then. Let me know if there's some grunt work i can do to help. i'm just sitting on my butt :-P
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen I need to go over to that area, and see what's gone from the map and remove it from my JSON file.
15:21 lovejoy2199 When did they start removing items?
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks, Tora
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen From the reserve? And "they" is Madori, who is the one doing moves in and out of the reserve area. This last week. There were a few sims in there not consistent with the reserve and some apparently dead sims.
15:24 lovejoy2199 I haven't been there in 8-9 days. Just wondering if it has been since.
15:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen But the reserve is where it is because many of the sims already in it can stay in it.
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen Not sure, lovejoy. I'll have a new map at the next Deans' Q&A.
15:26 lovejoy2199 Ok. I will make a trip over after Q&A.
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen I also should have updated plots for the back wall by then.
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen And again, this is not a change to the welcome sim, but Madori managing the entire 5000+ sim-slot reserve.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen With that, open for general questions and discussion.
15:29 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Oh we will be having Keeba Tammas and the Tiny Maniacs this Tuesday night at 6 notice to come
15:29 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) libe performer
15:29 Shaerken Changeheart (changeheartshaerken) cheerz!
15:29 Gronk Seriman Woot!
15:29 Ember (emberell) Ooooh
15:29 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I'll be on the keyboards
15:29 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) back to yu guys
15:30 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) coolios
15:30 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Still hosting the Writers' Meeting. And planning inworld TTRPG thing but scheduling is a pain....
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen TTRPG?
15:30 Ember (emberell) Table Top Role-Playing Game
15:31 Shaerken Changeheart (changeheartshaerken) geshundheit (passes two bee-sized hankies)
15:31 Ember (emberell) (EG: D&D)
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen ty, Ember
15:31 lovejoy2199 Ahhh...Pool, Elf. *smile*
15:31 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
15:32 lovejoy2199 doesn't know what is wrong with himself today.
15:32 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Too much mummy dust?
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen Knocking universes around on a pool table, lovejoy?
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other matters?
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hearing none,
15:34 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) oh
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen We are adjourned.
15:34 Shaerken Changeheart (changeheartshaerken) prepares to buzz off. "Ya'll be safe, well, and explore with joie de vivre!
15:34 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thursday night will bve movie night starts at 6
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank your all for coming and participating.
15:34 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) we wqtch the new Batman
15:34 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) bye, all!
15:34 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) bye
15:35 Gronk Seriman Thank you, Deans!