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June 4, 2014, 11:19 am

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Dear Professor Bahrami,

Thank you for a fascinating panel on CEO Succession Planning at Stanford recently
( https://www.law.stanford.edu/event/2014/06/02/ceo-succession-planning-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly ). I found your contributions most edifying.

While I haven't followed Mozilla's CEO succession process (your good example), and how they've planned for this over the years, Creative Commons' ( https://creativecommons.org/ ) succession process with their recent new CEO, Ryan Merkel from Canada, following on outgoing CEO Cathy Casserly, seems to have been the outcome of deliberative consideration by a focused CC board, with possibly Larry Lessig playing an important role among other Board Members. I write this only as a distant observer. Interestingly, Paul Brest is the Chair of Creative Commons organization presently, and former Dean of the Stanford Law School - https://creativecommons.org/board - and yesterday's panel was held in the Stanford building named after him.  While CC organizations themselves seem possibly to be able to be more mission-focused in a way not necessarily complicated by the profit-focus of non CC companies, as founder and CEO of World University and School, I am not an expert in these questions, but wonder also whether other thoughts came to your mind about my question about particularities of CC organizations and CEO succession planning after the panel?

Startup CC World University and School, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, seeks to be in all 7,106 languages and 242 countries, with CC (so free also) - and also planning to accredit - online Bachelor, Ph.D., law and MD degrees in large languages. Here, for example, is the beginning "Persian language" World University and School wiki subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Persian_language (check out the links to other open WUaS wiki schools and universities 2/3rds of the way down) - and the beginning "Iran" World University and School wiki subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Iran_(Islamic_Republic_of) - at World University. And here is MIT OCW's "Persian language" OpenCourseWare so far - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/persian/. WUaS would like to offer MIT OCW-centric Bachelor, Ph.D., law and MD degrees in Persian, as well as possibly International Baccalaureate high school diplomas in Persian, as well.

All the best,
Scott


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Dear John,


Thank you for a fascinating panel on CEO Succession Planning at Stanford yesterday
( https://www.law.stanford.edu/event/2014/06/02/ceo-succession-planning-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly ). I found your contributions very edifying. Let's stay in touch about Int and your great examples of former CEOs moving to the Board there.



Here's the Business Management wiki subject page at World University and School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Management - with multiple business courses from MIT OCW and their Sloan School of Management as well as some from Yale OYC, and it's editable as wiki. But there aren't any courses or sections of courses I've found that are on CEO succession planning. While there is one mention of succession planning here in a Project Management example -http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/civil-and-environmental-engineering/1-040-project-management-spring-2009/lecture-notes/MIT1_040s09_lec19.pdf - where succession planning occurs in the HR department; I've added this to the "Business Management" wiki subject page at WUaS. In Quaker-informed World University and School, and in terms of decision-making process as culture, this would occur via the nomination's committee, which would oversee HR, and eventually for the head clerk, which is a functional CEO at WUaS, as well.

Startup CC World University and School, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, seeks to be in all 7,106 languages and 242 countries, with CC (so free also), and is also planning to accredit online Bachelor, Ph.D., law and MD degrees in large languages (as well as IB High School degrees), seeking our first undergraduate class matriculating in the autumn of 2015, applying this autumn.

Looking forward to staying in touch.

All the best,
Scott

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June 5, 2014, 11:00 am

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Hi Nontheist Friends,

I learned on Sunday after San Francisco Friends Meeting that the American Sign Language (ASL) sign for "Quakers" is 'thumb twiddling' (my word for these gestures). Amused, and appreciative of the releasing meditation as well as connecting in community of silent Quaker Meetings, which this ASL sign doesn't connote, as well as of NtF community, I wondered about the ironies of languages in translation. When I looked it up on the web I found, indeed, thumb twiddling - http://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/QUAKER/2241/1.

Thinking in terms of Nontheist Friends and ASL, I next looked up on the web the sign for "Atheist" and found - http://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/ATHEIST/2014/1.


I'm curious what all of you think in terms of combining these two signs to connote NtFs in ASL. Is this a functional translation that expresses or connotes Nontheist Friends well, or in a good way we on this email list would choose?

I ask this, too, with Friendly-informed World University and School's plans to develop a universal translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator - building on Google Translate, for example, and many other translation resources, for all 7,106 languages, plus invented and dead languages plus others, for example. Language as I see it is significantly communicated with words, both written and in sound, as well as in gestures, and also in signs/symbols. ASL is a great example of a gestural language, but much gestural communication isn't necessarily a language. (What's also cool about gestural languages such as ASL is that they make possible interspecies' communication with other species of higher primates in particular; e.g. Kanzi, the Bonobo chimpanzee, and Koko, the mountain gorilla, and common chimps, too, - and some in "families" or troops per one paper by Sue Savage Rumbaugh, I think - have all learned ASL or similar, and also use logographs and signs on computers for communicating with humans).

