Thursday, October 24, 2019

Scintillant hummingbird: Minutes for World Univ & Sch - WUaS Monthly Business Meeting 19 Oct 2019



Minutes for Saturday October 19, 2019 World University & School / WUaS
Monthly Business Meeting



Minutes:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/10/minutes-for-world-univ-sch-monthly.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/scintillant-hummingbird-minutes-for.html



Present:
-       Larry Viehland (World Univ & Sch Board Chair, and CFO)
-       Scott MacLeod (President, CEO, Professor, Founder, Presiding Clerk +)



(Agenda from 10/17/19:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/10/agenda-for-oct-19-2019-world-university.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bright-eyes-catharanthus-roseus-agenda.html)



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The World University and School Annual Meeting will meet on Saturday, November 16, 2019 (at the next online open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting) at 9am PT.


1
World University and School is seeking our 2nd online undergraduate class of 500-2000 students for 2020 as we begin BPPE licensing for online free-to-students’ CC-4 OCW best STEAM Bachelor potentially with students from all ~200 countries around the world - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and who will be able to register and apply here - worlduniversityandschool.org

WUaS plans to develop information technology for this further in Google Education/WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki/Wikidata ... and with licensing and accreditation facilitating becoming listed in / on USA high schools' college counseling resources / web sites.


2
World Univ & Sch has a part time fund raiser position available. Please contact - info@worlduniversityandschool.org - if interested.

And World Univ and Sch continues to seek funding for first licensing with CA’s BPPE for the fees, as well as for accreditation fees, including committed funding over years. WUaS is a 501 (c) 3 tax exempt charity - https://www.guidestar.org/profile/27-3105368 - and welcomes your donations (see, too: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation).


3
NEW WUaS Livestream page - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHof-u-dlkA - accessible from
- worlduniversityandschool.org - and which records to - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch.

World Univ and Sch is also now streaming WUaS Q & A and News on Mondays at 10 am PT via LightStream video conferencing platform which records to Youtube - https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch. If you'd like to join the conversation here (about research, about academics, about becoming a student, etc.), please let me know at info@worlduniversityandschool.org ... WUaS announces these with this #Hashtag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA?src=hashtag_click - here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch.


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i.
WUaS has inquired with Google Director of AI Peter Norvig about coding CC-4 MIT OCW for students at World Univ & Sch, keeping student’s time in mind, and in so many other ways.

ii.
WUaS has recently heard back from Laurence Moroney, Lead of AI Developer Relations at Google / Artificial Intelligence Advocate at Google, and responded: 

Dear Laurence, 

Thanks so much for your email. I had included you with Denny Vrandecic, Peter Norvig, John Hennessy, Houcemeddine Turki, Wikidatans and all, and with regards to CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, because you are Lead of AI Developer Relations at Google / Artificial Intelligence Advocate at Google, - and World Univ & Sch had included you in the agenda (item 4ii) for WUaS monthly business meeting (3rd Saturdays at 9am PT) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bright-eyes-catharanthus-roseus-agenda.html - recenlty too. FYI, World Univ & Sch donated ourselves to Wikidata in 2015 for co-development and received WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence, but they're not yet interoperable. (And Wikidata is in ~300 languages, and Denny Vrandecic is its founder). WUaS is also seeking to develop our 'You at WUaS' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata Q-item - and with TensorFlow - and, for example, for A) avatar bot electronic medical records, B) possible universal basic income experiments, and for C) matriculating students in all 200 countries, and Universitians in all 7111 known living languages (like Wikipedians) ... and in planning for 7.5 billion open wiki teachers and learners at WUaS too. 

In World University and School seeking to become major online research universities in each of ~200 countries' official/main languages - and with TensorFlow - the University of Sfax in Tunisia, which is developing with Wikidata / Wikibase, seems like a good place to start (and in the Arabic language as well) for WUaS to begin to collaborate and develop. 

Here too are the beginnings of online MIT OCW-centric WUaS Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - in all ~200 countries' main languages (and potentially with Project Baseline, Stanford / Duke Universities, and Project ECHO eventually too). 

Thank you. How might WUaS further best communicate about TensorFlow and developing World University and School's "front end" (WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki) and "back end" (Wikidata / Wikibase structured knowledge database) with you - and for Universitians in 7,111 known living languages - and with regard to Sfax Medical Student Houcemeddine Turki's new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit in Tunisia? 

Sincerely, 
Scott



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World Univ & Sch has recently updated our web site - worlduniversityandschool.org - with updated logo as well as our 'WUaS Livestream' page - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHof-u-dlkA ...

(And also the WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press Web site - see below)


Thanks much to Peter Bothe for both the updated Logos, as well as the files for LightStream, and the Youtube WUaS Livestream channel background image and set up.



