Coqui tree frog: New, World University and School, subject pages and updates, as well as blog entries, WUaS is taking out its first 34-word advertisement in the Quaker publication "Western Friend" for 3 issues this autumn, which reads - "Quaker-informed World University and School - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html - like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, seeks high school students to apply this autumn 2013 to matriculate online in autumn 2014 for free, MIT OCW-centric, undergraduate degrees."

New, World University and School, subject pages and updates, as well as blog entries, since the last, open, online, WUaS monthly business meeting on July 13th, which you'll also find on this agenda for today's, August 10th, WUaS monthly business meeting -

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/08/august-10-business-meeting-agenda-at.html



6. New WUaS pages and updates

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


b. New pages:

Aymara language
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Aymara_language

Breathing -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Breathing

Optometry -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Optometry

Opthamology -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Opthamology

Dating -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Dating

Northumbrian smallpipes -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Northumbrian_smallpipes

Twin Studies -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Twin_Studies

Kinyarwanda language -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Kinyarwanda_language


c. Blog entries:


"Invitation to WUaS monthly business meeting on 10 August 2013 online at 9 am PDT - 2nd Saturdays of the month, open, free and welcoming ... for participating in developing a free, online World University and School"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/bog-turtle-invitation-to-wuas-monthly.html


"4 Questions from MIT OCW exploring WUaS as a Translation Affiliate into the Indonesian language"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/silky-sifaka-4-questions-from-mit-ocw.html


"World University and School Indonesia ... in Indonesian, Translation, Accreditation, Indonesian students in English to apply this autumn 2013 for free, MIT OCW-centric, WUaS, undergraduate degree, Begin Student Application Form with inquiry about whether prospective Indonesian WUaS students would also like to translate MIT OCW into Indonesian after they matriculate, WUaS advertising in Indonesia for free, MIT OCW-centric, WUaS degrees, first in English for Indonesian students, then MIT OCW in Indonesian for credit and degrees"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/millers-grizzled-langur-world.html


"Remember Hiroshima and Fukushima .... Ban the Bomb ... Abolish Nuclear ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nuclear_Science_and_Engineering ... heading to a Ban The Bomb vigil at Livermore Labs in northern California where Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers Free Speech fame, among others, will speak"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/red-shanked-douc-langur-remember.html


"Enjoying newly-found Kathryn Tickell's Northumbrian smallpipes ... new wiki subject page for Northumbrian smallpipes at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Northumbrian_smallpipes ... authentic, north of England, border region, a specific identity ... played in halls around the British Isles and at UK Folk Festivals ... she's gets into a kind of trippy, folk-music freedom ... heart-warming, as well …"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/hedgehogs-enjoying-newly-found-kate.html


"Language(s) and translation at WUaS and WUaS MIT OCW into Indonesian as a pilot program ... MIT OCW translation affiliate program"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/sumatran-tigers-languages-and.html


"Great and funny documentary of the "The Ascension of Inveraray & District Pipe Band - 2004-2013," "Inveraray's Invitation to the Dance at Forres," "Poetics of a stateless nation" ... Scotland ... "A Short Film About Julie Fowlis," "Liberty for Scotland: the Next Steps" - Economics, Enjoying these Scottish, online newspapers"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/otters-great-and-funny-documentary-of.html


"Dragon lizard: "You MUST collect guru dakshina-fees in obeisance to the teacher, at the end of the course," Lack of monies also continues to significantly inhibit World University and School's growth, Donations in yoga classes in the United States might be similar, Annual Giving to WUaS not only by individuals, but potentially also by assessments or kinds of quotas, perhaps from universities in other countries/nation states, in addition to governments and companies, for access to non-commercial Creative Commons' licensed MIT OCW, which they also translate into their language, such as into Indonesian"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/08/dragon-lizard-you-must-collect-guru.html


"'Not endorsed by MIT OCW' - I've added this to the following pages at WUaS‏"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/bluefin-tuna-not-endorsed-by-mit-ocw.html


"John Searle in a TEDxCERN talk (from Geneva, Switzerland) on Consciousness, Added this UC Berkeley philosopher's talk in 7 WUaS' wiki subjects (a record, I think) - Robotics, Computer Science, Consciousness, Neurobiology, Science and Philosophy ... fascinating talk."

