Friday, September 7, 2012

Two, Open, Committee Meetings at WUaS Business Meeting – Agenda for tomorrow, Saturday, September 8, 2012

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9/8//2012 - Two, Open, Committee Meetings at WUaS Business Meeting – Agendas


World University and School
Two, Open, Committee Meetings at WUaS Business Meeting – Agenda
Saturday, September 8, 2012
9 - 10 am, Pacific Time
10-10:45 am PT



1. Welcome and Greetings - News

New, and priorities this month:

a.
As an experiment, and as a development in WUaS's monthly, hour-long, business meeting, we're planning to have 2 committee meetings this month: 

1) a first, WUaS Program committee meeting from 9am -10 Pacific Time on Saturday, September 8th, in a Google video hangout, (with its 2 channels for communication, via group video and group text chat, opening opportunities for communication), to begin to develop two, main, WUaS, committee focuses (i.e. Program and  Finance / Bookstore).  Please email me to let me know you'd like to participate in this Google + Hangout group, video conferencing, so I can invite you on Saturday. You'll also find the video hangout here on Saturday at 9 am P.T.: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts (which is the personal G+ profile of worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com ). 

2) a WUaS Finance / Bookstore committee meeting in the second hour from 10-10:45 am PT, on Free Conference Call. I plan to attend both, with an invitation to you to attend either or both, - where you can choose one hour-long meeting, if you wish. If you are in the U.S., all you need do is call the Free Conference Call telephone number, (605) 475-4000, at the start of the meeting; you will need to enter the access code, which for this meeting will be: 736551#. If you are outside the U.S., please contact me immediately by email so I can give you specific instructions about participating.

For clarity's sake, the first meeting from 9-10am, Pacific Time, is in a Google + group video conference, and the second meeting, from 10-10:45 am, is in Free Conference Call. 

I'm clerking the first Program committee meeting. Larry Viehland will clerk the WuaS Finance / Bookstore committee meeting in the second hour, and I'll be recording clerk for this 2nd committee meeting.  


b. 
Accreditation

c. 
Seeking free / volunteer student interns

d. 
Web Bookstore / Computer Store / Musical Instrument Store with Web Store software

e. 
edX (MITx/HarvardX/BerkeleyX) List of courses offered for Fall 2012 ... FREE ... 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/08/garden-eel-edx-mitxharvardxberkeleyx.html .

f.

"MIT OpenCourseWare Main Pages, Great models for developing WUaS further, Added these MIT OCW pages to WUaS's Courses, Master Plan, Business Plan and MIT, wiki, Subject pages"
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/09/scorpionfish-mit-opencourseware-main.html


g. 
Annual Meeting - Saturday, October 14, 2012, 9 am Pacific Time






1) 
WUaS Program committee meeting from 9am -10 Pacific Time on Saturday, September 8th, in a Google video hangout - https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts . 

Scott MacLeod, clerk


2. Other Committees


2.1 Planning committee

2.1.1
"In what ways undergraduate students at WUaS will be able to spend a year at MIT, for example, and what preparation will they find useful?"
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/08/orange-fin-anemonefish-in-what-ways.html

see Master plan and Business plan links below

2.1.2
"Long term, scientific studies of {overachieving} students at MIT OCW-centric, wiki WUaS, in exchange for free, online, bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, Standardized tests in respective countries will be part of the admissions' process at WUaS, so, for U.S. accredited degrees, Online Survey Example with Ethics' Explanation for Informed Consent, Internal Review Board Approval (IRB)"
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/09/banded-sea-snake-long-term-scientific.html

2.1.3
WUaS becoming the online MIT/Harvard, and in all languages ? 

"Four indicators for determining world rankings of universities - Presence, Impact, Openness, and Excellence, WUaS may hire graduate student instructors eventually with these criteria in mind, How to extend remarkably GENERATIVITY in all these categories at free, open, wiki World University and School?"


2.2 Finance committee - see below - this committee meets also on Sept. 8, 2012 at 10 am, Larry Viehland, clerk



2.3 Information Technology

a.
I'm curious about ways, in this WUaS information technology planning phase, in which open source grading, or other secure registrar/transcript (for accredited universities in many languages), software can be programmed / coded with Intuit's Quickbooks Online + for donor outreach, paying interns and employees, for the WUaS bookstore / computer store / musical instrument store, for taxes in many languages (e.g. TurboTax +), and Quickbooks' history of integrated finance software in many, many languages, at World University and School's - 'You at WUaS' - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University - and to define further what WUaS will need IT-wise in its academic registrar, and how to get there. WUaS would like You at WUaS to become a robust social networking site for students, for the conference method, and for musicians, perhaps building on the conference method and G+ video conferencing. 

b. 
Wikidata office hours on September 6, 2012 and WUaS ... as backend / repository / structured database ... and to bring the bring Wikipedia and WUaS together, coding-wise. 



