(07/07 14:02:05) Chat.log started...<br /><b>(07/07 14:03:26)  GoMeDoobes: Well, I suppose we can start and everyone can wander in as we go.<br />(07/07 14:03:52)  GoMeDoobes: Welcome to July's All Guilds Meeting.  I'm filling in for Leonardo this month, so don't be alarmed. :P</b><br />(07/07 14:04:03) Tai'lahr is calm.<br />(07/07 14:04:16) Adam {Hoikas} offers token rage<br /><b>(07/07 14:04:21)  GoMeDoobes: He will be back next month.  It may or may not be cancelled due to Mysterium, but we'll keep you posted.</b><br />(07/07 14:04:28)  angelmyst: me says if she were any calmer she would be asleep.<br /><b>(07/07 14:04:34)  GoMeDoobes: Now then...first group!<br />(07/07 14:05:09)  GoMeDoobes: Welcome Mac and rarified of OpenURU.org to the stage!</b><br />[Applause]<br /><b>(07/07 14:05:35)  rarified: shorah all!<br />(07/07 14:05:55)  rarified: My contribution this time is going to be a little short...<br />(07/07 14:06:18)  Mac: And I'm watching the Tennis on TV ;)<br />(07/07 14:06:34)  rarified: (My reminder-in-chief Tai would have me have written this all out for cut-n-paste but...<br />(07/07 14:06:47)  rarified: I never get around to it :)<br />(07/07 14:07:07)  rarified: This has been an interesting month for the Minkata shard<br />(07/07 14:07:28)  rarified: We *did* have another successful transfer of fixes to MOULa<br />(07/07 14:07:34) Mac sniffs the air and wonders where the smell of smoke is coming from<br />(07/07 14:07:58)  rarified: in early June.  It looks like we have a repeatable process now, even though it may be slow<br />(07/07 14:08:21)  rarified: And I'm happy to note that none of the fixes we've sent to MOULa have had to be backed out</b><br />(07/07 14:08:39)  Tai'lahr: All great news!<br /><b>(07/07 14:08:40)  rarified: Or "fixed".  A tribute to the testers on Minkata, as well as the developers from GoW<br />(07/07 14:09:15)  rarified: Then, as Mac aludes to, I'm not fresh from a campfire ...<br />(07/07 14:09:42)  rarified: Minkata had to be taken down late June as I was evacuated from home for a wildfire.</b><br />(07/07 14:09:49)  GoMeDoobes: :/<br />(07/07 14:09:55)  angelmyst: yes saw that..:(<br /><b>(07/07 14:09:57)  Mac: That was a worrying time</b><br />(07/07 14:10:01)  Tai'lahr: Very<br /><b>(07/07 14:10:02)  rarified: Which came within 4000 feet of my house :(</b><br />(07/07 14:10:06)  angelmyst: wow.<br />(07/07 14:10:07)  Tai'lahr: eeeps<br />(07/07 14:10:08) Trekluver agrees<br />(07/07 14:10:13)  GoMeDoobes: Yikes!<br />(07/07 14:10:26) Trekluver is glad rarified came out of it alive and well<br /><b>(07/07 14:10:34)  rarified: I want to thank all of you who sent messages of support; it really helped while I was</b><br />(07/07 14:10:35)  angelmyst: ditto<br /><b>(07/07 14:10:39)  rarified: Waiting things out.<br />(07/07 14:10:57)  rarified: The good news is that I now know my emergency plans for disassembling and<br />(07/07 14:11:08)  rarified: reconstituting Minata and the Foundry actually work!</b><br />(07/07 14:11:12)  Tai'lahr: lol<br />(07/07 14:11:19)  Tai'lahr: Yays<br />(07/07 14:11:37)  Tai'lahr: So glad you and your family and your home are okay, Rarified!<br /><b>(07/07 14:11:37)  rarified: What's up on the horizon, you might ask?  (Or maybe not :P)(<br />(07/07 14:12:08)  rarified: There is a list of new pending fixes that I'm feeling good about working on<br />(07/07 14:12:20)  rarified: To get into Minkata in the next couple of weeks.  With Christian's<br />(07/07 14:12:37)  rarified: help, we'll start with some user interface changes, but a big fix<br />(07/07 14:13:01)  rarified: To follow that will be some significant physics changes from Skoader to address<br />(07/07 14:13:19)  rarified: some of the unnatural movement behaviors.<br />(07/07 14:13:38)  rarified: We appear to be on a 2-3 month cycle for getting a batch of things ready for Cyan<br />(07/07 14:13:55)  rarified: And will REALLY need testers as we get these changes into Minkata<br />(07/07 14:14:12)  rarified: to do as much movement (and interaction) as possible.