Wilderness Bliss: Prehistory of virtual Harbin in Second Life, Ethnographic Machinima

Toward building virtual Harbin Hot Springs in ScienceSim

Dear Andrew,

Cannabis! I had forgotten that particular adventure! Let's revisit that place again sometime together, if we're ever in Edinburgh again at the same time. And thanks for your email, and very nice to be in touch again directly. Thanks too for your feedback about WUaS - feels like World University and School is in a bubble still in not getting the word out very effectively (e.g. to high achieving high school students who might be interested in free and best C.C. STEM OpenCourseWare degrees online). Perhaps we can reach out together to Fettes College students about WUaS's planned free undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees sometime as well, both in person and digitally!

Concerning your good advice about publishing my actual/virtual Harbin Hot Springs ethnographic manuscript - thank you! While I'm still seeking to publish with a great academic press (besides Oxford's and Duke's, I may try also Columbia University Press), particularly for distribution reasons to libraries and bookstores, WUaS is planning eventually to develop a great Academic Press and potentially in all languages, in the context of the internet and information technologies -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links. But for this, WUaS needs a very well spelled out internet-centric and
multilingual (and even inter-lingual) online publishing business plan, and especially for distribution, before this occurs. And established presses do pay authors as well! But with many more nays, my Harbin book may be a good first title, and actual manuscript, for WUaS's academic press - since part of this Harbin project of mine involves a second book and developing a virtual Harbin, as online ethnographic field site, as part of a virtual earth. Would you like to either spearhead this WUaS academic press in the UK or become its executive director with time?

It sounds like you may be living in a very beautiful part of London near the Houses of Parliament. London can be lovely. No kids here yet, but I'd like to begin a family soon-ish.

Very nice to be in communication and thanks again for your good advice.

All the best,
Scott

On 1/27/15 11:58 PM, Andrew Lownie wrote:

Dear Scott,

Very good to be in touch. I have fond memories of our trips 'Up Town' including hiding in a bush to smoke cannabis. I've been impressed with all you've created with your courses. Do get in touch if in London. I'm married with two teenage children and living by the Houses of Parliament.

As an American subject, this would be tough for UK. My advice is to self-publish using your social media skills and contacts. Good luck!

Best wishes, Andrew

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From: Scott MacLeod [mailto:scott@scottmacleod.com]
Sent: 28 January 2015 00:11
To: lownie@globalnet.co.uk

Subject: Book manuscript proposal inquiry and first chapter about Harbin Hot Springs

Dear Andrew,

Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area. It's been a long time since we've spoken as fellow students at Fettes College in Edinburgh when I was there from 1976-1977. I hope this finds you well. How are you and your family?

I'm writing because I've written a 400 page actual/virtual ethnographic manuscript with an academic audience first in mind, and am seeking your expert publishing advice, guidance or suggestions. So far, I've received negative replies, after inquiring with 3 1/2 chapters written, from the university presses at Princeton, MIT, Cambridge UK and Harvard. And after writing 9 draft chapters, I've heard negative replies from the university presses at University of California (Berkeley), Yale, Pennsylvania, and just today from the University of Chicago press with a very quick response.

I'm attaching what I sent today to the University of Chicago press for your perusal. I'm curious especially about exploring publishing in Britain. I'm next considering submitting proposals to both Oxford University Press and Duke University Press, both of which have titles on the study of the Internet.

The building of a virtual Harbin/world for comparative ethnographic field work is part of the overall project I'm planning. And there's more about my Harbin project in my blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harbin%20Hot%20Springs. Harbin is a fascinating anthropological field site in so many ways.

What would suggest for publishing this expeditiously and with a great academic press, and in Britain or in the U.S.? Whom among your contacts might you suggest sending a proposal?

Thank you!

All the best,
Scott

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Just searched for this on the web:

Developing an internet publishing house business plan:

Developing an Internet Business Plan*

http://www.pitt.edu/~galletta/iplan.html

Bookjobs.com - Major/Department guide
http://www.bookjobs.com/major-to-department-guide

How to Build an Internet Publishing Business

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/build-internet-publishing-business-31277.html

Hi Scherazade,  ... how are you and how is your semester going? Hope things are good ... met an interesting Professor of Islamic Studies at Reed College a few weeks ago, originally from Iran - it was nice to talk with him about a variety of things.

Kambiz G. is his name - http://academic.reed.edu/religion/faculty.html - and  I mentioned I knew you. He has a Harvard Ph.D. and has been at Reed for 12 years, having gone to Claremont in CA for his BA ... I enjoyed our conversation ... During our conversation, he said Reed doesn't teach Freud in psychology  (just after my first day's World University and School's workshop/class there a few weeks ago)... Psychology at Reed still has an experimental, scientific method, behaviorism emphasis (partly because undergraduates can learn how to create experiments, I think - with mice, etc.) as well as emphasizes "the application of empirical methods to the study of cognitive, affective, social, and behavioral processes [where] Students are exposed to the science of mind, behavior and relationships, are asked to engage in library and "hands-on" research projects, and are given many opportunities to improve their abilities to read and critique research articles, to write, and to present materials orally" (http://academic.reed.edu/psychology/) ... although Freud is taught in other intellectual history disciplines at Reed ... it made me want to refresh my memory about Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents" (1930) or Das Unbehagen in der Kultur ("The Uneasiness in Culture") ... which I'm blogging about today here, and vis a vis Harbin ... I liked Kambiz a lot and will keep in touch ...


