Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A for 2023-02-12

14:41 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) ok
14:42 lovejoy2199 Greetings Dean. And, Chancellor
14:43 lovejoy2199 Hello Dean Ember
14:43 Ember (emberell) Hello, Lovejoy, Larky, Word, Andrea ❤
14:44 lovejoy2199 Hello BA
14:46 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi, Ember, Andrea, Lovejoy, and Larky
14:46 Ember (emberell) ARe you well today, Word?
14:46 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Phrynne!
14:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen I think so, Ember.
14:47 Phrynne Rats, the bench won't let me perch on the back
14:47 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Phrynne
14:47 Phrynne hello Word
14:48 Ember (emberell) Welcome back, Andrea
14:48 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi
14:49 Phrynne hi Andrea
14:49 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi
14:50 lovejoy2199 Hello Phrynne
14:50 Phrynne hi Lovejoy
14:51 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Mr EB
14:51 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Elfbiter
14:52 Ember (emberell) Hello, Elfbiter!
14:52 lovejoy2199 Greetings Herr Skysmith
14:52 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) hi Badger
14:52 badgerofzen hullo Andrea
14:52 Ember (Emberell) Welcome, Badger! ❤
14:52 badgerofzen hullo Ember
14:53 badgerofzen hullo all
14:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, BadgerofZen
14:53 badgerofzen hullo Word
14:53 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome Illing
14:54 illing Edman hi Wordsmith
14:54 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Highly
14:54 highlyadjective Hello Wordsmith, Elf, everyone
14:54 badgerofzen hullo
14:55 highlyadjective How do Badger :)
14:55 Ember (emberell) hello, Illing, welcome
14:55 badgerofzen doing well thank you
14:56 Ember (emberell) And welcome, Adjective
14:56 Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) badgerofzen gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway.
14:56 highlyadjective Thank you Ember :)
14:56 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Badger :)
14:56 badgerofzen :)
14:57 Ember (emberell) Thank you for your donation, Badger. Every bit is appreciated ❤
14:57 highlyadjective Hello Phrynne and Andrea and Lovejoy
14:57 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Stranger
14:57 Stranger (crazyhorse9696) Hello, everyone!
14:58 badgerofzen hullo
14:58 highlyadjective Hello CrazyHorse :)
14:58 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andrea, I emailed you the current financials this morning
14:58 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) thank you
14:59 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Edmund, Frigid
15:00 Frigid Cryotank Ember, good afternoon.
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 this week Ember (Dean of Commons)?
15:01 Ember (emberell) Hi, Word! This week has been fairly busy for me RL, but I've been managing a few new prospective tutors and helping them get involved.
15:02 Ember (emberell) As always, Oxbridge is looking for more help staff- whether you be interested in being a tutor, helper, teacher, or otherwise want to help out at Oxbridge. Please feel free to reach out to us and we'll be happy to see how we can get you involved
15:02 Ember (emberell) That's all from me this week, Word
15:03 Wordsmith Jarvinen I was in last night about midnight (doing a schedule update) and there were four or five avatars going through the tutorial. We could use some late night tutor coverage.
15:03 Ember (emberell) nods
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen And Thanks.
15:04 Wordsmith Jarvinen Andreaa (Dean of Development)?
15:04 Ember (emberell) I'll ask if any of the folk I've been talking with feel up for being around later
15:04 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) It's the COU in SPAAACCCEEEE Sunday the 12th at 4!. Come join DJ Sasha and Myself as we dance and party at the Outer Space platform way over the Oxbridge Village. Theme is space, so dress to your own ideas. Plenty of space there as the force field and air curtain extends way out into the planets. Location Caledon Oxbridge Village (241,217,735)
15:04 Ember (emberell) (That's today!)
15:05 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yep, immediately following this Q&A
15:05 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) our financials look good. But I always worry about what comes in .RFL is getting started so donations typically drop off as man people move there giving.
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) Understandable so we continue to do the fund raisers
15:06 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) back to you Wordsmith
15:06 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thank you, Andrea
15:07 illing Edman if I can help okay...I'll ask you later Ember
15:07 Wordsmith Jarvinen We are in very good financial shape, and Andrea and her helpers work to keep us that way.
15:07 Ember (emberell) We welcome folk wanting to help ❤ Do feel free to reach out
15:08 illing Edman I will do that
15:08 Wordsmith Jarvinen I've updated our weekly and monthly visitor statistics on the website: https://www.caledonoxbridge.org/statistics/index.php
15:08 highlyadjective Hello Katie :)
15:08 Ember (emberell) Welcome, Katie
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen The visitor timeline graph and the Education Reserve map are also updated
15:09 Katie (katie.canningham) Hi Ember thankee!
15:09 highlyadjective Hello Jorge :)
15:09 Ember (emberell) Jorge, welcome ❤
15:09 Wordsmith Jarvinen I've yet to do the class statistics graphs, although I've processed the data and paid instructor stipends to date.
15:10 Stranger (crazyhorse9696) i can't help with the tutorials due the unfair ban on my avatar in the tutorial area, lol. i used to bring new residents here and guide them thought the tutorial as i think that coming here first it's more useful than being let confused in the New Resident Help Area.
15:10 Jorge Serapis *waves to everyone as he slips in*
15:10 Stranger (crazyhorse9696) Hi, Jorge
15:10 Ember (emberell) Stranger, if you'd like to talk about your ban, you're welcome to IM me about it.