<br />(07/07 14:14:39)  Mac: A couple of changes actually got sneaked in with our 1.912 re-fresh, like the fix for the JPEG formats.<br />(07/07 14:14:40)  rarified: Warm up your jumping skills.  I think after the physics changes go in, it would be<br />(07/07 14:14:56)  rarified: A good time for another "stress test" party.</b><br />(07/07 14:15:04)  Tai'lahr: w00t!<br /><b>(07/07 14:15:23)  rarified: Keep an eye out on the OU forums for new fixes (subscribe to the PING! thread<br />(07/07 14:15:40)  rarified: If you havn't already) and let's keep our perfect record of submissions going.</b><br />(07/07 14:16:12)  GoMeDoobes: Sounds good to me.<br /><b>(07/07 14:16:12)  rarified: That's the news from Minkata.   Since we didn't write an agenda<br />(07/07 14:16:37)  rarified: down, the other thing I can think of is to reiterate our call for community<br />(07/07 14:16:38)  Mac: Lyrositor has also reminded me that the fix for the MOUL window grabbing pointer focus is also fixed<br />(07/07 14:17:02)  rarified: members to help with the organization and progress of projects in<br />(07/07 14:17:07)  rarified: OU<br />(07/07 14:17:14)  Mac: I've got one other little announcement...<br />(07/07 14:17:27)  rarified: There's more to projects than just pure programming/technical work<br />(07/07 14:18:13)  rarified: And a little help in community communication and evangalism would be welcom</b><br />(07/07 14:18:31)  Tai'lahr: amen<br />(07/07 14:18:38)  Lyrositor: I'm always there for 'ya! ;)<br /><b>(07/07 14:18:39)  rarified: we're trying to put together a list of things we can think of that we need help on<br />(07/07 14:18:50)  Mac: I've coaxed/cajoled/bullied Deledrius into joining us. His role will be to head up things with regard to the Content License, which will free up JW an myself since we're finding our time pushed these days.<br />(07/07 14:19:10)  rarified: but if you're seeing something that needs doing that's not getting done, volunteer!<br />(07/07 14:19:58)  rarified: that's it from my corner.  Mac?<br />(07/07 14:20:35)  Mac: We never got around to writing out the OU job descriptions, so as we see things come up we'll seek help. Deledrius fitted in for the Content License since he was prime motivator of the Commmunity License request.<br />(07/07 14:21:02)  Mac: So that's it from us, I think.<br />(07/07 14:21:12)  rarified: Questions, Doobes?<br />(07/07 14:21:14)  GoMeDoobes: Excellent.  Trekluver has something he would like to add...<br />(07/07 14:21:17)  Trekluver: I want to add to what Mac was saying about community, by reminding everyone that the New Greeters is partially an OpenUru project as well. In terms of community support, we currently offer a celendar service for all of OpenUru and the community at large. Please feel free to use it. <br />(07/07 14:21:26)  Mac: And Lyros is available for in-cavern awareness ;)</b><br />(07/07 14:21:39)  GoMeDoobes: Heh, that he is!<br />(07/07 14:21:46)  Trekluver: :)<br /><b>(07/07 14:21:52)  GoMeDoobes: I have no more questions in the queue.  Anyone have something they want to ask OU.org?<br />(07/07 14:22:02)  GoMeDoobes: Tai, you're up!<br />(07/07 14:22:07)  Tai'lahr: Thanks Doobes.<br />(07/07 14:22:27)  Tai'lahr: With regards to the OpenUru "Team Member Positions" there are still plans to write some up, right?</b><br />(07/07 14:22:34)  Adam {Hoikas}: should probably use the GoMe calendar >.><br /><b>(07/07 14:22:57)  rarified: That's the goal.  But it's only things we've been able to imagine<br />(07/07 14:23:03)  Mac: Yes, but it seems more like we'll do them one at a time, rather all at once as we'd originally intended.<br />(07/07 14:23:18)  Tai'lahr: So, if people have ideas on how they can contribute, they should just contact one of you?<br />(07/07 14:23:19)  Mac: That was just going to take too much effort</b><br />(07/07 14:23:32)  Trekluver: With reguards to that Adam, I hope that in the future folks will use both. Our is unique in the fact that it has a full print ou feature, if someone is inclined to use wuch things.