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Machair: Old Fettesian Newsletter 2015 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Attached a photo, Please add the names of students who might be interested in "FREE and CC best STEM OCW-centric" online degrees to the new Sign Up Form here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org, Replies from my former Housemaster and Keeper of the Old Fettesian Register +, "Thank you for your news update, which will definitely be featured in this year’s OF Newsletter, both in the OFs in Finance and OF News sections"

March 24, 2015, 11:47 am
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Dear Mrs. Beaumont,
Fettes College,
http://www.fettes.com, 
Edinburgh, Scotland

Greetings to Mr. Preston who was my Housemaster in Kimmerghame House in 1976-1977, and who I think is still the Keeper of the Old Fettesian Records. I'm writing with "copy" for the OF Newsletter 2015 prior to the April 2nd deadline per your email of February 10. I hope to combine my OF News in combination with a little news about OFs in Finance. I've attached a photo.

Fellow Fettesians: Greetings from The SF Bay Area! I'm the Founder and President of startup wiki C.C. World University and School, which is growing and seeking our first student applicants this autumn 2015 for Creative Commons' licensed (so free) online undergraduate degrees to matriculate online in autumn 2016 with planned graduation in 2020. Please add the names of your secondary school students / Fettes students who might be interested in "free and CC best STEM OCW-centric" online degrees to the new Sign Up Form here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org. WUaS is like C.C. Wikipedia (now in 288 languages) with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare (e.g. C.C. MIT OCW now in 7 languages, and C.C. Yale OYC). WUaS is accrediting first in the state of California with plans to offer Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, and M.D. university degrees first in English.

For those OFs in Finance, WUaS is planning an undergraduate Business Major (based on C.C. MIT OCW's Sloan School of Management courses) to begin. WUaS began in 2008 conversationally in an open online course I've taught for many semesters on Harvard's virtual island now called "The Network Society, Information Technology and the Global University" in which you're welcome to participate, and which I'll teach again this autumn 2015. WUaS hopes to become a significant employer worldwide in many languages and countries, and become the MIT / Harvard / Oxbridge of the Internet.
It's nice to have been in touch recently with OF Andrew Lownie G'78?, who is a Publisher in London, as well.

All the best, 
Gordon MacLeod K'77
(which was the name I went by in my year in 1st year 6th form, although I go by Scott MacLeod in general).

Thank you, Mrs. Beaumont. 


-  Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
-  415 480 4577
-  http://worlduniversityandschool.org
-  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. 



On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:32 AM, Beaumont, Mrs DA <da.beaumont@fettes.com> wrote:
2015 OF Newsletter

OF News
Please do send in news updates and photos are always welcome - we would love to hear from as many of you as possible.

OFs in Finance
§  What is your title?
§  What do you do?
§  Where do you work?
§  How did you make a start in your profession?  What qualifications/experience are needed?
§  Any Fettes experiences or people that encouraged you to join the world of finance?
We are looking for interesting features, preferably not too lengthy, which may encourage others to follow in your footsteps. Again, photos are most welcome too.

Special Features
§  Memories of Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visiting Fettes 4 July 1955

§  You don’t quite realise how amazing life is at Fettes until you leave

**Copy by 2 April please**

Mrs Dawn Beaumont ׀ Old Fettesian Association Co-ordinator ׀ ( 0131 311 6741
Fettes College, OFA Office, Edinburgh EH4 1QX



This email message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. The Governors Of The Fettes Trust (Fettes College and Fettes College Preparatory School) is a registered Scottish charity, No: SC017489. The Fettes Foundation, which is a separately registered charity to that of The Governors Of The Fettes Trust, is registered in Scotland, No: SC028350. It is a company limited by guarantee, also registered in Scotland, No: SC189253. Fettes Enterprises Limited is a wholly owned trading subsidiary of The Governors Of The Fettes Trust and is registered in Scotland, No: SC187460. Fettes Centre for Language & Culture Limited is a wholly owned trading subsidiary of Fettes Enterprises Limited and is registered in Scotland, No: SC311652. Each of the above entities has its registered office at Fettes College, Carrington Road, Edinburgh, EH4 1QX. Fettes College reserves the right to monitor and filter all e-mail communications through its networks. Although reasonable precautions have been taken to ensure no viruses are present in this e-mail, no responsibility can be accepted for any loss or damage arising from the use of this e-mail or attachments. Visit the Fettes College Web site at www.fettes.com   ­­ 

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Hi Gordon/Scott

Glad to know all thrives in the Bay - long time since we visited Alcatraz!

Am retiring from Register in October (60 years since my former Housemaster, TRGS, lumber me, as new boy on staff) with the job! Managed to get Rob Watt to edit the Centenary one).

Here spring has at last sprung and pupils scattered for Easter Hols. so Fettes at its best!

ATB to U 2 GDCP


(George Preston is a former instructor in physics at Fettes College, was my Housemaster in Kimmerghame Housein '76-77, and is the Keeper of the OF register; Fettes is a British public boarding second school in Edinburgh, Scotland).


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Dear Scott,

Thank you for your news update, which will definitely be featured in this year’s OF Newsletter, both in the OFs in Finance and OF News sections.

Mr Preston comes in to the College weekly helping out in the Archives Dept and, yes, he is still Keeper of the Register with regard to OF records. It will be a pleasure to pass on your greetings.

Glad to learn you have met up with Andrew Lownie (Mo 1974-79) – there are not many places in the world where there isn’t an OF.

With best wishes from a sunny Edinburgh (it’s the Easter holidays at the College, so the corridors are a little quiet at the moment),

Dawn

Mrs Dawn Beaumont ׀Old Fettesian Association Co-ordinator ׀( 0131 311 6741
Fettes College, OFA Office, Edinburgh EH4 1QX

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Siskiyou Mountains salamander: Systems Thinking, and new "Management Information Systems" wiki Subject page with MIT OCW / Yale OYC, ISSIP presentation

March 25, 2015, 11:50 am
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Dear Gerald, 

Thanks for an edifying overview ISSIP presentation this morning about systems' thinking. Per your talk, I found a text West Churchman at the top of this MIT OCW reading list In a course entitled "Frameworks and Models in Engineering Systems / Engineering System Design" here - 
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/engineering-systems-division/esd-04j-frameworks-and-models-in-engineering-systems-engineering-system-design-spring-2007/readings/ - and will look too to add it to World University and School, the startup online best STEM OpenCourseWare-centric (e.g. CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) wiki university (planned for degrees for large languages and most countries). 

In searching MIT OCW - http://ocw.mit.edu/ - for "systems thinking," I found these many MIT OCW courses, some of which are in its Engineering Systems Division and others in the Sloan School of Business MIT OCW - http://search.mit.edu/search?site=ocw&client=mit&getfields=*&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=http%3A%2F%2Focw.mit.edu%2Fsearch%2Fgoogle-ocw.xsl&requiredfields=WT%252Ecg_s%3ACourse+Home%7CWT%252Ecg_s%3AResource+Home§ionlimit=WT%252Ecg_s%3ACourse+Home%7CWT%252Ecg_s%3AResource+Home&as_dt=i&oe=utf-8&departmentName=web&filter=0&courseName=&q=systems+thinking&btnG.x=0&btnG.y=0 - (hope this comes through for you).

And in planning further for World University and School and thinking in terms of systems' thinking, per my question, it's the directionality of the planned CC (free) online degrees that I think is important vis-a-vis your response. 

To give you an idea of how WUaS works, I just created a new "Management Information Systems" wiki Subject page - 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Management_Information_Systems (accessible from here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ) - and added your 2014 video - 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYyTUs9ipmc - to this new WUaS page. I also added links to and from this page to these related WUaS wiki Subject pages - Business Management - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Management - and - "Engineering Systems Division " 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Engineering_Systems_Division - with their many MIT OCW and Yale OYC courses, some eventually for credit for online degrees. 

Thank you again for your talk, and I welcome further your thoughts about how planning ideas might emerge from systems' thinking and might inform the development of wiki CC World University and School, for example, as we move from our current ~700 WUaS Wikia wiki pages into our new wiki, WUaS in MediaWiki - 
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page. 

Thank you again, Gerald, and looking forward to being in touch. 

Friendly regards, 
Scott




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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President 
- 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) 
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Common starling: World University newly in MediaWiki, Please edit a page (like Wikipedia), Thank you - with an invitation to teach to and edit a page at WUaS, which is like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare, and planning free, CC degrees in large languages!

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Here's World University newly in MediaWiki ... Please edit a page (like Wikipedia) ...

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page ...



Main Page

Welcome to World University and School[edit]

Welcome to potential undergraduate students at wiki (editable web pages) World University and School in the autumn of 2016, applying this autumn 2015!
Please add your name and email to the new Sign Up Form here:
http://worlduniversityandschool.org.

