Minutes from today's - 11/10/2012 {Open} Business Meeting – at World University and School
World University and School
{Open} Business Meeting – (hour-long meeting)
Saturday, November 10, 2012
9 am, Pacific Time
1. Welcome and Greetings - News
a. Business meeting in a Google + group video hangout
The WUaS business meeting this month is in a Google + group video hangout, accessible here on a main, WUaS G+ page - https://plus.google.com/115890623333932577910/posts - to facilitate international communication.
b. Welcome
Welcome to Juan Mendez in Spain.
Welcome to Stefanos Kapetan in London, and originally from Greece.
Welcome to Tito Dimas in Jakarta, Indonesia
c. "World University and School, Student, Board / Team's 1st meeting 3 Nov 2012"
"World University and School, Student, Board / Team's 1st meeting 3 Nov 2012" - https://www.youtube.com/
d. World University and School's NEW YouTube video channel:
e. WUaS's second annual Board meeting
Last month's WUaS business meeting was also WUaS's second annual Board business meeting, a significant milestone
2. Committees
2.1 Planning committee
see Master plan and Business plan below
2.2 Finance
a.
Treasurer's report for October 2012
b.
WUaS's $100,000 capital campaign for 2012
Getting the WUaS annual appeal letter in the mail this week, for WUaS's $100,000 capital campaign for 2012, and preparing for WUaS's $125,000 capital campaign for 2013 -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/$100,000_Capital_Campaign_at_World_University_and_School_for_2012 - and -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Fundraising_Plan.
c.
WUaS's business plan is an endowment one
Our business plan is an endowment one, so fundraising, grant writing and networking with philanthropists - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Plan - and with an online (and eventually on-the-ground) Bookstore / computer store (new and used) -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_(New_&_Used)_at_WUaS - first, as we begin to offer Creative Commons' licensed MIT OCW High School-centric International Baccalaureate diplomas and CC MIT OCW-centric bachelor's in the 6 United Nations' languages plus Portuguese and Swahili probably, since they are both lingua francas in Africa. Amara subtitles will help crowdsource some of the MIT OCW and Yale OYC video courses' translation, as a start.
d.
Quaker bookstore with vendors, who have said they'd like to collaborate with WUaS, (and WUaS's board has said they would purchase probably Quickbooks POS v. 11 2013 with multistore as online bookstore software for many countries and languages eventually) to call together a few, online bookstore / computer store software companies with questions, before calling Quickbooks POS themselves with last questions before purchasing, then setting up WUaS's online bookstore, engaging the Quaker bookstore's inventory and vendor, in anticipating of selling textbooks etc..
2.3 Information Technology
a.
Wikidata / Wikibase update -
As World University and School moves from the Wikia wiki to Wikidata / Wikibase, WUaS will probably become an 'instance of Wikibase,' which is in development. Creative Commons' licensed Wikidata / Wikibase is currently under development by a core team of Wikimedians / Wikipedians in Europe, with Wikipedia's 285 languages in mind. (And I just learned that WUaS will probably become an 'instance of Wikibase' in Wikidata office hours only on Tuesday).
Whether free, MIT OCW-centric WUaS can facilitate application writing for Android and iPhone OS, et al., in many, many languages, is an item for future WUaS monthly, business meeting agendas.
2.4 WUaS Outreach
a.
World University and School's NEW YouTube video channel:
b.
Friends / Quakers
Distributed WUaS flyers at College Park Quarterly Meeting (Quaker) in the foothills of the Sierras in October, and began a CPQM ad hoc email committee
http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSFriendsFlyerforProspectiveStudentApplicants.pdf
c.
Media
Sent this press release - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2012/10/press-release-for-world-university-and.html - to around 25 newspapers + including the NYT, the WSJ and FT
2.5 Hiring planning
2.6 Fundraising
- looking for a new WUaS Board member to focus WUaS fundraising
2.7 Nominating committee
Seeking committee members, facilitators and recorders
2.8 Languages' committee
2.9 Accreditation committee
WUaS has talked with WASC senior in California for about 45 minutes, and is planning to accredit on MIT OCW, for the bachelor's degree (with WUaS's 1st matriculating class in 2014), and department by department, for this online, Creative Commons' licensed university and School. Ph.D. accreditation for first, online matriculating class beginning in 2015, will also be department, by department. WUaS is serious about accrediting well and thoroughly, with WASC to start, and then around the world, but we need to begin to scale for this. There's a workshop in April 2013 with WASC which WUaS is currently planning to attend.
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
6. New WUaS pages and updates
a. Updates:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity
b. New pages:
Delaware language http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Delaware_language
$100,000_Capital_Campaign_at_World_University_and_School_for_2012
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/$100,000_Capital_Campaign_at_World_University_and_School_for_2012
$125,000_Capital_Campaign_at_World_University_and_School_for_2013http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/$125,000_Capital_Campaign_at_World_University_and_School_for_2013
Gold_Giving_Circle_at_World_University_and_School
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Gold_Giving_Circle_at_World_University_and_School
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bronze_Giving_Circle_at_World_University_and_School
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Silver_Giving_Circle_at_World_University_and_School
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Planned_Giving_Donors%27_Club_at_World_University_and_School
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Association_for_World_University_and_School
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hydropower
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Tibet
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Germany
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Sri_Lanka
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/South_Asia
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Tamil_language
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Erotism
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Freedom_Studies
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Sinhala_language
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Medical_Anthropology
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Comparative_Media_Studies
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Engineering_Systems_Division
Experimentation http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Experimentation
Crowdsourcing
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Crowdsourcing
c. Blog entries:
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2012/11/mariposa-lily-accreditation-language.html
7. SF f/Friends/Quaker WUaS developments
8. Closure
9. Next Meeting - Saturday, December 8, 2012, 9 am Pacific Time
Scott MacLeod
President and Head Clerk
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