Thursday, November 12, 2015

Lark bunting: Presentation in downtown SF on Tuesday, November 24th at 11am on "Donation of CC WUaS to CC Wikidata update", Hope too to get WUaS MediaWiki up and running again and begin developing with it in machine learning, and especially SPARQL and OWL, Glad too to have given a Lightning Talk recently on November 5th at Stanford at 5th Annual DBpedia conference


Presentation in downtown SF on Tuesday, November 24th at 11am on 

"Donation of CC WUaS to CC Wikidata update" 


Glad to be giving a Lightning Talk at the Wikimedia Foundation on Montgomery Street on Tuesday, November 24, 2015 around 11 am PST. It will be streamed with others in a Google Hangout here -

https://plus.google.com/events/c6sg7qi47i8a2d23smootvjf09o

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Hope too to get WUaS MediaWiki up and running again and begin developing with it in especially SPARQL and OWL, i.e. with machine learning,.


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Glad too to have given a Lightning Talk recently on November 5th at Stanford at 5th Annual DBpedia conference

DBpedia

wiki.dbpedia.org/

This event featured talks from Yahoo!, IBM Watson, Blippar, Netflix and Stanford, as well as World University and School.


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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightning_Talks ...

Lightning Talks

The monthly Lightning Talks are an opportunity for teams @ WMF and in the Community to showcase a milestone, recent and exciting developments, or releases to the rest of the foundation and the movement as a whole, as these talks will be open to our communities. These talks are open to all WMF staff members to attend or present.
Teams can sign up for a ten-minute slot for their presentation and should present something more substantial than a sprint iteration. Each presentation should be 10 minutes or less. The formal part should be no longer than 5 minutes, the remainder is for questions.
Too many questions to answer in the allotted time? No worries, your lightning talk will be a great candidate for a future Tech Talk.

How to attend[edit | edit source]

The Lightning Talks are hosted at the Wikimedia Foundation typically every 4th Tuesday of the month at 11:00 Pacific Time in the 5th Floor Collab Space. The schedule may change, see below for a list of confirmed Lightning Talks.
The Lightning Talks will be presented via Google Hangout for remotees to watch live or stream later. A link to watch the meeting live will be provided in advance of the talks and a YouTube recording will be provided following each event. You can also join the conversation and participate in Q&A after each Lightning Talk by connecting to the IRC channel: #wikimedia-techconnect

Upcoming Lightning Talks[edit | edit source]

Please make sure to post the link to your slides at least a couple hours prior to the talks. Also, a reminder to upload your slides to Commons (in the category "Lightning Talks") after they are complete.

November 2015[edit | edit source]

When: Tuesday, November 24th: 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT (1800 UTC)
Where:
Please sign-up for the November 2015 Lightning Talks in the table below.
NumberNameTopicRemote or in-person?Link to your slides
1Danny HornResults of the Community Tech surveyin-person
2Marcel Ruiz FornsPageview APIremote
3Dmitry BrantNew features in the Android Appremote
4Andrew Russel GreenBanner historyremote
5Scott MacLeodDonation of CC WUaS to CC Wikidata updatein-person
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A/V Tips for Presenting[edit | edit source]

WMF's Office IT has created two one-page documents to help presenters be most effective when presenting to an audience on the 5th floor lounge and a remote audience.

Ideas/Nominations for Future Lightning Talks[edit | edit source]

Tentative Talks
  • December 2015

    Past Lightning Talks[edit | edit source]

    October 2015[edit | edit source]

    When: Tuesday, October 27th: 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT (1800 UTC)
    Where:
    NumberNameTopicRemote or in-person?Link to your slides
    1Andrew OttoEventLogging on KafkaRemote
    2Tina JohnsonNewsletter Extension for MediawikiRemotehttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1b0TEn6MEo7AhsBmYZx9WnrGyNSQsgWlX4XaHyHlAeo4/edit?usp=sharing
    3Dibya SinghReinvent Translation SearchRemotehttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1v5P57gub0C13_nKX8Xs3enqW5vVBTe96UfHRXtFCOZY/edit?usp=sharing

    September 2015[edit | edit source]

    When: Tuesday, September 22nd: 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT (1800 UTC)
    Where:
    NumberNameTopicRemote or in-person?Link to your slides
    1Moriel SchottlenderSplitting notifications in Echo popupin person
    2Marcel Ruiz FornsEventLogging Data Retention Auditremote
    3Frédéric BolducGraph editing in VisualEditorremote
    4Stas MalyshevWikidata Query Service Updateremote

