Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A for 2022-10-23

14:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Ember
14:38 Ember (emberell) Hi word!
14:38 Ember (emberell) Are you well today? ❤
14:38 Wordsmith Jarvinen I am
14:38 Ember (emberell) Goood. I'm very glad to hear
14:40 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Elfbiter
14:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen You are colorful today
14:40 Ember (emberell) I figured some colors would do us good.
14:47 Ember (emberell) Hello, Lovejoy, welcome!
14:48 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Lovejoy
14:48 lovejoy2199 Greetings everyone
14:48 lovejoy2199 Hello Dean Ember
14:48 Ember (emberell) Are you well today, friend? ❤
14:48 lovejoy2199 Hello Chancellor
14:49 lovejoy2199 Yes, I am doing well. And, yourself?
14:49 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'm sure you'll figure out what's playing on the stream
14:50 lovejoy2199 I haven't got there yet. I just logged into SL. Still working things out.
14:52 lovejoy2199 Ohhh. Forgot about the Party afterwards
14:52 Ember (emberell) the party will be nice, I think
14:52 Ember (emberell) Andrea's been working hard on the build
14:52 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Sphynx! ❤
14:53 Sphynx Soleil Thanks :)
14:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome Sphynx
14:53 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Highly
14:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Highly
14:54 highlyadjective Hello Ember, Wordsmith Elf :)
14:54 Ember (emberell) Hello, PHrynne, welcome ❤
14:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Phrynne
14:54 Phrynne waves hello
14:55 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) highlyadjective gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
14:55 Ember (emberell) Thank you so much for your donation, Highly ❤
14:55 highlyadjective smiles
14:56 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Jef ❤
14:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Jef
14:56 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Badger!
14:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Badger
14:56 badgerofzen hullo ember and word
14:57 Jef (jefkerama) Hello everyone
14:57 badgerofzen hullo
14:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Tora
14:57 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) howdy howdy y'all wonderful persons! :-)
14:57 highlyadjective Hello back from us humble wonderfuls
14:58 Ember (emberell) Hello, Tora, welcome ❤
14:58 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) lol!!
14:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Is that a poison toad on your hat, Tora
14:58 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) hiya ember!
14:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen ?
14:58 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Kit!
14:58 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) lol no, this is my cranberry frog. i've been wearing him on my head for 12 years. he's quite harmless :-D
14:59 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) hahaha!! yup, and he croaks when you pet him
14:59 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Kit
14:59 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*Yayyyyyyy!!!!*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*
14:59 kit (munchykitkit) tyty :)
14:59 Ember (emberell) That's toadally awesome :-)
14:59 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Agatha
14:59 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) ah ha ha ha mz ember!
14:59 Agatha Macbeth Hellooooo
15:00 Ember (emberell) But I suppose we should expect that from you. You always look ribbiting :-)
15:00 Agatha Macbeth Tis the witching hour :p
15:00 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) w00t!
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Agatha of CDS
15:00 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) X-D
15:00 Agatha Macbeth Which witch is which?
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 at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php
15:00 Wordsmith Jarvinen Transcripts will be posted after the meeting.
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen A witch mad of sand is a sandwitch?
15:01 Agatha Macbeth Could be...
15:01 Wordsmith Jarvinen What do you have from the Commons, Ember?
15:02 Ember (emberell) From commons, I've been mostly focused on decorations the past week - putting things up on campus and otherwise. RL's kept me fairly busy, otherwise, but I've been updating notecards where I may
15:03 Ember (emberell) AS ever though, Oxbridge is looking for folk willing to help out - as tutors or otherwise! Anyone interested, pelase feel free to reach out to me, or any of the other staff here and we'll be happy to talk about how you can get involved ❤
15:03 Ember (emberell) That's all from me this week
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks, Ember.
15:03 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Gronk hi
15:03 Ember (emberell) Welome, Gronk, Andrea
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Been taking any cursed gold, Andrea?
15:04 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) pretty much
15:04 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) it's in the donation box
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen And what do you have for us this week?
15:04 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Our annual Halloween party is today at 4
15:05 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Caledon Oxbridge Village (145,181,23)
15:05 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Keeba Tammas and the Tiny maniacs will be he the same place Tuesday Night at 6
15:05 Katie (katie.canningham) *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*Yayyyyyyy!!!!*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) All for me.
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks you.
15:06 Ember (emberell) We appreciate you ❤
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen Instructor stipends are paid to date.
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen We are in excellent financial shape.
15:07 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) wootily freakin HOOOO
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen I emailed Andrea a spreadsheet this morning with transactions for the year to date and patron and fundraisers broken out.