Mission of World University and School[edit]

Mission: World University & School's mission (http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare), in reaching out to the entire world, is to provide a free, wiki-based, education platform for knowledge generation, and, through facilitating the development of broadband worldwide, to make our service accessible to under served parts of the world. The WUaS mission is thus to facilitate all levels of teaching and learning opportunities (and future degrees) through an open, editable wiki in all languages, nation-states and subjects with great universities, and for developing world countries, and everyone.

Degrees at World University and School[edit]

WUaS is planning to offer online Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B. degrees in most large languages and nation states.
For the matriculating students in autumn 2016, WUaS seeks to develop a classes' approach (e.g. class of 2020) to online, best, STEM OCW-centric education (e.g. from MIT OCW audio and video - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses - or Yale OYC - http://oyc.yale.edu/courses - courses (in G+ group video Hangouts to begin), and a first year's course of study, in English, taking about 4 courses per 4-month semester (vis-a-vis WUaS’s planned 36 best STEM-centric courses over 4 years for a free C.C. undergraduate degree) might look like this:
Semester 1:
~ Humanities 101 (required for 2 semesters) - see: Humanities
~ First year Biology course with a programming component (required for 2 semesters)):
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-01sc-fundamentals-of-biology-fall-2011 ?
~ A Music Improv class in Google + group video Hangouts, with real, real time improvisation:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/music-and-theater-arts/21m-355-musical-improvisation-spring-2013/ ?

Semester 2:
~ Humanities 101 (required for 2 semesters) - see: Humanities
~ First year Biology course with a programming component (required for 2 semesters)):
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-01sc-fundamentals-of-biology-fall-2011 ?
~ Information Technology, the Network Society, and the Global University
~ A best STEM-centric OCW Introductory Mathematics’ course:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/

~ Junior qualifying exams
~ Senior thesis

Key WUaS Pages[edit]

Languages: Languages
WUaS Universal Translator: WUaS_Universal_Translator
Nation States: Nation_States

You at World University: You_at_World_University
Sign Up Form is here: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/
Admissions at World University and School: Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Courses at WUaS for credit: Courses
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing
(e.g. C.C. MIT OCW in 7 languages, and C.C. Yale OYC)

Educational Software: Educational_Software
Hardware Resource Possibilities: Hardware_Resource_Possibilities
Library Resources: Library_Resources
Museums: Museums
Research: Research
World University Music School: World_University_Music_School

SUBJECT TEMPLATE: Template:SUBJECT_TEMPLATE
{{SUBJECT_TEMPLATE}

LANGUAGE TEMPLATE: LANGUAGE_TEMPLATE
MUSEUM TEMPLATE: MUSEUM_TEMPLATE
NATION STATE TEMPLATE: NATION_STATE_TEMPLATE
NATION STATE LAW SCHOOL TEMPLATE: NATION_STATE_LAW_SCHOOL_TEMPLATE

Getting started in MediaWiki[edit]

This WUaS wiki is in development, and you can teach to, and edit, it:
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Questions, FAQs, Volunteers[edit]

For questions, or help editing a page, email: worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com
Frequently Asked Questions at World University & School: Frequently_Asked_Questions
Volunteers at World University and School: Volunteers

World University and School Licensing[edit]

World University and School - like Wikipedia with Greatest Universities' OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010 and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, educational organization charity.
World University & School is a community of learners and teachers who value — and are themselves strengthened by — the rich diversity of its participants. In order to cultivate a flourishing teaching, learning and creating conversation in a diverse and complex world, WUaS welcomes all languages, students, families, faculty, board members, and staff with differences based on (but not limited to) race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, family structure, and economic background.
All content on this site is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) -http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

Home[edit]

World University Foundation: World_University_Foundation

Please donate through PayPal to tax-exempt - 501 (c) (3) - World University and School at
Home: http://worlduniversityandschool.org

Thank you - with an invitation to teach to and edit a page at WUaS, which is like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare, and planning free, CC degrees in large languages! 





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Apollo Butterfly: Decades-old sociological thesis in America that immigrants significantly enhance the economy, Switzerland WUaS and its 4 official languages WUASs, WUaS's pitch at CfA, WUAS in MediaWiki developments, A history of WUaS in wikis

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Hi Eric (and Linda and Pablo), 

Nice to talk with you at AFSC yesterday again, Eric. 

Are you familiar with the decades-old sociological thesis in America that immigrants significantly enhance the economy? There's probably abundant quantitative sociological evidence for this as well. 

How could that / has that been explored in Switzerland / the EU / various European countries and with folks from Africa especially, but also all immigrants? What does the evidence say on the positive side? What are best examples? 

Are you familiar too with the Pew Center for Internet and Society - e.g. 
https://twitter.com/pewresearch - although they have many Twitter feeds (eg https://twitter.com/PewHispanic). They bring a quantitative data driven approach to many related questions mostly in the States though I think, and publish rigorous papers abundantly. 

Here too is Switzerland WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Switzerland ... where it could be very interesting to explore related questions over the years ahead and in French, German, Italian and Romansch, (and even create jobs in the languages of immigrants). 

And here too are the 4 official Swiss languages and per WUaS (but not yet in these languages as online universities:):

Looking forward to talking about this further. 

Friendly cheers, 
Scott


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Hi Jean and Jason, 

Thanks so much for your facilitation and your email conversation re WUaS's pitch at CfA last night, Jean.

"Code for America Hack Night SF WUaS Presentation at 155 9th, SF, W, March 25, 2015"
(accessible here for awhile - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/)

And Jason, thanks too very much for fixing the spelling error last night in WUAS MediaWiki ... 

I'm excited about how WUaS's central SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - and other related WUaS Templates, will take shape probably in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), in MediaWiki, and then how this SUBJECT TEMPLATE's headings will move "horizontally" translated into all 288 Wikipedia languages, in Wikidata to shape open schools in all of these languages ... next week? :) 

By the way, 
here's a history of WUaS in wikis: 





And here the Wikis ahead for WUaS probably ... and which will dovetail with WUaS MediaWiki / Wikidata / Wikicommons / and AI / machine learning and a planned Universal Translator



Thank you, and please edit a WUaS wiki page to help grow a vibrant editing / teaching community  ! :)

Friendly cheers, 
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Budgerigar: Could WUaS become as big as Twitter soon & in more languages? NYTs - "The Languages of Twitter Users," Languages at WUaS (planned for all 9,000+), DATA TEMPLATE at WUaS, emerging from and paralleling WUaS's key SUBJECT TEMPLATE as we move into MediaWiki / Wikidata, Some first resources for thinking about this from the Wikidata email list

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Could WUaS become as big as Twitter soon & in more languages?

"The Languages of Twitter Users" ...
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/the-languages-of-twitter-users/…

Languages at WUaS (planned for all 9,000+) ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages ...

Twitter's offices are a block away from WUaS's open hive meeting space (MW10-12) at SFFM/@afsc_org Could WUaS grow like Twitter in all languages?


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Planned DATA TEMPLATE at WUaS ...

emerging from and paralleling WUaS's key SUBJECT TEMPLATE -

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

as WUaS's moves into MediaWiki / Wikidata ...


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Some first resources for thinking about this for WUaS from Wikidata's email list communications beginning yesterday ...


Hi all,

Europeana.eu is interested in using Wikidata. At the moment, we are trying to make a correspondence between the data structures in Wikidata and our data model EDM [1] for digitized cultural collections.

We started by looking at the general Wikidata project page [2] and found that the following projects and related property list pages could be a starting point for our work:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Visual_arts, http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books,http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Periodicals.

Next to cultural items, we are also looking at persons, organizations, places, subjects, events and the abstract notion of work for enriching our data beyond the original description that is provided to us. For this we found the http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Infoboxes a good starting point since it gathers all of them, and also http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Years_WikiProject for simple dates.

We would appreciate if you could help us on finding other wikidata projects that we would have missed, or any other work that could be relevant for us!

Thanks in advance,

[1] http://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation



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Hi Valentine,

I think the following projects would also fall within the scope of your search:
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research
The latter wrote a H2020 proposal in which Europeana is a partner:
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research/EINFRA-9-2015
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Cheers,

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Hi, for France I'm also aware of the historical monuments project, that might be interesting for you: 
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_France/Monuments_historiques

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Hi Valentine!

I think the Authority Control project would be of interest to you:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Authority_control


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Parnassius: WUaS holding Conversation group video Hangouts 24/7 even, With an idea focus, What are the idea sparks to make these most fun?, How to inform/instruct the interns (e.g. Reed College students) to make these fun and stimulating?

March 28, 2015, 11:56 am
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For community building here at WUaS and via this G+ community page - https://plus.google.com/communities/116251696406981539440 - and at WUaS more generally, 

I'm excited about interns at WUaS holding Conversation group video G+ Hangouts 24/7 even, 

first in large languages, and then in all 9,000+ languages, and with an idea focus 

(and only somewhat academic focus, and also for language learning) 

and eventually holding G+ group musical hangouts too, 

- for community building especially. 


What are the idea sparks to make these most fun? How to inform/instruct the interns (e.g. Reed College students) to make these fun and stimulating? 

What G+ Hangout examples or similar already exist that are far-reachingly fun and idea focused?


