Thursday, July 23, 2026

Dragon blood tree (Dracaena cinnabari): developing World University and School in the Open edX Europe platform (and potentially in developing Open edX Europe as a translation platform too, as WUaS seeks to add CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages (AND CC Yale Open Yale Courses too - https://oyc.yale.edu/) to Open edX Europe, and build out ~200 world class online universities in all 200 countries' main languages).

 



A - M 7/20/26 & 7/27/26 open best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL 


Jaimin Pavashiya <j.pavashiya@abstract-technology.de>, buero-bundeskanzlerin.ad@bundestag.de, Roland Vogl <rvogl@law.stanford.edu>, norvig@stanford.edu, Sid Mazumdar <sid.mazumdar@gmail.com>, Stefania Trabucchi - Abstract-Technology <stefania.trabucchi@abstract-technology.de>, Scott Gordon MacLeod <president@worlduniversityandschool.org>, Elizabeth Warren <Elizabeth_Warren@warren.senate.gov>, rappleberry@aya.yale.edu, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de>, Janie MacLeod <jkbmacleod@icloud.com>, Edward Smyth <esmythmd@gmail.com>, Byron Hann <byronhann1@gmail.com>, Barbara van Schewick <schewick@stanford.edu>, Abstract Technology <hello@abstract-technology.de>

 

Dear buero-bundeskanzlerin.ad@bundestag.de, or Lydia Pintscher @ lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de in Berlin, all, 


Could you please forward this email to j.pavashiya@abstract-technology.de ... ?

With your Abstract-Technology.de emails newly blocked after receiving your email Jaimin, am trying again by resending also to hello@abstract-technology.de - 


Dear Jaimin & Stefania in Berlin, US Senator and former Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren, ehemalige? Bundeskanzlerin.ad Angela Merkel, Roland Vogl @ Stranford CodeX, Sid Mazumdar HHS in the US federal government, Peter Norvig, Stanford Distinguished Education Fellow and Google AI Director, all,  

Um Gottes willen weiter (wie Sie in Bayern /Bavaria sagen, wieder)! ... And thanks for laying out your Abstract-Technology.de position further re developing World University and School in the Open edX Europe platform (and potentially in developing Open edX Europe as a translation platform too, as WUaS seeks to add CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages (AND CC Yale Open Yale Courses too - https://oyc.yale.edu/) to Open edX Europe, and build out ~200 world class online universities in all 200 countries' main languages).

1 A
I appreciate the funding and contractual scope for information technology projects' language & thinking, useful for federal government's' funding too, that you share - 

Jaimin Pavashiya

4:37 AM (5 hours ago)
to Stefania, me
Dear Scott,

Thank you for the follow-up and for the additional context on World
University and School.

Our position remains as set out in my note of July 20:
Abstract-Technology's engagements are delivered exclusively on a paid,
contractual basis to funded institutions with clearly defined scopes. We
are not in a position to explore speculative or hypothetical
arrangements, nor to engage on prospective growth scenarios ahead of
confirmed funding.

Should WUaS in future secure allocated funding tied to a specific,
scoped requirement - for example a defined platform build with a
confirmed budget, timeline and decision-making stakeholder - we would be
open to reviewing a concrete request at that point. Until then, we do
not have the capacity to take the conversation forward.

I will not be joining the Weekly Business Meeting on July 27, and I
would ask once more to be removed from the recurring meeting CC list and
the related mailing threads, as these sit outside the scope of a
commercial conversation.

We genuinely wish World University and School every success with its
mission.

Best regards,
---
Jaimin Pavashiya
Junior Sales Manager and Junior Project Manager



2 Aa
Here's the SimplerGrants.gov

Council on Federal Financial Assistance (COFFA)

COFFA Community Meeting on June 30th 2026

June 2026 COFFA Community Meeting

recording

https://youtu.be/AeHXvMamcnc


... where they mention, for example, non-profit organizations e.g. my / WUaS being able to newly add someone to write a WUaS grant .... 

but this could take a very long time re the US federal government, and SimplerGrants.gov might want 


Abstract-Technology.de to lay out details of a
" secure allocated funding tied to a specific,
scoped requirement - for example a defined platform build with a
confirmed budget, timeline and decision-making stakeholder - we would be
open to reviewing a concrete request at that point."



2 Bb
Might Abstract-Technology.de have worked with the US federal government before with such scope & language in other projects, and could you possibly let WUaS know of the people involved in such contractual and scoped agreements, or similar? 


