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Prunus avium: This is VERY funny, and it illustrates some of the complexities of meaning in learning a language, World University plans to offer a wiki school in each of all 7,929 languages, - many of which are started here - but not yet in their languages (except for the CC MIT OCW in 7 languages) with an invitation to begin and teach these universities IN these languages, Where's the Universal Translator of binary, in voice, when you need it?

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This is VERY funny ...  


(? and John Cleese of Monty Python?)

This is VERY funny, and it illustrates some of the complexities of meaning in learning a language. 

World University plans to offer a wiki school in each of all 7,929 languages, - 

many of which are started here - 

Languages (all 7,929 +) -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages - 


- but not yet in their languages (except for the CC MIT OCW in 7 languages - 

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/



on these wiki pages - 

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

Mandarin_language_(Chinese) - 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese)

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

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

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

Persian_language - 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Persian_language) - 

with an invitation to begin and teach these universities IN these languages. 





Just posted this here - 

https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/posts/Wurt2Sg49ZP - 

which is turning out to be the main current LANGUAGES' Google+ Profile page for World University. 



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Where"s the Universal Translator of binary, in voice, when you need it? Emoti-translation?


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/623673157237407744














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Sky pilot (Polemonium eximium): A PUBLISHER for my first Harbin book - BERGHAHN PRESS, An Endless Garden of Creativity ... and in combination with a virtual EARTH for STEM research based on making a virtual Harbin, in a kind of film-realistic interactive buildable Google Earth, such as here, Click on this link to Visit the Harbin Gate now in Google Earth, and walk down the road - with "Big Foot" steps - to Middletown, California here, Virtual Earth for STEM research will hopefully be Google-made ... See too both of these recent Harbin exploration blog posts

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I'm so so glad too to have gotten yesterday a publisher for my first Harbin book, it seems. ...


I just heard back twice yesterday from Duncan R at Berghahn Press in Brooklyn, NY, - who seems to be my editor now there - all of which also seems to be very good news indeed in terms of publishing my Harbin manuscript - which would come out next year (Oxford/New York:Berghahn Books 2016?) in time for university courses' syllabi I hope. :)) What's more, Berghahn Books specializes in publishing sociocultural Anthropology. I won't know for sure for a few more weeks though. For your interest, I'm posting my correspondence with Duncan, along with my related email to Fred, whom I know from UC Berkeley and Tourism Studies here, at bottom. 

Try clicking on the first link and "walk" - with "Big Foot" steps - from the Harbin Gate into Middletown for a visit there:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.785962,-122.651913,3a,75y,3.07h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sZvCvdrcS5wPenGS_nB4JtA!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!6m1!1e1


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An Endless Garden of Creativity ... and in combination with a virtual earth for STEM research based on making a virtual Harbin, in a kind of film-realistic interactive buildable Google Earth, such as here -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/jerdons-courser-visit-harbin-gate-now.html -


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See too both of these Harbin exploration blog posts ...

Jerdon’s Courser: Visit the Harbin Gate now in Google Earth, and walk down the road to Middletown, California, Sent my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book proposal "Naked Harbin" to Publisher this morning, Virtual Earth for STEM research will hopefully be Google made ... And building Virtual Harbin in a virtual Earth for STEM-centric research including ethnographic and anthropological research will be part of this, including especially for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, India and B.I.R.D.S. - Bharati Integrated Rural Development Society, Here's India World University and School, with much MIT OCW, Would love to visit BIRDS in a 3D interactive film-realistic Google virtual earth ... which could be used for education, free CC university degrees and organic farming development planning


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/jerdons-courser-visit-harbin-gate-now.html


Himalayan Quail (Ophrysia superciliosa): Just "walked" ~ 'arrowed' on my computer keyboard ~ down the Harbin road from the Harbin Gatehouse to the new Middletown Library, Google Earth - great - just updated toward interactive movie realism and as virtual Harbin ethnographic field site, See, too, this interesting Lego-virtual world development re the actual and the virtual, an important aspect of my Harbin ethnographic book manuscript ... Some field notes from walking down the Harbin Springs road from the Harbin gate in the newly updated Google Earth, Harbin field notes in this blog ... free, re Harbin field work, more research is needed to reiterate an academic cliche ... When will these Google Earth tiled photos become film realistic, live, 3D and interactive?, Just "flew" above ~ clicking on satellite view in Google Earth ~ Harbin Hot Springs ... Harbin HCC 40th Anniversary pamphlet


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/06/himalayan-quail-ophrysia-superciliosa.html



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Dear Duncan,

This sounds like good news indeed. Thank you.