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Some of this will lead up to course work for credit engaging the conference method (vis-a-vis Reed College):

Conference Method of Teaching and Learning - 





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Monarch butterfly: Mexico WUaS in Spanish, Mexico Law School at WUaS, HarvardX JuryX course with Harvard Law Professor Charlie Nesson, These university and high school degrees online - Bach. Ph.D. Law, MD and IB ... see Admissions at WUaS

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Hi Cait,
Nice to meet you as well. ... was playing my Scottish Small Pipes in the Golden Gate Park yesterday which was fun. Thanks for your email, and welcome back to Mexico City, all the way from Wisconsin, Minnesota and New York City. :)

Just walked into World University and School's AFSC / SFFM hive meeting space (MW 10-12) at 65 9th Street in downtown SF (See too - http://afsc.org/office/san-francisco-ca - and - 
 http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/02/endangered-species-dna-translation-of.html) after receiving your email not long ago.  Unete.org has a nice web site, but no habla Español here - and WUaS can't offer an Universal Translator yet either to help with this translation - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator - although Google Translate is helpful sometimes :).

In addition to online wiki schools in all languages in Mexico for open teaching and learning, WUaS would like to offer these university and high school degrees online - Bach. Ph.D. Law, MD and IB ... see Admissions at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links) - (and it might be best to open this in the Chrome browser in my experience). 

Here for example is the beginning Mexico Law School at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS -
and if possible, WUaS will eventually hire, for example, Stanford and Harvard Law student as graduate student instructors in Google + Hangouts for accrediting law degrees in Mexico. I'm just taking the edX course JuryX with the inspiring Harvard Law Professor Charlie Nesson, where we're partly deliberating online as jury members - https://www.edx.org/course/juryx-deliberations-social-change-harvardx-hls3x - and see too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf619wOzqfQ. edX is a great open and free education platform but not CC (whereas Wikipedia, MIT OCW, Yale OYC and WUaS are all Creative Commons' licensed). It would be great to bring MIT OCW and in Spanish into edX platform eventually and in many languages.
And here are:
Mexico World University and School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mexico -

Spanish language WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Spanish_language

- which are an entire beginning accrediting online university (but only in a few pages so far, and except for the MIT OCW in Spanish, not yet in any languages in Mexico to speak of).
 
The Quaker organization Progresa (http://www.guatemalafriends.org/-visit-progresa) also offers a variety of certificates in Guatemala and possibly in other countries in central America.
How to develop MIT OCW- and Yale OYC-centric law courses in Spanish as well as how to best accredit in Mexico for all of the above degrees are interesting questions WUaS will focus on with time.
If you're game Caitlin, please join the WUaS community page here - https://plus.google.com/communities/116251696406981539440 - and post something in Spanish and about Spanish MIT OCW ... http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/spanish/ ... with an eye to developing community in that language for wiki open teaching and learning WUaS. There are two options when posting here - either "Edit a page" or "Discussion"  and the cool thing about wiki WUaS is that we can all become teachers to each other, - by teaching to a web page, to our web camera or by teaching in other digital creative ways and adding this to a WUaS wiki Subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - (and WUaS is currently moving from this Wikia wiki to the MediaWiki here - 

Little bit of a lengthy email, but I hope your Monday is off to a great start as well.

Friendly regards,
Scott
http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
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Elf owl: "let someone else add the translation tags" to qLabel and Wikidata, Wikipedia's database ... WUaS can help with this

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Dear sporadic Universitians, 

I attended a Wikidata monthly office hours in Internet Relay Chat (IRC chat) this morning, and Lydia and Denny, both core Wikidata folks, were facilitating it. WUaS would like to donate and use Wikidata, and inter-lingually; Wikidata is the far-reaching developing sophisticated database written for Wikipedia's 288 languages. 

I'm happy to say Denny was open to WUaS helping with translation tags - 

" i'll let someone else add the translation tags, they seriously confuse me every time" -

and probably as WUaS begins to hire ... and for more than Wikipedia's 288 languages I would hope ... :) See Denny and my conversation in the transcript below about this. Denny also wrote qLabel which is interlingual software, partly for Wikidata, and which WUaS will also use. And Denny knows both Wikidata and Google very well. 

Lots gets decided process-wise for Wikidata in meetings like these office hours, and in terms of working with other "companies" if you read the whole transcript, such as between Google (where Denny is now employed) and Wikidata. I added some of the main links from these office hours to:  http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wiki.


17:13:51 i'll let someone else add the translation tags, they seriously confuse me every time
17:13:51 if he's here in IRC I will ping him
17:14:36dennyvrandecic: will do
17:15:01dennyvrandecic: do you have a URL for Wikidata translation tags?
17:15:26Scott_WUaS: https://github.com/googleknowledge/qlabel
17:15:32Jianhui67: here you go ;)
17:15:38 Thanks ")
17:15:40Scott_WUaS: or better, http://googleknowledge.github.io/qlabel/
17:15:50 can you handle the archiving thing etc?
17:15:59 Great!
17:16:03 \o/
17:16:05 thanks benestar
17:16:07 have to go now and wont come online this week again perhaps :/
17:16:14 or only from mobile ;)
17:16:21 why? school?
17:16:28 vacation :P
17:16:49 sweet
17:16:55 anything else we should discuss today?
17:17:04 Will we get new merch?
17:17:04benestar: bye :)
17:17:06dennyvrandecic: (WUaS could help with this eventually - planned for Wikipedia's 288 languages +)
17:17:07 so have fun with the new rfc and cya
17:17:09 Like the Wikidata onesie?
17:17:17 * closed rfc
17:17:19sjoerddebruin: hihi. i'll add the onsie to the wish list
17:17:20 :P
17:17:33 other suggestions for new merch?
17:18:00Scott_WUaS: sure, qlabel uses linked open data standards, so works out of the box with anything that implements that
17:18:45 if there's nothing else we can wrap this up for today
17:18:49 thanks so much for coming everyone
17:18:53 this was fun :)
17:18:57 thanks everyone!
17:19:07 Great ... qLabel which you wrote is great too ... WUaS (but it wouldn't be me) isn't quite there to help with this ... but let's stay in touch about this

Questions, ideas, thoughts, observations? ... please send them here. 

Best, 
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- 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. 





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Island Fox: World University with developing Artificial Intelligence can lead on the CC Academic side in all languages, "IBM is leading the integration of AI in industry," IItalian Language WUaS, Persian Language WUaS, Japan Language WUaS, Just found some MIT OCW for Italian ... :)

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Executive Director at International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP)


https://www.linkedin.com/groups/RT-IBM-IBM-is-leading-4720974.S.5988299773843628032?view=&item=5988299773843628032&type=member&gid=4720974&trk=eml-b2_anet_digest-hero-1-hero-disc-disc-0&midToken=AQHBPZDhU4RywA&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=01o1WMZJm57CI1


And I think CC World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - which is like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare (e.g. CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) and planned for all 9000 languages, and with developing AI, can lead on the CC academic side, @IBM ""IBM is leading the integration of AI in industry" - @HarvardBiz #IBMWatson pic.twitter.com/DlpQi5Udsm" http://ow.ly/KYtVQ #ISSIP

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Dear Ko and Ants,

Very nice to meet and talk with you in the Golden Gate Park this afternoon near UCSF - and while playing the Scottish Small Pipes! What interesting international lives you have
lead in recent years.

While there are many things it would be interesting to explore further together and especially vis-a-vis your research interests and what you are knowledgeable about
linguistically, and in relation to World University and School too, I thought you might be interested in Scottish Country Dancing in near 22nd and Valencia in the Mission:
http://www.rscds-sf.org/classes/ .

Here, by the way, is the beginning Persian language World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Persian_language - and not yet in Persian, except for the MIT OCW itself. The Italian language World University and School isn't yet begun in English or Italian, but here are WUaS's beginning list of languages -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages - and access to Language WUaS's.

All the best,
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Ants, 

Might I drop in tomorrow midday to the Italian Cultural Institute where you work simply to learn a little about it, and to learn about its library resources, for example - and vis-a-vis Italy World University and School? How, Ants, by the way, do you know John Palfrey
and Urs Gasser which I see in LinkedIN?

Music-making ahead! Here's the beginning Music School at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - planned for ALL instruments, each a wiki subject page to begin, and in ALL languages (where Wikipedia is in 288 languages with millions of articles), where we can edit a page, teach to our web cameras, jam together online, and there's also a great universities' academic standard/focus.

Very nice to meet you.

Friendly regards and cheers,
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Here, too, are the new 

Italy World University and School - 

Italian language WUaS - 

which I just created, but which don't yet have any OpenCourseWare in Italian. 

Is there very much, Ants, that you know of or might be able to find? 

And, Ko, here are the beginning -

Japan World University and School -

Japanese language World University and School -

And here are the main STEM subjects currently at WUAS - 


with much MIT OCW, for example. 

Nice to meet you both. 