<br /><b>(07/07 14:23:59)  Mac: Indeed. I suppose we initially hoped that folks would see thing that needed done and just nominate themselves.</b><br />(07/07 14:24:14) Lyrositor nominates himself<br /><b>(07/07 14:24:20)  Tai'lahr: Perhaps they're intimidated.  ; )<br />(07/07 14:24:24)  rarified: seconded<br />(07/07 14:24:24)  Tai'lahr: Well, not all of them.  lol<br />(07/07 14:24:46)  GoMeDoobes: Anyone have anything else to add/ask?<br />(07/07 14:24:53)  Mac: I think you're probably right Tai, plus some people would prefer to know what the "job" entails before volunteering.</b><br />(07/07 14:25:10)  angelmyst: I know that greeting newbies (at least some of them are) has been nearly a daily task.<br />(07/07 14:25:13)  Silent Spencer: Especially since some of us are late.<br /><b>(07/07 14:25:27)  Tai'lahr: So, that's a process that still needs ironing out, I guess.  Thanks Mac!<br />(07/07 14:25:55) GoMeDoobes nods<br />(07/07 14:26:04)  GoMeDoobes: Anything else?<br />(07/07 14:26:29)  GoMeDoobes: Well then!  Thank you, Mac and rarified!<br />(07/07 14:26:32)  Mac: Thanks for listening, folks. On with the show :)</b><br />[Applause]<br /><b>(07/07 14:26:54)  GoMeDoobes: Always good to hear from the OU folks.<br />(07/07 14:26:55)  GoMeDoobes: Now then!<br />(07/07 14:27:10)  GoMeDoobes: Our next presenter has been SO busy, we've given him his own part of the meeting. :P<br />(07/07 14:27:22)  GoMeDoobes: Please welcome Lyrositor to the stage for the "Lyrositor Glory Hour!"</b><br />[Applause]<br /><b>(07/07 14:27:43)  Lyrositor: Greetings, everyone.</b><br />(07/07 14:27:45)  GoMeDoobes: (OK, maybe not an HOUR, but you get the idea ;) )<br />(07/07 14:27:45)  janaba: :-)<br />(07/07 14:27:50)  Trekluver: GO LYROS<br /><b>(07/07 14:27:52)  Lyrositor: (Uh oh, lag...)<br />(07/07 14:27:59)  Lyrositor: As some of you may be aware of, I have recently started a new method of fun in The Fun House, by which you send some simple commands to my assistant to control your avatar and your surrounding environment.<br />(07/07 14:28:14)  Lyrositor: You might also notice that I've been a bit quiet recently, and that The Fun House has been closed for the past few days.<br />(07/07 14:28:26)  Lyrositor: This is because I've been working on a new project, which I hope will bring a new degree of interactivity to The Fun House.<br />(07/07 14:28:37)  Lyrositor: I'm sure that quite a few of you are aware of OHBot and its current indefinitely prolonged sleep status. Unfortunately, I never had the chance to meet him.<br />(07/07 14:28:51)  Lyrositor: So, instead of bugging OHB about bringing back AI to the Cavern, I decided to do it myself. ;)</b><br />(07/07 14:28:53) Alien misses OHBot<br />(07/07 14:28:59) Deledrius cheers<br /><b>(07/07 14:29:01)  Lyrositor: And thus was Lyrobot born.</b><br />(07/07 14:29:07) Trekluver claps his hands<br />(07/07 14:29:10)  GoMeDoobes: Wooooot!<br />(07/07 14:29:14) Trekluver is SUPER EXCITED<br />(07/07 14:29:15)  Tai'lahr: Way to go, Lyros!<br />(07/07 14:29:16)  GoMeMusica: .clap<br /><b>(07/07 14:29:20)  Lyrositor: Lyrobot will be limited to The Fun House until (if) I get authorization from Cyan Worlds to bring it to other public Ages.</b><br />(07/07 14:29:24)  Trekluver: OHB will be proud<br />(07/07 14:29:27) rarified perks up his ears<br /><b>(07/07 14:29:31)  Lyrositor: He is controlled through a web interface on my home server which gives access to its various features.<br />(07/07 14:29:42)  Lyrositor: To use Lyrobot, you have to meet him in-game and PM him the words "register" to get a username and password for the website (the password can of course be changed later on).</b><br />(07/07 14:29:52) Tai'lahr wonders if there's anything Lyrositor can't do or won't try.  : )<br /><b>(07/07 14:29:55)  Lyrositor: This creates a new entry (private by default) in the KI Registry, which is very similar to OHBot's KI Directory (indeed, integration between the two is planned).</b><br />(07/07 14:29:57)  GoMeMusica: Son of OHBot<br /><b>(07/07 14:30:07)  Lyrositor: It also gives you access to your profile, which is a publicly-visible (or not) front for your avatar.</b><br />(07/07 14:30:15)  GoMeDoobes: I'd say more like a cousin, Musica. ;)<br /><b>(07/07 14:30:18)  Lyrositor: Next you have the "Illusions" section, which allows you to create Grey Hat-like illusions with the push of a button in The Fun House (such as Bahrozilla).<br />(07/07 14:30:32)  Lyrositor: You also gain access to the Age Chat, which is a web chat interface with the players in Lyrobot's current Age.<br />(07/07 14:30:46)  Lyrositor: And finally (for now), you can use Lyroscope, which is a live-time image feed of what Lyrobot is seeing in The Fun House, with the ability to link him to other Ages and to warp him to different parts of the current Age.<br />(07/07 14:31:06)  Lyrositor: The alpha testing period for Lyrobot ended yesterday, and tomorrow (or very soon in the future) will see the beginning of beta testing.<br />(07/07 14:31:14)  Lyrositor: This phase shouldn't last too long, and within the following days, you should all be able to discover Lyrobot for yourselves.</b><br />(07/07 14:31:20)  Trekluver: That, is plain cool. :)<br />(07/07 14:31:22)  GoMeDoobes: :D :D :D<br /><b>(07/07 14:31:26)  Lyrositor: He will stay in The Fun House as long as I can afford to let him stay there each day (usually from 6:00 KI Time to 16:00 KI Time - will be less once school starts once more).<br />(07/07 14:31:41)  Lyrositor: Also, rest assured that he will not anonymously collect data about you and publish it - registration is stricly optional, and Lyrobot will stay in The Fun House until such a time as Cyan allows for use elsewhere.</b><br />(07/07 14:31:55)  angelmyst: sweet<br /><b>(07/07 14:31:57)  Lyrositor: And that's it for Lyrobot. If you have questions, feel free to ask now or by contacting me on the MO:ULa forums.</b><br />(07/07 14:32:07)  radioflux: wow<br />(07/07 14:32:10)  Tai'lahr: Sounds like fun.<br /><b>(07/07 14:32:14)  GoMeDoobes: I have nothing in the queue currently.  I think people are too stunned. :P</b><br />(07/07 14:32:25) rarified is stunned<br />(07/07 14:32:28)  Deledrius: It's so cool!<br />(07/07 14:32:28)  Stone: :)<br />(07/07 14:32:32) radioflux is stunned<br />(07/07 14:32:33)  Alien: amazed<br />(07/07 14:32:36) GoMeDoobes is very excited for this!!<br /><b>(07/07 14:32:39)  Lyrositor: So far, OHB, Deledrius and Boq have all tested it.</b><br />(07/07 14:32:40) Alien is amazed!<br />(07/07 14:32:41)  Italian: yeah amazing!<br />(07/07 14:32:45)  Annabelle: 16 KI time sounds like an european toy<br />(07/07 14:32:50)  angelmyst: The fun house has been a great place to visit......just plain FUN!<br />(07/07 14:32:55)  Trekluver: I'm pumped; I knew that cryptic messageOHB left the other day meant you were up to something.<br /><b>(07/07 14:33:02)  Lyrositor: Hehe, about that.</b><br />(07/07 14:33:06)  GoMeDoobes: OHB is the KING of cryptic messages, if you'll recall. ;)<br /><b>(07/07 14:33:19)  Lyrositor: He initially wrote about Lyrobot, but then I begged him to edit his message to keep it secret.<br />(07/07 14:33:24)  Lyrositor: Until today, that is. ;)</b><br />(07/07 14:33:28)  Deledrius: heh<br />(07/07 14:33:30)  GoMeDoobes: Wonderful!<br />(07/07 14:33:39) Trekluver activates my John Cleese voice and starts shouting numbers<br /><b>(07/07 14:33:42)  Lyrositor: So, that's it for me (for now...).</b><br />[Applause]<br /><b>(07/07 14:34:23)  GoMeDoobes: Excellent news, Ly!<br />(07/07 14:34:26) GoMeDoobes is psyched<br />(07/07 14:34:44)  GoMeDoobes: OK.  I am not sure if our next presenter has been onstage for an AGM...<br />(07/07 14:34:59)  GoMeDoobes: Please welcome shokhootahn Rehn for an announcement!</b><br />[Applause]<br /><b>(07/07 14:35:21)  shokhootahn Rehn: Thank you all.  :-)<br />(07/07 14:36:29)  shokhootahn Rehn: As many of you know...<br />(07/07 14:37:11)  shokhootahn Rehn: ... I created the Guild of Instructors to teach the D'ni language to my fellow explorers...<br />(07/07 14:37:55)  shokhootahn Rehn: Last year, I made the announcement that we would be starting lessons in-cavern shortly.  Well...<br />(07/07 14:38:03)  shokhootahn Rehn: THAT DAY HAS ARRIVED!  :-D</b><br />[Applause]<br /><b>(07/07 14:38:50)  shokhootahn Rehn: Starting this Monday, July 9, We will begin teaching in the Guild f Instructor's Hood...</b><br />(07/07 14:38:52) rarified tries to mumble in D'n<br /><b>(07/07 14:39:33)  shokhootahn Rehn: The class times are 9:00AM KI time, and again at 10:00PM KI time.</b><br />(07/07 14:39:33)  janaba: :-)<br /><b>(07/07 14:39:54)  Lyrositor: School? In summer? Get out of here!</b><br />(07/07 14:39:58)  GoMeDoobes: :P<br />(07/07 14:40:07) Trekluver laughs<br />(07/07 14:40:08)  GoMeDoobes: It's all good if the topic is interesting, Ly.<br />(07/07 14:40:10)  Tai'lahr: Lyros!  It's fun!<br />(07/07 14:40:16)  janaba: lol<br /><b>(07/07 14:40:18)  shokhootahn Rehn: lol@Ly</b><br />(07/07 14:40:34)  Lyrositor: 'Tis the school of life I guess...<br /><b>(07/07 14:40:42)  shokhootahn Rehn: A little bit of background for those of you who are not familiar with my Guild...<br />(07/07 14:43:42)  shokhootahn Rehn: ... I started  teaching the language in November of 2008, in 2nd Life, then in the following January in There.com as well...<br />(07/07 14:44:36)  shokhootahn Rehn: ... the following spring I began an advanced class, to facillitate text chat in D'ni in the cavern.  :-)<br />(07/07 14:45:12)  shokhootahn Rehn: The graduates of that class are now my fellow instructors.  We all have the first name of shokhootahn...<br />(07/07 14:45:31)  shokhootahn Rehn: ... which, in D'ni, means "Instructor.<br />(07/07 14:45:40)  shokhootahn Rehn: Students...<br />(07/07 14:46:14)  shokhootahn Rehn: ... will need to be able to switch between uru and their web browser during class to view additional graphic materils.<br />(07/07 14:46:20)  shokhootahn Rehn: *materials<br />(07/07 14:47:07)  shokhootahn Rehn: The web site is still partially under construction, but will be complete enough for the first class: D'ni 101.</b><br />(07/07 14:47:28)  GoMeDoobes: Excellent. :)<br /><b>(07/07 14:47:51)  shokhootahn Rehn: I will give students the web address at that first class, this Monday.<br />(07/07 14:48:18)  shokhootahn Rehn: The lessons syllabus will be as follows:<br />(07/07 14:48:24)  shokhootahn Rehn: Numbers<br />(07/07 14:48:27)  shokhootahn Rehn: Letters</b><br />(07/07 14:48:27)  Tai'lahr: Maybe I should come get a refresher lesson.  ; )<br /><b>(07/07 14:48:30)  shokhootahn Rehn: Time<br />(07/07 14:48:37)  shokhootahn Rehn: Suffixes<br />(07/07 14:48:41)  shokhootahn Rehn: Verbs<br />(07/07 14:48:49)  shokhootahn Rehn: Prefixes and Grammar<br />(07/07 14:49:00)  shokhootahn Rehn: ix classes, total.<br />(07/07 14:49:05)  shokhootahn Rehn: *Six</b><br />(07/07 14:49:33)  Lyrositor: The Guild of Messengers is ready to relay any announcements you might have. ;)<br />(07/07 14:49:34)  Tai'lahr: lol, I thought you were writing 9 in Roman numerals,<br /><b>(07/07 14:49:36)  shokhootahn Rehn: For those of you who don't know, Tia was one of my VERY first students!!!</b><br />(07/07 14:49:54)  Tai'lahr: Not the best, but one of the first.  ; )<br /><b>(07/07 14:50:09)  shokhootahn Rehn: Awww  You did great, Tai!</b><br />(07/07 14:50:13)  Lyrositor: Oh, Tai, not Tia... :P<br />(07/07 14:50:13)  janaba: me too, Tai :-)<br /><b>(07/07 14:50:14)  Tai'lahr: Rehn is a great teacher!<br />(07/07 14:50:28)  shokhootahn Rehn: Awww Thanks!</b><br />(07/07 14:50:40)  Tai'lahr: It's the truth.<br />(07/07 14:50:47)  angelmyst: say it in D'ni<br />(07/07 14:50:53) Deledrius laughs<br />(07/07 14:51:01) janaba starts to laugh<br /><b>(07/07 14:51:08)  GoMeDoobes: Ready for some questions?