15:08 Katie (katie.canningham) cheers more quietly than before
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen The graphs on the wall behind me are current as of two weeks ago.
15:08 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) lmao katie, you scamp, you!
15:08 Katie (katie.canningham) giggles
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen Current on Deans' Q&A's and catching up backwards on the General Q&A transcripts
15:09 Gronk Seriman It does look like the gold bars on top have grown a little.
15:09 Ember (emberell) We have seen more crowds of lately, actually
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen Partly perhaps a better listing in the destination guide, and partly things Larky has been doing in social media, although she's currently taking a vacation.
15:10 highlyadjective Sweet :)
15:11 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) good for her!
15:11 Agatha Macbeth Larky rocks
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, with that, open for questions, general announcements, and the like
15:11 highlyadjective Slow and steady improvement is best :)
15:12 Gronk Seriman We used to get organized tours through here. Some RL schools liked how we orientated people. Does that happen mmuch any more?
15:13 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) In occasion
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'm hoping we start seeing that again via VWEC efforts
15:13 Jef (jefkerama) I have IM'd newcomers that Cal Ox Lib is the best SL tutorial. Any problem with that?
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen None at all. And I'm hoping to finish up the year making it still better
15:15 Agatha Macbeth Woot
15:15 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) excellente!
15:15 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) We try
15:16 Katie (katie.canningham) ♩♪♫♬ APPAWS! ♩♪♫♬
15:16 Sphynx Soleil Yay!
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, if I remember my email correctly, Lindal just updated a list of freebie sources.
15:17 Ember (emberell) Oh yes, I got that in today
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen Great
15:17 Ember (emberell) I'm going to fold that in to the faculty kit in the break room so staff can have that easily on hand
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen Good
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other questions and announcements?
15:20 Jef (jefkerama) Newbie Question: If a shirt alpha and a pant alpha leave a gap in the middle and skin shows through, is it possible to adjust one of them to close the gap?
15:20 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Still hosting the Writers' MEeting with weird prompts...
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thursdays, 11am, for Elf's writers' meeting
15:21 Ember (emberell) Yes, Jef. You can make your own alphas (or just use a solid texture in the alpha window to hide -everything). IT does take some knowledge of what you're hiding though if you only want to hide specific spots
15:21 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) i have to go everybody. y'all take care and be safe and happy!
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen It's relatively easy to create a new alpha or potentially to find one, Jef
15:21 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) bye
15:21 Gronk Seriman Ta-tah, Tora!
15:21 Katie (katie.canningham) bye Andrea!
15:21 Tora the Explorer (toraona.thane) waves and poofs :-)
15:22 Ember (emberell) We have a folder of freebie alphas also, in the faculty kit
15:22 Katie (katie.canningham) oh oops
15:22 Katie (katie.canningham) sorry
15:22 Ember (emberell) I can send you that if you'd like to sort through them and see what you may want
15:22 lovejoy2199 Easy, if you already know what you are doing.
15:22 Jef (jefkerama) Freebie alphas would be great
15:22 Agatha Macbeth That's the trick...knowing what you're doing :P
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen Basically, painting white on a secotion of the body templates, Lovejoy
15:24 Wordsmith Jarvinen The other side of that question is where there's an intentional clothing gap, skin should show, and an alpha is making that invisible.
15:24 Jef (jefkerama) THanks so much
15:25 Ember (emberell) I've sent you a folder of full-perms alpha masks. There IS a folder of (less versatile) mask in the inventory library under Library -> body parts ->alpha masks
15:25 Jef (jefkerama) Ok
15:25 highlyadjective Freebie alphas would be great too please :) It would be fun to learn how to make clothes, the BOM for classic avis anyway
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen So a matter of extending an alpha in Jef's case, or shortening an alpha in the opposite case
15:25 Ember (emberell) I've sent you a copy of that too, Highly ❤
15:26 Ember (emberell) Just wave at me if anyone else wants a copy
15:26 highlyadjective Thank you Ember!
15:27 Sphynx Soleil waves at Ember
15:27 Ember (emberell) Sent! ❤
15:27 Sphynx Soleil Thank you! :)
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen Tora already left, but last I heard she's working on a multi-part class on using mesh clothing
15:28 Agatha Macbeth That sounds good
15:28 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Tora has been toiling a lot recently.
15:28 Gronk Seriman Ooo! Nice!
15:28 Katie (katie.canningham) ossm!
15:29 Katie (katie.canningham) another fine mesh!
15:29 lovejoy2199 lol
15:29 Agatha Macbeth >.<
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen Lindal apparently worked on a part 1, and Tora is going on from there
15:29 Agatha Macbeth Great
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other questions or topics?