If you'd like, I would send you a PDF of my 400 page draft "Naked Harbin" manuscript.

Also, here are 2 further questions:

When would a new ethnographic text need to be in print to be selected for anthropology courses at universities worldwide in autumn 2016? If this is about a year from now, say in July or August 2016, some professors might add it to their syllabi as a required text.

What also are some of the characteristics of ethnographic books that sell 10,000 print copies in a year - if these are a "group?"

All the best,
Scott




On 7/21/15 9:58 AM, Duncan Ranslem wrote:
Dear Scott,

This is a pretty unique project, and I’m excited to get into it more over the next few weeks.

Unfortunately, our time horizons are a bit too long to allow us to publish a book by this autumn. Realistically, we might expect a publication date set next autumn, barring any major manuscript revisions or unexpected delays.

All the best, Duncan Ranslem
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 Duncan Ranslem Editorial Assistant, Berghahn Books 20 Jay Street,
Suite 512 | Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tel: +1 (212) 233-6004 | Fax: +1
(212) 233-6007



On 7/21/15 11:52 AM, "Scott MacLeod"
wrote:

Dear Duncan,

Thanks so much for letting me know that Berghahn Press is gathering comments about my actual/virtual Harbin Hot Springs' book proposal.

My first questions are: if Berghahn Books accepted it for publication, is there a possibility that we could publish it this autumn? And what would that entail?

I couldn't think of a better press to publish with than Berghahn, since you specialize in sociocultural Anthropology.

Thank you!

All the best, Scott





On 7/21/15 7:02 AM, Duncan Ranslem wrote:
Dear Scott,

With apologies for the delay in replying, it¹s a delight to receive this proposal, which looks fascinating. Please allow us several more weeks to gather comments and give the material full consideration. In the meantime, please don¹t hesitate to be in touch with any questions or concerns.

All the best, Duncan Ranslem
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Duncan Ranslem Editorial Assistant, Berghahn Books 20 Jay Street,
Suite 512 | Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tel: +1 (212) 233-6004 | Fax:
+1 (212) 233-6007



On 7/6/15 6:21 AM, "Scott MacLeod"
wrote:


Dear Marion,

Greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area. Professor Nelson Graburn at UC Berkeley suggested I send you my "Naked Harbin"
book manuscript proposal some time ago.

So I'm writing with regard to an actual-virtual ethnographic book manuscript proposal about Harbin Hot Springs, a hot
springs retreat center in northern California, which emerges in many ways out of the 1960s.

I've attached a) Berghahn's book proposal outline, as well as b) a letter, CV, table of contents, chapter outline and c) a sample chapter.

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

All the best, Scott







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Thanks, Fred,

Writing a 400 page manuscript is a project worth publishing.

I'm also interested in writing a second Harbin book and with a virtual Harbin for STEM research based on making a virtual Harbin, in a kind of film-realistic interactive buildable Google Earth, such as here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/jerdons-courser-visit-harbin-gate-now.html.
Try clicking on the first link and "walk" - with "Big Foot" steps - from the Harbin Gate into Middletown for a visit there.

With your Ph.D. from Yale, what anthropology books come to mind that have sold 10,000 in print?

Scott







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I hope World University and School's application to the Google Impact Challenge | Bay Area 

https://impactchallenge.withgoogle.com/bayarea2015 - and

https://plus.google.com/+googleorg/posts/ZutTdkW61mH - 

will help a lot of SF Bay Area High Schoolers with free (since CC) best STEM-centric college degrees which are enjoyable and excellent ...

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

(See, too -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School). 

Thank you, Google Impact Challenge | Bay Area!


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Hi Abara,

Lovely Kathryn Tickell - 'Air Moving' video here (her narrative style is a little like Angela's) ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zig7QP0LkmU ...

Haven't yet found a good example of her on Northumbrian Smallpipes with just keyboard but I'm looking - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Northumbrian_smallpipes.


How to "Begin Re-evaluation Counseling” is all quite familiar ...

... curious what "Goal-setting" and "Planning to live every moment well" here might involve vis-a-vis eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology 
( wiki add to e.g. http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) ) but I'm interested in exploring this.