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Woke up this morning wanting to refresh my memory about the ideas in "Civilization and its Discontents" by Sigmund Freud, and found this online: http://www.gradesaver.com/civilization-and-its-discontents/study-guide/summary.


Wanting to rif with these ideas, and even as social theory, and vis-a-vis a number of themes in this blog including -

a) about Harbin Hot Springs anthropologically,
b) the oceanic feeling Freud writes of perhaps vis-a-vis
c) oneness and neurophysiology,
d) civilization as culture (in this blog) and perhaps
e) discontents as counterculture (in this blog) although the worlds of Vienna and central Europe 100 years ago, and post 1960's America and California, {and India ~ as religious culture ~ for example} all as place informing ideas, are very different ... and
f) religion and destructiveness, and
g) ego formation, as ideas, and the conflicts he examines intellectually (between civilization and its discontents and between religion, the father figure, and the many problems with religion), and
f) guilt, and
g) incest, and
h) sexuality and attraction, and implications for what might work therapeutically on-the-ground in real life, and for psychiatrists with his theories, and
i) the father figure and religion, and
j) Common chimps (Pan troglodytes) vis-a-vis
k) Bonobo chimps (Pan paniscus), and
l) what humans can learn from them, as a kind of genetically-informed neurophysiological and evolutionary biological context,


As I woke up thinking about this, I was experiencing what I might call psychical phenomena as "synchronous socioculture mental processes"(?) ...
evolutionary biology
beyond words and symbols, as a complement to biology and neurophysiology ...


He brings together so many significant fascinating significant concepts to humans living together - civilization, religion and unease/discontent -  together in one paper hypothesizing how they work, and in a way few others have done as interestingly.


I'd also like to offer a critique and alternative analyses about his theses ... and vis-a-vis some of the above ...

I'd like to suggest that all of the above are neurophysiologies, something Freud didn't seem to think about, that is oneness and uneasiness, and the effects of religion all are brain chemistries ... which are contextualized best, as I see it, in the context of evolutionary biology and human sociocultures (of which both civilization and religion are aspects and processes). I find John Money's section "Concepts of Determinism" (1988) - http://scottmacleod.com/anthropology/determinism.htm - more readily helpful in explaining and putting into perspective any conceptualizations of the "ego" but here as bodymind. While sexuality in Money seems to likely to be also an important yearning ("What does man wish for and aim to achieve in life? Religious belief hinges on this central question"), Money doesn't address societal questions very much, as Freud does, but Money does suggest that some of this is bound up in "ycleptance" ("meaning to name, to call, or to style") and explicitly doesn't look at religion very much in "Gay, Straight and In-Between: The Sexology of Erotic Orientation."

While sociocultural processes may inform as a kind of ecology regulating and lessening the harming of each other, in my opinion ... which Freud say civilization does, I think one could posit that sociocultural processes also help create agency, against Freud's positing that "A "decisive step" toward civilization lies in the replacement of the individual's power by that of the community," I also think that a reading of this post 1960's, when Money wrote too, offers very different sociological reasons for how these processes that Freud is positing work.

I'd posit too that humans are closer to common chimpanzees metaphorically but that we can learn Bonobo chimp culture ... and places like Harbin Hot Springs clothing-optional pool area and mediative releasing action in warm water are a good step toward creating ways we might learn these oceanic experiences.


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Civilization and Its Discontents Summary

In the introductory paragraphs, Freud attempts to understand the spiritual phenomenon of a so-called "oceanic" feeling - ‹the sense of boundlessness and oneness felt between the ego and the outside world. This feeling is "a purely subjective fact, not an article of faith." It does not betoken an allegiance to a specific religion, but instead points to the source of religious sentiment in human beings. Churches and religious institutions are adept at channeling this sentiment into particular belief systems, but they do not themselves create it.

In general, the ego perceives itself as maintaining "sharp and clear lines of demarcation" with the outside world. This distinction between inside and outside is a crucial part of the process of psychological development, allowing the ego to recognize a "reality" separate from itself. After summarizing his previous research, Freud returns to the question of "oceanic" feeling, finding it unconvincing as an explanation of the source of religious sentiment in human beings. Instead, according to Freud, it is a longing for paternal protection in childhood that continues into adult life as a sustained "fear of the superior power of Fate."

In Future of an Illusion, Freud lamented the common man's preoccupation with the "enormously exalted father" embodied by God. The idea of placating a supposedly higher being for future recompense seems utterly infantile and absurd. The reality is, however, that masses of men persist in this illusion for the duration of their lives. According to Freud, men exhibit three main coping mechanisms to counter their experience of suffering in the world: 1) deflection of pain and disappointment (through planned distractions); 2) substitutive satisfactions (mainly through the replacement of reality by art); 3) intoxicating substances. Freud concludes that religion cannot be clearly categorized within this schema.

