Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A for 2023-01-08

14:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi, Larky
14:30 Larky (larkylouz) Hiya Word
14:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi Ember.
14:37 Larky (larkylouz) Hi Ember
14:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen Can you tell me what tutors are active these days?
14:38 Ember (emberell) Hm, let's see.
14:38 Larky (larkylouz) Elf, Ravelli mostly are the folks I see in the plaza. Bryony (sp) is around sometimes
14:39 Ember (emberell) I don't see a lot of them around all that often, but definitely Elfbiter. Briony is around now and again, but she never stays for long that I see of her
14:39 Ember (emberell) Gronk is there sometimes, and I believe Visven is, often in hours that I'm not
14:40 Ember (emberell) I had someone approach me the other day about becoming a tutor, I'm hopeful they will
14:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen I have a script that counts hours at Oxbridge (for tutors only) for calculating a new year bonus.
14:41 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Andrea.
14:42 Larky (larkylouz) Ravelli and Elf are in the plaza a lot, according to my radar.
14:42 Ember (emberell) Oh yes
14:42 Ember (emberell) Ravelli is there quite frequently.
14:42 Ember (emberell) I know Professor Burgess goes there fairly often too
14:42 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Lovejoy. Our usual classical music stream should be back on.
14:42 Ember (emberell) And Jorge is often a help
14:42 Ember (emberell) (I don't think they're official tutors, but very worth mentioning)
14:42 Larky (larkylouz) I see Lovejoy in the plaza a lot
14:42 lovejoy2199 Greetings everyone
14:42 Larky (larkylouz) Well, often enough
14:43 Ember (emberell) Yes, Lovejoy is often there and quite warm.
14:43 Larky (larkylouz) Hi LJ
14:43 Ember (emberell) More often than many of the tutors :-)
14:43 lovejoy2199 Hello Chancellor
14:43 lovejoy2199 Hello Ember
14:43 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Lovejoy. Good to see you
14:43 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hellos
14:43 lovejoy2199 We have a "badass" sighting!! lol
14:44 lovejoy2199 Hello Andrea
14:44 Ember (emberell) Hello, Andrea
14:44 Wordsmith Jarvinen Larky, I'll do the name change on Adv Building, once I'm running with two eyes again, but given there's software name sculptie studio and mesh studio, I'm not convinced Building Studio is the best name for a class.
14:44 Ember (emberell) And Andrea is there, too, often when I can't be
14:44 lovejoy2199 Brahms
14:45 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) flicks her ears
14:45 Wordsmith Jarvinen I don't count Deans and past Deans, but tutors are complete volunteers without decision powers.
14:45 Larky (larkylouz) waves at Lovejoy
14:45 Ember (emberell) Yes, I understand
14:45 Ember (emberell) We appreciate their presence and help a lot, though, so I do like to mention that :-)
14:45 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Phrynne.
14:46 Larky (larkylouz) No worries, Word. Just trying to keep you updated
14:46 Phrynne Thank you, Dean
14:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Phrynne
14:46 Phrynne Thanks, Word
14:48 Phrynne Hi Andrea!
14:48 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi Phrynne
14:48 lovejoy2199 Hello Phrynne
14:49 Phrynne hi Lovejoy, hi Larky
14:49 Larky (larkylouz) hi
14:50 Larky (larkylouz) I wonder if we need to do something to draw former tutors back to the plaza?
14:51 Larky (larkylouz) Does our traffic warrant it?
14:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Elfbiter
14:51 Larky (larkylouz) HI Elf
14:52 Wordsmith Jarvinen the stats on the website are up to date, Larky
14:53 Ember (emberell) James, Qarraq, elfbiter - welcome
14:53 James20SL Thankyou
14:54 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Liska!
14:54 Liska da'Lantros (liskadalantros) Hi!
14:54 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Fringe!
14:54 Fringe Element (fringeelement2) waves :)
14:55 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Edmund
14:56 Edmund Broek ty. Hi.
14:56 Larky (larkylouz) It looks like traffic is up quite a lot from when I last looked in September! That's great
14:57 Ember (emberell) Yes!
14:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen We'll start once the clock chimes
14:57 Ember (emberell) Welcome, STrandwind!
14:58 Strandwind Hello everyone!
14:58 Strandwind Heya Ember, thank you!
14:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Greetings
14:58 Strandwind Hello Wordsmith!
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 What do you have for us for today, Ember (Dean of Commons)?
