Minutes of Staff Meeting 25th February 2008

MINUTES OF STAFF MEETING 25TH FEBRUARY 2008

PRESENT: Lizzy Renard; Elborath Gelfand; AngelHart Blessed; GreyWolf Frye; StarRose Merlin; Baji Bourjade; Manon Clary; Jane Atkey; Wulf Urqhart; Dolfke Barbosa; Mariana Vita; Arianna Eriksen; Dragon Shichiroji; Shaman Kharg; Vada Beningbrough; Rian Hirvi; Dansz Darkstone; Starlyte Aeon; Arwan Spitteler, Jophiella Willis

APOLOGIES: FireStaar Frye sent her apologies and GreyWolf opened the meeting with a message from FireStaar. FireStaar apologised for her absence and for not being able to schedule her classes on Wicca at the moment but saying that she is intending to continue with them when RL commitments permit. FireStaar also went on to say that the staff of Mystic Academy (MA) need to work as a team to make MA the best education venue in SL and to continue to work towards making and keeping MA what it is. FireStaar said, via GreyWolf that if people have rezzed items around MA they often have good reasons to do so and for staff to check with the owner before returning items to inventories. FireStaar said that by doing this it would help to prevent misunderstandings in the future. Arawn felt this was something that could be discussed at the Wednesday support meeting.

GreyWolf then went onto to speak about herself. She said she doesn’t always express herself exactly as she wants to because of a stroke she had many years ago. So she asked ppl to always give her time to make herself clear. She thanked Dragon for his creativity and for giving FireStaar and herself the idea for the GreyWolf club. She also said her thanks were due to FireStaar who has been her mentor. Those present all thanked GreyWolf for all her hard work to make the Bazaar and the club so fantastic. GreyWolf said she welcomes everyone’s ideas re the development of the Bazaar and the Club.

GreyWolf said that the notecard givers are under construction and Ads will go into the search facility of SL. Also that the notecard givers will be displayed in other clubs. Dansz is working on the textures.

Elborath reported that she had joined the True Brits Group which gives free advertising to ppl for their sims, merchandise and events. She is sending the group the Landmark and description of MA in which the Grey Wolf club and the Bazaar also feature. Elborath also reported that the info hub is ready to send out to the other spiritual groups and that she is about to do that. There is a new category on the hub – Mystic Academy – which contains the places in MA together with landmarks and that the Bazaar and the Grey Wolf club also are featured in there.

NEW CONSULTATNTS

New Consultants: StarRose Merlin reports that the three new guides she had been inducting had settled in with help from herself, Rian and Ari. AngelHart Blessed one of the three was present at the meeting and was welcomed by the staff. Rian reported that there were four more ppl being inducted into being guides. Baji Bourjade reported that she was no longer consulting at Mystic Academy.

LOCATION OF CLASSES

StarRose Merlin would like to hold classes upstairs in the hall as she finds it disruptive holding them in the lounge as people do wander in and out and interrupt. Discussion was held re the interference in the upper rooms of the castle from the chat below in the lounge. StarRose reports that along one side of the hall there is no interference, but that there is a vendor on that wall. Starlyte reported that she had held a class in the hall and it had been continuously interrupted by the chat from below.

Shaman said he thought he had come across a chat limiter and would look into it. Arianna pointed out that there are many places to hold classes around MA where chat is not a problem. It was finally decided for Shaman to look into the possibility of limiting chat and to report at the next week’s meeting. Ari said she also thought she had seen a script that would limit chat. ACTION: Shaman, Arianna and Dragon.

Dolfke suggested a conference call to overcome chat problems but since the problem comes not from the class but from the ppl visiting the lounge this may not be feasible.

The question of holding classes in Spirit City but not on the MA site was raised. Classes are to be held on the MA site. This increases traffic and thus the position of MA in the SL search facility.

MYSTIC FAYRE

Arianna reported that she had three consultants for each session – but she would like more. She also reported a snag with the firedancers – they wanted
$L6000 to perform. Arianna had put out a call asking for donations but so far only had a quarter of that. Dolfke and GreyWolf both then made very generous donations. Jane, AngelHart, Manon, Jophiella, Lizzy, Wulf and Elborath had also all made donations. The target was met – and exceeded.

Arianna reported that she has had lots of offers for DJs for the night and will be consulting with FireStaar and GreyWolf. ACTION: Arianna, FireStaar and GreyWolf.

GRIEFERS

Wulf reported he had ejected two griefers the day before for abusing the students.

VENDORS

StarRose made an objection to too many vendors within the castle. Dragon does not feel there are many – and we have considerably less within the castle than in the previous sim.

SUNDAY CLASSES

The healing circle takes place on Sundays and Baji reported that Legolas is thinking of teaching Shamanic Journeying on Sundays soon – at 10am.

DJ APPLICATION FORM

Arawn reported no further enquires for the application form. Baji and Lizzy congratulated Manon on her first DJ event which had taken place earlier in the week. StarRose also has a stream working and will help out after a bit of practice.

HEALING CIRCLE

Wulf reported that he now knew his RL schedule and so had given Arianna times for the Healing Circle.

Baji said she may give a class about science, spirituality and consciousness in the future.

SPECIALIST DAYS

There is no advance on the specialist days suggested by Dragon at the last meeting. Elborath felt they would be difficult to organise and Arawn felt they would not be feasible from the consumer perspective. Dragon agreed it was hard to fit ppl around days but we may be able to do a specialist day once in a while giving the example of healing, herbal remedies and the healing circle which could be put together to make a specialist day.

AngelHart offered to host an energy healing circle. Dragon suggested she could work with Wulf perhaps at either end of the week and then liaise with Arianna about the scheduling and Jane should AngelHart need any further help.

BUILDING CLASS

Arawn would like help with textures for his building class. Could someone actually teach texturing to the class? AngelHart offered to make textures for Arawn and Baji says she has hundreds of textures. ACTION: Arawn, AngelHart and Baji to liaise.

ANY OTHER BUSINESS

There was no other business.

DATE AND TIME OF NEXT MEETING

Monday 3rd March 2008 2pm SLT Mystic Lounge.