Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A for 2024-07-14
| 14:26 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Larky |
| 14:33 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | welcome lovejoy |
| 14:33 | lovejoy2199 | Greetings everyone |
| 14:34 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Chancellor |
| 14:35 | lovejoy2199 | And, we have a "BA" sighting. |
| 14:35 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We do |
| 14:38 | lovejoy2199 | Wagner *smile* [ed note: classical music stream] |
| 14:42 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Dean Jones |
| 14:43 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi |
| 14:43 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Howdy Andrea, I emailed you the current financial workbook a bit ago. |
| 14:43 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | ok ty |
| 14:43 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Elfbiter |
| 14:44 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | :-) |
| 14:44 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 14:48 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Howdy, Ember |
| 14:48 | Ember (emberell) | Howdy Word |
| 14:49 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Dean Ember |
| 14:49 | Ember (emberell) | Howdy, Lovejoy! |
| 14:50 | Ember (emberell) | And hey, Larky 💛 |
| 14:52 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Gronk |
| 14:52 | Gronk Seriman | Greetings, Chancellor Jarvinen |
| 14:53 | lovejoy2199 | Hello Gronk |
| 14:53 | Ember (emberell) | Hello, Gronk , welcome! |
| 14:53 | Gronk Seriman | Hello Lovejoy, Ember |
| 14:54 | Ember (emberell) | Gold back in order? |
| 14:54 | lovejoy2199 | I do love waltzes. Makes me dance. |
| 14:54 | Gronk Seriman | I was hoping most people can see it now, since Firestorm joined the PBR party. |
| 14:55 | Ember (emberell) | All's looking good on this end |
| 14:55 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Yep. Impressive |
| 14:56 | Gronk Seriman | Thank you! |
| 14:57 | Gronk Seriman | When I'm like this, I think I should be leading an orchestra. I'm a good conductor. |
| 14:59 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Or an instrument |
| 15:00 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome Sasha |
| 15:00 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Agatha |
| 15:01 | Agatha Macbeth | Bonsoir |
| 15:01 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Hello Mr Wordsmith!! And Hello everyone! |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome, Katie |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome to this week's Caledon Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. This is an open meeting; |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | all are welcome apart from those who intend to misbehave in a disruptive manner. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Non-disruptive misbehavior is at your discretion. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Transcripts will be posted after the meeting. |
| 15:01 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | at http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/qna/qna_index.php |
| 15:01 | Katie (katie.canningham) | Hi Wordsmith, many thanks! |
| 15:01 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi all |
| 15:01 | Katie (katie.canningham) | Hi Andrea and Ember and Sasha and Elf and everybody! |
| 15:02 | Ember (emberell) | welcome, Katie, Agatha, Sasha! |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Ember, what have you for us today? |
| 15:02 | Ember (emberell) | I had a nice long talk with the Guv about the future of the Caledon Quest. We're still planning to get that back up and functional, as it's been a great entry point into the Caledon Community over the years |
| 15:02 | lovejoy2199 | Listening to the music, I forgot the Bells...Bells...Bells |
| 15:03 | Ember (emberell) | Besides my work with that, I've been keeping up work on notecards for the faculty kit - which is available for all in the staff break room on campus. |
| 15:03 | Ember (emberell) | As usual, Oxbridge is always looking for new folk to help out - whether as tutors, teachers, or otherwise. If you feel able to get involved, reach out to me, or anyone else here, and we can figure out how to get you involved! |
| 15:03 | Ember (emberell) | That's all from me this week. |
| 15:04 | Katie (katie.canningham) | the jingling and the tinkling of the bells |
| 15:04 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | ty, Ember |
| 15:04 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea? |
| 15:05 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Greetings all. Thank you for coming. We have our Bi-weekly Fundraiser hosted by DJ Sasha today at 4. |
| 15:05 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | DJ Sasha’s Place we are having Country night! Some hits from today but classics 90’s and backwards! So bring your cowboy boots & hats & Country Spirits!! This is a fundraiser event to support Caledon Oxbridge University staff/faculty & events!! Not mandatory but helps the great community. Caledon II (21,80,23) |
| 15:05 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I believe that is the correct advert for this week |
| 15:05 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I do ask that if you can. drop by and say hi. |
| 15:06 | Ember (emberell) | All are always welcome! |
| 15:06 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I'll be posting a notice right after todays show for the one in 2 weeks. |
| 15:06 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | to avoid confusion |
| 15:07 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Other wise. Please enjoy your week and please rememberer that it is your lindens that keeps the lights on for us. |
| 15:08 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | back to you Wordsmith |
| 15:08 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | ty, Andrea |
| 15:09 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | With all instructor stipends paid to date, our account balance has gone down about 5k $L since 06/23, but we are still in very good financial shape. |
| 15:10 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | lovejoy2199 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:10 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I emailed the financial workbook with fundraiser breakouts to Andrea early this afternoon. |