The internet in a smartphone, for example, will facilitate much universal translation - of written and vocal language, as well as of gestural language. What's exciting about this WUaS universal translation project is that not only will it focus on all languages (with great and fascinating translation challenges ahead including image recognition), but there's also room to define, create, invent, construct and connote, with a kind of agency (NtF in this case), in the process. Which ASL signs would NtFs choose at this point before the signs for NtFs have been codified or "coined" so to speak? (Are any NtFs on this list fluent in ASL or other sign languages?)

This is just one interesting example and set of questions concerning NtFs and non-English languages, and in this case ASL - a gestural language - and one which helps deaf people communicate (and which remarkably helps generate a complex culture for deaf people as well). Where would NtFs like to head with Nontheistic Friends' thinking and representation in the translation process into multiple languages of the words "Nontheistic Friends"?

Friendly regards,
Scott

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Old growth forests: The ones who walked away from the 7/11 near Reed College

June 6, 2014, 7:11 am

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The ones who walked away from the 7/11 near Reed College


Bent-top Doug Firs
Eight months of rain, or more,
Hippie, beat and bohemian worlds,
Students bicycling home,
to their collective houses
at one or two in the morning
after living another day, night and life
in Reed's library
hanging with friends,
learning and thinking.
Is Reed's culture closing 30 years later?
This is Oregon, this is a stop
on the hippie trail ...
not from Edinburgh, Scotland,
across Europe and the Middle East to
Kerala, India, or to Tibet,  ...
but sleeping in Reed's Student Union,
whomever you are,
on your way from there to here {where?},
may be no more.
Reed's doors are locked,
Community Safety Officers
are visible,
and this didn't happen in the 1980s
at Reed.
Yet the current students I've met
are still vibrant,
and Reed seems still a dream,
a life of the mind,
a haven for hippies and thinkers,
who are students and young.

Reedies reveled in the '60s and '70s
which ripples wound
their ways into the 1980s
when I, a student,
found freedom of mind here.

I just saw my old Plant Evolution professor
yesterday; I studied Pilobolus in this course,
a fungus which pops its cap to propagate ...

Old growth forests,
Douglas-fir, Western Hemlock and Western Red Cedar forests,
are the dominant species here
in Western Oregon,
yielding only to commerce,
and profit, but within
Pacific Northwest sociality,
which is also 1960s-informed
and environmentally conscious.
What happened to alternative culture here?

Cathedral Forest Action Group
taking nonviolent direct action
in protest
to preserve the less than 1%
of remaining forest majesty ...
Cooperatives as sensible business practices,
in the resistance
to destructivenesses of modernity.

At the 7/11 little chain grocery store,
with fairly low prices,
near Reed College,
which stands out like sore thumb,
almost grotesquely -
and that's what makes it interesting
as a space bubble of modern
crass commercialism -
we got two packs of playing cards -
Kai, Chloe, Lexi and I -
and played Wizard at Lexi's,
right next to this 7/11 place of Americana,
with its unnatural garish neon lights,
its packaging that could make
an anthropologist come
alive with fascination,
but not me.
What is the culture that produced this,
so far from the natural, so far from woodcraft?
Not open from dawn to sunset,
in oneness with the winds, waves and waters,
of the Oregon coast,
7/11 corporation turns a profit from 7am to 11pm
and thus takes its name.
So be it. We shopped there, bought there -
I bought the playing cards, with my credit card,
and Chloe bought the "Souper Ramen Noodles,"
in the big sealable paper bowl -
and went next door to Lexi's
to play the card game "Wizard,"
around Lexi's wooden kitchen table ...
Like good folks gathered around the table,
to plan organizing in unions
down at the Willamette river,
or with the Wobblies,
in radical Portland fighting for social justice,
we connected, talking and sharing and playing.
I took at Taoist, not-win strategy,
and Kai won this card game.

Upon leaving Lexi's
and crossing 28th Street,
I talked with my friend Kai,
whom I love for her hippie
radiance and wonder and smarts,
and whom I know from Reed
from the 80s as co-student,
{and who has also been to Harbin and loved it}
and her daughter, Chloe,
wondering where have gone all the
Bent-top Doug Firs?

Not Le Guin's "The ones who walked away from Omelas" ~

Eight months of rain, or more,
Hippie, beat and bohemian worlds,
Students bicycling home
at one or two in the morning
after living another day, night and life
in Reed's library,

as Portland, the city of fragrant roses,
and Reed, grow through time,
and Kai's daughter says Reed's
mind expanding explorations
are still 'ahappening.

