Friday, July 20, 2018

Silky sifaka: Re: MINUTES for World Universities' monthly business meeting on July 14, 2018 - C & AA, Am hoping to hear back positively from a National Science Foundation grant ... which could become the seed monies we've been needing for about 11 years now - and to hire graduate student instructors to teach to MIT OCW faculty in video online to WUaS undergraduates this autumn, Glad WUaS got this new wiki "front end" last year, and will be glad when it's connected with our Wikidata/Wikibase "back end," in 301 languages (and WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata in 2015 for co-development), It's all very discouraging ... no monies, no Ph.D., no partner, no kids, and World University and School has an eleven year history, and hasn't been able to pay me as a professor, or pay anyone else as faculty, or pay anyone for that matter, WUaS outreach video to Friends General Conference


Scott--Thank you for including me on your list for monthly minutes mailings.

I do feel sad that you haven't apparently come further with the advancement of your noble vision.  It's one I do share to a certain extent (I'm much more involved than ever in Multnomah Meeting and pro-immigrant/refugee activities for this area).  So I wish you all success with your endeavor.  And I can't help wondering why you're not achieving greater traction for this very needed and attractive effort.  Board members? Plans and goals? Income and budget?  Any sort of physical headquarters, place for a real office?  Support staff?

Perhaps all that is immaterial, in a few senses, to you.  But I fail to see how you can wiki-wiki up an actual world university, involving actual students without at least a few of these assets and plans I have mentioned.

Many blessings,

Carl Thatcher
(Carl is a friend, Quaker and former Board member of World University and School, living in Portland, Oregon, and active in Multnomah Monthly Meeting there).


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>
To: Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org>
Sent: Sun, Jul 15, 2018 10:51 pm
Subject: MINUTES for World Universities' monthly business meeting on July 14, 2018 - C & AA

Dear Universitians and friends,

Here are the July 14, 2018 Monthly Business Meeting MINUTES for World University and School, and the WUaS Corp.


I'm posting them in the body of this email for the vision-impaired.

The next open electronically-mediated hour-long monthly business meeting for World University and School is Saturday, August 11, 2018, at 9:00 am PT. 

All the best,
Scott


Minutes for Sat July 14, 2018 World University & School Monthly Business Meeting
Present:
-       Larry Viehland (Chair, CFO and Board member of World University and School)
-       Scott MacLeod (President, Recording Clerk, Board member, and Founder, World University and School)
Agendas:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2018/07/agenda-news-for-world-univ-schs-open.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/07/choriaster-granulatus-doughboy-starfish.html
1
World Univ and Sch is waiting to hear from the National Science Foundation about our grant application for:
PD-18-1998
Accelerating Discovery: Educating the Future STEM Workforce
2
If World Univ and Sch is granteded these monies, WUaS will seek to matriculate a class of ~100-500 undergraduate students this September 1, 2018., hiring Graduate Student Instructors to teach, conceptually, in Google group video Hangouts, - to best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare faculty in video.
3
World Univ and Sch will seek to begin to accredit with WASC senior and BPPE contingent on funding, and related developments.
Sincerely,
Scott MacLeod


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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- http://scottmacleod.com


- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Minutes for July 14, 2018 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting
Present:
-       Larry Viehland (acting CFO WUaS Corp and Board member)
-       Scott MacLeod (acting President/Recording Clerk, Board member and Founder/Facilitator of the emergent WUaS Corporation)
Agendas:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2018/07/agenda-news-for-world-univ-schs-open.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/07/choriaster-granulatus-doughboy-starfish.html
A
WUaS Corporation will continue to seek to develop as funding and information technologies with named WUaS Co CEO Julian Dumitrascu (in Romania) (see video in above Agenda and News).
B
The WUaS Corp will seek to develop an online WUaS Bookstore / Computer Store / Robotics’ Store / Hospital Technologies’ platform, in conjunction with the Academic Press at WUAS, first in Wikidata’s ~301 languages. The WUaS Corp seeks to develop the WUaS Bookstore etc partly emerging from WikiCite / Wikidata.  
Sincerely,
Scott MacLeod

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- Scott MacLeod
- Founder & Acting President
- WUaS Corporation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

Thank you.




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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  
- World University and School

- 415 480 4577


- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 


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Thanks so much, Carl,

Am hoping to hear back positively from a National Science Foundation grant very soon ... which could become the seed monies we've been needing for about 11 years now - and to hire graduate student instructors to teach to MIT OCW faculty in video online to WUaS undergraduates this autumn.

Glad we got this new wiki "front end" last year, and will be glad when it's connected with our Wikidata/Wikibase "back end," in 301 languages (and WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata in 2015 for co-development):

- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends

(accessible from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects ) ...

which is some progress ...

Am finding the NtF (Nontheist Friends / atheist Quakers) communications salutary and re WUaS as well here.

Thanks for your email.

Friendly regards, Scott




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Dear NtFs on the main NtF email list, 

Robin sent an email to the NtF planning list yesterday (see below) asking about possible reports " back from NTF activities at the Gathering!"

And while I searched on and couldn't find anything about #NtF activities in Google & in this Twitter stream - https://twitter.com/hashtag/FGCgathering2018?src=hash (and it seems to stop curiously at July 5th) - there may be some Nontheist Friend Tweets in this I haven't found yet, or elsewhere on Twitter.  

NtF reports? Other social media sites such as Twitter with NtF activities at FGC?

Any NtF activities (#NontheistFriends or #AtheistQuakers) on Twitter re #FGCgathering2018 - https://twitter.com/hashtag/FGCgathering2018?src=hash - or otherwise? Here's a NtF wiki school https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) & check out the Quaker - RSOF wiki subject page too @WorldUnivAndSch ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends ~


... I deleted my first Tweet with the above removing the hashtag - #NtF - because it created a Twitter feed of too many different items/Tweets ... 


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Any NtF activities (#NontheistFriends or #AtheistQuakers) on Twitter re #FGCgathering2018 - https://twitter.com/hashtag/FGCgathering2018?src=hash … - or otherwise? Here's a NtF wiki school https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F) … & check out the Quaker - RSOF wiki subject page too @WorldUnivAndSch ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends … ~




https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1020076368464261120
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1020076054944157696

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Here's a @WorldUnivAndSch FGC
#FGCgathering outreach video #FGCgathering2018 with Friend Sherry Maurin in SF (& re #FriendsQuakers too)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTzo7MFhJqk … Friendly-informed WUaS Seeks Undergraduate Students to Apply Now & Matriculate 9/1/18 for Free CC4 OCW Bachelor Degrees




https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1020167167877165056




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Hi M,

It's all very discouraging ... no monies, no Ph.D., no partner, no kids, and World University and School has an eleven year history, and hasn't been able to pay me as a professor, or pay anyone else as faculty, or pay anyone for that matter ... Academia doesn't seem to reward innovation or good free thinking I guess ... alas ...

Am I bit like Nelson Mandela? ... seeking liberation for all in free highest quality universal education for free degrees in all countries' official languages online, and free wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7097 living languages, and am somehow in a kind of 11-year 'prison' for this with no one knowing about or benefitting from these degree opportunities? If blocked, go around - was one thing I learned at UCSB ... How does such blocking work, culturally? Just retweeted this abt Nelson Mandela at Harvard - https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1019573774570713088 ... to WUaS ...

Hoping to find the freedom of loving bliss neurochemistry elicitation at least, and there's a kind of freedom I experience on Cuttyhunk as well ... On with house-cleaning here

L, S



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