Thursday, November 14, 2019

Rosa foetida: Annual Meeting at OPEN WUaS Monthly Business Meeting Saturday 16 Nov 2019 9am PT



Dear Universities, and Larry, Govind, Jayni, Tito, Juan, Yuping, Kyle and Julian,

The hour-long Annual Meeting at the OPEN WUaS Monthly Business Meeting is this Saturday 16 Nov 2019 at 9am PT, electronically mediated. Agenda and News to come - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/. Please join this meeting if you can!.


Here are the Agenda and News for 16 Nov 2019 Annual Meeting -

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/11/annual-meeting-at-open-wuas-monthly.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/rosa-foetida-annual-meeting-at-open.html


Sincerely, Scott-

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress




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Agenda


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World Univ & Sch is seeking an online undergraduate class of 500-2000 English speaking students from all 200 countries in the autumn of 2020. WUaS website development in multiple languages will be a major part of this - worlduniversityandschool.org 

i) Re WUaS International Baccalaureate IB planned in ~200 countries' official languages, explore adding Pamoja International Baccalaureate IB courses at the high school level to - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - and per - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/wattles-acacia-spp-ib-school-in-modesto.html ... 



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Finances - WUaS calendar year is January-December, so the annual financial report will come out in January 2020

i) need to set a budget for 2020

ii) WUaS will send out the WUaS financial report for October 2019 with the Minutes in a few days; it's the same as last months



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Information Technology -
WUaS is glad to be in Wikidata (and in WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki - but they aren't yet interoperable), and newly communicating in Wikidata Office Hours in the Telegram App,(which first Wikidata office hour meeting there WUaS just attended on 5 Nov 2019); see transcript at bottom here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/hop-bush-dodonaea-viscosa-all-75.html - and in WUaS planning for:


All 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item number for

i) wiki Universitians in 7,111 known living languages, and matriculated students in all ~200 countries,

ii) Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records, with genetic therapies, and for molecular tele robotic surgery,

iii) Universal Basic Income EXPERIMENTS (and to alleviate poverty), and to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks

iv) a single family tree for genealogy research as in WikiTree, and for aggregating DNA samples too



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Organizational structure for WUaS developments -

i) Building on the WUaS Monthly Business Meeting organizational structure (see links to 2019 WUaS Minutes below)

ii) Seeking to move from writing as management style to Chief Operating Officer approach

iii) Seeking to code the WUaS web site ... (on Google platform, with best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare and in Wikidata's 300 languages, - and with licensing and accreditation)

iv) seeking to develop financial processes in these regards



With respect to this, how best to structure WUaS 

A) As a unicorn company, to become a billion dollar company  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(finance) ?

B) For growth, and brainstorming-wise, potentially with a French entrepreneurial incubator called Schoolab (which meeting WUaS will attend this Friday evening, 15 Nov 2019, in SF - see below) ...

C) And how can WUaS become financially operational, and begin to hire? (ie how can we develop the organizational culture to support this growth, and then develop organizational structures beyond Friendly open Monthly Business Meeting ... ?


WUaS seeks to develop monies-wise, and re broadest organizational and IT structures, for this by exploring reaching out further to the Washington DC / Boston / Pittsburgh areas, as well as in the SF Bay Area ... and potentially in Europe now too.



2019 WUaS Minutes -

October 2019

September 2019

August 2019

July 2019

June 2019

May 2019

April 2019

March 2019

February 2019

January 2019

December 2018

November 2018

October 2018 (Annual Meeting)



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WUaS incubation by Schoolab SF International? WUaS is exploring this; see:

Rosa chinensis: Schoolab San Francisco International - and incubating World Univ & Sch? * * * The 'gold mine' or 'mother lode' of Creative Commons' 4 licensed MIT OpenCourseWare (in its 5 languages), where CC-4 licensing says users can, with MIT OCW, A) share it, B) adapt it, C) but non-commercially, WUaS cannot ask for tuition from students - so online WUaS will be free-to-students - but WUaS will seek reimbursement from governments (eg federal, state, local, etc) per student per year; this could extend to all 29 French speaking countries





5
WUaS Licensing & Accreditation

i) begin now in 2020




6
WUaS highlights in this past year

BPPE licensing workshop on 2/20/2019 - but WUaS still need $5000 to begin the licensing process, now in 2020

Google Search / Google My Business

Other Google platforms



7
New academic methodology:
i) Ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy

ii) Co-creating a realistic virtual earth - as related methodology ...  



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Anthropologist Nick Seaver asks
on Nov 12, 2019
"How are *you* going to introduce discrete boundaries in the continuous flux of human experience?"
https://twitter.com/npseaver/status/1194651222776668161


WUaS responds:
Pixels & Qubits in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology a #RealisticVirtualEarth a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM? #FilmTo3D App into Google Street View w TIME SLIDER/Maps/Earth/TensorFlow/Translate & at cell/atomic levels wi group build-able SL #VR w avatar bots but realistic

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1194686277427191809
https://twitter.com/npseaver/status/1194651222776668161
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1194699433939595264
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1194699729604464640
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1194700147751411713
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1194701686972936192


Language too ~ Pixels & Qubits in #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages? #FilmTo3D App > Google Street View w TIME SLIDER/Maps/Earth/TensorFlow/Translate & at cell/atomic levels w group build-able SL #VR w real avatar bots

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1194700608315392000


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In a related vein, and  in understanding consciousness, - as potential developments in neuroscience / philosophy of mind / brain and cognitive science, see, too:

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/gray-parrot-consciousness.html

and - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/chameleon-vision-poem-to-dance-or-pools.html


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Annual Meeting business

i) Set budget for 2020

ii) Elect Officers








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WUaS Corporation / Press

A
WUaS is seeking to develop our online bookstore / computer store / robotics' store / hospital technologies store  with web site platform developments (see above) ... in ~200 countries and 7,111 living languages. See too - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html


B
The WUaS Press's upcoming book is due out soon:

"To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin, than to realize it in virtual reality"


C 
The WUaS Press will now have published 4 books -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html -
not yet available in the WUaS bookstore.











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