Best, 
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Great, Ants,

John Palfrey and Urs Gasser are / were Harvard Profs ... and visionaries for online education too ...

See you tomorrow potentially around 1-ish.
Cheers, 
Scott


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Hi Ants (and Ko), 

Very nice to talk with you today at the Italian Cultural Institute, Ants.

Here, again, are the new 

Italy World University and School - 

Italian_language WUaS - 

which I just created yesterday, but which don't yet have any OpenCourseWare in Italian. 

Here's the Wikipedia in Italiano - 
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_italiana - which I'll add to both of the above Italian WUaS's. 

Not finding any Italiano Google Language Practice Hangouts presently but will keep looking.

And here's the MIT OCW in Persian which I haven't shared yet with you - 
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/persian/ - although in a first email above, I shared with the Persian language WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Persian_language - where you'll find this Persian MIT OCW. 

Let's find / create this MIT OCW in Italian - and for degrees!

More later. 

Friendly regards, 
Scott
 


Just found some MIT OCW for Italian ... :)


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On Pandora.com, I just enjoyed hearing this song
{open Pandora and type this song's name in}:

Found A Wonderful Savior
by Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Quartet
on Goodbye, Babylon

gospel roots
r & b influences
Old Time music styles
folk influences
mild rhythmic syncopation
heavy use of vocal harmonies
interweaving vocal harmony
paired vocal harmony
acoustic sonority
major key tonality
upbeat lyrics


with these above attributes cataloged for this track by the Music Genome Project - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project


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In what ways can we learn to sing like this in Google group video Hangouts in real, real time, with feedback from both software, and possibly a live director (Joseph Jennings - http://www.yrmusic.com/v2/artists/bios/artist.php?ID=76 - of "Chanticleer" or Bernice Johnson Reagon - http://www.bernicejohnsonreagon.com/ - of "Sweet Honey in the Rock"?) as we are singing? 


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Milk.samsung.com - Milk Music - also has a great musical channel application - pick one's favorite song or artist / artistic group and create a channel based on this, which develops with time ... 


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Singing for bliss generation, explicitly and online? 

Loving Bliss (eliciting this neurophysiology) - 


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Gospel Singing at World University and School -

Singing at WUaS with main links - 




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#Stoosinaction open Italian hangout



https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wf_wWSNl_sA


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WUaS's G+ community page - 

WUaS's G+ community page - 


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https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GplusExpertise/posts/FGCnCFuQEUn


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Shared publicly  -  Jul 24, 2012
Connect to Google products and services by adding these Google Community Managers to a circle:

Lots of information & updates on their profiles but of course also posts about their life and interests.

+Yonatan Zunger Chief architect, fingers in many pies
+Sky Bintliff CM for Google+ Mobile & Events
+Brian Matiash CM for Google Photos
+Amit Fulay CM for Hangouts
+Brian Rose  CM at Niantic Labs working on +Field Trip  and +Ingress

+Dori Storbeck  CM for Hangouts/Chat
+Jade Wang   CM for Google+ Local
+Carolyn Wendell  CM for Gmail
+Katherine Gramann  CM for Calendar

+Paul Wilcox  CM for Mobile / Android
+Tina Patel  CM for Google Play
+Jacky Hayward  CM for Chrome
+Melissa Daniels  CM for Chrome OS

+Gerard Sanz  CM for Panoramio
+Nicole Drobeck  CM for 3D
  CM for Drive?

+Lisa Ding  CM for Blogger
+Sarah Price  CM for Project Glass
+Daniel Mabasa  +Abby DeBellis  CM for Maps
+Keane Ng CM for YouTube

+Meera L  CM for Apps
+Kevin Lau  CM for Google TV
+Matt Bariletti  CM for Hangouts / Google Voice
+Jessica Schwartz   & +Kousha Navidar  - CMs for Web Search

+Bernardo Barlach   CM for Orkut

And the lovely lady to rule them all  :-)
+Natalie Villalobos  CM for Google+ and Communities

Why not a circle?

I didn't put them in a circle because the people dealing with products change, not all want to circle all etc.
If you save the link to this post in your profile links section for instance, it will get an update of the content always automatically, a circle won't. :-)

https://plus.google.com/109164280656499025716/posts/FGCnCFuQEUn


People have been asking about the photo:

This part of the team is waiting for the thumbs up to share some nice posts about new Google+ features to us.
The tall one is +Yonatan Zunger  and the smaller ones next to +Natalie Villalobos in the middle are +Sky Bintliff  and +Dori Storbeck

The rest of the CM team are down in the burrow, working on the features. They will change places every now and then.

Here is the link to all the Google Help Forums where you'll meet the CM:s too:

http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=portal_groups.cs


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San Joaquin kit fox: "Hippies to the hot springs" is my thesis in brief, Exciting about Duke U.P.! When do you hear back? What is the argument of the book? ... because reality or actuality at Harbin is transformed biologically by the clothing-optional, out-of-doors pool areas, especially the warm pool ...

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Exciting about Duke! When do you hear back? What is the argument of the book? 

All the best
Amy


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Hi Amy, 

'"Hippies to the hot springs" is my argument in brief (and 45 years later still), and that "place," and the Harbin warm pool, inform/shape/give rise to Harbin's culture, if you will, which I characterize ethnographically as counterculture. 

Here's my argument further re the virtual: 

"I’m suggesting or arguing here for the authenticity of virtuality in this place-based, California, 1960s emergent counterculture at Harbin, where people find a sense of freedom thanks to its warm waters and milieu, especially when compared with bathtub soaking with virtual multimedia-informed immersive (Packer and Jordan 2000) Harbin experiences. Despite the potential and potency of the multimedia virtual, or of the virtual in the sense of ‘as if,’ the real, or actual, is more virtual than the virtual itself, I suggest, because reality or actuality at Harbin is transformed biologically by the clothing-optional, out-of-doors pool areas, especially the warm pool, via a kind of relaxation response or releasing action meditation, which as a whole (Harbin having begun as a Gestalt Center with hot springs, where gestalt can mean ‘whole’) has a far-reaching virtual or ‘as if’ effect on people’s body/minds" (page 19 of the manuscript). 
 
It's been more than a month, so I'm hoping I'll hear from Duke University Press soon. 

When will you finish your Ph.D. and when do you come back to the SF Bay Area? 

TSWG meets this evening at Berkeley with Dean MacCannell talking - http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacCannell2015.htm . :)

Nice to be in touch, 
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Generating caring and justice with World University and School as an expression of this, potentially flourishingly, re: 

Caring and Loving wiki subject page - 

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

{And see too: Loving Bliss (eliciting this neurophysiology): http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology)}

... all the emerging WUaS Law Schools in multiple countries now - 

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

Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)


... and especially in the context of Common chimps, Orangutans and Bonobos, metaphorically, as our closest genetic relatives … 

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



... and care and justice especially in a Quaker/Friendly/NtF senses.  

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_(atheist_Quakers%3F)


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and similarly with WUaS could we generate caring and justice in learning and in courses, so that people feel the love and the justice, in the information exchange, like feeling electricity's effects … what a wild idea … oh information technologies … 






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Nice to get your email. Easter was fun here. I spent it at my ethnographic field site, Harbin Hot Springs. I've written a 400 page actual / virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic manuscript and am waiting to hear back from Duke U.P. presently about its publication (as I think I mentioned in Piedmont). I played highland pipes at Harbin some years ago at Easter which was fun and colorful - there's a picture here ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-new-year.html - and here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/04/salticids-no-frost-metaphorical.html - but I'm only playing my small pipes presently. I may play my small pipes tonight as part of the Open Band for Scottish Country Dancing in south Berkeley, where I also play kind of 2nd keyboard - mostly baselines presently. How was your Easter and what did you do in Mexico City?

(Scott Macleod Bagpiping at Easter Harbin Hot Springs with wizard and Easter Bunny
photo: Harbin Hot Spring's Easter 2005 (Scott MacLeod and Eric R.) photo credit ?)

I think wiki - editable web pages - are great for their immediacy, and WUaS has just begun a new wiki - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page - to which we'll move the 700 pages (in English only so far) from here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - and into Wikipedia's new back end database developed for Wikipedia's 288 languages called Wikidata. I'm glad Wikipedia though has citation practices to help with quality of wiki-additions, since WUaS would also like to become the Harvard / MIT of the internet and all languages. I think both Google and Wikidata have excellent web development "teams" - big ones - which teams take time and focus to build ... and WUaS is focusing on that presently.

Concerning your idea that it would be "incredible to offer online classes, supplemented by trained teachers to people living in very rural parts of the world by implementing a model similar to UNETE, but targeted at adults who have never received a high level of formal education" - I think wiki editable pages facilitate aggregating much already existing free open CC content for this ... and free open content like Sal Khan's Khan Academy ... but again, how to focus on the generating aggregating best quality teaching. And the cool thing about the web and wikis is that we can create and share all of this too.  And WUaS may develop projects to focus this.