15:02 Ember (emberell) With the holiday season over, I've had some time to catch up on my backlog. Mostly, that's been managing some of the decorations on campus and sorting through notecards - though we have had a few tutor applications in that time. I'll be reaching out to those interested this week and following up to see if we can't improve our helper presence in the plaza
15:03 Ember (emberell) Speaking of that, we ARE always looking for more tutors to help out - or others interested in helping out at Oxbridge! If your'e interested in getting involved(even if not as a tutor), pelase do feel free to reach out to us here. WE'll see what we can do and where you can help out ❤ Any of the staff here, or me, are good folk to reach out to.
15:03 Ember (emberell) That's all from me, today
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks, Ember.
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea (Dean of Development)?
15:03 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) We had a nice turn out at last weeks dance in the winter ballroom
15:03 Strandwind Thank you Ember!
15:04 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) There will be a dance next Sunday. details to come.
15:04 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) We seem to be in a stable financial position and continue to bank lindens against any bad times that may arise
15:05 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Back to you Wordsmith
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks, Andrea
15:05 Strandwind Thank you Andrea (and you look very cute today).
15:05 Ember (emberell) Thank you, Andrea ❤
15:05 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) welkies
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'm not sure why the schedule in this room hasn't updated, since I put in an update late last night. Something else to check on.
15:06 Larky (larkylouz) I was quite pleased to see two whole weeks with no class cancellations!
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen I paid tier for Oxbridge on the 3rd and still had enough in the account to pay another quarter (but didn't).
15:07 Ember (emberell) The schedule on campus was reflecting the same thing
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen Next tier will be due to Desmond on 5 April.
15:08 Liska da'Lantros (liskadalantros) Which schedule? There are three boards, I think,
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen All instructor stipends are paid to date.
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen The statistics on the website are up to date
15:09 Ember (emberell) Wonderful. Thank you, Word!
15:09 Larky (larkylouz) For someone with only one eye, you've been busy!
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen The Oxbridge graphs on the back wall are current to today.
15:09 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thank you for the hard work Word
15:09 Strandwind Thank you Wordsmith!
15:10 Wordsmith Jarvinen And as Andrea mentioned (and created), we are in good financial shape.
15:10 Katie (katie.canningham) huzzah!
15:10 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) I had help
15:11 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Many thanks to those that donate to us
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen The sudden dip in the visitor timeline in December, is a data collection outage.
15:11 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Liska da'Lantros (liskadalantros) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:11 Strandwind sighs and mumbles good to know.
15:11 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thank you Liska
15:12 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:12 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thank you Kyoko for the donation
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen On 18 December, everything worked on the website. On 19 December most things did not. (the Oxbridge Guardian is still out).
15:12 Ember (emberell) Thank you, Liska, Kyoko. Every donation makes a difference ❤
15:12 Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) yvw
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen Larky caught part of this. The upshot was that any file that used http: to reference a script had to be updated to https:
15:13 Strandwind OMG, that sounds like a lot of work.
15:14 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Wordsmith wears several hats
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen I had to make an inworld change to get the monitor script working again and every prior transcript file had to be updated and re-uploaded.
15:14 Larky (larkylouz) <groans in sympathy>
15:15 Strandwind Thank you for your work Wordsmith!
15:15 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I can relate....
15:15 Katie (katie.canningham) is seriously impressed
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen Oh, forgot I was still wearing a mask after an earlier masked ball on a French sim today.
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen Oh, and as I mentioned to Lovejoy, this and other Oxbridge parcels are back to the normal classical music stream
15:17 Liska da'Lantros (liskadalantros) I was wondering if you had forgotten about that
15:17 Katie (katie.canningham) sighs
15:18 Ember (emberell) We've had a few folk glad of that
15:18 Phrynne doesn't the holiday season end Jan. 6? Twelfth Night?
15:18 Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) yes
15:18 Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) which is then the orthodox xmas
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen I think I changed the stream on the 7th
15:18 Liska da'Lantros (liskadalantros) Orthodox Christmas
15:18 Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) yep
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thinks about the unorthodox Christmas.
15:19 Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) rolls her eyes
15:19 Katie (katie.canningham) giggles
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen Pretty much it from me, so open to general announcements and questions.
15:20 Liska da'Lantros (liskadalantros) I liked that Christmas stream, though, I look forward to it next year
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen It's a WKSU Holiday stream, KSU standing for Kansas State University.
15:20 Katie (katie.canningham) Yay K-State!