</b><br />(07/07 14:51:14)  Lyrositor: (You could actually just say nonsense; nobody would understand ;P)<br />(07/07 14:51:28)  Tai'lahr: The other instructors here with him would, Lyros.<br />(07/07 14:51:43)  angelmyst: Chev Shem<br />(07/07 14:51:47)  Lyrositor: Oops, sorry, I thought you were alone here.<br /><b>(07/07 14:51:50)  shokhootahn Rehn: In other news, many of you also now my other avatar, r'tayrtahn.  I still host Story Night on Saturday nights in Tsahno's Hood, at 10:30KI time.</b><br />(07/07 14:51:51)  rarified: Tai' would have to stay after class<br />(07/07 14:52:20) Tai'lahr giggles.<br /><b>(07/07 14:52:24)  shokhootahn Rehn: hehe<br />(07/07 14:52:32)  shokhootahn Rehn: Any questions?</b><br />(07/07 14:52:38)  janaba: wow, a busy man :-)<br /><b>(07/07 14:52:38)  GoMeDoobes: Trekluver has one.<br />(07/07 14:52:46)  shokhootahn Rehn: Yes?<br />(07/07 14:53:40)  Trekluver: For words that have not been translated before, have you all been in contact with RAWA for translations or are you skiping over this entirely?<br />(07/07 14:54:39)  shokhootahn Rehn: Wwe are using the currently publish lexicon as it appears in the D'ni Linguistics Fellowship's on-line dictionary<br />(07/07 14:55:15)  shokhootahn Rehn: *published<br />(07/07 14:55:24)  Trekluver: Cool, thanks.<br />(07/07 14:55:26)  GoMeDoobes: radioflux has a question.<br />(07/07 14:55:33)  shokhootahn Rehn: yw  :-)<br />(07/07 14:55:45)  shokhootahn Rehn: Yes, radioflux?<br />(07/07 14:55:55)  radioflux: Are there more courses planned? Conversational stuff, writing perhaps?<br />(07/07 14:57:33)  shokhootahn Rehn: Yes.  Starting sometime in September We will start teaching the D'ni 201 class which has the goal of teaching students to become proficient enough to converse in text chat.<br />(07/07 14:58:02)  shokhootahn Rehn: (proficient enough in D'ni)<br />(07/07 14:58:08)  radioflux: Great! Thanks.<br />(07/07 14:58:12)  GoMeDoobes: Tai'lahr is next to ask something!<br />(07/07 14:58:14)  shokhootahn Rehn: yw!  :-)<br />(07/07 14:58:20)  shokhootahn Rehn: Yes, Tai?<br />(07/07 14:59:22)  Tai'lahr: Have you considered asking Cyan if they would upload the textures you need for the lessons, Rehn?<br />(07/07 14:59:28)  shokhootahn Rehn: So much for having a prepared speech!<br />(07/07 14:59:35)  Tai'lahr: So, that the students don't have to keep windowing out?<br />(07/07 15:00:33)  Tai'lahr: nHave you considered asking Cyan if they wou(tip: you have to start the sentence before pasting.)<br />(07/07 15:00:50)  Tai'lahr: blech<br />(07/07 15:01:18)  shokhootahn Rehn: That, I have not.  I was concentrating on getting the web site up and running.  I figured that since the CAVCON seems to be around 3 or 2, there would not be much time for them to make for my little Guild.<br />(07/07 15:01:55)  Tai'lahr: I guess that would depend on how much work is entailed.  If it was something you could hand them all prepared and ready to go...<br />(07/07 15:02:18)  Tai'lahr: but, I'm not technically inclined to know what that entails.  Maybe someone else here would know.<br />(07/07 15:02:31)  Tai'lahr: Just a thought.  : )</b><br />(07/07 15:02:31)  Lyrositor: I don't think it would be easy.<br />(07/07 15:02:43)  Lyrositor: You mean changing the texture files?<br />(07/07 15:02:57)  Deledrius: Just uploading KI images, I imagine<br />(07/07 15:02:58)  Tai'lahr: No, just uploading something like a KI shot.<br />(07/07 15:03:09)  Lyrositor: Oh, okay.<br />(07/07 15:03:11)  Tai'lahr: Yes, waht Deledrius said.<br />(07/07 15:03:55)  Tai'lahr: They've done it before with things like the graphs.<br /><b>(07/07 15:04:28)  shokhootahn Rehn: You mean the lake luminosity graphs from GT days?<br />(07/07 15:04:40)  Tai'lahr: Yes, those.<br />(07/07 15:05:18)  shokhootahn Rehn: Yes, they have, but that was before their current financial consitions.  Stil, I don't suppose it would hurt to ask.  :-)<br />(07/07 15:05:19)  Tai'lahr: And, which has been done at least once since the cavern re-opened.