| 15:11 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | Katie (katie.canningham) gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:11 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The visitor statistics files on our website are up to date: https://www.caledonoxbridge.org/statistics/index.php |
| 15:12 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And the Oxbridge graphs on the wall behind me are current. From what I see, visitors to Oxbridge are pretty much holding steady, no big recent changes. |
| 15:13 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I shared the visitor timeline graph with NeoGuv, so he's in the info loop. |
| 15:14 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | There's still a week to go by the Oxbridge SL21B exhibit at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLB%20Blissful/200/29/21 |
| 15:15 | lovejoy2199 | And, a very good exhibit. |
| 15:15 | Katie (katie.canningham) | Yes, very well done! |
| 15:15 | Katie (katie.canningham) | no wonder the Bay City people want to park there |
| 15:15 | lovejoy2199 | Don't forget the tea. |
| 15:15 | Katie (katie.canningham) | yes! |
| 15:15 | Katie (katie.canningham) | upstairs |
| 15:15 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | That's pretty much it from me report wise, so open to comments, questions, and admiring Miss Gronk's PBR self. |
| 15:16 | Gronk Seriman blushes | |
| 15:16 | Agatha Macbeth | Shineh |
| 15:16 | Katie (katie.canningham) | pretty |
| 15:16 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Yes, as they would say in Firefly, "Shiny" |
| 15:17 | Katie (katie.canningham) | hehe |
| 15:17 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Questions, comments, other topics, .... |
| 15:18 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | BTW, it's worth watching the first 18 minutes of this for some PBR motivations: https://www.blenderguru.com/tutorials/pbr-shader-tutorial-pt1 |
| 15:19 | Agatha Macbeth | Ooh |
| 15:20 | Katie (katie.canningham) | sliding down the slippery slope into the uncanny valley |
| 15:20 | lovejoy2199 | ohh...that is cute, Katie |
| 15:20 | Katie (katie.canningham) | thankee! |
| 15:21 | Gronk Seriman | To be honest, my appearance was created long before PBR came along in SL. But it relied on people having their Advanced Lighting Model turned on, which more than half the time wasn't. |
| 15:21 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Yep, materials and terrain almost looking like the physical world |
| 15:21 | Agatha Macbeth | Let's get physical |
| 15:22 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Indeed (grins) |
| 15:22 | Gronk Seriman | But since "shiny" is permanently on now, it works. |
| 15:22 | lovejoy2199 | What PBR has reminded me, is I need to upgrade my GPU and Monitor. |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I was also reading that LL is working on running LSL scripts under the LUA interpreter rather than Mono. |
| 15:23 | lovejoy2199 | btw: always match your GPU to the monitor. |
| 15:24 | Katie (katie.canningham) | YESH |
| 15:24 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Likely eventually leading to SL scripting directly in LUA, but that sounds further off. |
| 15:24 | Katie (katie.canningham) | how will that change scripting? |
| 15:24 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | LUA language is used more widely outside SL |
| 15:24 | Gronk Seriman | That sounds like a "break everything old!" change. |
| 15:25 | Katie (katie.canningham) | argh |
| 15:26 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/513731-lsl-on-lua-faq-added-to-the-wiki/ |
| 15:27 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Lua_FAQ |
| 15:27 | Katie (katie.canningham) | many thanks! |
| 15:27 | Ember (emberell) | Looks like the first comment is "Yes, youc an keep using everything old" :-) |
| 15:28 | Ember (emberell) | so hopefully that is not a concern |
| 15:28 | Katie (katie.canningham) | for now, anyway |
| 15:28 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Well, no, since they are keeping LSL and aiming for compatibility (and testing) but finding scripts are smaller and run faster in LUa byte code. |
| 15:28 | Gronk Seriman | Oh, good! |
| 15:29 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | That in the 2nd link I posted |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And it isn't clear what 3rd party viewers other than FS will do as to PBR, but technology does evolve and that requires support to keep up. |
| 15:33 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Oh, and something else I was reading recently on PBR: https://www.chaos.com/blog/what-is-pbr-physically-based-rendering-a-complete-guide |
| 15:34 | lovejoy2199 | Btw: speaking of PBR, has anyone ridden the Adult Pod at SL21B? Do so, and make sure you have shared environment turned on. |
| 15:34 | Agatha Macbeth wonders what happens in an adult pod | |
| 15:34 | Katie (katie.canningham) isn't sure she wants to know | |
| 15:35 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) snickers | |
| 15:35 | Ember (emberell) | The pods in the SL birthday regions are for transport, and don't have other animation capabilities from my understanding |
| 15:35 | lovejoy2199 | It is worth the trip. |
| 15:35 | Agatha Macbeth | Now I'm curious |
| 15:35 | Katie (katie.canningham) hands Sasha a Snickers bar | |
| 15:36 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Physical transport not transport to new states of consciousness |
| 15:36 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | aw darn! |
| 15:36 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The pods leave that up to the exhibits |
| 15:37 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Anything else? |
| 15:38 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hearing nothing..... |
| 15:38 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We are..... |
| 15:38 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | adjourned. |
| 15:38 | Gronk Seriman | Thank you, Deans! |
| 15:38 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you all for coming. |
| 15:38 | Katie (katie.canningham) | Thank you Andrea and Wordsmith and Ember! |
| 15:38 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | Thank you for the info! |
| 15:38 | Agatha Macbeth | Thanks for the enlightening links |
| 15:39 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | See you all soon |
| 15:39 | Sasha Prismara Featherlight (sashaveiloftears) | 20 minutes till we mosey to country! :D |