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/nudibranches-john-searle-in-tedxcern.html


"Quakers, Accreditation and World University and School, "Green Light" from BPPE, The next steps"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/bee-in-poppy-quakers-accreditation-and.html


"SPICES - Simplicity, Peace, Integrity (Honesty), Community, Equality, and Stewardship, Quaker-informed WUaS's mission and vision to provide online, MIT OCW-centric, universal education, with university and high school degrees"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/giant-pandas-spices-simplicity-peace.html


"Thanks for sharing this article - "Freedom Rider Asks To Give Peace A Chance - Peace Tax Fund Act Of 2013," Added the following comment in Forbes Magazine, I added it also as a reference to the WUaS 'Peace and Social Justice,' the 'Nonviolence,' and the 'Quakers',' wiki, Subject pages, And also to the WUaS 'Banking and Money' wiki page"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/gorillas-thanks-for-sharing-this.html


"Young tapirs: "Harbin was alit in mid-evening," Complete recording of "Hair""

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/young-tapirs-harbin-was-alit-in-mid.html


"Great Highland Bagpipe wiki page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe, What a trove of Youtubes for learning, Added to WUaS's new page, These are structure of the beginning of a WUaS database, too"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/red-kite-great-highland-bagpipe-wiki.html


"Sea Turtle: Jim Morrison of "The Doors" ... wow ... "The Doors --- Liquid Nights," So potent, this poem-video, how to rif as I listen, with - but don't watch, because I write - this here now? Jim sings a powerful energy ... I rif back with."

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/sea-turtle-jim-morrison-of-doors-wow.html


"rosa: loving kindness, loving bliss, love"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/rosa-loving-kindness-loving-bliss-love.html


"Great 'Global Voices Online' article and video on the Dalit (Untouchables) and web cameras"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/indian-elephants-in-water-great-global.html


"McGill thesis and previous OLPC / Rwanda research, One Laptop per Child, World University and School Indonesia in Indonesian, and your research, MIT OCW translated courses"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/sumatran-elephants-mcgill-thesis-and.html


"Malagasy fish: Have long been curious about the 1960s and counterculture in Britain and Switzerland ... and in reading Don Lattin's "Harvard Psychedelic Club" I just came across Brian Barritt"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/malagasy-fish-have-long-been-curious.html


"Thanks for your emails about loving kindness ... generating love NtF-wise is an interesting topic"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/lizard-ant-thanks-for-your-emails-about.html


"Free, open, "Society and Information Technology" course online this autumn, - on Harvard's virtual island in SL and in Google + Hangouts vis-a-vis MIT OCW-centric WUaS, Rainie and Wellman's "Networked: The New Social Operating System" (MIT 2012), Readings from Castells' "Rise of the Networked Society" trilogy (rev. ed.) +, Conference Method, Google's course-builder, Design this course also vis-a-vis a) how to build to a WUaS, MIT OCW course, accreditation-worthy standard, b) coming into conversation with course-participants about this in the course, and c) prospective grad students who might like to teach next year, as well as d) hypothetical graduate student instructors hired by WUaS (planning to hire MIT, Stanford, HYP, Cambridge grad students + these unis"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/dandelion-to-seed-free-open-society-and.html


"Ongoingly curious about culture, what generates it, as well as influences it through time, Music in the Grateful Dead, Meeting among Quakers, and the clothing-optional, warm pool at Harbin, all seem to generatively inform their cultures"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/alula-brighamia-insignis-critically.html


"In its Psychiatry department, World University and School would like to explicitly, and innovatively, focus on research about the neurophysiology of loving bliss, Eventually, WUaS plans to extend such research into all languages, in both its Psychiatry and English departments"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/gorse-in-its-psychiatry-department.html


"New, beginning, wiki, Software Library at World University and School, added to Computer Science, Educational Software, Library Resources, and Programming wiki pages at WUaS, - in potentially all 7,105+ languages, "If I look at the World University page for nanotechnology and the Wikiversity page for nanotechnology I don't see why this needs to be a separate project. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nanotechnology http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Nanotechnology," making beneficial, free, online education universal, - with free, accredited, MIT OCW-centric degrees, and as wiki"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/07/wooly-mammoth-new-beginning-wiki.html



7. SF f/Friends/Quaker WUaS developments

WUaS is taking out its first 34-word advertisement in the Quaker publication "Western Friend" for 3 issues this autumn, which reads - "Quaker-informed World University and School - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html - like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, seeks high school students to apply this autumn 2013 to matriculate online in autumn 2014 for free, MIT OCW-centric, undergraduate degrees."


8. Closure


9. Next Meeting - Saturday, September 8, 2013, 9 am Pacific Time


Scott MacLeod

President and Head Clerk

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