    5Sumit AsthanaWikidataPageBanner extensionremoteSlides (PDF)

    August 2015[edit | edit source]

    When: Tuesday, August 25th: 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT (1800 UTC)
    Where:
    NameTopicRemote or in-person?Link to your slides
    Leila ZiaLink recommendationin person(gdocs link)
    Brion VibberVideo updates (ogv.js, VP9)Remote(gdocs link)
    Pine and Thelmadatter and Anna Koval (WMF)Community presentation (primarily about Wikimedia content development rather than technical issues but with mentions of multimedia and Wikimetrics; this presentation will take place only if there is time after technical presentations): Wikimedia in Education video from Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher EducationRemoteVideo on Commons.
    Video on YouTube.

    June 2015[edit | edit source]

    When: Tuesday, June 23rd: 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
    Where: 5th Floor Collab Space
    Remotees: The Lightning Talks will be presented using BlueJeans Video Conferencing Software for remotees to watch live or stream later.
    Lightning Talks meeting URL: https://bluejeans.com/362967934
    NameTopicRemote or attending in person?Link to your slides
    Joseph AllemandouPageview CountsRemote

    Slides: Google Drive / Commons
    Stas MalyshevWikidata Query Service StatusIn PersonSlides here
    Dan AndreescuDashiki: dashboards configured on-wikiRemoteSlides
    Yuri Astrakhan & Max SemenikGraphs, MapsRemote & In Person
    James DouglasJS + types === <3 code="">In-personslides.html











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    Wednesday, November 11, 2015

    Willow Ptarmigan: Just went to a Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders' Talk with Rebecca Lynn which was fascinating, Asked her afterward about Creative Commons' licensing and venture capital, as oxymoronic, mentioning World University and School's plans to offer online best STEM CC OpenCourseWare-centric medical schools, Had the good fortune also to meet Stanford Professor of Business Tom Byers who interviewed for example Laurene Powell Jobs some time ago, Developing WUaS because it's fascinating and will help a lot of people, Happy 125th anniversary, Stanford: The Wind of Freedom Blows ~ and for World University and School as well!


    Just went to a Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders' Talk with Rebecca Lynn which was fascinating:

    https://events.stanford.edu/events/536/53619/
    http://www.morgenthaler.com/information-technology/team/rebecca-lynn/

    I asked her afterward about Creative Commons' licensing and venture capital, as oxymoronic, mentioning World University and School's plans to offer online best STEM CC OpenCourseWare-centric medical schools (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School) and teaching hospitals online (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital), in most countries' main languages, since she's interested in health care as an investment. She's also a lawyer and went to UC Berkeley's law school.

    Creative Commons may be a kind of moat in language she uses to describe businesses in which the firms where's she's a partner might invest.

    Might she become a WUaS Board Member? I may explore asking her eventually.


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    After meeting her and asking her a question, I had the good fortune to meet and talk briefly with Stanford Professor of Business Tom Byers (https://profiles.stanford.edu/thomas-byers), who also went to UC Berkeley, who interviewed for example Laurene Powell Jobs some time ago:

    Laurene Powell Jobs: Injecting Innovation into Intractable Systems [Entire Talk]


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cL-K2JjaoA


    He asked me where I live and I said in the East Bay Hills, and I also mentioned that I was developing WUaS. He asked me why I was developing World University and School, and I said because it's fascinating and will help a lot of people, and that we'd like to become the Stanford of the Internet. He then asked how I came to develop WUaS, and I said it began in a course I was teaching on Harvard's virtual world, and I've just continued to develop it since then (2007) (as a kind of leading).


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    Noticed too that in this series last week, Scott Cook, founder of Intuit was the speaker - http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3594 - whom Tom introduced in this Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders' series - http://etl.stanford.edu/. I wish I had come to this, since WUaS may seek to develop with such financial software, but I'm glad we can watch this video.