15:11 Stranger (crazyhorse9696) nods
15:11 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanks, Ember
15:11 Katie (katie.canningham) waves back at Jorge
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen As Dean of Commons, Ember is the main person for access to Oxbridge
15:12 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hi, Katie, welcome
15:12 Katie (katie.canningham) Hi Wordsmith! thankee!
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen Linden Lab did a post https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/12666-second-life-university-pbr-materials/on a new way of texturing recently, called Physics Based Render (PBR). That's at
15:13 Wordsmith Jarvinen https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/12666-second-life-university-pbr-materials/
15:14 Katie (katie.canningham) ooo, shiny!
15:14 Wordsmith Jarvinen That's it from me. Open for general questions, announcements, and comments
15:15 Wordsmith Jarvinen Literally and as a "Firefly" comment, Katie. ;)
15:15 Katie (katie.canningham) :_
15:15 Katie (katie.canningham) :)
15:15 Katie (katie.canningham) sorry wrong key
15:16 Katie (katie.canningham) wants an orangy hat like Jayne's
15:16 Wordsmith Jarvinen Oh, Teddy gave me a new syllabus for the upcoming term. I'll be putting that into the website description for the class.
15:17 Wordsmith Jarvinen That's for Photo Salon
15:18 Wordsmith Jarvinen Elfbiter has his writer's workshop Thursdays at 11 am SLT
15:19 Wordsmith Jarvinen We have Tango as a new sponsor added to the ad panels in front of the lecture hall and on the sponsors page of the website. https://www.caledonoxbridge.org/sponsors.php
15:20 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Finnish or Argentinean tango? :-)
15:20 Katie (katie.canningham) ♩♪♫♬ APPAWS! ♩♪♫♬
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen Tends to be live DJs and many dances or their dance machine
15:20 Wordsmith Jarvinen Likely (grins)
15:20 Katie (katie.canningham) both types of tango
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen They have dances like "Tango almost" and "Tango Wannabe"
15:21 Katie (katie.canningham) any tango'd hair?
15:21 Wordsmith Jarvinen Perhaps ;)
15:22 Katie (katie.canningham) reaches for a comb
15:22 Edmund Broek Someone has to say it: "O, what a tango'd web we weave."
15:22 Katie (katie.canningham) giggles
15:22 Wordsmith Jarvinen Yep
15:22 lovejoy2199 Sandie !!!
15:23 lovejoy2199 Sounds like one of her's
15:23 Wordsmith Jarvinen Welcome, Badass Fae
15:23 Larky (larkylouz) LOL. thank you, Word
15:23 Larky (larkylouz) Hello all
15:23 Stranger (crazyhorse9696) Hi, Larky!
15:23 Katie (katie.canningham) waves at Larky
15:23 Larky (larkylouz) Hi Stranger, Hi Katie
15:25 Wordsmith Jarvinen A good while back, when Larky first started using that display name, I gave her a link to an article and said, "go ahead". https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2015/2/18/hans-solo-and-bayesian-priors
15:26 Larky (larkylouz) Much to Josain's dismay, most likely. <g>
15:26 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Josain is still active in SL
15:26 Ember (emberell) Yes, I see him now and again
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other topics?
15:27 Larky (larkylouz) He's on FB, too
15:27 Katie (katie.canningham) raises a paw
15:27 Wordsmith Jarvinen Katie?
15:28 Katie (katie.canningham) Do you know when the next "season" of photo salon classes will start? When will Teddy restart her cycle of classes?
15:28 Wordsmith Jarvinen She just gave me a new syllabus
15:28 Katie (katie.canningham) so very soon then?
15:29 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) ...who knows what classes are coming in Oxbridge.... syllabus knows...... hahahahahahaha....
15:29 Frigid Cryotank <groan>
15:29 Katie (katie.canningham) yes darling
15:29 Katie (katie.canningham) hehe
15:29 Wordsmith Jarvinen Starting on the 15th
15:30 Wordsmith Jarvinen Gave you a copy of the silly-bus
15:30 Katie (katie.canningham) Aha, the new term starts March 1st!
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other topics?
15:31 Larky (larkylouz) May I have a copy of the syllabus, too?
15:31 Larky (larkylouz) Is anyone doing the Aetherchrononauts calendar? I realized today that I never picked it back up
15:31 Wordsmith Jarvinen I'll be summarizing it for the webpage description also
15:32 Phrynne Yes, as far as I know
15:32 Phrynne I'm still getting notices from it
15:32 Larky (larkylouz) Beth G might be doing it. I'll check later. Thanks
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen Other topics?
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen Hearing none,
15:33 Wordsmith Jarvinen we are ....
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen adjourned.
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen Thanik you all for coming and participating
15:34 Katie (katie.canningham) thankee Wordsmith and Ember and Andrea!
15:34 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) thank you for coming
15:34 Wordsmith Jarvinen Fundraiser in space at 4p
15:34 Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) nods hopes to see you there
15:34 Katie (katie.canningham) See you tomorrow Lovejoy! or later today at the dance!
15:34 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Attempted bedtime for me
15:35 highlyadjective Take care all
15:35 Katie (katie.canningham) nini Elf! pheasant dreams!
15:35 Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) Hold the fort
15:35 Frigid Cryotank Elf, pleasant dreams.
15:35 Stranger (crazyhorse9696) Good night, Elf