<br />(07/07 15:05:38)  Tai'lahr: They can't say yes or no unless you ask.  ; )</b><br />(07/07 15:05:40)  Lyrositor: Shouldn't take too much work, I guess, but only Cyan knows.<br />(07/07 15:05:52)  GoMeDoobes: This is true.  Best to check with Cyan...if they're available. :P<br />(07/07 15:05:55)  Lyrositor: CAVCON should go back up since it goes down because of the update.<br />(07/07 15:06:02)  GoMeDoobes: Hopefully.<br />(07/07 15:06:16)  janaba: OMG ... :-)<br /><b>(07/07 15:06:28)  GoMeDoobes: Also, I wondered if you could repeat the times for these classes, Rehn?<br />(07/07 15:07:05)  shokhootahn Rehn: Sure, Doobes!<br />(07/07 15:07:19)  GoMeDoobes: Just to make sure our news post and KI mail are up to date. ;)<br />(07/07 15:07:31)  shokhootahn Rehn: Class times are Mondays at 9:00AM KI time and 10:00PM KI time<br />(07/07 15:07:44)  GoMeDoobes: Ah, OK.  We had 11PM.  Someone was confused.<br />(07/07 15:07:51)  shokhootahn Rehn: The class times are also posted on the GoMe web calendar<br />(07/07 15:08:17)  GoMeDoobes: Which I will fix after the meeting. :P<br />(07/07 15:08:18)  shokhootahn Rehn: There is also a post on the MOUL forums<br />(07/07 15:08:55)  GoMeDoobes: I have no more questions in the queue.  Does anyone have something they'd like to ask?<br />(07/07 15:09:47)  GoMeDoobes: Well, thank you shokhootahn Rehn!</b><br />[Applause]<br /><b>(07/07 15:10:14)  shokhootahn Rehn: I'm sorry, folks.  Doobes was correct.  The 2nd class is 11:00PM KI time<br />(07/07 15:10:26)  GoMeDoobes: Ah.  Hehehe.  OK, good.<br />(07/07 15:10:34)  GoMeDoobes: I'll make sure all we've got is correct. :)<br />(07/07 15:10:58)  GoMeDoobes: Again, we'll have the latest details on our calendar over at the GoMe site (http://rel.to/gome)  <br />(07/07 15:11:02)  GoMeDoobes: And speaking of...</b><br />(07/07 15:11:06)  shokhootahn Rehn: hehe  It should be,  I'm the one who uploaded the information to the calendar!  lol<br /><b>(07/07 15:11:06)  GoMeDoobes: Where are my yellow shirts????<br />(07/07 15:11:28)  GoMeDoobes: Yes, next on tap is the Guild of Messengers. :D<br />(07/07 15:11:39)  GoMeDoobes: Which...seems to be just us this month.  LOL!</b><br />[Applause]<br /><b>(07/07 15:11:54)  GoMeDoobes: Anyway!<br />(07/07 15:12:18)  GoMeDoobes: We have a few things to announce this month:<br />(07/07 15:12:49)  GoMeDoobes: First, work has begun on our "News Age" aka the Waystation.<br />(07/07 15:13:12)  GoMeDoobes: Currently, it is being built in Blender, but that may change to Max at some point.  Depends on what develops in the next few months.<br />(07/07 15:13:35)  GoMeDoobes: Primarily it's been Nev'yn and I working on this project, but we encourage anyone who is interested to get in touch with us either here or at the GoMe forums.<br />(07/07 15:14:11)  GoMeDoobes: Next, I pass it to Lyrositor for an update on The Cavern Post 2.0!<br />(07/07 15:14:19)  Lyrositor: Thanks Doobes!<br />(07/07 15:14:38)  Lyrositor: So as previously announced, we've made the switch from PDF-based production to a new web format.<br />(07/07 15:14:47)  Lyrositor: Articles are submitted to it like exactly like news posts.<br />(07/07 15:15:02)  Lyrositor: We hope this will encourage people to post their own articles, whatever they may be.<br />(07/07 15:15:11)  Lyrositor: So far we've got two, with maybe a third in the works.<br />(07/07 15:15:22)  GoMeDoobes: Both interviews, too. :P<br />(07/07 15:15:26)  Lyrositor: We're also interested in game reviews for games like or related to Myst/Uru.<br />(07/07 15:15:34)  Lyrositor: If you'd like to do such a review, please contact us.<br />(07/07 15:15:47)  Lyrositor: We're still trying to decide the best format for this.<br />(07/07 15:15:57)  Lyrositor: TCP 2.0 can be accessed on our main website.<br />(07/07 15:16:13)  Lyrositor: By clicking on the Magazine link.<br />(07/07 15:16:29)  Lyrositor: I hope you enjoy the theme I made for it based on TCP 1.0!