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June 7, 2014, 8:30 am

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Dear R and J,

What makes MIT OCW-centric World University and School competitive with all the other great online educational projects?

For one, World University and School is planning to accredit to offer free (since C.C. - Creative Commons' licensed), online, MIT OCW-centric (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/), university degrees and with plans for MIT OCW-centric degrees in many, many languages and countries. In addition, WUaS is wiki with plans for online schools in all 7,106 languages and 242 countries, whereas Wikipedia, which we all wrote, is in 285 languages, and they've just designed and deployed the new, amazing, C.C., interlingual, Wikidata database. No other online educational project that I know has this language or degree focus. See the beginning Admissions' wiki subject page at WUaS for degree information - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links. See these beginning "Language" and "Nation State" wiki subject pages - planned for all languages plus, and all countries - as well

Languages -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

Nation States -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States


WUaS is also seeking to become the MIT / Harvard of the internet in all 7,106 languages and 242 countries.

WUaS is MIT OCW STEM-centric, and planned for large languages.

WUaS will build on a Reed College undergraduate education to highlight the conference method online in sciences and STEM subjects.

WUaS is planning an online music school in all languages and for all instruments.


Other online educational projects by way of comparison:

edX

Stanford Coursera

Khan Academy


What could make MIT OCW-centric World University and School really competitive? Financial, Academic and Information Technological resources.

Best regards,
Scott

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In what ways can World University and School celebrate learning and students and riffing with one another as a conversation informing knowledge generation?

How to emphasize the celebration aspect of learning, and especially for high achieving students in all all languages, as well as among fFriends?


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Add what you think here, by teaching at WUaS:

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects


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Highest quality university learning resources, such as CC MIT Open Course Ware, which are STEM centric and include a central focus on science ...

Having a lot of fun talking about a subject in learning sections and while hanging out online, in talking about ideas in a serious or focused way ...

Highly engaging MIT faculty and similar in video, for planning purposes, who connect with students, as well as WUaS graduate student instructors in Google + Hangouts, and structure for this ...

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/


Making music together online generatively ...

Musical Jamming links -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Musical_Jamming#World_University_and_School_Links


as well as online learning parties ... :)

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Forests and grasslands,
glistening June day,
walking in Oregon dream.

T and M shaped this wonder,
opening the way here,
Thanks sustainable timbering.

Up past Catherine Creek,
On home land a gem,
A human made heaven.

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June 10, 2014, 1:57 pm

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Fascinating example of Beluga whale making human word sounds from the Smithsonian Magazine ...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/beluga-whale-learns-to-speak-like-a-human-88565989/ ...

Nuwer, Rachel. 2012. [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/beluga-whale-learns-to-speak-like-a-human-88565989/ Beluga Whale Learns to Speak Like a Human: Beluga whales can vocalize in a way remarkably close to human speech, according to new observations]. October 23. smithsonianmag.com.


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added to "Interspecies communication" wiki page ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Interspecies_Communications


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How could such whale-human become part of wiki WUaS Universal Translator?


WUaS Universal Translator wiki page ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator

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June 11, 2014, 1:39 pm

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Some grassroots and local approaches to Broadband Development ...

Localism Over Consolidation: An Exploration of Public Broadband Options

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbTy4Njle0k


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New America Foundation Youtube channel ...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQQMY6TyUdt5VeHpuHv_Dg


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added this to ...

WUaS Broadband Development ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Broadband_Development ...


Mobile Technologies ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mobile_Technologies ...


Cooperatives ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Cooperatives ...


Activism ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Activism ...


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Worldwide Broadband has long been part of WUaS's mission ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation

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June 12, 2014, 4:30 am

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Looking forward to gleaning what presidents of Quaker Colleges and schools in the US think about Ffriendly learning and education, at the FAHE-FCE Quaker educators' conference Haverford College in Philadelphia this weekend, and also learning about this 'guild,' as the president and head clerk of startup Ffriendly-informed, MIT OCW-centric World University and School.

http://www.haverford.edu/quakeraffairs/story.php?id=78489&u=311

http://quakerfahe.com/annual-conference/

Barclay College, Haviland, Kansas

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

Earlham School of Religion, Richmond, Indiana

Friends University, Wichita, Kansas

George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon

Global College of Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York

Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina

Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania

Malone University, Canton, Ohio

Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pennsylvania

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

Whittier College, Whittier, California

William Penn University, Oskaloosa, Iowa

Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio

Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom

How too to become the Ffriendly-informed MIT / Harvard of the Internet and in all 7,106 languages and 242 countries with these planned degrees in many languages ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links ...

while remaining wiki, open, C.C. and service oriented?


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We offer these queries* to seed our reflection, our dialogue, and our actions.

*Queries are tools for individuals and communities seeking a clearer way forward which stimulate reflection both inwardly and outwardly.



