Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A for 2023-02-26
| 14:32 | Ember (emberell) | Hello, Word, welcome! |
| 14:33 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hi, Ember :) |
| 14:33 | Ember (emberell) | Are you well? |
| 14:34 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I am, thanks |
| 14:36 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Ahh a chair sitting avian this week :) |
| 14:36 | Ember (emberell) | It happens occasionally :-) |
| 14:36 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome, Larky |
| 14:37 | Larky (larkylouz) | Hi Ember. Thanks. Hi Word, |
| 14:37 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Larky |
| 14:38 | Larky (larkylouz) | ty |
| 14:39 | Ember (emberell) | Are you well today, friend? |
| 14:40 | Larky (larkylouz) | Yes, doing well. Thank you. A bit on the chilly side is all |
| 14:45 | Wordsmith Jarvinen Starts thinking of hot chilli.... | |
| 14:45 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Which is good on a chilly day |
| 14:48 | Ember (emberell) | Edmund, welcome! |
| 14:49 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Edmund |
| 14:51 | Edmund Broek | Greetings! |
| 14:53 | Ember (emberell) | Andrea, welcome |
| 14:53 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hi, Andrea |
| 14:53 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hello |
| 14:54 | Ember (emberell) | Sasha, welcome |
| 14:54 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Greetings and Salutations!! |
| 14:54 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | :) |
| 14:54 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And Welcome Sasha (grins) |
| 14:55 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome, Gronk |
| 14:55 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Gronk |
| 14:56 | Gronk Seriman | Hello Ember, Wordsmith, everybody! |
| 14:56 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Hi Gronk! |
| 14:56 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Hi Wordsmith! |
| 14:56 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Howdy Larky and Edmund! |
| 14:56 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) hugs Ember and Andrea | |
| 14:57 | Ember (emberell) | Good to see you Sasha ❤ |
| 14:57 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | you too |
| 14:57 | Gronk Seriman | Why are the side lights always off in here? |
| 14:57 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | To make the spotlights hotter |
| 14:58 | Gronk Seriman | Ah. |
| 14:58 | Control Panel | Wordsmith Jarvinen turns on the lamps. |
| 14:58 | Gronk Seriman | Ta-dah! |
| 14:58 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Let there be side lights |
| 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 |
| 15:00 | Gronk Seriman | ...and not a moment before. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome Wendy |
| 15:01 | Wendyslippers Charisma | *waves* |
| 15:01 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome, Wendy, Spike |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome Spike |
| 15:01 | Spike Rose (spike.bloodrose) | howdy! |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I was just about to look at you, for that response, Gronk :) |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Elf |
| 15:01 | Gronk Seriman grins | |
| 15:02 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Hi Elf, Spike and Wendy |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Ember, what do you have for use this week? |
| 15:03 | Ember (emberell) | Besides having updated the campus for Spring, I've been taking some time to catch up on a few of the updated landmark's I've been sent - which I am pushing in to the Faculty kit. |
| 15:03 | Ember (emberell) | Those include things like the new venue for the Free Dove, and a few other changed landmarks and added stores of interest. |
| 15:04 | Ember (emberell) | Besides that, RL's kept me busy to do much - but as always, Oxbridge is looking for more help staff. Whether you want to be a tutor, or feel you can contribute some other way - if your'e interested please feel free to reach out to me, Word, or any of the other staff here and we'll see if we can't get you involved |
| 15:04 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Good. I need to update a couple of the "What to do" cards on the bulletin board |
| 15:04 | Ember (emberell) nods | |
| 15:04 | Ember (emberell) | If you want any help with that just let me know |
| 15:04 | Ember (emberell) | That's all from me this week, though. |
| 15:05 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And yes, it is no-longer winter in Caledon AND Caledon is now 17 years old. |
| 15:06 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea, what do you have for us? |
| 15:06 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | It's electro swing time at the Club this Sunday the 26th at 4. The theme is outlaws and gangsters etc. This is a COU fundraiser and all donations go to the Caledon Oxbridge University. Caledon Oxbridge Village (154,212,1817) |
| 15:06 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | our dance for today |