<br />(07/07 15:17:02)  GoMeDoobes: And if we accumulate enough articles, a traditional PDF magazine will be released occasionally. :)</b><br />(07/07 15:17:34)  Trekluver: The theme looked great Lyros, made the whole thing very much like the original.<br /><b>(07/07 15:17:56)  GoMeDoobes: Next, I reiterate our call for anyone interested in joining us.  If you'd like to become a Messenger, simply get in touch with us either here or on our site.  We'd love to have you join.<br />(07/07 15:18:16)  Lyrositor: Speaking of which...<br />(07/07 15:18:22)  GoMeDoobes: You can translate, write articles, cavern crier, etc.  It's up to you how much (or little) you want to do!<br />(07/07 15:18:27)  Lyrositor: We have yet another messenger with us: Toki!<br />(07/07 15:18:37)  Lyrositor: Toki will be handling Japanese translations from now on.<br />(07/07 15:18:44)  Lyrositor: Indeed, he's already started his work.</b><br />(07/07 15:18:49)  janaba: Ahhh, Toki ... great!!!<br /><b>(07/07 15:18:50)  GoMeMusica: All ye who write, edit, draw, come forth<br />(07/07 15:19:02)  Lyrositor: Join the yellow!<br />(07/07 15:19:19) Lyrositor thinks Hoikas is lost<br />(07/07 15:19:22)  GoMeDoobes: So we have German, Russian, French and Japanese covered at this point, so if you have another language, or even any of those, you're welcome to come add your expertise.</b><br />(07/07 15:19:29)  Trekluver: lol<br />(07/07 15:19:51)  Alien: you need an Esperanto translator :p<br />(07/07 15:19:51)  angelmyst: restless.<br /><b>(07/07 15:19:53)  GoMeDoobes: And if you want to become Cavern Crier, it's best to get in touch with Nev'yn, who is in the cavern often.<br />(07/07 15:19:59)  Lyrositor: Or a D'ni translator.<br />(07/07 15:20:05)  GoMeMusica: I thik we have italian covered too</b><br />(07/07 15:20:07) Gay Hood is interested<br /><b>(07/07 15:20:23)  GoMeDoobes: A bit, although we could always use more Italian translators too. :)<br />(07/07 15:20:26)  Lyrositor: Well, you're already wearing yellow GH. That's the first step!<br />(07/07 15:20:32)  GoMeDoobes: Yup!</b><br />(07/07 15:20:37)  Tai'lahr: lol<br />(07/07 15:20:37)  Gay Hood: :))<br /><b>(07/07 15:20:39)  GoMeDoobes: It's all about the look first.  hehehe.<br />(07/07 15:20:47)  GoMeMusica: lol<br />(07/07 15:20:51)  GoMeDoobes: Anyway, did you have anything you'd like to add, Musica?<br />(07/07 15:21:40)  GoMeMusica: Just that I will be doing some writing for TCP soon<br />(07/07 15:21:53)  GoMeDoobes: Excellent!  So keep an eye out for that.<br />(07/07 15:22:14)  GoMeDoobes: So...any questions?</b><br />(07/07 15:22:36)  Tai'lahr: Keep up the good work, Messengers!<br /><b>(07/07 15:22:41) Lyrositor salutes<br />(07/07 15:22:42)  GoMeDoobes: Heh, thank you. :)</b><br />(07/07 15:22:43)  shokhootahn Rehn: :-D<br /><b>(07/07 15:22:44) GoMeDoobes salutes</b><br />[Applause]<br /><b>(07/07 15:22:58)  GoMeDoobes: Ly had something he wanted to add:<br />(07/07 15:23:13)  GoMeDoobes: Then I think we're done. :P<br />(07/07 15:23:20)  Lyrositor: Right, I just wanted to say something about my open-source in-cavern awareness program.<br />(07/07 15:23:33)  Lyrositor: I've decided to stop my Q&As for now since they're rarely attended.<br />(07/07 15:23:54)  Lyrositor: If you ever need help, tell me and I'll be glad to answer all your questions, in-cavern or outside.<br />(07/07 15:24:01)  Lyrositor: That's all!</b><br />(07/07 15:24:12)  Alien: Lyro, maybe you should follow DTC's example and spam everyone about it<br /><b>(07/07 15:24:13)  GoMeDoobes: And I think that's it for us and the meeting.  Thank you all for coming!</b><br />[Applause]<br /><b>(07/07 15:24:19)  Tai'lahr: That was a good thing you did there with the Q&A, Lyros!</b><br />(07/07 15:24:29)  GoMeMusica: Whoot<br />(07/07 15:24:39)  Trekluver: Did someone say spam?<br /><b>(07/07 15:24:40)  GoMeDoobes: Indeed.  Still, you can get in touch with Ly through PMs on either the MOUL forums or GoMe.</b><br />(07/07 15:25:04) ...Chat.log stopped.