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      Retweeted
    On this day in 1885, the Founding Grant to establish the university was signed:
    Embedded image permalink

    https://twitter.com/Stanford/status/664499462581198848

    http://facts.stanford.edu/about/

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    Happy 125th anniversary, Stanford: The Wind of Freedom Blows ~ and for World University and School as well!
    Happy 125th anniversary Stanford: The Wind of Freedom Blows ~ and for World University and School as well!


    https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/664638843321085952


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    Tuesday, November 10, 2015

    Flowering kudzu: Electric bicycles with an 100 mile range?, Liked the Juiced, Kalkhoff without an 100 mile range, Would like to see these electric bicycles rated in Consumer Reports or similar, Riding an electric bicycle from the east bay hills of the SF Bay area over Skyline Drive and into SF and back, Friendly/Quakerly concern about reversing climate change, To Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles at World University and School


    Electric bicycles with 100 mile range (for under $1000)?

    Optibike -
    https://optibike.com/long-range-touring/

    Hi Power Cycles -
    36mph 110 Mile Range Lithium Powered Ebike Commuter 3000w
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0LytDZmHf4

    Outrider USA -
    http://outriderusa.com/pages/electric-bike-range


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    And I'd like to see these electric bicycles rated in Consumer Reports or similar ...


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    When I tried riding a few electric bicycles I found in San Francisco bicycle stores about 9 months ago, I enjoyed


    Juiced electric bicycles

    as most comfortable -

    http://www.juicedriders.com


    Kalkhoff electric bicycles

    as potentially the best designed for durability and road-worthiness, with potentially the best-designed battery, but not comfortable enough -

    http://www.kalkhoff-bikes.com/en/e-bike-info.html


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    I'd like to be able to ride on an electric bicycle from where I live in the east bay hills of the SF Bay area (in Canyon) over Skyline Drive and into SF, over multiple hills and back, and with full back and front panniers and as a nearly 6'4" tall person weighing nearly 200 pounds, with ease and enough battery power, and float up the last hill to where I live.

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    I road with a ZAP electric motor (like this: http://www.electricscooterparts.com/images1/zapkitdx200.jpg) on my Schwinn Voyageur 18 speed touring bicycle for many years while living in SF in the 1990s (while teaching yoga), and because I lived near the top of Market Street, but the battery didn't have enough power to get back up Market Street to my home at the end of the day.


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    I was also riding out of a Friendly/Quakerly concern about reversing climate change.


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    To Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles at World University and School -
    http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles



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    Monday, November 9, 2015

    Chukar partridge: Sa, Nov 14, 2015 OPEN ONLINE Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School


     


    November 14, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School

    World University and School
    {Open} Business Meeting – Agenda (hour-long meeting)
    November 14, 2015
    9 a.m., Pacific Time


    Email - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - if you'd like to participate.


    In preparation for World University and School's open monthly business meeting on Sat. November 14th at 9 am Pacific Time in a G+ group video Hangout from this related G+ Profile page - https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodWUaS/posts (from which you should be able to click "JOIN HANGOUT") - I think everyone should use a gmail address, - and have added each other to their circles. 


    1. Welcome and Greetings


    News:

    Greetings!

    NEWS about World University and School: 

    1 WUaS's OPEN monthly business meeting meets this Saturday November 14th at 9 am PT. Email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if interested in participating, and see WUaS's blog below for further WUaS business meeting information, as well as the developing agenda here - 


    2 WUaS needs your help. You can make 501 (c) (3), U.S., federal, tax-deductible contributions directly to World University and School, P.O. Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, California, 94516. Alternately, you can give by credit card or PayPal account here at http://worlduniversityandschool.org.  

    3 CC WUaS seeks undergraduate applicants to apply next autumn 2016 and matriculate online in the autumn of 2017 for free CC degrees, first in English; WUaS is open now as a wiki (editable web pages) for you to teach at, learn from and create with.  

    4 WUaS is looking forward to being a "real entrepreneurial client" in UC Berkeley course ""New Business Counseling Practicum and Seminar" with Boalt Law Professor Will Kell in the new year. 

    5 WUaS gave away CC World University and School (WUaS to CC Wikidata last week ... yup ... the whole thing ... Creative Commons' licensing is curious however ... http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/10/donation-of-cc-world-university-school.html and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/10/wild-bactrian-camel-wikidata-donation.html ... and WUaS still plans to develop online courses in many languages (e.g. CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) toward free CC degrees, accredit, and help to build WUaS, planned in all 7938+ languages in the great inter-lingual Wikidata database (written for Wikipedia's 300 languages) and with machine learning. In seeking to become the Harvard of the Internet in all countries' main languages, WUaS doesn't know of any other Universities developing around machine learning. 












