Saturday, June 27, 2020

Hypericum calycinum: Minutes for open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on Sat. June 20, 2020

Dear World Universitians, and friends,

Here and attached are the Minutes for June 20, 2020 Minutes for 1) World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting, & 2) the WUaS Corp:


Minutes for open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on Sat. June 20, 2020
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-20-2020-minutes-for-open-wuas.html

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/hypericum-calycinum-minutes-for-open.html

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

Sincerely, Scott
Scott G.K. MacLeod's Research
 CV: https://goo.gl/JZheSb
http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm

http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress



World University and School 


Minute 1

World University and School will potentially offer edX courses to our WUaS matriculating undergraduate class this autumn for free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare Bachelor degrees.

You'll find our 6 planned CC-4 OCW Bachelor degree majors here -

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

- which are English, History, Business, EECS, General Engineering, and General Science majors, and also in the WUaS Course Catalog -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing

Besides best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare (in 4 languages) and edX courses in general, WUaS also seeks to offer potentially these brand-new

edX ORAP courses-
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10huGunGcPQQpsoJicL8ZDUrBaOKxtA5ODgOPKfsYokM/edit?usp=sharing.



Also, Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in the Sinhala language, is begun, and in Google Sites - to reach out in Sinhala to Sri Lankan students who speak English, to matriculate online at WUaS in English this autumn! ~


ශ්‍රී ලංකා ලෝක විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය සහ පාසල
(which means World University and School of Sri Lanka) ~
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka

World University and School's home page itself in Google Sites ~
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/


If a student matriculates for a 4 year free-to-students' best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric Bachelor degree, she or he will potentially get a certificate upon completing each edX course.


Students would get a list of possible introductory, general education courses (in their area of interest) for the year, pick their courses, and begin to study these upon matriculating online.



Minute 1-A

Regarding
online University libraries for WUaS undergraduates -

Besides online interlibrary loan, WUaS seeks to partner with other universities for sharing library resources. And often universities with libraries can make partnerships possible if one's university has resources to share.

While World University and School's Library Resources - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources - are small, WUaS can share the WUaS Press's actual-virtual Harbin ethnographic book (as a kind of text book even), and 3 books of poetry also published by the WUaS Press, - to partner with great universities' online libraries.



Minute 2

Growing Board & Universitian participation

WUaS continues to invite you to participate in WUaS's open Monthly Business Meeting (hour long on 3rd Saturdays, and conducted loosely in the manner of Friends / Quakers).




Minute 2-A

Re WUaS's Monthly Business Meeting (where WUaS's legal decisions are made and minuted too), 

and World University and School (worlduniversityandschool.org) licensing:
i
World University & School is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 Corporation legal entity in the U.S.

See World University and School at Guidestar.org affiliated with the IRS:
http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx


ii
is a non-profit in the state of California
(C3289561 - 04/26/2010 - ACTIVE - WORLD UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL - CALIFORNIA - https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/)


iii
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/




and The WUaS Corporation (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html) licensing:

The Academic Press at WUaS, and WUaS Educational Services' store, regarding 

The WUaS Corporation is a for-profit general stock company legal entity in the state of California
(C401805 - 04/21/20-  ACTIVE -  WUAS CORPORATION -  CALIFORNIA - https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/)





Minute 3

WUaS invites you to join the World University and School Board; please email

- info @ worlduniversityandschool.org

if interested in exploring this opportunity.


Minute 3-A
The WUaS Corporation may explore collaboration opportunities with Stanford Law SVDX (Silicon Valley Directors' Exchange) for further Board Members as well. Please let WUaS know if you would be interested in joining the WUaS Corporation Board especially.





Minute 4

Regarding a
Realistic Virtual Earth

WUaS seeks to develop in and facilitate developing a Realistic Virtual Earth.
And here are the beginnings of World University and School in Google Street View / Maps / Earth -
 https://www.google.com/maps/place/World+University+%26+School/@37.8343827,-122.1635866,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xbc76546d8b81c2e7!8m2!3d37.8343827!4d-122.1635866

and
https://www.google.com/search?q=World+University+%26+School&ludocid=13580134555851014887


Please see too, and add to, if inclined, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory #hashtag, for example, on Twitter (or here:) - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click - :)


Regarding a realistic virtual earth in Google Street View, please visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate
http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~) and explore 'walking' down the 'road' 4 'miles' to 'amble' around Middletown, CA (since it isn't possible to enter into a realistic virtual Harbin at this time - re #RealisticVirtualHarbin - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click - for research and soaking).