Nothing about the unconscious as a language per Lacan though in RC theory which I've found so far ...
How can we make music together explicitly to elicit neural cascades of pleasure, I wonder? What's the sheet music notation for this?

Musical greetings, :)

Scott


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Curious who may organize Reevaluation Counseling among students at World University and School for learning, and counseling, beyond in any specific class ... and based on what further theory?





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Mount Whitney: A realistic virtual earth for historical climate change "ice shelf" questions etc and a virtual Harbin (in a developing Google Earth), Threshold Effect & Rapid Ice Cap melt? - Here appears to be a key answer: It's hard to say whether meters of ocean rising could occur in this century or subsequent centuries, but it's very important to do better science and especially modeling for this - A key recent paper, New York Times -- Sea Level Questions and Answers: http://youtu.be/1Dqar1x-F70?a, And in conjunction with a virtual Harbin, such STEM virtual world modeling - historically and predictive-wise too - gets into very very complex virtual Earth building ... * What a cool STEM-centric far-reaching Harbin virtual world and virtual earth this will become!

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Threshold Effect & Rapid Ice Cap melt?

Here appears to be a key answer: It's hard to say whether meters of ocean rising could occur in this century or subsequent centuries, but it's very important to do better science for this.


Sea Level Questions and Answers in a Warming World - Tad Pfeffer


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dqar1x-F70


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https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira/status/624604835447345152


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And in conjunction with a virtual Harbin, such STEM virtual world modeling - historically and predictive-wise too - gets into very very complex virtual Earth building (especially with anticipating 8,000 languages, too) ...


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See too both of these Harbin exploration blog posts ...

Jerdon’s Courser: Visit the Harbin Gate now in Google Earth, and walk down the road to Middletown, California, Sent my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book proposal "Naked Harbin" to Publisher this morning, Virtual Earth for STEM research will hopefully be Google made ... And building Virtual Harbin in a virtual Earth for STEM-centric research including ethnographic and anthropological research will be part of this, including especially for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, India and B.I.R.D.S. - Bharati Integrated Rural Development Society, Here's India World University and School, with much MIT OCW, Would love to visit BIRDS in a 3D interactive film-realistic Google virtual earth ... which could be used for education, free CC university degrees and organic farming development planning


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/jerdons-courser-visit-harbin-gate-now.html


Himalayan Quail (Ophrysia superciliosa): Just "walked" ~ 'arrowed' on my computer keyboard ~ down the Harbin road from the Harbin Gatehouse to the new Middletown Library, Google Earth - great - just updated toward interactive movie realism and as virtual Harbin ethnographic field site, See, too, this interesting Lego-virtual world development re the actual and the virtual, an important aspect of my Harbin ethnographic book manuscript ... Some field notes from walking down the Harbin Springs road from the Harbin gate in the newly updated Google Earth, Harbin field notes in this blog ... free, re Harbin field work, more research is needed to reiterate an academic cliche ... When will these Google Earth tiled photos become film realistic, live, 3D and interactive?, Just "flew" above ~ clicking on satellite view in Google Earth ~ Harbin Hot Springs ... Harbin HCC 40th Anniversary pamphlet


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/06/himalayan-quail-ophrysia-superciliosa.html


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See Virtual Worlds wiki Subject for open teaching and learning at World University (planned in many languages too) -

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

Ocean & Climate Management Plan -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan


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What a cool STEM-centric far-reaching Harbin virtual world and virtual earth this will become!















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http://worlduniversityandschool.org
(or Google “World University and School”)

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Accrediting in California on best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare,


World University Seeks High School Applicants this Autumn 2015,

To Matriculate Online, Interactively, in Group Video and Virtual Worlds,

in Autumn 2016, Graduating in 2020.

Sign Up Here:


Google + Info@WorldUniversityAndSchool.org



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Syzygium: Harbin Hot Springs' Book Publisher - Recent Outline, How to look at my Harbin book as an ASSET, Just heard back from a great sociocultural Anthropology book publisher in Brooklyn NY / Oxford UK that they won't publish my Harbin Hot Springs' manuscript, Here below is the outline as well as Duncan's email, An opportunity to focus on finding / developing a publisher that fully integrates the web, including virtual worlds, STEM and "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" with paper print publishing - Quaker publishers with Google Publisher with World University and School's Academic Press (planned in all 7,929 languages)

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Harbin Hot Springs' Book Publisher - Recent Outline

Just heard back from a great sociocultural Anthropology book publisher in Brooklyn NY / Oxford UK that they won't publish my Harbin Hot Springs' manuscript. Here below is the outline as well as Duncan's email.