15:30 kit (munchykitkit) 1 quick newbie question
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Kit?
15:30 kit (munchykitkit) yup!
15:31 kit (munchykitkit) so the people numbers on destinations.. are those fake?
15:31 Ember (emberell) They're not fake, but they update somewhat irregularly
15:31 Ember (emberell) Depending on the locale you may se more (or less) than what is actually there at the given time if people have just left/ just arrived.
15:31 Ember (emberell) And in many cases, some sims may have people out of view (up high, down low/etc
15:32 kit (munchykitkit) cause there were rooms with 20 people stated regularly but i never see people inside
15:32 kit (munchykitkit) and rooms that with none but with a lot of people in there
15:32 Ember (emberell) It's possible in those cases the last viewed number was from the end of an event, or jsut before an event
15:32 Ember (emberell) IT takes a little bit to update
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen And, as Ember mentioned, the counts would be by sim or parcel, and include all altitudes
15:34 Ember (emberell) nods
15:34 kit (munchykitkit) okies..thanks a lot!
15:34 Gronk Seriman Kit, when I explore, I always have the minimap top left of my screen. Shows where people are. A dot means they are on your level. An up arrow or down arrow means they are above or below you.
15:34 kit (munchykitkit) oh!
15:34 kit (munchykitkit) above me?
15:34 Gronk Seriman Yes.
15:34 Ember (emberell) Yes! Like right now, from the ground, we would all be up arrows, since we are at 2,000 feet
15:35 Ember (emberell) But Sasha, over in Andrea's parcel to the east, is a down arrow since she's preparing for the dance
15:35 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) We are currently above some people
15:35 Katie (katie.canningham) quietly puts on her parachute
15:35 kit (munchykitkit) oh!
15:35 kit (munchykitkit) lol okok
15:35 Ember (emberell) When you hover over a dot, SL will tell you an estimate of how far away they are too, I believe
15:35 highlyadjective Some people may have a store on the "ground" and then living quarters and sandboxes up in the air
15:35 Ember (emberell) So you can tell if they may be in a skybox, or just hidden
15:36 highlyadjective Or vice versa
15:36 kit (munchykitkit) i see
15:36 kit (munchykitkit) got it!
15:36 kit (munchykitkit) i'll hunt them down the next time with the mini map!
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen Sometimes, that even helps to hunt down events in a sky box.
15:38 Ember (emberell) Though do take care you aren't just popping into a private home!
15:38 kit (munchykitkit) i've got kicked a few times.. :D
15:39 highlyadjective But private homes are the most interesting to look at
15:39 Wordsmith Jarvinen Oh, something to mention. Science Circle hosted a great talk by Tab Scott yesterday on the science of architecture. I believe it was recorded and will be available soon.
15:40 Agatha Macbeth Sorry I missed that
15:40 highlyadjective Oh neat
15:40 Agatha Macbeth Had a LUC meeting
15:40 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else?
15:41 highlyadjective smiles
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hearing nothing more (not even a bad pun),
15:42 Agatha Macbeth (No Sandie)
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen we are,
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen adjourned.
15:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you all for coming and participating.
15:42 Katie (katie.canningham) ♩♪♫♬ APPAWS! ♩♪♫♬
15:42 kit (munchykitkit) thanks a lot!
15:42 highlyadjective Best wishes to all for the coming week :)
15:43 Agatha Macbeth Woot
15:43 Jef (jefkerama) Thanks!
15:43 Wordsmith Jarvinen You have time for a snack before the Halloween party
15:43 Gronk Seriman Thank you, Deans!
15:43 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) see you at the party
15:43 Katie (katie.canningham) thankee Wordsmith and Ember and Andrea!
15:43 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) free shoulder pets
15:43 Agatha Macbeth pokes Ember's beak
15:43 Ember (emberell) Yes, hello! ❤
15:43 Ember (emberell) Huff! Poke and run!
15:43 Katie (katie.canningham) see you at the party lovejoy! or tomorrow?
15:43 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Okay. Trying to get some shuteye before my brain switches down.
15:43 Ember (emberell) Goodnight, Elfbiter
15:43 Katie (katie.canningham) nini Elf!
15:43 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hold the fort
15:43 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) night elf
15:43 Ember (emberell) I'll see you around
15:43 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) poofs
15:44 lovejoy2199 Sleep well, Elf.
15:44 Gronk Seriman firmly grabs her bench.
15:44 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) clean the ballistas
15:44 highlyadjective Goodnight Elf :)
15:44 Gronk Seriman G'night, Elf!