Minute 4-A

Realistic Virtual Earth for Robotics

WUaS seeks to facilitate developing, hypothetically, the 3D virtual world of educational MineCraft (with its Lego scale) > into > Google Poly (a library of 3D objects), and potentially for patenting actual-virtual objects even, - in addition to with adding Brick Street View (where a brick refers to a Lego brick) with Google Street View, into which one can add photos and videos, and which would be integrated with Google Maps and Earth (at the cellular and atomic levels too);

WUaS seeks to facilitate developing, hypothetically a film-to-3D App for this too.




Minute 5

WUaS Home Robotics

WUaS seeks to offer "Home Robotics" courses and opportunities emerging from the idea of https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ - and potentially with courses offered via the edX platform, for World Univ & Sch's EECS, General Engineering, and General Science majors, esp - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics?src=hashtag_click (and even for learning machine learning)

- and with these 3 Lego robotics' kits (to start)

Mindstorms

Spike Prime

We Do 2.0





Minute 6

Brainwave headset research at WUaS

WUaS seeks to explore facilitating brain and brainwave headset research with language, - for ease of computing - in English, and in Turkish and Turkey to begin even (with a 'swimmer's cap' for brain signal in fabric instead) ...per Armagan Amcalar - and with his using JavaScript - and in all of World Univ & Sch's planned 7,117 living languages and ~200 countries even.

See:
Armagan Amcalar https://twitter.com/dashersw @TanTTLe,
https://youtu.be/sCkQ_gvmZZI To Brain_Computer_Interface https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_Computer_Interface planned in all 7,117 languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages AND https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences@WorldUnivAndSch worlduniversityandschool.org  https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6673393291838529536/ @WUaSPress ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1267660667491778562?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1267660930860462084?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1267661309274816512?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1267662043168923648?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1267662461227765761?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1267663473141403648?s=20

and -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/symphyotrichum-lanceolatum-maybe.html




Minute 7

Regarding,
Wiki (editable and thus teachable too) pages / schools at World University and School:

Brainstorming-wise,
how best and creatively to develop the WUaS wiki schools to welcome eventual matriculating students? Introduce WUaS wikis in Sri Lankan high schools - where high school students could become wiki-teachers to Youtube video even at WUaS? (ie high school students could teach something about Sri Lanka they know and love, perhaps to a Youtube video, and then post this to an existing Subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - or to a wiki subject they wiki-create).
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/plum-headed-parakeet-bagpiping-scottish.html .



Minute 7-A
Wikidata / Wikibase and WikiMedia are beginning to develop further their InfoBoxes and Templates:

See:
'[Wikimedia-l] 3,000,000 Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories' email thread on Su Jun 21, 20

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Uses_of_Wikidata_Infobox

[2] https://templatecount.toolforge.org/index.php?lang=en&namespace=10&name=Infobox


InfoBoxes in WUaS's 'front end' wiki pages - e.g.  https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - could draw information automatically from WUaS Wikidata (in 300 languages) as back end. See this Wikipedia 'Nation state' article for its infobox as example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state (where WUaS seeks to create major online universities in all ~200 countries' official languages)

Templates are in use on WUaS wikis, and have been used to update licensing information, for example; see the CC-4 licensing at the bottom of this Subjects' page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects.




Minute 8

Online WUaS Universities in other countries - 

Sri Lanka WUaS in the Sinhala language is begun and in Google Sites, accessible on smartphones especially!
WUaS seeks to reach out to Sri Lankan students who speak English in Sinhala, to matriculate in English this autumn, and then to develop Sri Lanka WUaS in Sinhala!


ශ්‍රී ලංකා ලෝක විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය සහ පාසල
(which means World University and School of Sri Lanka)
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka

Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch wiki - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka
Sinhala language wiki subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sinhala_language - planned in Sinhala.