2.4 WUaS Outreach

a.
via Bookstore? - would book distributors - e.g. New Leaf and U of C - do order fulfillment for WUaS book orders with WUaS mailing labels, as a form of outreach?


b.
Friends / Quakers

Quaker bookstore possibility for online WUaS webstore - see below


c.
Media


2.5 Hiring planning

University graduate programs 



2.6 Fundraising

2.6.1 - looking for a new, WUaS Board member to focus WUaS fundraising - see below 

2.6.2
"WUaS as a real university workplace, with real university problem solving, and real university mentoring, New, 'STEM Education' and 'Technologies'' wiki subjects, Thank you, thank you, thank you again, for your tax-deductible contribution to 501 c 3 WUaS, WUaS dovetailing with Quaker organizations like Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and AFSC"
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/08/feather-star-wuas-as-real-university.html

2.7 Nominating committee

Seeking committee members, facilitators and recorders



2.8 Languages' committee

2.8.1
"At San Francisco Friends' Meeting I was very glad to have met Miguel Angel Costop, director / clerk of 'Progresa: The Guatemala Friends Scholarship / Loan Program' which Redwood Forest Friends' Meeting in CA sponsors, WUaS's next, open, f/Friendly Meeting for Business Agenda for September 8, 2012"
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/08/chromodoris-coi-nudibranch-dear-l-at_5913.html
2.8.2
"In what ways to focus the development of the WUaS Universal Translator, building on, yet different from Google Translate and Sugar Labs' Translate +, probably in terms of CONTEXT or contextualization of languages"
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/08/white-spotted-reef-crab-in-what-ways-to.html
2.9 Accreditation committee

Main degrees ...
"World University and School - with free, online and MIT OCW-centric degrees - will be very helpful to students, for example, who have multiple sclerosis, and so many other disabling conditions, Main Degrees"
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/08/frog-fish-world-university-and-school.html


2.9.1
edX (MITx/HarvardX/BerkeleyX) List of courses offered for Fall 2012 ... FREE ... 
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/08/garden-eel-edx-mitxharvardxberkeleyx.html

WUaS plans to build on open educational resources like edX for accreditation, but particularly MIT OCW as a kind of uniform 15-week course centric Creative Commons' licensed resource.

2.9.2
"MIT OpenCourseWare Main Pages, Great models for developing WUaS further, Added these MIT OCW pages to WUaS's Courses, Master Plan, Business Plan and MIT, wiki, Subject pages"
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/09/scorpionfish-mit-opencourseware-main.html

2.9.3
Could WUaS accredit with WASC on MIT OCW's 47 video courses, with WUaS-hired graduate students facilitating the conference method, and doing the grading, beginning in 2014?



3. WUaS Master Plan

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Plan


4. WUaS Business Plan

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Plan


5.  WUaS Board

- is looking for a new Board member to focus WUaS fundraising - see below


6. New WUaS pages and updates

a. Updates:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity


b. New pages:


Zoology:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Zoology

Europe:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Europe

Digital Youth: 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Digital_Youth

Technologies: 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Technologies

STEM Education - Science, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics: 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/STEM_Education_-_Science,_Technologies,_Engineering_and_Mathematics 

Public Health: 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Public_Health

Laboratory courses online at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Laboratory_courses_online_at_World_University_and_School

Green Chemistry: 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Chemistry

United Nations: 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/United_Nations


c. Blog entries:

 edX (MITx/HarvardX/BerkeleyX) List of courses offered for Fall 2012 ... FREE ...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/08/garden-eel-edx-mitxharvardxberkeleyx.html



7. SF f/Friends/Quaker WUaS developments

7.1
American Friends Service Committee and World University and School collaborations?
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/08/lionfish-american-friends-service.html

7.2
Quaker bookstore - see below - online WUaS Bookstore /  informal student center / wired classroom for 40 people
"WUaS's online, International Baccalaureate school is planning to be free and in the 6 United Nations' languages, and MIT OCW High School-centric ... Kids will hang out with friends in their neighborhood, The online WUaS bookstore is planning to be in the 6 United Nations' languages, to start, and perhaps eventually on-the-ground, as bookstore/computer store / informal student center / and possibly also as wired classroom for 40 people, in a nice neighborhood, perhaps near a Quaker Meeting, and in a major city (with a culture of learning?), Arabic-Tehran/Riyadh/Dubai? Chinese (Mandarin)-Beijing, English-London/Cambridge, French-Paris, Russian-Moscow/St. Petersburg, Spanish-Madrid/Barcelona"
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/08/sea-star-wuass-online-international.html

8. Closure


9. Next Meeting - Annual Meeting - Saturday, October 14, 2012, 9 am Pacific Time







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10) 
WUaS Finance / Bookstore committee meeting in the second hour from 10-10:45 am PT, on Free Conference Call ( If you are in the U.S., all you need do is call the Free Conference Call telephone number, (605) 475-4000, at the start of the meeting; you will need to enter the access code, which for this meeting will be: 736551#.)


a.
Treasurer's report for August 2012


b. 
Web Bookstore / Computer Store / Musical Instrument Store with Web Store software

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_(New_%26_Used)_at_WUaS


Intuit Media links: 
"Fulfilling Web Store Orders through QuickBooks Point of Sale"
("If you have a brick and mortar retail store and would also like to sell your items on line, you should consider Intuit Storefront for QuickBooks Point of Sale.")
b.1. 
How soon can we get this online WUAS bookstore operational? Can we have it functioning in time for teaching WUaS classes in January?

b.2. 
Sandy and Tom Farley's bookstore communication - they have said that a bookstore available to collaborate with vis-a-vis Web Store Orders through QuickBooks Point of Sale.


c.
Fundraising

c.1
WUaS needs travel monies to begin building the WUaS community in person

c.2
WUaS needs monies to purchase bookstore software + 

c.3
WUaS needs monies to hire developers / staff - see previous agendas in this blog

c.3.1 
Interns to begin?


- Manager

- I.T. / Developer - wiki, Intuit, bookstore, secure registrar, WUaS's own robust social networking software for students, music school.
- Accountant / fundraiser

 11. Closure


12. Next Meeting - Annual Meeting - Saturday, October 14, 2012, 9 am Pacific Time




Scott MacLeod

President and Head Clerk










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