What does man wish for and aim to achieve in life? Religious belief hinges on this central question. Most immediately, men strive to be happy, and their behavior in the outside world is determined by this "pleasure principle." But the possibilities for happiness and pleasure are limited, and more often we experience unhappiness from the following three sources: 1) our body; 2) the external world; and 3) our relations to other men. We employ various strategies to avoid displeasure: by isolating ourselves voluntarily, becoming a member of the human community (i.e. contributing to a common endeavor), or influencing our own organism. Religion dictates a simple path to happiness. It thereby spares the masses of their individual neuroses, but Freud sees few other benefits in religion.

After looking specifically at religion, Freud broadens his inquiry into the relationship between civilization and misery. One of his main contentions is that civilization is responsible for our misery: we organize ourselves into civilized society to escape suffering, only to inflict it back upon ourselves. Freud identifies three key historical events that produced this disillusionment with human civilization: 1) the victory of Christendom over pagan religions (and consequently the low value placed on earthly life in Christian doctrine); 2) the discovery and conquest of primitive tribes and peoples, who appeared to Europeans to be living more happily in a state of nature; 3) scientific identification of the mechanism of neuroses, which are caused by the frustrating demands put on the individual by modern society. An antagonism toward civilization developed when people concluded that only a reduction of those demands - ‹in other words, withdrawal from the society that imposed them‹ - would lead to greater happiness.

Freud defines civilization as the whole sum of human achievements and regulations intended to protect men against nature and "adjust their mutual relations." A "decisive step" toward civilization lies in the replacement of the individual's power by that of the community. This substitution henceforth restricts the possibilities of individual satisfaction in the collective interests of law and order. Here Freud draws an analogy between the evolution of civilization and the libidinal development of the individual, identifying three parallel stages in which each occurs: 1) character-formation (acquisition of an identity); 2) sublimation (channeling of primal energy into other physical or psychological activities); 3) non-satisfaction/renunciation of instincts (burying of aggressive impulses in the individual; imposition of the rule of law in society).

Even if one of the main purposes of civilization is to bind each man's libidinal impulses to those of others, love and civilization eventually come into conflict with one another. Freud identifies several different reasons for this later antagonism. For one, family units tend to isolate themselves and prevent individuals from detaching and maturing on their own. Civilization also saps sexual energy by diverting it into cultural endeavors. It also restricts love object choices and mutilates our erotic lives. Taboos (namely, against incest), laws, and customs impose further restrictions. Freud reasons that civilization's antagonism toward sexuality arises from the necessity to build a communal bond based on relations of friendship. If the activity of the libido were allowed to run rampant, it would likely destroy the monogamous love-relationship of the couple that society has endorsed as the most stable.

Freud next objects to the commandment "Love thy neighbor" because, contrary to Biblical teaching, he has come to see human beings as primarily aggressive rather than loving. He first identified this instinctual aggressiveness in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and though his proposed "death drive" was initially met with skepticism, he maintains and develops the thesis here. Civilization is continually threatened with disintegration because of this inclination to aggression. It invests great energy in restraining these death instincts, and achieves this goal by installing within the individual a sort of watchdog agency, which Freud calls the super-ego, to master our desire for aggression. For Freud, the entire evolution of civilization can be summed up as a struggle between Eros and the death drive, overseen by the super-ego.

With the establishment of the super-ego comes a sense of bad conscience. Because it is internalized, the super-ego omnisciently regulates both our thoughts and deeds, whereas prior to its installation, individuals only had to submit themselves to a higher authority for punishment (such as parents) in the case of fully accomplished acts. There are two sources of guilt: 1) fear of authority and 2) fear of the super-ego. In the latter case, instinct renunciation no longer liberates the individual from the sense of internal guilt that the super-ego continues to perpetuate. By extension, civilization reinforces the sense of guilt to regulate and accommodate the ever-increasing numbers of relationships between men. It becomes a more repressive force that individuals find increasingly difficult to tolerate. Freud considers this increasing sense of guilt to be "most important problem in the development of civilization," since it takes an enormous toll on the happiness of individuals.

In the last chapter, Freud clarifies his usage of seemingly interchangeable terms: the "super-ego" is an internal agency whose existence has been inferred; "conscience" is one of the functions ascribed to the super-ego, to keep watch over the intentions and actions of the ego; "sense of guilt" designates the perception that the ego has of being surveyed and arises from the tension between its own strivings and the (often overly severe) demands of the super-ego. It can be felt prior to the execution of the guilty act, whereas "remorse" refers exclusively to the reaction after the act of aggression has been carried out. Finally, Freud re-emphasizes the instinct of aggression and self-destruction as the single greatest problem facing civilization, as manifested in "the present time." He ends by asking which force‹ - "eternal Eros" or his potent adversary‹ - will prevail.

http://www.gradesaver.com/civilization-and-its-discontents/study-guide/summary


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Concepts of Determinism

http://scottmacleod.com/anthropology/determinism.htm

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Neurophysiology wiki subject/school at WUaS ..

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

to which I may add this blog post, - and for we human primates, who learn and via sociocultural processes.

The colors, water in painting, and the motifs I was drawn to in the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, over the xmas holidays ...

As I was writing yesterday's blog post about "unease and culture," John Money""Concepts of Determinism" (1988), and Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents" (1930) I began to look for the book in my home, "Oneness in Living: Kundalini ... " (2002) by Harbin's founder, Ishvara ... but couldn't find it anywhere on my bookshelves or in my abode, and was wondering why ... I finally found it in my painting and drawing supplies in my car which intended for making art at Harbin {Heart Consciousness Church}, as well as in the pool area there.