I may take this as an opportunity to focus on finding / developing a publisher that fully integrates the web, including virtual worlds and "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" with paper print publishing. Quaker publishers in SF with Google Publisher with the first book in English at World University and School's Academic Press (planned in all 7,929 languages).

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

How to look at my Harbin book as an ASSET would be worthwhile.


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Berghahn Books
New Book Outline

USA:
Berghahn Books Inc, 20 Jay Street, Suite 512,
Brooklyn NY 11201, / USA
Tel: +1 (212) 233-6004   Fax: +1 (212) 233-6007

UK:
Berghahn Books Ltd, 3, Newtec Place, Magdalen Road
Oxford OX4 1RE / UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1865-250 011   Fax: +44 (0) 1865-250 056

Email: EditorialUS@berghahnbooks.com



Date (that you completed this form): July 4, 2015


Please, return this form to the publisher electronically.


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1. Name, as it will appear in the book: Scott Gordon Kenneth MacLeod III

    Correct pronunciation, if likely to be mispronounced: “MacCloud”
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2. Home address:
PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road),
Canyon, CA 94516

    Tel: 412 478 0116Fax: NAEmail: scott@scottmacleod.com
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3. Professional address:
World University and School, PO Box 442,
PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516

    Tel: 415 480 4577Email:sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
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4. Nationality (required for copyright purposes): USA
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5. Date of Birth (needed for the Library of Congress and British Library): 12/31/1960
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6. Please provide a short Biographical Note (maximum 50 words) that can be included on the cover of your book and used for promotional material. Please, attach any details of previous appointments [with dates], published works, and any other information that might be relevant in a separate Word document.

Scott MacLeod's (http://www.scottmacleod.com) research focuses on the anthropology of information technology and counterculture. He's taught "Society and Information Technology" on Harvard’s virtual Island for many years where he also teaches anthropology and sociology. He’s the founder and president of World University and School (like Wikipedia with best CC STEM-centric OpenCourseWare – http://worlduniversityandschool.org).

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7. Working Title: Naked Harbin

    Subtitle: Harbin Hot Springs' Actual/Virtual Ethnography ~
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin


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8. Suggested Delivery Date: As early as October-September 15, 2015 or in time for the Christmas market, if possible, or sometime in the spring of 2016
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9. Approximate Word Count (to include all notes and references; a page count is not accurate as the words per page varies according to fonts and margins): 147,000
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10. Do you hold the Copyright? Yes  

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11. Does it include any illustrations  (halftones, maps, diagrams, tables, etc.)?
       No        Yes, please indicate: Fewer than 20.

      If so, how many? (the maximum number of photos permitted for the print edition is 20 in black and white)

       I’d like to print 20 black and white photos, including also Second Life photos I’ve taken. (Are these considered Black and White Photos or are they separate?)

Are any of these illustrations not author-created and in need of permissions? IF you have questions about this, please be in touch with us.

       Some of the photos may be, about which I’ll be in touch with you, if possible.

Additional photographs and supplemental material may be hosted on our web site. Do you have any material you would like to be considered for this option? if so, please describe.

       1) Audio interviews with Harbin residents, 2) Blog resources from my web site, 3) Harbin Resources from Google Earth, 4) Online Harbin resources from their web site

Please note: It is the author’s responsibility to obtain copyright clearance and pay any fees for use in print and online.
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12. Has any of the material been previously published (if so, where)?

3 ½ draft chapters have been published here in my personal blog:
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harbin%20Book%20Section (read up)

Does the work have origins as a dissertation or, if it is an edited volume, as a collection of conference papers?
No

      Is the work currently being considered by another publisher (if so, by whom)?
No

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13. If the book is to be an edited collection, have you approached the contributors yet?
No, it’s not

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14. Please attach proposed list of contributors and chapter outline – NA

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15. Please describe your book briefly (200-300 words at the most) for intending readers:

An anthropology of the 1960s-70s forward, counterculture, virtual worlds and information technology