| 15:06 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | and it is a fundraiser event. |
| 15:06 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | DJ Sasha DJing |
| 15:06 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) waves | |
| 15:07 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | 20's theme clothing would work |
| 15:07 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | formal, or just come as you are |
| 15:07 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | All for me. back to you Wordsmith |
| 15:07 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Sasha well exemplifies that theme |
| 15:07 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Thank you |
| 15:08 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | It is a cross sim dance, also broadcasting in opensim |
| 15:08 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Oxbridge remains in excellent financial shape due to Andrea and her helpers efforts |
| 15:10 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We'll ride out some level of diversion of contributions to RFL without problems, something that wasn't always true. That's under a theory of limited elasticity in the contributions that supporters of both can make. |
| 15:11 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I updated the visitor timeline two-weeks ago, along with the statistics on our website. |
| 15:12 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Today, I updated the two graphs at the top (wall behind me), which are the timeline and age-histogram for Oxbridge classes. |
| 15:13 | Ember (emberell) | Welcome, Lovejoy |
| 15:13 | lovejoy2199 | Greetings everyone |
| 15:14 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The older age group may be augmented by returnees, but our new avatars remain low. |
| 15:14 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I also got updated spreadsheets to Andrea this morning and all instructor stipends are paid to date. |
| 15:15 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | That's about it from me, open for general announcements, questions, comments, ... |
| 15:16 | Larky (larkylouz) | Do you think Professors would consider polling their classes for a month to learn where they're hearing about them and therefore see what advertising is working? Just a thought |
| 15:16 | Ember (emberell) | I often ask my students what brings them here, when they arrive before class. |
| 15:17 | Gronk Seriman | "A computer, DUH!!" |
| 15:17 | Ember (emberell) | A fair few are coming in through the events posted to the website |
| 15:17 | Ember (emberell) | Others come in from the notices or word of mouth |
| 15:17 | Ember (emberell) | In a few cases they just walk in and ask what's going on |
| 15:17 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The website being our website or SL events, Ember? |
| 15:18 | Ember (emberell) | The SL Upcoming events |
| 15:18 | Ember (emberell) | Followed by our website |
| 15:18 | Ember (emberell) | More people come from the schedules posted on campus than the website proper from those I ask, but my class is only one |
| 15:18 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And Larky is doing the SL events postings, so that is helping. |
| 15:18 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | And older ones bring new ones |
| 15:19 | Ember (emberell) | Very much so. WE appreciate you putting those up a lot, Larky. |
| 15:19 | Larky (larkylouz) | You're welcome. I will repeat that doing the SL Event Cal, Aetherchrononauts, FB, Twitter feels like a lot some days. I'm wondering if FB & Twitter are making a difference/ |
| 15:20 | Ember (emberell) | I DID have one person who came from one of those, twitter or FB |
| 15:20 | Ember (emberell) | but it's only been one person |
| 15:20 | Larky (larkylouz) | Good to know, Ember. |
| 15:20 | Ember (emberell) | (who has said so, at least) |
| 15:21 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And Twitter is going through a lot of changes. |
| 15:22 | Larky (larkylouz) | LOL - this is true. <wry grin> |
| 15:22 | Larky (larkylouz) | I do have a regular trickle of people friending the COU acct on FB. Some that I didn't invite, some that I did. |
| 15:22 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Andrea did you talk to Wordsmith about my Google Calendar? |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Part of which have ended my years of collecting tweets from conferences I've attended based on the hashtag. |
| 15:23 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | not yet. it is on my list |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | She hasn't, Sasha |
| 15:24 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | do you have the address handy? |
| 15:24 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Ok I will send you that soon |
| 15:24 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | yea it's huge, do you want it here? |
| 15:24 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | please im it to me |