How do we build generative and nourishing relationships? With colleagues? With students?

How can we come to know that our many relationships are rightly ordered?

What are our obligations if we find that they are not?

How do we respond to the complex needs of students and colleagues – spiritual, social, intellectual and physical?

How do our history and our Quaker philosophy of truth seeking inform our educational and scholarly practices in the 21st century?

How can we bring our values—nonviolence, simplicity, environmental stewardship—into our organizations and the wider society?

How do we discern a sustainable balance in our many competing commitments?

How do we structure our organizations so that everyone has a seat at the table and a forum where each voice is genuinely heard and seriously considered?

How can we use our collective strength to cross boundaries, overcome obstacles and move towards our visionary goals?

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Piping plover chick: World University and School, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, with free degrees planned would indeed like to become the Harvard / MIT of the Internet, - with wiki schools for open teaching and learning, as one wing, in all 7,106 languages and with MIT OCW-centric free degrees in large languages, as the other wing, plus much more, Accreditation, Village University, Filming for online video outreach, How to inform WUaS with a Ffriendly / Stanford / creative and playful STEM ethos, with inter-lingual and all-language knowledge generative academic conversation?

June 13, 2014, 4:40 am

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Dear S and P,

Greetings ... and thank you for the introduction, S! Greetings, P.

World University and School, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, with free degrees planned would indeed like to become the Harvard / MIT of the Internet, - with wiki schools for open teaching and learning, as one wing, in all 7,106 languages (where Wikipedia is in at least 300 languages, and they just have built and developed an online multi-lingual database) and with MIT OCW-centric free (since C.C. - Creative Commons' licensed - and which is in 8 non-English languages) degrees in large languages, as the other wing, plus much more.  And WUaS has the green light to accredit  a) in the state of California and b) with the same organization that accredits Stanford and Berkeley and about 160 other colleges in California, and some around the world.

And in addition to participating in Village University, WUaS would enjoy reaching out especially to high achieving high school students in the Concord area, who might be interested in free and MIT undergraduate degrees - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html.

My plans are still uncertain about attending "Village University," S, unfortunately missing the Carlisle high school event and your filming P.

Thank you!

Con-cord-e,
Scott


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Hi P,

That would be great if you posted video you took of the Concord "Village University" and high school events. It could be interesting possibly to explore remixes with this as well. Here's World University and School's beginning Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch - mostly with videos from WUaS's open hour -long monthly business meeting, as well as the "Information Technology and the Network Society" course I taught both in Google + Hangouts (and on Harvard's virtual Island in Second Life) last autumn most recently.

Con-cord-e,





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How to inform WUaS with a Ffriendly / Stanford / creative and playful STEM ethos, with inter-lingual and all-language knowledge generative academic conversation?

( ... writing this while attending a FAHE - FCE Quaker conference at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, which may attract some of the highest achievers among Friends' colleges).

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Haverford College in the mid-1800s, Quaker-wise? What was it like? A farm, and where the students' families all knew each other?



Haverford in the 60s and early 70s? Pretty free spirited and out there and exploratory, with a lot of bright and some hippie Quaker students, in part?



Haverford, which began in 1833, today, socioculturally?

A little more closed, and consumerist-minded, like the rest of the US, compared with the questioning of the 1960s, but still with a lot of smart and learning-oriented Quaker vision for a better world?


Pictures, videos and archives?


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May add resources I find here -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends



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Interesting Wikipedia article about Haverford here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haverford_College - where related resources may be found as well.

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Haverford College Arboretum

Haverford duck pond in three seasons

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Natural Hot Springs: A Nontheist F/friends Letter: "Unprogrammed Quaker Meeting and Soaking in the Harbin Warm Pool as Enjoyable Biological Meditations," Email to Nontheist Friends about this

June 15, 2014, 4:37 pm

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Friends Journal recently published (Friends Journal June/July 2014:25-26) an edited version of this letter to FJ  in its most recent issue which I submitted in March 2014:



March 15, 2014
Friends Journal
1216 Arch Street,
Suite 2A
Philadelphia, PA   19107
(215) 563-­‐8629
(800) 471-­‐6863
forum@friendsjournal.org


Dear Friends,

As a nontheistic f/Friend and a member of San Francisco Friends’ Meeting, I greatly appreciate Quaker vision and community and caring, as well as the centering and gathering of unprogrammed Quaker Meeting with F/friends. My positive experiences with a) evolutionary biology (thinking about this as salutary, personal experience), and b) the, for me, parallel-with-Quaker-Meeting, ‘relaxation response meditation, as biology’ in the Harbin Hot Springs’ warm pool (my actual anthropological field site for ethnographic books that I’m writing), inform my nontheistic Quakerism and move me toward nontheistically Friendly shared seasoning. The notion of God -- for me among Quakers since the mid-1970s -- has never held much meaning, whatsoever, and I’m sympathetic, and find some unity, with the more than a decade-long active conversation focusing on ‘nontheism’ on the nontheistic Friends’ email list, as well as in face-to-face NtF gatherings.