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In these paintings below, there a lots of parallels with Harbin ...


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Would like to facilitate making it easy to paint and draw here at WUaS, as well as learn these, and do these digitally ...

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

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


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These colors are kind of my palette .. and that which I'd like to explore further ... Ah, French painters and paintings ...

"How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft" -

http://classic.slashdot.org/story/15/01/31/0121240…

WUaS should scale up beyond these in all 7,870 languages via artificial intelligence and machine learning generative developments, while keeping people at the center of this unfolding university and school.



And in all Languages (7,870 per Glottolog, currently) -

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


and all Nation States + (242-ish per Wikipedia, currently)-

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

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Short, sweet, natural, Star illumination Beams brightly ~ inner smile.

Traveled up to Harbin yesterday to soak, and meditate {a kind of relaxation response harmonizing effect, or inner releasing action, for me} in the pools, and as I checked in at the Harbin gate, I found the following flyer. Heart Consciousness Church which owns Harbin is celebrating its 40th anniversary (1975-2015) this month ~

Hi,

Looking forward to talking with you a wee bit about online learning and education at some point in the Epicenter Cafe in SF.

While open-ended conversation has much merit, and let's plan for that, here also are some items I'm curious about for Monday, and about which you'll probably have very good ideas:

a) where are you heading in your thinking as manager of social innovation at your online education startup?

b) how best to do outreach to (e.g. high achieving high school) students for online STEM-centric World University and School - e.g. http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/07/july-13-open-business-meeting-agenda-at.html and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/05/catarina-pupfish-outreach-for-mit-ocw.html (with many relevant resources, although these blog posts are both a little old) - in all 242 countries but planning for a C.C. free online undergraduate degree in English first (with students probably studying and learning in the rooms in which they went to high school) and graduating probably first in 2020 ... ?

c) are you involved in the SF EDU startup weekend in 2015 - http://sfedu.startupweekend.org/events/sf-edu-startup-weekend-6713/ (if it will be on the first weekend in June, since I'll be at a Reed reunion from June 10-15 and probably giving a paper at the Quaker FAHE - Friends Association for Higher Education from the 18th-21st or so) - or do you know people who will be? Would it be possible for me to be a speaker or panelist at this, if this is an aspect of this weekend?

d) accreditation? in this great online article it says your most important question here in the picture series - http://www.careercontessa.com/meg-evans-udemy/ - is asking "How can I help?" Would you/your startup be able please to help organize further WUaS's initial California BPPE accreditation?

e) how best for WUaS to become financially operational, so as to be able to hire interns, accredit, etc, for example? (WUaS would like to become the Harvard / Yale / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet, and become a significant employer in all 7,870 languages - possibly at double the size of IBM's 426,000 people, with many many interns ... yes, diversity with a big D, and linguistically :)

What are you interested in talking about?

Best,

Scott

Reed College and brain wave headsets ...

Brain Wave: 

Psych majors dive into the mind-bending world of sensory substitution.

http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/december2014/articles/features/brainwave/brainwave.html
by Chris Lydgate '90



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excited for all of this for brain research in a ...

virtual Harbin / virtual earth ...

and from our bathtubs


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... and especially for linguistic and brain research in all 7,870 languages ...  with researchers and graduate students (linguistics, neuroscientists, social scientists including sociologists, anthropologists and researchers from many more academic disciplines ... and across many, many languages), for example, traveling all over the world to make the connections between what such developing brain hats/equipment and language use show, for example ... and in context ... and as the computer applications for these, on smart phones and laptops and other computers, develop with greater and greater sophistication ...


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In what ways will researchers and informants be able to contribute to research via wikis and "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy"?


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Click on the "brain" label in this blog and look through older posts for numerous entries on brain wave headsets. This Reed article is the first I think which describes developing an experiment - about sensory substitution - and where students showed something significant experimentally.

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Hi Donald,

Nice to talk with you last Friday about Esalen from BART as I was heading into SF, and to see you at San Francisco Friends Meeting on Sunday as well.

What was the house called where you were interested in its experiments or similar, and where you went to this house in the early 1980s in SF but didn’t experiment?

I think my Harbin book





... will join the three Harbin books I mentioned ...




Harbin Hot Springs - Healing Waters, Sacred Land
1989
Ellen Klages

Sajjad Wynne
1997
The Big Bang and the Harbin Experience

... which are written about in this recent Harbin publication … http://www.harbin.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Harbin_40th_anniversary.pdf (which publication is accessible here too - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/helix-aspersa-heart-consciousness.html) … I did read “Esalen” (2008) but none of the others, and you mentioned 4 Esalen books (we both may have been looking at Amazon together concurrently) for me to look at, and I’m partly emailing to check if these are they, particularly the one by Michael Murphy, which doesn't have Esalen in its title (or was it another):


The Upstart Spring: Esalen and the Human Potential Movement: The First Twenty Years Paperback – February 4, 2004
by Walter Truett Anderson (Author)

Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion Paperback –
November 1, 2008
by Jeffrey J. Kripal

On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture (Religion in North America) Paperback – July 20, 2005
by Jeffrey J. Kripal (Editor), Glenn W. Shuck (Editor)

The Future of the Body: Explorations Into the Further Evolution Of Human Nature Paperback – April 21, 1993
by Michael Murphy

I may first check out Murphy's or Anderson's (see his interesting WAAS).