15:21 Liska da'Lantros (liskadalantros) This stream is Italian, I guess
15:21 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) my parcels may still have a christmas music stream, running
15:21 Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) thought it was kentuckey ;)
15:21 Katie (katie.canningham) >.>
15:21 lovejoy2199 Wrong people.
15:22 lovejoy2199 Kent State U.
15:22 Katie (katie.canningham) hehe
15:23 Larky (larkylouz) In addition to the staffing needs Word and Ember mentioned, I'm looking for someone willing to take on all or part of the Social Media announcements I do. Facebook and Twitter. Complete instructions available.
15:23 Larky (larkylouz) Announcements of classes and social events
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks for the correction, Lovejoy :)
15:24 lovejoy2199 https://www.ideastream.org/
15:24 lovejoy2199 I do listen to it even when I am not here.
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen They have classical and folk-alley
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other topics?
15:26 Wordsmith Jarvinen Questions, concerns, comas, ....
15:26 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Grunts
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen Elfbiters writing workshop thursdays at 11am SLT
15:27 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) with writing prompts given afterwards
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen Not your grandmother's writing prompts, either.
15:28 lovejoy2199 One of these days, I must attend Elf's class.
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen He announces it
15:28 lovejoy2199 Just that RL has other things for me at that time.
15:29 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) I put notices to several groups
15:29 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) And I don't demand that people write specifically for the meeting
15:29 Larky (larkylouz) Just where are your priorities, Lovejoy? RL before SL????
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen A had a RL folk-dance friend who long ago said "Work is the curse of the dancing class".
15:29 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) COVID ruined my NaNoWriMo...
15:29 lovejoy2199 LMAO !!!
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else (desires, within reason)
15:31 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Badger!
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen welcome, BadgerorZen
15:31 badgerofzen hullo
15:31 badgerofzen hullo
15:31 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Fluffy!
15:31 Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) Hi Badger ;)
15:31 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi badger frozen
15:31 fluffyFoxy364 Heya
15:31 badgerofzen hullo
15:31 badgerofzen hullo
15:31 Katie (katie.canningham) Badger Of Zen!
15:31 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) :-)
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen Last call for other topics
15:32 Katie (katie.canningham) raises a hand tentatively
15:32 badgerofzen hullo katie
15:32 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hiya katie
15:32 Katie (katie.canningham) hi!
15:32 Liska da'Lantros (liskadalantros) Not to be confused with the Badger of Oz
15:32 Katie (katie.canningham) hehe
15:32 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hearing none......
15:32 Katie (katie.canningham) me/
15:32 Katie (katie.canningham) ?
15:32 Ember (emberell) Katie, did you have a question?
15:33 Katie (katie.canningham) well moreo f an announcement if that's okay
15:33 Katie (katie.canningham) ?
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen That's okay. Proceed
15:33 Larky (larkylouz) yes, 'tis
15:34 Katie (katie.canningham) Next week is the monthly Aether Salon, and I'm presenting about Victorian Lady Detectives
15:34 Katie (katie.canningham) and hoping it will be okay
15:34 Larky (larkylouz) nifty. please send me a notecard, and I'll put it up on FB and Twitter
15:34 Katie (katie.canningham) blushes
15:34 Katie (katie.canningham) ok
15:35 Katie (katie.canningham) is Monday good?
15:35 Katie (katie.canningham) for me to send you the notecard, I mean
15:35 Larky (larkylouz) any time. I usually post items early in the morning, SLT, for that day.
15:35 Katie (katie.canningham) ok! many thanks!
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen Anything else?
15:36 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hearing nada....
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen We are adjourned.
15:37 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thank you for coming
15:37 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) be well
15:37 Kyoko Barzane (samara.barzane) ♪♥♪·.¸♪♥♪·.¸APPLAUSE!!¸.·♪♥♪¸.·♪
15:37 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks you all for coming and participating
15:37 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) badgerofzen gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
15:37 Katie (katie.canningham) ~*~ HUZZAH!!! ~*~
15:37 Strandwind Thank you for having us and telling us.
15:37 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Attempted bedtime
15:37 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hold the fort
15:37 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Thank you for the donation badger
15:37 lovejoy2199 Goodnight Elf.
15:37 badgerofzen :)
15:38 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Be seeing you
15:38 Larky (larkylouz) good night Elf. Good night all
15:38 Strandwind Be well everyone! Bye!
15:40 Katie (katie.canningham) g'night all!
15:40 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) night all
15:40 Katie (katie.canningham) *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*Hugs!!!!*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*