I continue to learn to experience centeredness and gathering while connecting inwardly in unprogrammed Quaker Meeting, and among Friends generally, in the light of nontheistic f/Friendliness - which I personally think of and experience as f/Friendly biological 'relaxation response’ meditations. And it's particularly the enjoyable parallels between a) soaking in the Harbin warm pool, and b) sitting in Quaker Meeting, in what I'm calling, again, their "de facto 'relaxation response’ meditations, biologically," that are significant for me and that I'll continue to enjoy exploring with Friends.

Scott MacLeod
San Francisco, CA

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See, too, this related blog entry from March 2014:

Black-headed ibis: 'Before' and 'after' of some emails to the Nontheist Friendly planning group email list of my draft to Quaker "Friends Journal"

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/03/black-headed-ibis-before-and-after-of.html

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Hi Oz and Nontheist Friends,

I'm glad to say the letter I submitted to Friends Journal entitled something like - "A Nontheist F/friends Letter: Unprogrammed Quaker Meeting and Soaking in the Harbin Warm Pool as Enjoyable Biological Meditations" - when I submitted it, was published in edited format in FJ recently (Friends Journal June/July 2014:25-26) ... Thanks Os (who also published a poem in this edition) and nontheist friends for your group contributions to this.

I decided to post my original letter here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/06/natural-hot-springs-nontheist-ffriends.html - with some great photos of hot springs as well, and which I think is more interesting, drawing parallels between the enjoyable gathering, centering and releasing that occurs in the Harbin Hot Springs warm pool and Quaker meetings, as biology.

(Just returned from a Haverford College Quaker educators' gathering, and vis-a-vis Friendly-informed World University and School as well - http://scottmacleod.com/interlingual/worlduniversityandschool.html - which was also salutary).

NtFfriendly regards,
Scott

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June 16, 2014, 12:35 pm

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Hi Jen, Lar and Universitians,

Nice to talk with you in WUaS's open hour-long monthly business meeting on Saturday - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/06/june-14-2014-monthly-business-meeting.html.

I've moved the WUaS PayPal button up toward the top of this page - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm - at your good suggestion, Jen!

As a followup to our conversation about an .edu address for WUaS, it looks like WUaS may be able to get one as a student (which could be useful in a variety of ways), something like worlduniversityandschool@californiacolleges.edu or scottmatworlduniversityandschool@californiacolleges.edu - see ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8MXkLxPKM4 - which makes a lot of sense and which I'm planning to do for WUaS if possible, - but not as an URL / domain name, that I've been able to find.


.EDU domains only for 4 year accredited postsecondary institutions

In beginning to develop WUaS further on the web in MediaWiki and qLabel per our conversation and vis-a-vis Wikidata, I think it would make sense to get a WUaS domain name like worlduniversityandschool.org soon until MIT OCW-centric WUaS is fully accredited (possibly 2019 at the undergraduate level), which this web site says - https://net.educause.edu/edudomain/request.asp - as well as others I've looked at (and which I've linked below). What do you think about spending WUaS resources for this, Lar? Alternatively, Jen, do you know how to shorten and redirect an email address? For example, could I shorten this -  http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm - to this - worlduniversityandschool.htm - while remaining in my current domain (http://scottmacleod.com/)?

Jen and Lar, can you think of other ways to get a worlduniversityandschool.edu address, such as collaborating with a specific grandfathered.edu name, or similar?

Friendly regards,
Scott



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu

http://www.europeandomaincentre.com/pages/price-list/all_domains/generic/edu

https://net.educause.edu/edudomain/rnccreditation.asp

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/truth-about-edu-domains-registration-links-and-google-juice/6095/

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Sawara False-Cypress: Very high about Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson's speech from Jamaica on allowing trade of the cannabis product between countries where it's legal, WUaS Law wiki subject page, in English, "prof charlie babylon be gone"

June 17, 2014, 10:12 am

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Congratulations, KB, on your new job! ....

Very high about Harvard Law Professor Charlie Nesson's speech from Jamaica on allowing trade of the cannabis product between countries where it's legal, and much more, which you'll find here on the WUaS Law wiki subject page, in English, so far only ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Law ... Did you write some of this speech, by any chance? :)

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prof charlie babylon be gone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSglR8cqOVo


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Nesson, Charles. 2014. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSglR8cqOVo prof charlie babylon be gone]. Jamaica: Charles Nesson Youtube channel.