Part of WUaS's mission - toward universal highest quality education - is to facilitate broadband  - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Broadband_Development - especially for the developing world (think perhaps of Google's Project Loon with helium balloons facilitating internet access in remote areas) - and think in terms of all 8000 + languages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages - and 200+ countries - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States. CC Wikipedia again is in 288 languages, and they just created the CC Wikidata database for these, (and CC MIT OCW is in 7 languages, and CC Yale OYC is in English), and CC WUaS seeks to build on all of these.

If inclined, become familiar with MIT OCW in Spanish - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/spanish/ (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/) as WUaS begins to seek to accredit perhaps in Mexico first, and for a Law School there too - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS.

Here too are ...

Mexico World University and School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mexico

Spanish language WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Spanish_language
Building on CC Yale OYC and CC MIT OCW, I'm focusing partly on how to become the Oxbridge / Harvard / MIT / Yale of the Internet and in all languages for accrediting degrees in most countries. I'd welcome your ideas about this.

Thanks again for your ideas ... and let's stay in touch.

Best,
Scott




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Dear Sir/Madam;
Greetings!
I am so much eager to apply for master degree!! If your office
supports international students by financial aids, scholarships or
donation.
please consider this application Here 's complete info about me to be
eligible for scholarship! I am looking to do 3 master degrees in
fields of
1. Master of Business Administration
2. Master of Political Sciences
3. Master of Laws
due to my plan to have PhD in Business And Political Sciences.
Regards
Habib H
Afghanistan


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Dear Erik J and Megan K, 

It was very nice to meet you and thanks for a great ALEP presentation at Stanford Law today - https://www.law.stanford.edu/event/2015/04/07/rule-of-law-program-alep-informational-session.

As an example of how wiki CC World University and School works, which is like CC Wikipedia now in 288 languages with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare like CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, here are the very beginnings of Pashto language World University and School and Afghanistan WUaS, not yet in Pashto, Dari or other languages - 

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

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


You'll find both of these linked from the Asia World University and School - 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Asia. 

As a further example, check out the Wikipedia in the Pashto language itself part way down - 

https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/پښتو_ژبه
{accessible here - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias}

- but I can't yet find the Wikipedia in the Dari language. And WUaS hasn't also begun the 
Afghanistan Law School yet, like we haven't begun the Dari language WUaS - and in both Dari and English. 

WUaS has recently begun migrating to MediaWiki WUaS with plans to integrate with Wikipedia and the new Wikidata database - 
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page - from the our current Wikia WUaS. 

WUaS would also like to explore hiring Stanford Law School students to teach, as graduate student instructors, in Google group video Hangouts as well, - especially if they are thinking about becoming professors eventually. 

Your ALEP program seems extensible to all countries and main languages in them, which is really exciting and fascinating, and I wonder if there might be the possibility to explore collaborations in the future about some of this? 

Thank you again. 

All the best, 
Scott


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Jim C,

Thanks for your email and the information.

It was great to hear Stanford Law Professor Erik J today talk about the Rule of Law ALEP program which could become an example of Stanford Law creating law schools in many countries. 

As WUaS begins to develop the Mexico Law School at WUaS in Spanish, probably in a few years, WUaS would like to explore hiring Stanford Law graduate student instructors to help develop it online, and to teach courses as GSIs. I hope the wiki WUaS itself will become a kind of WUaS "bandwidth" (e.g. Wikipedia / Wikidata is in 288 languages, by way of comparison). Looking forward to staying in touch.

Best,

Scott




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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President 
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/
- 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) 
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Wikimania

Meet the Wikipedians. Those "persnickety," techy types who keep your favorite Internet information website brimming with data

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/



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Western pond turtle: 60 Minutes' piece on Jimmy Wales & Wikipedia in 288 LANGUAGES, No mention of Wikipedia explicitly planning for Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, or linked open data, Added the Wikimania piece to the WIKI subject page at WUaS, WUaS technical committee, For developing Linked Open Data anticipating Artificial Intelligence and WUaS, this Wikidata email list and Kingsley Idehen's comments in it are especially helpful, Great WIKIDATA tour made by Magnus Manske, Not many online accrediting universities or schools such as WUaS planned for all 9,000+ languages and 200+ countries are planning for artificial intelligence or machine learning, and these related blog posts are the beginnings of this

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Hi Markus, Lydia, Jim and Jim,

I enjoyed this great 60 Minutes' piece on Jimmy Wales & Wikipedia in 288 LANGUAGES -
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
- and have added it to the WIKI subject page at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wiki -
for open teaching and learning planned for 9000+ languages. It's interesting that there's no mention of Wikipedia explicitly planning for A.I., machine learning, or linked open data.

When I went this morning to the new WUaS in MediaWiki -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page
- I found that it had been hacked yesterday -
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=history
- and I've now made a basic backup of these new beginnings for WUaS in MediaWiki. I also couldn't revert it to the previous version, because there were too many hacks in between, so I had to copy everything from my last MediaWiki version by hand to then overwrite the hacks. In what ways might it be possible to begin to explore developing this with Wikidata and with planning for Linked Open Data, and thus to prevent future hacks, given that I'm not a Wikidata developer - and around this key WUaS SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE?

Markus, Jim, Jim and Lydia, could you please also point WUaS to resources related to semantic wiki, and especially for linked open data, (with a focus security and privacy), particularly around its use
and implementation, etc. as well as to existing best practices or case studies that really explore and lay out possible applications - and interlingually vis-a-vis Wikidata as well. There are some resources
about this on the Artificial Intelligence wiki subject page at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence - but nothing very applied yet vis-a-vis Wikidata especially. It would be great too to anticipate an Universal Translator -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator - with these resources.

I've taken the liberty of adding the four or you to World University and School's technical committee here -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation - and please let me know if you don't want to be mentioned here.

Thank you, and looking forward to further communication about this.

Best,
Scott


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Hi Jason,
For developing Linked Open Data anticipating Artificial Intelligence and WUaS, this Wikidata email thread itself, and Markus Kroetzsch's email here, and his paper references, are one good starting place. Both Markus and Kingsley Idehen's comments, also in this thread, are often very helpful in what they write and in the Wikidata email list.
When I went yesterday and this morning to the new WUaS in MediaWiki - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page - I found that it had been hacked - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=history - and I've now made a basic backup of these new beginnings for WUaS in MediaWiki. Yesterday I also couldn't revert it to the previous version, because there were too many hacks in between, so I had to copy everything from my last MediaWiki version by hand to then overwrite the hacks, but today I could revert because there was only one hack. In what ways might it be possible to begin to explore developing this with Wikidata and with planning for Linked Open Data, and thus to prevent future hacks, given that I'm not a Wikidata developer - and around this key WUaS SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE?
I'm/let's also looking for resources for implementing in SemanticWiki, and in addition to linked open data, (with a focus security and privacy), particularly around its use and implementation, etc. as well as to existing best practices or case studies that really explore and lay out possible applications - and interlingually vis-a-vis Wikidata as well. There are some resources about this on the Artificial Intelligence wiki subject page at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence - but nothing very applied yet vis-a-vis Wikidata especially. It would be great too to anticipate an Universal Translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator - with
these Linked Data resources.
See you this evening, and thanks for your email. 
Scott



Hi Jason,
For developing Linked Open Data anticipating Artificial Intelligence and WUaS, this Wikidata email thread itself also is another good starting place. Kingsley Idehen's (https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KingsleyIdehen/posts ) comments are often very helpful in the Wikidata email list.
Scott


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On 3/30/15 7:01 PM, Vladimir Alexiev wrote:
We as humanity should leverage the strengths of both, to gain maximum benefits.
Amen!  Anything less is an utter shame.

A Little Cooperation Goes a Long Way.
Amen, one more time !
Kingsley, I am very much heartened by your response because I thought you're a die-hard DBpedia guy;
and a couple months ago when Markus pointed to the excellent Resumator, you sort of said "but does it LOD".

That's an example of how my comments can be easily misconstrued, due to my DBpedia and LOD proximity :)

All I want is for identifiers to resolve to description documents. Net effect, we have URIs functioning as terms rather than words and/or phrases, expands the power of the Web.


Wikidatians have strength in numbers.
As Multichill (Sum of All Paintings, WikiCulture, WikiLovesMonuments)
is just emailing me "We have bots and we're not afraid to use them.
My bot (BotMultichill) has over 4 million edits"
They're not afraid to screw some modeling up, because they're gonna fix it.

All good.


They talk to each other, all the time, in sophisticated ways.
(Well, not all of them are sophisticated: e.g. I am just learning)
Mediawiki is the most sophisticated consensus-building platform, right?

"A" rather than "The" :)


They're good with practical information architecture (things shold be easy to use and see), without being afraid of breaking some puny rule.

Yes! Not being afraid to break things is crucial. A system of draconian rules is DOA. That said, Linked Open Data isn't draconian, but I do empathize with those who might initially arrive at that conclusion.

They're not afraid to use what used to be a cursed languge (PHP).
Phabricator is a great.... 10 tools in one? I only used it couple days but the UI is excellent.