2 C
And if WUaS was able to secure such funding, and scope out such a project further, might WUaS be able to matriculate our first online Bachelor's degree class on around January 1, 2027? 



3 Aa 

And here's 

Elizabeth Warren

@SenWarren

Five things that are worth the money.

https://x.com/SenWarren/status/2079952462786568483

(where she mentions Yoga pants too ... )



3 B 
It's possible US Senator Elizabeth Warren could help expedite such funding, and I'm wondering if, with the speed of AI and ML and information technologies now informing eg the US federal government, whether we might even be able to matriculate such a first WUaS undergraduate class even by Tue September 1, 2026, but think this may be unrealistic given the upcoming holiday month for many of August 2026.



4 Aa 
I removed your email addresses yesterday from the WUaS Weekly Business Meetings' emails (loosely conducted in the manner of unprogrammed  NtF Friends' Quakers - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/07/adirondack-high-peaks-wilderness-ny.html)


4 B
and have added some of our recent correspondence in these regards to the M 7/20/26 WUaS Weekly Business Meeting Agenda and News - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/07/adirondack-high-peaks-wilderness-ny-m.html & https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/07/adirondack-high-peaks-wilderness-ny.html) 



5 A
In a further enormous potential Abstract-Technology-World Univ and Sch project, how to build in to adding MIT OCW in 7 languages to Open edX Europe the development of a realistic virtual earth for STEM research, & potentially to connect most every <2500 MIT OCW to the development of a realistic virtual earth as STEAM field sites and classrooms ? And please see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article "Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: #WorldUniversityINSchool" updated March 2, 2024 - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 . 


5 Bb
And as WUaS seeks to become ~200 world class RESEARCH universities in all 7159 living languages - 

How to build in to adding #MITOCW in 7 languages to #OpenEdXEurope the dev of a #RVEforSTEM research w #AbstractTechnologyDE & @WorldUnivAndSch & pot. to connect most every <2500 MIT OCW to a #RealisticVirtualEarth as #WUaSfieldSites & for #AIandMLWUaS & see https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 ?

And think #GoogleStreetView with #GTimeSlider, #GMaps, #GEarth, #GeminiAI and the #3DgroupBuildable #VirtualWorld of #SecondLife ...



https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scott-macleod-4691a011a_mitocw-openedxeurope-rveforstem-activity-7485768442508234752-rqXr

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottgkmacleod_mitocw-openedxeurope-rveforstem-share-7485768745156804608-s5LC/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/world-university-and-school_mitocw-openedxeurope-rveforstem-activity-7485768016211779584-NuuI



And Visit the Harbin Gate

here

~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~

and 'walk' down the road to Middletown, California, in Google Street View

{and WIKI-add your photos from below the OLD Harbin gate}



Reed College Harbin Book Picture Virtual Reality with Google #Streetview 2017


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/Subjects)



- #ScottGKMacLeod

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,

World University & School (WUaS)

- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~



Scott MacLeod's

Naked Harbin Ethnography:          

Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin

by Scott MacLeod

sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool. org

Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn

UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

Academic Press at World University and School

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html



http://www.scottmacleod. com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~





5 B
but not necessarily for the development of a realistic virtual earth for genetics, a realistic virtual earth for quantum, a realistic virtual earth for aging reversal and a realistic virtual earth for extreme longevity genetic drug therapies emerging, and a realistic virtual earth for pharmaceuticals' development.



6 A
Asked Gemini AI - 

Is the Open EdX Europe platform in all European Union languages or most of them or how could it be developed for this & potentially by free-to-students' World Univ & Sch adding CC4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ (some of which are outside the EU) & ocw.mit.edu to it?



Language Support in Open edX

The Open edX platform itself does not inherently come pre-configured in every single official European Union language out-of-the-box, but it has robust internationalization architecture managed largely through community localization projects on Transifex.

Major European languages—such as French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Latvian, and Estonian—either have complete or near-complete translation strings (frequently hitting 98–100% completion metrics via the Open edX Translation Working Group). However, smaller regional or official EU minority languages may still lack full native interface localization unless specifically built out.

Development Pathways for Full Multilingual Expansion

To scale an open education ecosystem to cover all EU languages (and beyond), a deployment can utilize a multi-layered approach:

  1. Transifex & Community Crowdsourcing: Open edX relies on GNU gettext translation files (.po/.mo) and react-intl for JavaScript components. Expanding platform support to additional languages involves pulling localization packs from the central openedx-translations repository or initiating localized community projects for missing European tongues.
  2. Dynamic AI-Driven Content Translation: While platform UI strings are static, integrating modern LLM-based translation pipelines (similar to how edX deploys automated course translations across massive catalogs) allows text, transcripts, and assessment materials to be dynamically translated into dozens of languages on demand.