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Warm waters: I often am in WONDER at how WELCOMING the warm waters at Harbin are, and incomparably so with other warm waters I know of, Beings Enjoying Life, Enjoyment, Happiness, Meditation, Watsu - water shiatsu wiki subjects for open teaching and learning at WUaS

June 18, 2014, 10:25 am

≫ Next: Full moon: World University and School has 'LIFT OFF' ... with a new university and school domain name - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - probably until WUaS becomes fully accredited in around 2018, and probably at the undergraduate level, Planning to develop WUaS in MediaWiki and qLabel here in all 7,106 languages and 242 countries

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I often am in WONDER at how WELCOMING the warm waters at Harbin are, and incomparably so with other warm waters I know of – in a bath, or at other 'rustic' hot springs, such as at Orr, or at Wilbur or at Sierra Hot Springs.

Is this partly due to their body temperature as well as how easily and fully one can become immersed in these, since the warm pool is fairly encompassing of many people, unlike the above examples. The clothing-optionality adds a beneficial aspect to this harmonizing, as does the communality, - where most of the soakers are almost always fairly serene, perhaps due to the warm waters’ relaxation response meditations, as well as to the openness to cuddling, floating and Watsu.


Encompassing and supportive warm waters where one can spend hours at a time effortlessly, where everyone around is naked, at ease and fairly serene … seem like a dream … and all somehow very Taoist as I see it in the oneness of it all … Harbin is a dream … brings me and others, I think, into a kind of zone of happiness and ease …


Is this realizable in one's bath tub, virtually, in a virtual Harbin in the Oculus Rift and OpenSim, or similar?


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Beings Enjoying Life -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Beings_Enjoying_Life

Enjoyment -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Enjoyment

Happiness -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Happiness

Meditation -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Meditation

Watsu - water shiatsu -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu

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Full moon: World University and School has 'LIFT OFF' ... with a new university and school domain name - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - probably until WUaS becomes fully accredited in around 2018, and probably at the undergraduate level, Planning to develop WUaS in MediaWiki and qLabel here in all 7,106 languages and 242 countries

June 19, 2014, 4:41 pm

≫ Next: Moray eel (Gymnothorax javanicus): Hi Universitians, Just added 5 new Wikimedia resources to WUaS's main current TEMPLATES, - Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikiquotes, Wikisource, Wikivoyage - May further increase the inter-linking between MediaWiki, Wikipedia and WUaS wiki Subject pages, MIT Professor Judith Donath also talks here of studies of Wikipedia and especially of design questions

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Dear Universitians,

World University and School has 'lift off' ... with a new university domain name -

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ -

probably until WUaS becomes fully accredited in around 2018, and probably at the undergraduate level.

Planning to develop WUaS in MediaWiki and qLabel here in all 7,106 languages and 242 countries, - and phase out the current WUaS in Wikia.

Please let friends know with an invitation to openly wiki teach and learn at MIT OCW-centric WUaS.

All the best,
Scott

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Uploaded the index.html page today ... created the domain name 2 days ago ... 

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Also archived this new beginning of WUaS today in Archive.org here ... 

https://web.archive.org/web/20140619232730/http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

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Moray eel (Gymnothorax javanicus): Hi Universitians, Just added 5 new Wikimedia resources to WUaS's main current TEMPLATES, - Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikiquotes, Wikisource, Wikivoyage - May further increase the inter-linking between MediaWiki, Wikipedia and WUaS wiki Subject pages, MIT Professor Judith Donath also talks here of studies of Wikipedia and especially of design questions

June 20, 2014, 12:49 pm

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Hi Universitians,

Just added 5 new Wikimedia resources to WUaS's main current TEMPLATES ...

e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE#Wikimedia_Commons ...

{LANGUATE TEMPLATE:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/LANGUAGE_TEMPLATE

NATION STATE TEMPLATE:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/NATION_STATE_TEMPLATE

SUBJECT TEMPLATE:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE} ...

... which will eventually find their way to most WUaS wiki pages, and will hopefully further INFORM the relationship between, and the design of, WUaS vis-a-vis MediaWiki ...

This will further increase the inter-linking between MediaWiki, Wikipedia and WUaS wiki Subject pages ... and may increase development collaboration between us, as well, especially in terms of WUaS's plans for all 7,106+ languages.


New on WUaS Subject templates ...

---Wikimedia Commons---
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page


---Wikipedia---
Wikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org/


---Wikiquotes---
Wikiquotes: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page


---Wikisource---
Wikisource: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page


---Wikivoyage---
Wikivoyage: https://www.wikivoyage.org/


---World University and School Links---

Media Lab at WUaS:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School


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MIT Professor Judith Donath also talks here of studies of Wikipedia and especially of design questions here - http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2014/06/12/media-lab-conversations-series-judith-donath - which I've added to WUaS's Media Lab -  http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School.