And they are getting serious about RDF: they're retooling the WDQ backend because that wonderful beast is ever hungry.
(They picked BigData because of free support and strong engagement).


I don't quite clearly see the Complementarity between DBP and WD that you see, but there are options.

And that's the weak point that needs fixing.

Wikidata is about a crowd oriented DataWiki for structured data.

DBpedia is about Wikipedia content rendition in 5-Star Linked Open Data form.

Wikidata enables DBpedia to be better.

DBpedia enables Wikidata to be better, even if DBpedia shortcomings are the initial point of focus.

What I see that there's got to be a joint series of workshops.

Yes, but not just workshops. Principals behind both projects need to talk and get to understand one another, genuinely. As I said, these projects are inherently complimentary+++

Maybe also with the SemanticMediaWiki (or OntoWiki) people, because they have the third perspective.

Both are DataWiki variants. They are complimentary tools that can play a role. Just like related tools that offer read-write capability at Web-scale via the open standards such as LDP, SPARQL Graph Protocol, SPARQL 1.1 Update etc..


Who's for it? I sure would be happy: will cut down on travel :-)

PS: Too bad this thread wont go to wikidata-l because I'm not subscribed there.

It's in the cc. :)

Kingsley


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Hi Jason, 

I'm still getting my mind around / learning about Wikidata, but here's a great tour made by Magnus Manske from Sweden and one of the two Wikidatans who won a recent prize on behalf of Wikidata - 


How best for WUaS to develop in this/in Wikidata with Linked Open Data and planning for all 9,000 languages, is a question I'm wondering about?

I learned about this new Wikidata tour from the " [Wikidata-l] Weekly Summary #152 " in the main Wikidata-l email list. Are you receiving these also? All three Wikidata, Wikitech and SemanticWiki email lists are accessible here again - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/08/california-tiger-salamander-wuas-in.html .  

Could we possibly please do something this evening to stop the hacks that are occurring to WUaS in MediaWiki ? 

Thank you,
Scott


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Not many online accrediting (e.g. on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) universities or schools, such as World University and School, planned for all 9,000+ languages and 200+ countries, are planning for artificial intelligence or machine learning, and these related blog posts are the beginnings of this.



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World University and School

{Open} Business Meeting – Agenda (hour-long meeting)

April 11, 2015

9 a.m., Pacific Time



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



1. Welcome and Greetings



1.1 News:


a
World University is newly in Media/Wiki with a list of 9000 languages, each to begin as a wiki page university or school - 
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page - is planning for Artificial Intelligence. There are 700 WUaS pages for this as beginnings here at WUaS Wikia - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - which we are moving to WUaS MediaWiki. 

b
Business Plan for World University and School, See, too: Dwarf lake iris: WUaS's Business Plan, In the Care of Quaker SFFM?, New Resource Bank?, Planned revenue streams -
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/03/business-plan-for-world-university-and.html


News:




Universitians: 


This month we'll meet in Free Conference Call. 


Free Conference Call number change - it is -  - and the 

Access Code is - .



The agenda for the upcoming March 14th, 2014 WUaS, monthly, business meeting is here - 

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 February 2015



b.

Guidestar.org


WUaS has the Guidestar (affiliated with the IRS) Gold Label -



2.3 Information Technology


a.




b.




2.4 WUaS Outreach


a.




b.



c.




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? 



2.9 Accreditation committee


a. 


b. 




2.9.1

BPPE


2.9.2

WASC senior


2.9.3

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




2.9.4

Become member of NACAC for Common Application



3. WUaS Master Plan




4. WUaS Business Plan




5.  WUaS Board


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





6. New WUaS pages and updates


a. Updates:



b. New pages:




c. Blog entries:





7. SF f/Friends/Quaker WUaS developments


a.



b.



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



8. Closure



9. Next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting - Saturday, 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.






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Woodrow's Crinum Lily: Developing Young Leaders - World University's Fund for Internships and Fellowships' Appeal, Swathi in India in a World University (WUaS) Course in a Hangout

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Developing Young Leaders - 
World University's Fund for Internships and Fellowships' Appeal


Swathi in India in a World University (WUaS) Course in a Hangout


April 2014


Dear Universitian friends,


Young people have been at the heart of WUaS’s planning throughout our nearly 8-year history. Their fresh ideas and energy, coupled with World University’s plans to develop young leaders grounded in our f/Friendly, best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare and Wiki (people-to-people teaching online) educational values, in most languages and countries, will make for a powerful combination.


The work of WUaS seeks to be further informed by the efforts of young people. World University would like to begin to bring on board more than 100 interns and fellows who will get the skills and experience they need to be leaders in online education.


         To this end, WUaS is introducing the World University Internships’ Fund, and with it we intend to provide a solid financial footing for growing internships and fellowships and increase the number we can offer. In our ongoing efforts to create developing free online Creative Commons’ licensed best STEM-centric OCW accrediting university education and degrees (like CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) and wiki (editable web pages) universal education, it’s essential that we inspire and develop the next generation of leaders, interns and fellows to help grow WUaS. This is where we begin.


         Interns and fellows*will:


·      Energize and inspire high school applicants this autumn 2015 to apply and matriculate at World University and School in 2016.


·      Help accredit WUaS in California and develop the new MediaWiki WUaS in a myriad of ways and learn valuable community building skills.


·      Marshal local resources that can directly help grow free online CC accrediting education worldwide and in all languages and nation states.


(*Interns are generally college students with limited work hours. Fellows are often graduate students or recent college graduates who can work more hours and do a higher level of work).


You may want to make a special donation or increase your annual gift to support all or part of an internship or fellowship. Another option is to invite friends and family to pool their resources and fund a position or to establish a family endowment fund.


         Now is the time to train the new generation of leaders. WUaS’s ability to create developing free online Creative Commons’ licensed best STEM-centric OCW accrediting university education and degrees and wiki universal education will be in our interns’ hands. Your gift will be an investment in our future.


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


Thank you for helping to grow the World University Internships’ Fund.


Sincerely,

Scott MacLeod (Founder and President)




- 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.






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http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/04/april-11-2015-monthly-business-meeting_11.html


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/04/ghost-plant-or-indian-pipe-april-11.html



Attenders: Scott MacLeod (head clerk and recording clerk), Kia, Em., Da., and Kati.



Minute –


WUaS will begin to explore and developing (and accrediting in Poland if possible) Poland World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Poland- with UNH’s Andrzej Rucinski vis-a-vis ISSIP Grand Challenge:


http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2014/11/grand-challenges-prescription-for.html


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/11/birch-species-grand-challenges.html


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/11/marsh-earwort-wuas-issip-grand.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE0gdNy9wl0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYaQniKk1XE




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April 11, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School



World University and School

{Open} Business Meeting – Agenda (hour-long meeting)

April 11, 2015

9 a.m., Pacific Time



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



1. Welcome and Greetings



1.1 News:


a
World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - is newly in Media/Wiki with a list of 9000 languages, each to begin as a wiki page university or school - 
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page - and is planning for Artificial Intelligence. There are 700 WUaS pages for this as beginnings here at WUaS Wikia - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - which we are moving to WUaS MediaWiki. The beginning list of courses to be taken for credit and toward majors is in this new wiki too. 

b
"Developing Young Leaders - World University's Fund for Internships and Fellowships Appeal" is attached and posted below (for the vision impaired) - 

c
Business Plan for World University and School, See, too: Dwarf lake iris: WUaS's Business Plan, In the Care of Quaker SFFM?, New Resource Bank?, Planned revenue streams -



Universitians: 


This month we'll meet in Free Conference Call. 



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


The agenda for the upcoming April 11th, 2014 WUaS, monthly, business meeting is here - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/04/april-11-2015-monthly-business-meeting.html?view=classic.


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 March 2015



b.

Guidestar.org


WUaS has the Guidestar (affiliated with the IRS) Gold Label -



2.3 Information Technology


a.
Ongoing developments with the new WUaS in MediaWiki -  http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page


b.
WUaS is panning for Artificial Intelligence / machine learning in all 9000+ languages and 242+ countries as wiki with, for example -


c.
Ongoing developments with the WUaS main page -



2.4 WUaS Outreach


a.

WUaS has shared in this month's email the new Internships' Fund Appeal as a form of outreach-

"Developing Young Leaders - World University's Fund for Internships and Fellowships' Appeal"



2.5 Hiring planning




2.6 Fundraising


In a recent email, WUaS has shared the new Internships' Fund Appeal -

"Developing Young Leaders - World University's Fund for Internships and Fellowships' Appeal"


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? 



2.9 Accreditation committee



a. 