Minute 9

Youtube WUaS Livestreams this month -

which is accessible from
World University and School's main Youtube channel -
https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch



Minute 10

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WUaS Corporation


A
WUaS is 'officially' carrying Lego Robotics, (but not yet a reseller)  - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - with these 3 kits:


LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Core Set (High School and College): https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-mindstorms-education-ev3-core-set/5003400
EV3 Resources (Software, compatibility, tutorials, lesson plans): https://education.lego.com/en-us/support/mindstorms-ev3


SPIKE Prime Core Set (Middle School 6th-8th):
https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-spike-prime-set/45678#product


WeDo 2.0 Core Set (Elementary Grades 2nd-5th):
https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-wedo-2-0-core-set/45300


Non-US Based Students need to contact a local distributor found here: https://education.lego.com/en-us/shop/find-distributor


at http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html





B
WUaS Educational Services' Store - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - is newly grown, and is now carrying 7 products for sale (3 Lego Robotics' kits), and these 4 books published by the Academic Press at World Univ and Sch:


Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin (2016) -
https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Harbin-Ethnography-Counterculture-Clothing-Optionality/dp/0692646132

Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017) –
https://www.amazon.com/Haiku-ish-Other-Loving-Harbin-Poetry/dp/0692049037.

Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018) –
https://www.amazon.com/Winding-Road-Rainbow-Harbin-Wandering/dp/0578435187

To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual reality (2019) –
https://www.amazon.com/Dance-Pools-Virtually-different-Springs/dp/0578625490.



C
WUaS seeks to facilitate UBI experiments to distribute a single cryptocurrency and in planning for universities in ~200 countries and their official languages, with law faculty and students. Also, WUaS is planning to code for matriculating students in all ~200 countries' official languages, native speakers in all 7,117 known living languages as WUaS wiki teachers and learners, and then for all 7.5 billion people on the planet - potentially for UBI experiments (in ~200 countries' languages, which our WUaS Law School would teach to) too, and significantly to potentially alleviate poverty, and even regarding newly the Google-Apple coronavirus tracing App.


See:
Fascinating and thnx-why no mention of Euro currency itself (in 19/28 EU countries)?
@vestager @ThierryBreton
Why not a #SingleCryptocurrency in most of ~200 countries/languages https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1275124468365443072?s=20 distributed by #UBIexperiments for 7.5 billion people -See UBI label: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/lotus-corniculatus-agenda-news-for.html?

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1275540214266511361?s=20


- and -
European competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on the future EU Digital Policy #tech #siliconvalley #nyc #teechpolicy #business #governmentaffairs #entrepreneur #austin #technology

https://twitter.com/SorenJuulJ/status/1275486442156781569?s=20


- and -
European Commission Executive Vice-President
@vestager on forthcoming EU digital policy #ACFrontPage

https://twitter.com/AtlanticCouncil/status/1275428292611325952?s=20




D
Text in the sidebar (of Google Street View) for Publishing to paper at WUaS Press - 

- Harbin gate house: ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress 

The WUaS Press is seeking to publish a second actual-virtual, physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book, potentially publishing it to paper from within Google Street View, with text in the sidebar. See too, for example: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/leaf-re-conceiving-book-printable-on.html.

See, the side bar in Google Street View here, in visiting the Harbin Hot Springs' gate
http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~)



E
The WUaS Press -
seeks to address questions of anti-racism, such as Orientalist questions, for example:


To the editor, Rami Daher (Architect and Professor), of a tourism studies' book in which I have a chapter, but which is not yet for sale in the WUaS Press:

"I hope my thesis of Orientalism in online UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the chapter I wrote has been an asset for your edited volume" - https://www.amazon.com/Rami-Farouk-Daher-dp-1845410505/dp/1845410505).


This book, and the books in the Academic Press at WUaS, are available for purchase here
https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity


http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress 




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World University's open monthly business meeting Agenda and News for June 20, 2020:

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-20-2020-agenda-news-for-world-univ.html

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/lotus-corniculatus-agenda-news-for.html




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