All of these books may be good to talk about with an eventual publisher ... I'm sending my proposal to Duke University Press this week I think.

Just heard Stanford's Bill Burnett talk in some Youtube videos and was impressed. I added him x 2 to WUaS in the "Design,""Career counseling," and "Finding a job you love" wiki subjects - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects. Do you know of Burnett?

Hoping to get the state of CA BPPE initial accrediting forms done with L.V. by WUaS monthly business meeting this Saturday - still seeking the $5000 for this and did a kind of first outreach at Scottish Country Dancing on Monday - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/asteraceae-musical-outreach-talk-for.html.

Friendly cheers,
Scott


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This is exciting ... 

hoping we can explore and build a whole virtual earth world interactively with realistic avatars eventually in digital goggles in Google Earth Pro with OpenSim/Second Life ...

Google Earth Pro Now Available Free

http://search.slashdot.org/story/15/02/08/1854255/google-earth-pro-now-available-free

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Hi, Scott,


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Hi Fei and Jim, 

Touched and moved by these childhood photos my mother mailed to me as a Valentine as an expression of care and love ...



The hard work which the card refers to (and she too) could include World University and School, as well as her own :) ...

... (this picture is probably from the town of Hamden next to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1966, where we had just moved to from Boston, and where my father was joining the faculty at Yale)

... and inside the card ...

Yay for unique and great expressions (symbols?) of love and my mother's understandings ... :)

Minutes for Feb 14 2015 WUaS open monthly business meeting (and agenda)


February 14, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting Minutes for World University and School

Present: Larry Viehland, Scott MacLeod (head clerk and recording clerk)

(Feb 14, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School: http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/february-14-2015-monthly-business.html)


Minute –

Larry suggested beginning to get undergraduate students’ names and a commitment

Scott will explore beginning to develop, first in Google Forms, a sign up process …

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

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

And get students’ names and a commitment


Here are the initial best STEM-centric WUaS degrees ...

Electrical Engineering (typically 14 classes toward a major over 4 years)
General Science
General Engineering


Minute –

Outreach –
a.
WUaS will give a talk at FAHE - Friends Association for Higher Education (between M&W June 18-21, 2015, in Newberg, Oregon - http://quakerfahe.com/annual-conference/)

b.
WUaS will make an ISSIP Presentation (online at 7:30 am on March 11, 2015 viz. http://www.issip.org/grand-challenges/)

c.
WUaS (Scott) will take the 12 week HarvardX/edX course JuryX - https://www.edx.org/course/juryx-deliberations-social-change-harvardx-hls3x#.VN4v37DF__V - with Harvard Law professor Charlie Nesson beginning March 10. ...

d.
WUaS (Scott) will attend the talk on February 15, 2015 at Palo Alto Friends Meeting with Joyce Ajlouny (http://fum.org/staff/joyce-ajlouny/ and http://fum.org/field-staff-reports-joyce-ajlouny-december-2012/) from Friends United Meeting / Ramallah Friends School / Ramallah Friends Meeting, and explore collaborating with them about online International Baccalaureate (IB) high school diplomas in conjunction ... and in many languages ...



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


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


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


1. Welcome and Greetings


1.1 News:

NEWSFLASH: Happy Valentine's Day

News:

a
WUaS's OPEN monthly business meeting meets this Saturday 2/14 at 9 am PT. Email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if interested in participating - and see WUaS's blog below for further WUaS business meeting information.

b
WUaS's Business Plan's 6 Foci - Updated, In all 7,870 languages and 242 countries, MIT OCW, Yale OYC ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) 3 WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring, 6) universal broadband internet connectivity - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/wuass-business-plans-6-foci-updated-in.html ... (and http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html).

c
WUaS is ready to submit the BPPE documents with its curriculum this month (February now) to the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE) in the state of California. WUaS needs to raise the $5,000 fee (as a tax-exempt donation). This is WUaS's main initial step to accreditation. Please donate to WUaS for this here -http://worlduniversityandschool.org/. (See too: https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx). Your donations are much appreciated.


Universitians:

This month we'll meet in Free Conference Call.

Free Conference Call number change - it is - (712) 775-7031 - and the
Access Code is - 271-412-030.


The agenda for the upcoming February 14th, 2014 WUaS, monthly, business meeting is here - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/february-14-2015-monthly-business.html.


1.2 Minutes




2. Committees


2.1 Planning committee

see Master plan and Business plan below

2.1.1



2.2 Finance

a.
Treasurer's report for January 2015


b.
Guidestar.org

WUaS has the Guidestar (affiliated with the IRS) Gold Label -
https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx.


2.3 Information Technology

a.

In Google Forms, get student name and a commitment

"Are you interested ... ?"

"Submit your name and email address and when you'd like to start this ... "

WUaS will contact you again when WUaS is closer to the starting date ...


Here are the initial WUaS degrees ...

3 pages ... each a degree and 4th page outreach to undergraduate ..