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    Sunday, November 8, 2015

    Lions in trees: ALL Libraries & ALL Museums in ALL 7,097 Living Languages in Realistic Virtual Earth from UNDERSTAND Google Street View, "Library Resources" and "Museums" at WUaS (in ALL Languages) ... and as "place" and "field sites" too, Open a book in any library in any language and read it then and there ... Visit a piece of art in storage in any museum in any language ... and with a WUaS universal translator including developing machine learning ...


    ALL Libraries & ALL Museums in ALL 7,938 Languages in Real Virtual Earth from

    UNDERSTAND Google Street View -
    https://www.google.com/maps/streetview/understand/


    (Street View may well develop or WUaS may develop something related)

    Library Resources' beginning wiki subject page at WUaS -
    https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources - …
    (for ALL online Libraries in all languages planned in a film-realistic, interactive, 3D and group-buildable virtual earth / virtual universe in something like in Google Street View/Maps/Earth with OpenSim/Second Life)

    Museums wiki subject at WUaS -
    https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Museums - ...

    (for ALL online Museums similar to WUaS Libraries above)

    ... and as place and field sites too.


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    Open a book in any library in any language and read it then and there online ...

    Visit a piece of art in storage in any museum in any language ...


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    and with a WUaS universal translator including developing machine learning -
    https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator - ...



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    Saturday, November 7, 2015

    Waters: 36 slides from UC Berkeley talk on F Nov 6 2015 - "Naked Harbin and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy: Sharing a New Digital Methodology with Tourism Studies, Science & the Social Sciences ~ Methodologies for Ethnographically Studying Virtual Place: Virtual Harbin"




    Naked Harbin and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy:

    Sharing a New Digital Methodology with Tourism Studies, Science & the Social Sciences ~


    Methodologies for Ethnographically Studying Virtual Place: Virtual Harbin
    36 slides from UC Berkeley talk on F 11/6/15
       https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tAhXFinq8xm8BDFcceoHsNBHJi0wpS0HDFh40PXsQ2I/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

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    (My video recording in a Hangouts on Air didn't work out, so there is no video)
    Scott MacLeod

    UC Berkeley TSWG ~ http://tourismstudies.org/

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    I was glad that many University of California professors attended my talk above, including Professors Nelson Graburn (and his wife Kathy), and Dean and Juliet Flower MacCannell and Larry Michalak, as well as 2 graduate students from France/Switzerland, 1 from the U.S., and 2 from China/Nepal.

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    Friday, November 6, 2015

    Garden: Robin Goodrin Nordli's Stanford show "Virgins to Villains" - Shakespeare's women's roles, My UC Berkeley talk this evening at 5pm on Naked Harbin and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy as a new digital methodology, A recording should be here http://youtube.com/helianth afterward :-)


    Hi Donald,
     
    Twas greatly inspired and impressed by
    Robin Goodrin Nordli's Stanford performance the other evening - from "Virgins to Villains." I asked her a question afterward about the potential for ensemble Shakespeare acting in a 10 person Google group video Hangout ... and even possibly improvisation online in a Hangout ... 




    I also emailed her that in developing CC World University and School (which is like CC Wikipedia in 300 languages with CC MIT OCW in 7 languages), we'd like to offer innovative online acting classes for matriculated students eventually, first in English. maybe she'll become an instructor. She's taught in Road Scholar.

    She's acted in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 22-29 seasons now and is dynamic.

    I think you'd enjoy her acting if you have the chance to see her - at Cal Shakes possibly.

    Enjoyed her humor and her versatility as an actress greatly! She's a wit and she quips :) very interactively and engagingly ...

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    My talk should be accessible live in video this evening from here at 5p PT and 8pm Eastern time https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ctqqc7gh8b0r21nhikbcmfktrgo.

    UC Berkeley "Naked Harbin and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy" talk this evening which is related to my upcoming Harbin ethnographic book - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - (with an offer from the University of Toronto Press) - http://tourismstudies.org/ and http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2015.htm - with more about this here -
    http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/10/blue-and-yellow-macaw-glad-to-be-giving.html. I plan to stream this to a Google group video Hangout beginning at 5p Pacific Time from - https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodRainbow/posts (helianth@gmail.com).



    Fondly,
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