Thanks, J, for your offer to help develop WUaS newly in MediaWiki and similar, as well ... More soon about this ...

All the best,
Scott

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Sierra Nevada: WUaS is a 501 c 3 tax-exempt organization again, IRS letter, Guidestar.org, New WUaS domain name

June 21, 2014, 10:43 am

≫ Next: Penstemons: "Call for Chapters: Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay," Virtual Harbin chapter?, “Naked Harbin: Harbin Hot Springs' Actual/Virtual Ethnography ~ Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin," Second Harbin ethnographic book? Would like to explore building a virtual Harbin Hot Springs in something like OpenSim, and experienceable/viewable in the Oculus Rift, Might this please be possible? Actual Harbin, as well as the virtual Harbin to come, as kinds of alternate reality?

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Dear WUaS Board and friends,

World University and School received reinstatement of our 501 c 3 status yesterday, June 20th. I've attached scans of both parts of the IRS's 501 c 3 reinstatement letter.

June 20, 2013 - received IRS letter, dated June 13.
501 c 3 reinstatement effective May 15, 2014, and retroactively to 2010.


People should have access to information about WUaS on Guidedstar.org soon.

Guidestar.org
http://guidestar.org

Associated with this IRS tax-exempt process is Guidestar, in which I've begun to create an account. Donors seeking to learn about 501 c 3 organizations can go to Guidestar and learn about the 501 c 3 status of any organization, plus much more.


Here's the information I've filled out so far, and information they ask for:

Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod
PO box 442 (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516
Tel. 412 478 0116
Job Title: Founder, President, CEO, Faculty, Head Clerk
Job Function: Chairman, CEO, COO, President
Industry: Researcher
Industry Detail: Schools and Universities
Annual Revenue: Under 1 million
Number of Employees or Volunteers: 1-30

Customer Number: 3293861


Materials to Have on Hand While You Complete the GuideStar Exchange Form

-Contact information for your organization
-Your social media handles
-Information about your organization's founding (application for exemption, IRS letter of determination, etc.)
-Any photos/videos you'd like to share
-Your most recent Form 990 or audited financial statement (to share financial information)
-A staff list (leader's information and bio, board member information, information about other staff members)
-Your mission statement
-A list of your programs, what you're measuring, how the programs are doing, etc.
-Any other official documents or certifications you've received
-Your theory of change, strategy documents, or major grant proposals that focus on what your organization is aiming to accomplish, how you'll get there, what capabilities you have, what you're measuring, and what progress you've made


This is all very good news indeed.

Sincerely,
Scott

World University Foundation -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation

Worlduniversityandschool.org -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

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Penstemons: "Call for Chapters: Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay," Virtual Harbin chapter?, “Naked Harbin: Harbin Hot Springs' Actual/Virtual Ethnography ~ Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin," Second Harbin ethnographic book? Would like to explore building a virtual Harbin Hot Springs in something like OpenSim, and experienceable/viewable in the Oculus Rift, Might this please be possible? Actual Harbin, as well as the virtual Harbin to come, as kinds of alternate reality?

June 22, 2014, 12:55 pm

≫ Next: Sandpipers: Friends Association for Higher Education -Friends Council on Education conference at Haverford College in Philadelphia, Interested in connecting and communicating further with you about Westtown and Haverford and the TriColleges and concerning Friendly-informed World University and School vis-à-vis MIT OCW-centric WUaS's planned online I.B. diplomas and university degrees, and in many languages, including first in the United Nations' (Arabic, English, French, Mandarin, Spanish, Russian) and large languages, Admissions at WUaS, Libraries and Co-teaching courses

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Dear Antero (and Greg at Berkeley),

Thanks for this "Call for Chapters." I enjoyed your observations here about Gaming at about the 11:30 minute mark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwNjUnQr1Is (which I found here - http://www.theamericancrawl.com/?p=1425).

I'm writing to explore the possibility of writing a chapter for your edited volume. I've just completed writing a 400 page draft manuscript of my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs ethnographic book tentatively entitled something like “Naked Harbin: Harbin Hot Springs' Actual/Virtual Ethnography ~ Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin." My actual anthropological field site, Harbin Hot Springs, is in northern California - http://www.harbin.org/ - and, as part of my methodology for this first book, I come into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008); I'm planning to submit a book proposal to Yale University Press after receiving photo permissions from Harbin for this first book, hopefully soon.