Electrical Engineering (typically 14 classes for a major over 4 years)
General Science
General Engineering


Apply September 1, 2015 - matriculate September 2016

After the required first year 2 semester Humanities 101 course and 2 semester Biology course with a programming aspect, WUaS's 15 week courses in general will begin on the quarter.


Use course names in Google Forms ...?


WUaS will offer 15 week courses in general 3 semesters a year


b.

Kaiser Permanente / WUaS collaboration for WUaS online Hospital and Medical School? - 3 languages (English, Spanish, Chinese), medically secure databases ... medical diagnosis equipment sent through the mail ... history


2.4 WUaS Outreach

a.
Scott will give a talk at FAHE - Friends Association for Higher Education (between M&W June 18-21, 2015, in Newberg, Oregon - http://quakerfahe.com/annual-conference/)


b.
Scott will make an ISSIP Presentation (online at7:30 am on March 11, 2015 viz. http://www.issip.org/grand-challenges/)

c.
Scott will take the 12 week HarvardX/edX course JuryX - https://www.edx.org/course/juryx-deliberations-social-change-harvardx-hls3x#.VN4v37DF__V - with Harvard Law professor Charlie Nesson beginning March 10. ...


2.5 Hiring planning



2.6 Fundraising

in recent email


2.7 Nominating committee

Seeking committee members, facilitators and recorders


2.8 Languages' and Countries’ committee

a.
plan for students who's English is marginal - please attend these Language Google Hangouts


b.
bilingual degrees? e.g. English - Turkish?


2.9 Accreditation committee

a.
Here's Yale OYC - http://oyc.yale.edu/ - for further CC courses for WUaS degrees.

b.
International Baccalaureate - accredit online IB diplomas in conjunction with Ramallah Friends Meeting / Friends United Meeting- Joyce Ajlouny? ... and in many languages ...


2.9.1
BPPE

2.9.2
WASC senior

2.9.3
Common Application / NACAC - how to get on their list of schools? Costs?

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


2.9.4
Become member of NACAC for Common Application


3. WUaS Master Plan

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


4. WUaS Business Plan

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


5.  WUaS Board

- is looking for a new Board member to focus WUaS fundraising




6. New WUaS pages and updates

a. Updates:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity


b. New pages:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity

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

Zapotec languages -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Zapotec_languages



c. Blog entries:
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university



Black-tailed Godwit: Happy Valentine's Day, WUaS open monthly business meeting on 2/14 (second Saturdays), WUaS at Guidestar as a 501 c 3 : https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/black-tailed-godwit-happy-valentines.html


Red Panda: Computational Linguistics' wiki subject page at WUaS, All 7,870 languages, WUaS Universal Translator, Wikidata and Google Translate/Android, NAACL or ACL this year?, Adding cognitive systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning with time

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/computational-linguistics-wiki-subject.html


Big Sur coastline: Esalen and Harbin books, My upcoming book: "Naked Harbin: Harbin Hot Springs Actual/Virtual Ethnography – Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin," Exciting - Google Earth Pro Now Available Free, Hoping we can explore and build a whole virtual earth world interactively with realistic avatars eventually in digital goggles in Google Earth Pro with OpenSim/Second Life ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/big-sur-coastline-esalen-and-harbin.html


Asteraceae: Musical Outreach Talk {for WUaS} in Berkeley, Scottish Country Dancers, Scottish Small Pipes, "The Desperate Battle,""The Battle of Waterloo," Amanda Palmer TED Talk on "The Art of Asking," We want to accredit in California and begin to hire and grow, All this costs money, Just the initial accreditation fee with the state of California's BPPE costs $5000 and WUAS has the green light

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/asteraceae-musical-outreach-talk-for.html


Fisher: "Economics,""Chemistry," and "Physics," - and WUaS's Business Plan, and WUaS Monthly Board Meeting (2/14)

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/fisher-economics-chemistry-and-physics.html


Chelan Mountains: Reed College and brain wave headsets, "Brain Wave: Psych majors dive into the mind-bending world of sensory substitution," Excited for all of this for brain research in a ... virtual Harbin / virtual earth ... and from our bathtubs, And especially for linguistic and brain research in all 7,870 languages ... with researchers and graduate students traveling all over the world to make the connections between what such developing brain hats/equipment and language use show

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/chelan-mountains-reed-college-and-brain.html


Mohave shoulderband snail: Glad Jimmy Wales is president (*) both of C.C. Wikipedia and Wikia (the wiki where C.C. WUaS is presently hosted), Some Wikidata and Wikipedia links of WUaS, Honor of WUaS (as well as my entry) getting deleted by Wikipedia :), WUaS has had only one reference in Wikipedia for at least a year now here - Nontheist Quakers, Added this upcoming great Wikidata:Wikibooks (in 288+ languages) to the main WUaS SUBJECT TEMPLATE -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/mohave-shoulderband-snail-glad-jimmy_7.html


Mollusca: Social Innovation Manager, Outreach to (e.g. high achieving high school) students for online STEM-centric WUaS, SF EDU startup weekend in 2015?, Help with accreditation?, How best for WUaS to become financially operational, so as to be able to hire interns, accredit, etc, to become the Harvard / Yale / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet, and become a significant employer in all 7,870 languages

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/mollusca-social-innovation-manager.html