Integrating CC-BY Creative Commons MIT OCW Content

Integrating open educational resources—such as MIT OpenCourseWare materials available under Creative Commons licenses—into a multi-language Open edX environment involves a structured pipeline:

  • Ingestion via Open Learning XML / Studio: MIT OCW courses (and mirrored repositories like translated collections) can be structured and imported into Open edX’s course authoring tool (Studio) using standard course export/import formats or XBlock components.
  • Licensing Alignment: Because MIT OCW courses are typically licensed under Creative Commons (such as CC BY-NC-SA or similar variants, while specific projects utilize CC 4.0 frameworks), maintaining attribution and open-access compliance is natively supported by Open edX's architecture, which allows course teams to clearly display licensing metadata on course footers and about pages.
  • Multilingual Course Structuring: By organizing translated modules (derived from repositories containing multi-language subsets) as localized runs or parallel track offerings within an Open edX instance, learners can seamlessly switch between language tracks while retaining the core open curriculum.


7 A

On around July 4th, Tweeted - 

WUaS accreditation in Germany in English & German on an Open edX Europe platform ? 





8 A
As you may know too, World University and School is in Wikidata, Wikimedia & Wikipedia's backend structured knowledge database in about ~342 languages, also based in Berlin - & re Lydia Pintscher above  - lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de.



; Wednesday 22 July 2026 -

updated from 2017 below

How best to ''anticipate assistive technologies''' resources re the WUaS Assistive Technologies' wiki subject page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Assistive_Technologies - if possible, which will then emerge in our new wiki - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org - planned for Wikipedia / Wikidata's 348 languages?

And see - 



9 Aa

And in terms of WUaS students, WUaS is seeking to code for speakers of all 7159 living languages (for open wiki schools, for people to people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning), and from there, to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet from here, each a Wikidata PIN # - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and not only to facilitate free universal education, both with degrees and as wiki-schools, but also potentially to end poverty, eg by distributing Stanford Min Pi Cryptocurrency -  https://minepi.com/sgkmac (where WUaS has a partnering email with Pi cryptocurrency) - to most of these, and especially potentially to the poorest say 1 billion people - with online highest quality free universal education.


10 Aa 
In all of this World University and School WUaS continues to grow a worldwide abolition movement to abolish the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, drugs, violence, car theft, military targeting etc industries internationally, and their latent networks of violence, and thus to protect people from international organized crime, for example. And see - 


... with both of their fathers ministers too ... - Dear #FrauAngelaMerkel Mrs. @theresa_may @gcmodernslavery #PeterNorvigGoogleAIDirector: In growing a #WUaSabolition #WorldwideAbolitionMovement


#FrauAngelaMerkel Mrs. @theresa_may #PeterNorvigGoogleAIDirector How best to develop #FreeToStudentsWUaS' @WorldUnivAndSch w MIT OCW in 7 langs w @AtlanticPARTN eg #EnglandWUaS https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/England & w @UniofOxford #GermanyWUaS https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Germany + ? https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/06/phawngpui-blue-mountain-national-park.html ~

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2071015280759988451

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2071015428726677935

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2071016067418533895

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2071016398151905601

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2071015723699486859

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2071016873085501488


Retweeting - 

It was a pleasure to host Angela Merkel this morning at the @AtlanticPARTN.

As one of the most influential European political leaders of the past two decades, she has helped shape many of the debates that continue to define Europe today.




Friendly NtF Quaker greetings, abolitionally, Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga), best regards, 
Scott





PS
Do any of you in Berlin get to see such remarkable performances by the Berlin Philharmonic (and great to be able to hear this online from the SF Bay Area, but not yet in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForMusic, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForJamming too in real real time, or quasi real time) - 


Verdi: #VerdiMessaDaRequiem ... Play / sing w in #RealisticVirtualEarth?


Giuseppe Verdi: #VerdiMessaDaRequiem https://youtube.com/shorts/57f078xzXdk #BerlinPhilharmonic To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/Symphony_Orchestra_at_World_University_and_School & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/Opera Play / sing w in #RealisticVirtualEarth?


https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2077896592347250895

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2077896065744040432

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2077896514916249918

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2077896650908147934



PPS
Interview with Jaimin Pavashiya at Learntec 2026 








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