WUaS is seeking to develop the course listings for students in the new WUaS wiki to send into BPPE for accreditation 


2.9.1

BPPE


2.9.2

WASC senior


2.9.3

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




2.9.4

Become member of NACAC for Common Application



3. WUaS Master Plan




4. WUaS Business Plan




5.  WUaS Board


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




6. New WUaS pages and updates


a. Updates:



b. New pages:



Benin - 

Wikidata databases and ecosystems -

People -

Afghanistan -

Pashto language -

Gospel Singing -

Italian language -

Italy -

Social Transformation -

Information Communication Technology -

Management Information Systems -

Tibetan language -

Brazil Law School at WUaS -

Mexico Law School at WUaS -

Egypt Law School at WUaS

Tanzania, United Republic of



c. Blog entries:



Woodrow's Crinum Lily: Developing Young Leaders - World University's Fund for Internships and Fellowships' Appeal, Swathi in India in a World University (WUaS) Course in a Hangout



Philippine tarsier: April 11, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for WUaS, Where YOU can help create this Global All-Languages WIKI Online Accrediting Best STEM-centric university and school, - and in all countries too



Western pond turtle: 60 Minutes' piece on Jimmy Wales & Wikipedia in 288 LANGUAGES, No mention of Wikipedia explicitly planning for Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, or linked open data, Added the Wikimania piece to the WIKI subject page at WUaS, WUaS technical committee, For developing Linked Open Data anticipating Artificial Intelligence and WUaS, this Wikidata email list and Kingsley Idehen's comments in it are especially helpful, Great WIKIDATA tour made by Magnus Manske, Not many online accrediting universities or schools such as WUaS planned for all 9,000+ languages and 200+ countries are planning for artificial intelligence or machine learning, and these related blog posts are the beginnings of this



Indian gazelle: I am so much eager to apply for master degree!! - from Afghanistan, Habib H from Afghanistan sent 11 documents including transcripts, ALEP presentation at Stanford Law School (Afghanistan Legal Education Project), WUaS would also like to explore hiring Stanford Law School students to teach as graduate student instructors, Your ALEP program seems extensible to all countries and main languages in them, which is really exciting and fascinating, Wikimania and CBS's 60 Minutes' recent video about Wikipedia and Jimmy Wales



Olive ridley sea turtle: Easter at Harbin, WUaS may develop projects for non-degree online learning in many languages in the developing world, MIT OCW in Spanish, Mexico Law School at WUaS



California mountain lions: Generating caring and justice with World University and School as expressions of these, potentially flourishingly, Caring and Loving wiki subject page, All the emerging WUaS Law Schools in multiple countries now, In the context of our Primate evolutionary biological history, WUaS is beginning to generate “electricity,” What was it like after Edison first generated electricity?, At WUaS could we generate caring and justice in learning and in courses, so that people feel the love and the justice, in the information exchange, like first feeling electricity's effects … what a wild idea … oh information technologies …



Oleander: Italian Practice Hangouts, Italian language World University and School (not yet in Italian), WUaS is planning to develop as an online best STEM-centric University in the vernacular, (Italian per Dante)!  Will Hangouts be where WUaS emerges interactively - and in so many languages?, Gplus Expertise



Large‐flowered fiddleneck: Singing for bliss generation, explicitly and online? On Pandora.com, Just enjoyed hearing this song: "Found A Wonderful Savior," ... "gospel roots,""r & b influences,""Old Time music styles" ... with these attributes cataloged for this track by the Music Genome Project, Learn to sing like this in Google group video Hangouts in real, real time, with feedback from both software, and possibly a live director, e.g. Joseph Jennings or Bernice Johnson Reagon? What would software for this look like? And in a course in edX, or similar?



Island Fox: World University with developing Artificial Intelligence can lead on the CC Academic side in all languages, "IBM is leading the integration of AI in industry," IItalian Language WUaS, Persian Language WUaS, Japan Language WUaS, Just found some MIT OCW for Italian ... :)



Elf owl: "let someone else add the translation tags" to qLabel and Wikidata, Wikipedia's database ... WUaS can help with this, qLabel, Hack Night SF



Monarch butterfly: Mexico WUaS in Spanish, Mexico Law School at WUaS, HarvardX JuryX course with Harvard Law Professor Charlie Nesson, These university and high school degrees online - Bach. Ph.D. Law, MD and IB ... see Admissions at WUaS



Parnassius: WUaS holding Conversation group video Hangouts 24/7 even, With an idea focus, What are the idea sparks to make these most fun?, How to inform/instruct the interns (e.g. Reed College students) to make these fun and stimulating?



Budgerigar: Could WUaS become as big as Twitter soon & in more languages? NYTs - "The Languages of Twitter Users," Languages at WUaS (planned for all 9,000+), DATA TEMPLATE at WUaS, emerging from and paralleling WUaS's key SUBJECT TEMPLATE as we move into MediaWiki / Wikidata where YOU could add data of your choosing, and across languages, and anticipating machine learning, Some first resources for thinking about this from the Wikidata email list



Apollo Butterfly: Decades-old sociological thesis in America that immigrants significantly enhance the economy, Switzerland WUaS and its 4 official languages WUASs, WUaS's pitch at CfA, WUAS in MediaWiki developments, A history of WUaS in wikis



Common starling: World University newly in MediaWiki, Please edit a page (like Wikipedia), Thank you - with an invitation to teach to and edit a page at WUaS, which is like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare, and planning free, CC degrees in large languages!



Siskiyou Mountains salamander: Systems Thinking, and new "Management Information Systems" wiki Subject page with MIT OCW / Yale OYC, ISSIP presentation



Machair: Old Fettesian Newsletter 2015 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Attached a photo, Please add the names of students who might be interested in "FREE and CC best STEM OCW-centric" online degrees to the new Sign Up Form here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org, Replies from my former Housemaster and Keeper of the Old Fettesian Register +, "Thank you for your news update, which will definitely be featured in this year’s OF Newsletter, both in the OFs in Finance and OF News sections"



Dwarf lake iris: WUaS's Business Plan, In the Care of Quaker SFFM?, New Resource Bank?, Planned revenue streams: a) An online bookstore / computer store for text- and course books, b) fundraising from individuals, foundations ... c) collaboration financially with governments in all 242+ countries in main languages in them, for free (since CC) and best STEM OCW-centric university degrees, d) an Academic Press and journals for many of all 7,932+ languages, WUaS's gold label Guidestar listing, The dollar value of a WUaS education compared with a MIT or Stanford education at $40,000 per year for tuition alone, Might CC WUaS, CC MIT OCW, CC Yale OYC and edX all collaborate together?, Two possible revenue streams that Guidestar actually removed - will attempt to re-add them



Cushenbury oxytheca: Please invite teen and young friends to add their names to the new Sign Up Form here, Considering clerking, and at WUaS? WUaS's presentation proposal to Friends Association for Higher Education gathering in June has been accepted



Volcano rabbit: 3 new Law Schools at WUaS for Brazil, Mexico and Egypt but not yet in Portuguese, Spanish or Arabic, Harvard Law Prof. Charles Nesson, aka Eon, dean of cyberspace!, is inspiring - "JuryX: Deliberations for Social Change | HarvardX on edX | About Video" for course, I just added the following 5/5 star review to the JuryX course front page, Hoping the spirit of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which informs both the time when Library of Alexandra Director Dr. Sarageldin lived in Cambridge, MA, studying for his Harvard Ph.D. '72, as well as the freedom and openness orientation of edX, CC MIT OCW and CC Yale OYC will generate very fruitful collaborations and conversations with WUaS, Wiki Library Resources pages at WUaS for all online libraries in all 9000 languages as the next Library of Alexandra



Ocelot: "You at WUaS" database for 11 billion people in 100 years (per Hans Rosling) and 9,000+ languages as schools to begin, WUaS Logo, Universal education based on highest quality OpenCourseWare as well as for open teaching and learning in wiki schools in all 9,000 + languages (extinct ones too), Developing "You at WUaS" with registrar and multilingual courses' databases are highest priorities, WUaS and Volunteers, Burma WUaS and the main Nation States' page



Dugong Marsa Alam: "Another discussion on AI - good or evil?", WUaS's "Artificial Intelligence" wiki subject / school, Let's construct AI for the "good", at WUaS especially, planned for all 7,870 (living) languages, and accrediting in large languages first (e.g. on CC MIT OCW which is in 7 languages, for example, for online university degrees), We have the opportunity to shape AI for the good in far-reaching ways, "CSIG Talk: Cognitive Work Assistants: Vision and Open Challenges," New WUaS MediaWiki wiki



Atlantic right whale: "Navigating Clinical Trails," and Harvard's Dana Farber Cancer Institute, WUaS's Clinical Trials at WUaS (for all languages), WUaS is planning to be in all 7,870 languages and 242 countries



African penguins: India clothes as SPACESUITS ... to enter into the "cultural virtual," Similarly Scottish Country Dancing clothes, Harbin clothing-optionalness in the warm pool, Happy St. Patrick's Day, "India World University and School,""Scottish Country Dancing,""WATSU" wiki subject schools at WUaS, Culture as being in thee "zones"



Whooping Crane: Key CC Public WIKI World University and School resources, WUAS's G+ Community page, @WorldUnivandSch, WUaS blog - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/, Scott MacLeod's "global university" label in blog, Main "Subjects" wiki page in Wikia wiki, WUaS Email Address



Little penguin: Universitians, would you like to develop a major at WUaS?, WUaS is currently planning to draw video courses from CC MIT OCW, CC Yale OYC, edX with its open goals and principles, Yale online courses, with some free courses and other developing sources for free online courses, and with stable URLs



Vaquita: March 14, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting Minutes, Agenda and Blog Entries from WUaS and Scott for World University and School




7. SF f/Friends/Quaker WUaS developments


a.