Torrey pine: An ECONOMICS' instructional design video? for graduate student instructors from MIT, Yale or Stanford, for example, and with the Conference Method viz. Reed College ... Economics' courses from Yale OYC and MIT OCW, What instructional resources Reed students found helpful and added to WUaS at Paideia in PHYSICS and ORGANIC CHEMISTRY wiki subjects - Khan Academy Organic Chemistry and UC Boulder Quantum Physics' simulations, Playing instructionally is great here at WUaS ... and wiki-wise especially

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/torrey-pine-economics-instructional.html


Long-billed murrelet: "How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft" - WUaS should scale up beyond these in all 7,870 languages via artificial intelligence and machine learning generative developments, while keeping PEOPLE at the center of this unfolding university and school, And also especially, to begin, for things like "Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages)" and other STEM research

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/long-billed-murrelet-how-and-why-apple.html


Green sea turtle: Friends Association for Higher Education Request for Proposals, Young Friends and World University and School, Western Friend magazine panel on climate change, and a Quaker college's ethos, "What Canst Thou Say about Climate Change?" panel and the "Ocean and Climate Management Plan" wiki subject/school at WUaS

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/friends-association-for-higher.html


Chinook Salmon: The colors, water in painting, and motifs I was drawn to in the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, over the xmas holidays ... These are kind of my palette .. and that which I'd like to explore further ... Ah, French painting ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/chinook-salmon-colors-water-in-painting.html


Hector's Dolphins: Reed College conversation with Professor of Islam leading to re-visiting a summary of Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents," Wanting to rif with these ideas, and even as improvisational social theory, including vis-a-vis Harbin Hot Springs anthropologically, The oceanic feeling Freud writes of perhaps vis-a-vis oneness and neurophysiology, Civilization as culture (in this blog) and perhaps discontents as counterculture (in this blog, too) although the worlds of Vienna and central Europe 100 years ago, and post 1960's America and California, {and India ~ as religious culture ~ for example}, all as place informing ideas, are very different ... And religion and destructiveness, and ego formation, as ideas, and the conflicts he examines intellectually, Guilt, sexuality and attraction, Implications for what might help therapeutically on-the-ground in real life, Unease and Culture, Offer a critique and alternative analyses about his theses, Neurophysiology

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/hectors-dolphins-reed-college.html


Aquilegia caerulea: WUaS's Business Plan's 6 Foci - Updated, In all 7,870 languages and 242 countries, MIT OCW, Yale OYC ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) 3 WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring, 6) universal broadband internet connectivity

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aquilegia-caerulea-wuass-business-plans.html


Martes americana: Cannabis! I had forgotten that particular adventure!, Book manuscript proposal inquiry and first chapter about Harbin Hot Springs, Great ACADEMIC PRESS AT WUaS for all languages, Developing an internet publishing house business plan

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/martes-americana-cannabis-i-had.html


Green Sturgeon: "The Making of Virtual Harbin Hot Springs as Ethnographic Field Site in Second Life and Open Simulator," The blip.tv version of this video has been removed so I'm posting here the Youtube URL, Just emailed my actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs proposal and first chapter to a great academic press, How to be at Harbin virtually from our bath tubs, and deeply? Excited to begin my second Harbin book, Google Earth has been deprecated and so could become the basis for an entire virtual world for everyone ... from those who build architecturally with AUTO CAD to STEM-oriented researchers to anthropologists working in the field, in which a virtual Harbin as ethnographic field site for actual / virtual comparison would be a part

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/green-sturgeon-making-of-virtual-harbin.html


West Indian Manatee with calf: Well met! - and Nicaragua_World_University_and_School, as well as Architecture wiki subject, Poetry Festival in Nicaragua, Added Avotcja's Indiegogo appeal to both the Nicaragua WUaS and and the "Assistive Technologies" wiki subject/school at WUaS, Avotcja's great video to the Poetry and Blues' subjects at WUaS

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/west-indian-manatee-with-calf-well-met.html


Colaptes: “Critical Media Sociology Today” 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association August 25-28, 2015, Interesting social internet theory conference in Prague later this year, Abstract Submission Deadline: Feb 1

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/colaptes-critical-media-sociology-today.html


Spotted Owl: Friendly-informed WUaS Presentation to Quaker Multnomah Monthly Meeting in Portland, Oregon, "Peace and Social Justice Studies" and "Poverty Action" editable wiki subject/schools for open teaching and learning, Added English, French, Russian and Arabic Language Wikipedias to their World Universities planned for those languages, in addition to Chinese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish World Universities with both Wikipedias and STEM OCW in those languages

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/spotted-owl-friendly-informed-wuas.html


Gray wolf: Reed College Paideia "Zombie" films' class, "Film,""Consciousness," and "Philosophy" wiki subjects/schools at WUaS, "Zombies" entry Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy in http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/, 18 of the 80 references in this "Zombies"' SEP entry contain the word "Zombies" in them

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/gray-wolf-reed-college-paideia-zombie.html


Tarsier eyes: Thanks for your engaging Paideia workshop on Sunday on "Video Production from Scratch for Beginners" at Reed, "On Music in Film - Ken Burns," Cuttyhunk film, a) Reed College Hum 110 lectures, primarily for the Internet, and b) recording, for instruction, Reed's guidelines for faculty on teaching via the conference method in Hum 110 sections

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/tarsier-eyes-thanks-for-your-engaging.html


Pongo: do you know much about DBPedia?, List of all colleges and universities, institutions of higher education somewhere in this, Team to develop WUaS in WordPress with a database of Universitians, WUaS_Information_Technologies_and_Data_Plan, AI with the CC WUaS Library Resources' wiki page, On the non CC side to the WUaS Bookstore/Computer store side, An ISSIP grand challenge?