| 15:24 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Just give me a notecard with it |
| 15:24 | Larky (larkylouz) | me, too, please |
| 15:24 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Ok great thanks I will hand out a notecard then |
| 15:24 | Larky (larkylouz) | I'd like to track how things are posted on the different calendars. |
| 15:24 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | tyvm |
| 15:25 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I'm thinking possibly some kind of tie in with our stuff Wordsmith |
| 15:25 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I may do what VWEC is doing on their website, have a page of links to calendars |
| 15:26 | Ember (emberell) | A calendar of Calendars? :-) |
| 15:26 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | A list of calendars |
| 15:26 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | annotated |
| 15:26 | Larky (larkylouz) | Maybe it is a colander of calendars, Ember. |
| 15:27 | Spike Rose (spike.bloodrose) | a Caledon of calendars! |
| 15:27 | Ember (emberell) | I'm thinking the calender jokes are possibly a little dated :-) |
| 15:27 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | As long as they don't slip through, Larky. |
| 15:28 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | As they say on chemistry t-shirts, if you're not part of the solution, your part of the precipitate. |
| 15:28 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | ha ha |
| 15:28 | Gronk Seriman | A cornucopia of calendars. |
| 15:29 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Calendodars? |
| 15:29 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Calendardorians? |
| 15:29 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | VWEC has done such here: https://www.vweconsortium.org/communities/ |
| 15:30 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Caledonaers? English style? |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Other topics (Elf is still doing a writers' workshop every Thursday at 11am) |
| 15:31 | Felícia Ferraz (jucastt) | is a very good writing workshop |
| 15:31 | Felícia Ferraz (jucastt) | he have some loyal participants |
| 15:31 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Caledon-Ears? (an ear to what's happening) |
| 15:31 | Larky (larkylouz) | bunneh ears! |
| 15:32 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Other topics? |
| 15:32 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | :) |
| 15:33 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Bashful Peacock is on right now, Oxbridge fundraiser at 4p, Nyree's founders ball at 6:30p |
| 15:34 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | and the cat girl ball after that i believe |
| 15:34 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Weird writing propts still provided, People even sometimes write something based on them. |
| 15:35 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Not your everyday writing prompts |
| 15:35 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | No orcas in white tutus with inspiring quotes embroidered with cuneiform. |
| 15:36 | Ember (emberell) looks around for her tutu | |
| 15:36 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And while I think about writing, a page on Ledes and Nut Grafs: https://mediaadvisersnotebook.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/the-lede-and-the-nut-graf-an-introduction/ |
| 15:36 | Felícia Ferraz (jucastt) | trés pittoque |
| 15:36 | Felícia Ferraz (jucastt) | pittoresque* |
| 15:36 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And with that |
| 15:37 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | we are .... |
| 15:37 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | adjourned |
| 15:37 | Gronk Seriman | Thank you, Deans! |
| 15:37 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you all for coming and participating. |
| 15:37 | Felícia Ferraz (jucastt) | lovely |
| 15:37 | Felícia Ferraz (jucastt) | thank you |
| 15:37 | Ember (emberell) | If there are any last minute questions, troubles, anything, I'll linger a little bit. Thank you all for being here. |
| 15:37 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Thank you |
| 15:37 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | (gets out my net to capture the transcript) |
| 15:37 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | good to see you all |
| 15:37 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | ty for coming |
| 15:37 | Felícia Ferraz (jucastt) | good night |
| 15:38 | Felícia Ferraz (jucastt) | bisous |
| 15:38 | Spike Rose (spike.bloodrose) | big attendance this week :o |
| 15:38 | Larky (larkylouz) | Thank you, Deans, Folks, etc. Take caare |
| 15:38 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | see you all at the dance! |
| 15:38 | Ember (emberell) | the deans' Q&A usually gets a bit more of a crowd, since we talk about what we've been up to |
| 15:38 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Come dance with us!!! |
| 15:38 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | good sleep mr eb |