World University and School is holding ongoing WUaS hive meeting spaces on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10a-12 at American Friends Service Committee / San Francisco Friends' Meeting in SF, with fruitful collaborations emerging. 


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



8. Closure



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



Scott MacLeod


President and Head Clerk

- 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.



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Dear Universitians and friends, 

News:

a) World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - is newly in Media/Wiki with a list of 9000 languages, each to begin as a wiki page university or school - 
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/mediawiki-1.24.1/index.php?title=Main_Page - and is planning for Artificial Intelligence. There are 700 WUaS pages for this as beginnings here at WUaS Wikia - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects which we are moving to WUaS MediaWiki. The beginning list of courses to be taken for credit and toward majors is in this new wiki too. 

b
"Developing Young Leaders - World University's Fund for Internships and Fellowships Appeal" is attached and posted below (for the vision impaired) - 

c
Business Plan for World University and School, See, too: Dwarf lake iris: WUaS's Business Plan, In the Care of Quaker SFFM?, New Resource Bank?, Planned revenue streams -




Universitians: 

Thank you for joining the World University and School team. WUaS would like to invite you to participate in our hour-long, monthly, business meeting on Saturday, April 11th, beginning at 9 a.m., PST / 12 noon EST. 

This month we'll meet in Free Conference Call. 

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

The agenda for the upcoming April 11th, 2014 WUaS, monthly, business meeting is here - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/04/april-11-2015-monthly-business-meeting.html?view=classic.

There was no change in WUaS's March 2014 financial report.

World University and School is looking for a new, Board member, or a Quaker Meeting, for example, to focus on fundraising, and to actually bring in significant monies for WUaS, which you'll see on the above agenda.  

The next, open, hour-long, WUaS, monthly business meeting is on Saturday, May 9th, 2015, and will meet in Free Conference Call. 

And this month, I'll continue to send out a second email this Thursday with the phone number and access code, to our entire WUaS email list with the actual web address / URL of the Google + group video Hangout, as well as send a third email after business meeting with WUaS Minutes. 

You'll also find some previous monthly business meetings (conducted electronically in the manner of F/friends) as examples in Google Hangouts here - http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm. WUaS's active blog with past monthly business information is here - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com. 


For people on the sporadic, somewhat frequent, WUaS, email list, or who wish to be, WUaS is posting actively to both the WUaS Google Group (world-university-and-school@googlegroups.com), and the WUaS Yahoo Group (worlduniversityandschool@yahoogroups.com), both of which allow for daily and weekly digests. Please join these groups for daily and weekly digests. 

Concerning this WUaS team email list, we'll generally send out business meeting emails once a month. If you'd like to receive more frequent, sporadic, WUaS emails, please reply to this email telling me so. If you could, please REPLY with UNSUBSCRIBE, or an alternative email address, if you wish NOT to receive WUaS's emails, or receive them in a different email account, - and WUaS would be very grateful. 

World University and School is planning to become the MIT / Harvard / Yale / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet, and in all 8,000+ languages and 242+ countries, with online, Creative Commons' licensed MIT OCW-centric, university degrees in large languages.

Free, Creative Commons' licensed, online, wiki WUaS, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, is planned for all 3,000-8,000 languages and for around 240 countries, with free degrees accrediting on C.C. MIT OpenCourseWare+, - and will help many, many people.  

Thank you again for your generous donations in helping grow World University and School. 

Sincerely, 
Scott


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Developing Young Leaders - World University's Fund for Internships and Fellowships

Swathi in India in a World University (WUaS) Course in a Hangout

April 2014

Dear Universitian friends,

Young people have been at the heart of WUaS’s planning throughout our nearly 8-year history. Their fresh ideas and energy, coupled with World University’s plans to develop young leaders grounded in our f/Friendly, best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare and Wiki (people-to-people teaching online) educational values, in most languages and countries, will make for a powerful combination.

The work of WUaS seeks to be further informed by the efforts of young people. World University would like to begin to bring on board more than 100 interns and fellows who will get the skills and experience they need to be leaders in online education.

         To this end, WUaS is introducing the World University Internships’ Fund, and with it we intend to provide a solid financial footing for growing internships and fellowships and increase the number we can offer. In our ongoing efforts to create developing free online Creative Commons’ licensed best STEM-centric OCW accrediting university education and degrees (like CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) and wiki (editable web pages) universal education, it’s essential that we inspire and develop the next generation of leaders, interns and fellows to help grow WUaS. This is where we begin.

         Interns and fellows* will:

·      Energize and inspire high school applicants this autumn 2015 to apply and matriculate at World University and School in 2016.

·      Help accredit WUaS in California and develop the new MediaWiki in WUaS in a myriad of ways and learn valuable community building skills

·      Marshal local resources that can directly help grow free online CC accrediting education worldwide and in all languages and nation states.

(*Interns are generally college students with limited work hours. Fellows are often graduate students or recent college graduates who can work more hours and do a higher level of work).

You may want to make a special donation or increase your annual gift to support all or part of an internship or fellowship. Another option is to invite friends and family to pool their resources and fund a position or to establish a family endowment fund.

         Now is the time to train the new generation of leaders. WUaS’s ability to create developing free online Creative Commons’ licensed best STEM-centric OCW accrediting university education and degrees and wiki universal education will be in our interns’ hands. Your gift will be an investment in our future.

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

Thank you for helping to grow the World University Internships’ Fund.

Sincerely,
Scott MacLeod (Founder and President)



- PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), 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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Magenta Ghost Flower: Favorite RDF / AI resources ("your favorite resources related to linked data, particularly around it's use, implementation, etc?"), Wikidata RDF Exports, Re Memory and Technology and Hugh Cline's great interview about his new textbook "Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation: A Social and Historical Perspective," Plato's "Phaedrus" (with page references?) and Derrida's "Of Grammatology" to the "Memory" wiki subject at WUaS, New WUaS pages and updates since last month's open monthly business meeting

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Hi Jas, 

Following up on your question about my favorite RDF / AI resources ("your favorite resources related to linked data, particularly around it's use, implementation, etc?"), I added this - https://www.mail-archive.com/wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg05601.html (which Wikidata-l thread I had already sent you) - now as a course ...

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| Preliminary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata
| [Wikidata-l] 
| non-degree
| Markus Kroetzsch
| Browser
| "Below this email are some example queries to get you started (this is a bit of a learning-by-doing crash course in SPARQL too"
| English
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... to the following wiki subject pages at WUaS, including creating the first one anew: 





Had lots of vandalism, then "forbidden" access to WUaS MediaWiki page, and bot-like spam emails to WUaS's  info@worlduniversityandschool.org email address in the last three days ... and thus have a bunch of questions for Wednesday, April 15, at Hack Night SF (and on W, Apr 22, I'll be at Stanford Law for a China Guiding Cases talk). 

These are exciting and timely Linked Open Data / AI / RDF / Wikidata developments, and especially for WUaS.  

Best, 
Scott


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Hi Jas, 

This is related and from the above - "Wikidata RDF Exports" ... https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/rdf/ - and exciting (another favorite resource:).

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 Julie,

Thanks so much for these resources re Memory and Technology and Hugh Cline's great interview about his new textbook "Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation: A Social and Historical Perspective" - http://newbooksintechnology.com/2014/10/09/hugh-f-cline-information-communication-technology-and-social-transformation-routledge-2014/ ! Hoping his textbook makes it eventually into online libraries (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources) for matriculated (WUaS) students! 

Let's add such great resources as Plato's "Phaedrus" (with page references?) and Derrida's "Of Grammatology" to the "Memory" wiki subject at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Memory - with time - and in multiple languages. And in terms of theorizing communication, let's add Derrida's first big book to the WUaS wiki pages of "Communications" (not yet created) and to the "Interspecies Communications" - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Interspecies_Communications - and "Brain Computer Interface" - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brain_Computer_Interface - all accessible currently here - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects . 

Scott


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New WUaS pages and updates

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


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


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

Wikidata databases and ecosystems -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wikidata_databases_and_ecosystems

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

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

Pashto language -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pashto_language

Gospel Singing -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Gospel_Singing

Italian language -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Italian_language

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

Social Transformation -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Transformation

Information Communication Technology -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Information_Communication_Technology

Management Information Systems -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Management_Information_Systems

Tibetan language -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Tibetan_language

Brazil Law School at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaS

Mexico Law School at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS

Egypt Law School at WUaS
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaS

Tanzania, United Republic of
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Tanzania,_United_Republic_of





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