For my second Harbin ethnographic book, I'm planning to build a virtual Harbin Hot Springs in something like OpenSim, and experienceable/viewable in the Oculus Rift - see, for example ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/06/hazel-how-generative-might-we-make.html- where the building will involve creating a field site for actual / virtual anthropological comparison, and even for something that I'm calling "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" as a new methodology (see, for example ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy). While actual Harbin emerges out of the 1960s and is kind of 'New Age California' in ethos, in my interpretation, I think Harbin's alternative culture emerges significantly from its clothing-optional warm pool and the effects of warm waters on both visitors and Harbin residents alike. I see a kind of far-reaching relaxation response meditation emerging from this, influencing all of Harbin, and possibly since 1972 when Harbin's founder Ishvara, who still lives on property, bought Harbin and soon thereafter turned it into Heart Consciousness Church, possibly partly as a hippie tax dodge, I would hazard. In building the virtual Harbin, I'd like to explore the possibility of generating such freedoms as those, which people find on-the-ground there digitally. I'd like the building of an eventually movie-realistic interactive virtual Harbin to dovetail with a similarly emergent virtual earth.

I see actual Harbin, as well as the virtual Harbin to come, as kinds of alternate reality.

Would it be possible to explore please writing a chapter for Sections 1 or 2 or 3 of your and Greg's edited volume? From your current thinking, which section would likely be the best fit?

Thank you.

Friendly greetings,
Scott







- Scott MacLeod - Founder and President
- Tel. 415 480 4577 - P.O. Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 (near Berkeley)
- http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010.

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Sandpipers: Friends Association for Higher Education -Friends Council on Education conference at Haverford College in Philadelphia, Interested in connecting and communicating further with you about Westtown and Haverford and the TriColleges and concerning Friendly-informed World University and School vis-à-vis MIT OCW-centric WUaS's planned online I.B. diplomas and university degrees, and in many languages, including first in the United Nations' (Arabic, English, French, Mandarin, Spanish, Russian) and large languages, Admissions at WUaS, Libraries and Co-teaching courses

June 23, 2014, 5:12 pm

≫ Next: Red Knot bird: World University and School was founded in 2008, In beginning to fill out Guidestar's - http://guidestar.org - World University and School nonprofit organizational information, now that MIT OCW-centric C.C. WUaS is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt university and school and charitable organization again, I looked up precisely when WUaS emerged from a "Society and Information Technology" course taught on on Harvard's virtual island, Berkman Island in Second Life, Here are the transcripts ... World University and School was founded in 2008, Would be fun to celebrate WUaS's birthday and founding day as May 28, 2008 centuries into the future.

≪ Previous: Penstemons: "Call for Chapters: Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay," Virtual Harbin chapter?, “Naked Harbin: Harbin Hot Springs' Actual/Virtual Ethnography ~ Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin," Second Harbin ethnographic book? Would like to explore building a virtual Harbin Hot Springs in something like OpenSim, and experienceable/viewable in the Oculus Rift, Might this please be possible? Actual Harbin, as well as the virtual Harbin to come, as kinds of alternate reality?

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Dear Kay, Dave and Jonathan,

It was very nice to have met you at our recent FAHE-FCE (http://quakerfahe.com/ and http://friendscouncil.org/) conference at Haverford. Thank you for your sharing on the panel you clerked, as well.

After our FAHE-FCE conference, I was very interested in connecting and communicating further with you about Westtown and Haverford and the TriColleges and concerning Friendly-informed World University and School (especially vis-à-vis WUaS's planned online I.B. diplomas - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - and in many languages, including first in the United Nations' (Arabic, English, French, Mandarin, Spanish, Russian) and large languages, and vis-à-vis Friends schools such the one in Ramallah, with which you've had experience).

MIT OCW-centric WUaS recently received reinstatement of our 501 (c) (3) status and got a new domain name (see below), - both of which I was very glad to share about in Quaker Meeting yesterday at San Francisco Friends Meeting. Unfortunately, WUaS hasn't yet become financially operational whatsoever, to speak of, thus far, but we have heard a promise of monies to come, which will help with the initial accreditation process about other things. Creative Commons' licensed World University and School would like to matriculate our first online undergraduate class - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links - in English in the autumn of 2015, with students applying this autumn, if possible.

Might it be possible, too, to co-teach a course even on "Information Technology and the Network Society," which I've taught for about 8 semesters on Harvard's (not on Harvard's faculty) virtual island in Second Life and most recently concurrently in a Google + Hangout, in the 360 program? 

In what ways might we communicate further about Friendly-informed WUaS inquiring about becoming part of the TriCo consortium (e.g. http://www.trico.haverford.edu/cgi-bin/courseguide/cgi-bin/search.cgi) for access to online libraries (e.g. http://library.haverford.edu/) for matriculated students around the world, as well as even for sharing courses, for example, in Google group video Hangouts, and in other creative ways? In what ways might it be possible for WUaS to collaborate with other Friends schools as MIT OCW-centric C.C. WUaS grows into other languages?

Very nice to be in communication with you.

Friendly regards,
Scott

- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577 - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516

- World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization, both effective April 2010.

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