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WUaS Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - and online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - are planned in ~200 countries' official languages (both online).

i.
WUaS is glad to have communicated recently in these regards with University of Sfax medical student Houcemeddine Turki in Tunisia, and WUaS has written a letter of support for their "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit:


World University and School
Like MIT OCW with Wikipedia
( a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu ) 
Thursday, 24 October 2019 
To the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education, 
Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
I’m writing with a letter of support for the University of Sfax’s new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit. This will be administered from the Computer Science and Communications Department, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax in Tunisia. The group will be led by Dr. Mohamed BEN AOUICHA. The University of Sfax needs this new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit to facilitate the work of Wikimedia Researchers at the university, as part of its official research structure. The main goal of the unit is to promote and monitor research efforts about Data Engineering and Semantic Technologies within the University of Sfax. Data Engineering and Semantic Technology research is needed to improve the usage and processing of knowledge databases including wikis. Effectively, this University of Sfax group will work to develop tools to make better the quality of the linked data of Wikidata, and to use and develop Wikidata there for a variety of purposes including clinical decision support, Natural Language Processing and Education. They will also analyze the output of wikis, identify deficiencies and work to solve them. 
As president of the research university, the (MIT OCW-centric wiki) World University and School (and planning online major research universities in all ~200 countries) I’m writing in support of this project.
Sincerely, 
Scott GK MacLeod
Scott GK MacLeod
- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA, 94516
- 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. 





ii.
Dear Houcemeddine (and Mossab),

Here's the brand new Tunisia World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tunisia - a major research university planned in Arabic and French, and potentially other of the ~300 Wikipedia languages as well, (but not yet the Medical School at Tunisia World University and School or the Law School at Tunisia World University and School).

Sincerely, Scott

Have Minuted a number of related items here for World Univ & Sch's open Monthly Business Meeting on 19 Oct 2019: 
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/scintillant-hummingbird-minutes-for.html




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WUaS Law Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School - are planned in ~200 countries' official languages online.

WUaS continues to seek to collaborate and build on:

i
CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics -


ii
University Of Denver,
Sturm College Of Law (September 26-28, 2019):
Online & Hybrid Learning Pedagogy in Legal Education Conference - 



9
UC Berkeley Anthropology

Scott MacLeod will give another talk/paper in the UC Berkeley Anthropology department in March 2020, tentatively entitled - "Harbin Hot Springs, Music and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy" at the  Sorbonne and University of Geneva's UC Berkeley TOURISM AND MUSICAL IMAGINARIES' Conference http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103050552852&ca=46c4af21-fddf-466e-ac95-de8df705dced (See Scott's previous 4-5 Harbin Anthropology talks (at UC Berkeley TSWG) here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html).



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Scott MacLeod is planning too to teach newly a course entitled "Virtual Harbin" (Anthropology), in addition to "Society, Information Technology and Global University" (Sociology) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - in 2020 or 2021.



11
In World Univ & Sch's active ethics' and legality investigation with the Stanford Faculty Senate into Stanford University, the WUaS Chairman of the Board, Larry Viehland, observes that the administration makes the decisions there, and that the Stanford Senate is likely to play an advisory role.

World Univ & Sch seeks to begin to grow our WUaS faculty, and then explore related WUaS governance questions, and how to address ethics' questions as well.



12
World Univ & Sch will join a Reed College conference call on November 1, 2019, and has asked to add an agenda item about WUaS hiring Reedie interns to help begin grow World University and School. World University and School is also seeking Ph.D. student applicants from Reed College to study online for best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare Ph.D. degrees (as WUaS licenses for this with BPPE as well).

See, too:
From the microorganisms in your gut to the chemistry of smog, Reed students tackle questions that lie at the cutting edge. Check out this video of students presenting their research:
https://twitter.com/Reed_College_/status/1187110322403823616




13
WUaS Financial report
World Univ & Sch has $1,347.55 in our non-profit bank account, and hasn't begun financial operations.

(See attached financial reports).



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Multi-lingual wiki schools at WUaS:

i)
WUaS will explore collaborating
Stanford Center for Latin America's Cafecito's holds classes in Quechua and Spanish, as well as English, and some online - see: https://mailchi.mp/stanford.edu/first-cafecito-quechua-happening-tonight?e=94f78f5eea? …


ii)
The beginning of Tunisia World University and School, planned in Arabic language, as well as French and English - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tunisia -


(but not yet the Medical School at Tunisia World University and School or the Law School at Tunisia World University and School)


iii)
Thanks too to WUaS Board Member, Kyle Wagner, for the recent Twitter conversation -  https://twitter.com/hashtag/transformschoolchat?src=hashtag_click ...
#transformschoolchat ... around conditions for self-directed learning
- applicable in many languages.
See: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/arundina-bamboo-orchid-wiki-medicine.html

and, for example:
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1186438523932438528?s=20
- and -
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1186439432963944448?s=20



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World Univ & Sch is in communications with the university on a ship, Semester at Sea (and which is not yet in a realistic virtual earth, for example, that WUaS knows of).





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Minutes for September 21 2019, 2019 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting


A
WUaS and facilitating a single cryptocurrency backed by some central banks and distributed via universal basic income experiments to all 7.5 billion people each a Wikidata Q item



Glasgow hospital as example for finding families that could benefit from Universal Basic Income UBI experiments - https://twitter.com/lthomas_pg/status/1186467201408212992?



B
"To the Dance or the Pools ~ Virtually?: How Different it is to Soak at Harbin, than to Realize it in Virtual Reality,"

the next Academic Press at World University and School book is due this autumn –

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

... but not yet in a realistic virtual earth



C
WUaS Press web site updates with updated logo and upcoming book title here

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


Thanks again much to Peter Bothe for both the updated Logos (as well as the files for LightStream, and the Youtube WUaS Livestream channel background image and set up).



D
WUaS Corporation finances

The parallel legal entity, the WUaS Corporation has .01, and also hasn't begun financial operations; see the WUaS Corporation section below.


E
Could Google's TensorFlow generate a daily stock price for the WUaS Corporation (and any other corporation that works with Alphabet / Google) in each of all ~200 countries' stock markets eventually - and potentially based on the dollar, the local currency, or a single cryptocurrency with blockchain backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (and distributed via UBI experiments?








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