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/pongo-do-you-know-much-about-dbpedia.html


Vicuña: First WUaS pages with OpenCourseWare and Wikipedias in those languages, Momentous because these are the very beginnings of best STEM-centric universities in those languages with two main CC resources, And, of course, you can teach here, since WUaS is wiki ... Chinese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish World Universities

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/vicuna-first-wuas-pages-with.html


Succisella: Do Bonobo chimpanzees experience love?, I also appreciate especially their peaceableness, emerging from evolutionary biology, which I think of non-theistic. What do you think?, What do you think this "love" neurophysiology or neurochemistry is, to add an aspect to the concept / idea aspect of love which you're exploring?, Here are what I think is love in some of its best senses - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm#BestLove

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/succisella-do-bonobo-chimpanzees-as.html


Steam rising: where there's steam, there could be warm pools, Non- Alternative / Bohemian / Hippie / Beat feminine norms, from America?, We held our own course reading from Wikipedia, with a really interesting conversation :)

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/stram-rising-where-theres-steam-there.html


Coho salmon: How Interns Can Wiki-Teach & Develop WUaS, and How Reedies can wiki-teach here and eventually develop WUaS as interns, SLIDE PRESENTATION, Internship Program at World University and School, WUaS Intern positions and WUaS General Manager pages

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/how-student-interns-can-wiki-teach.html


Oregon slender salamander: WUaS courses of study for degrees as WUaS explores building our next web site with databases, probably in WordPress and potentially MediaWiki/Wikidata, and planning for large languages for degrees

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/oregon-salamander-wuas-courses-degrees.html


Aethionema - Stonecress: Thanks for your email about College of Piping Skype lessons this year, and Happy New Year! Aspirations for playing the Scottish Small Pipes this year, Learning in online lessons, Bagpiping Schools at WUaS - all wiki ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/aethionema-stonecress-thanks-for-your.html


Erythronium dens-canis: Talking about WUaS at Reed College and at Multnomah Monthly Meeting (Quakers) this weekend in Oregon, Heading up the northern California and Oregon coasts to Portland - Nice to be on the road, It isn't easy to GROCK this - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - GO SURFING ... on the web for something that you love which is instructive, Find a WUaS subject that relates to this and add this to a WUaS Subject here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects, Will Durant's "The Life of Greece" book as an example, Build an Android app using the IBM Bluemix, Friendly Teens and WUaS degrees

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/erythronium-dens-canis-talking-about.html


Zelkova sicula: "Use of Name Officer Massachusetts Institute of Technology," Creative Commons' licensed MIT OCW and CC WUaS, MIT OCW correspondence

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/zelkova-sicula-use-of-name-officer.html


Arabis species: To complement the other all-languages' lists, Watson/Bluemix and WUaS and Wikidata/Wikipedia?, 7,870 languages in Glottolog, Verna Allee's free digital book version "Value Networks and the true nature of collaboration" can be 1) instantly translated into any of the 52 languages and 2) will allow continuous updating and additions of cases and examples provided by users, This is a key coding kernel for an universal translator

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/arabis-species-to-complement-other-all.html


Thamnobryum: Removing the MIT name from CC WUaS's web presence and signatures, Added this sample CC lecture from Professor Anand Agarwal to - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/thamnobryum-removing-mit-name-from-cc.html


Apricot: Minutes for Jan 10 2015 Monthly Business Meeting (and Agenda) for World University and School

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/01/apricot-minutes-for-jan-10-2015-monthly.html





7. SF f/Friends/Quaker WUaS developments

a.
AFSC / Linda Sanchez email

Hi Linda (and Pablo),

Following up on these University of California Zapotec teaching resources, would you like to see if you can find a volunteer (someone from 67 Suenos possibly, or someone just coming to AFSC?) to add the following to the Zapotec languages page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Zapotec_languages - and also show them how to add them (and eventually in a main first Zapotec language itself)?
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~survey/documents/survey-reports/survey-report-13.06-munro.pdf
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/grads/lillehaugen/CaliChiuRFU1.htm

 And would you like to become WUaS's (first) General Manager -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_General_Manager - which would also involve finding funding for this position for yourself as well as for WUaS in conjunction with me (but I'm still learning how to fundraise)?
Would Laura at AFSC have successful ideas about how to fundraise for this position as well as for WUaS?

Yay Linda - thank you!

Azala,
Scott


b.
Scott will attend the talk on February 15, 2015 at Palo Alto Friends Meeting with Joyce Ajlouny from Ramallah Friends School / Ramallah Friends Meeting.

Ongoing conversation with SFFM and SF Bay Area Friends about WUaS.


8. Closure


9. Next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting - Saturday, March 14, 2015, 9 am Pacific Time


Scott MacLeod

President and Head Clerk
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577
- PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516
- World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - 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.