After you check in at the gate at Harbin, one resident who has worked there for years often says, "Go play." This ethnography of Harbin Hot Springs in northern California explicitly and theoretically brings together approaches to the comparative study of both the actual and virtual, by developing new methodologies in studying Harbin - as a kind of hippy or Alternative haven from modernity. Through this anthropological book and conceiving of virtual Harbin, you can begin not only to "be there" - to visit Harbin virtually in the text, as it were - but also to revisit the 1960s and its related freedom-seeking movements. Moreover, Harbin Hot Springs' clothing-optionality, spirituality and alternative culture are attractive in mysterious ways. In the way that Margaret Mead's work was theoretical and gained widespread attention at the same time, this book will appeal due to the broad interest in emerging interactive virtual worlds, as well as 1960's informed alternative Harbin's exotic, yet familiar, attractiveness, now mediated digitally. As information technologies and wondrous developments like virtual worlds continue to develop rapidly, I hope to engage you, the reader, further in the conversation about the creativity in countercultural thinking, in virtual worlds, in comparative ethnography, and in the experiences of interacting in this virtual Harbin, even as visitors to actual Harbin enjoy visiting this hot springs' retreat center.

- Scott MacLeod


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16. Please describe your book in a short paragraph of 50-100 words for librarians and booksellers:

The book's target audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, information technology social scientists, academics interested in the "virtual," and people with a fondness for the 1960s. My book comes into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008), and could be read in academic courses in direct conversation with "Coming of Age in SL." For my next Harbin book, I plan to build a virtual Harbin, ideally in a movie-realistic interactive 3D virtual earth, Google-made, and do actual virtual comparative fieldwork, what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - as an innovative methodology in Anthropology. I'd like for readers to be able to visit virtual Harbin and have a Harbin experience, in their bathtubs, for example, for the meditative releasing action of the warm waters, - and write ethnographically about this.


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17. Competing or similar titles (if any) (author, title, pub. date, price):


Anthropology - Related titles:

Boellstorff, Tom. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. $24.95.

Boellstorff, Tom . 2012. (Author), Bonnie Nardi (Author), Celia Pearce (Author), and T. L. Taylor (Author), George E. Marcus (Foreword). 2012. Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method Paperback. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. $14.46.

Niman, Michael I. 2011 (1997). People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia. (2nd edition). Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. $22.22.


Harbin Hot Springs - Related titles:

Dull, Harold, with the Water Family. 2008 (2004, 1997, 1993). Watsu: Freeing the Body in Water and with Tantsu on Land. 4th edition. Middletown, CA: Watsu Publishing. $27.50.

Ishvara. 2002. Oneness in Living: Kundalini Yoga, the Spiritual Path, and the Intentional Community. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books. $24.95

Klages, Ellen. 1993 (1991). Harbin Hot Springs: Healing Waters, Sacred Land. Middletown, CA: Harbin Springs Publishing. $29.47.

Wyne, Sajjad. 1997. The Big Bang and the Harbin Experience. Middletown, CA: Harbin Springs Publishing. $62.88.


Rainbow Gathering - Related titles:

Butterfly Bill. 2010. Rainbow Gatherings. Bliss Fire Press. $15.00.

Butterfly Bill. 2013. Rainbow Gatherings, Volume Two: 2000 - 2012 (Volume 2). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. $16.20.

Niman, Michael I. 2011 (1997). People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia. (2nd edition). Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. $22.22.

Tom Thumb. 2013. Somewhere Under the Rainbow: A personal journey into the Rainbow Gatherings. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. $14.39.


1960s - Related Titles:

Kerouac, Jack. 1958. The Dharma Bums. New York, NY: The Viking Press.

Snyder, Gary. 1969. Earth House Hold. New York, NY: A New Directions Book.


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18. How does your book differ?

Naked Harbin is an actual-virtual ethnographic comparison based on extensive field work at actual Harbin Hot Springs, but comes into direct conversation with Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life," which is based on extensive field work in the 3D interactive virtual world of Second Life. My "Naked Harbin" also examines the significance of making a virtual field site for actual-virtual comparison.

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19. Additional material: Please attach a table of contents, chapter outline, or sample chapter.


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20. If your book is suitable for course use: Please describe as precisely as possible those types of courses for which it could be required or recommended and for what level (e.g. undergraduate or graduate):

“Naked Harbin” could be required or recommended to be read in parallel with the following courses, for example:

Syllabi with Tom Boellstorff’s “Coming of Age in Second Life” (Princeton 2008) in them

The Anthropology of Cybercultures (MIT OpenCourseWare)
Professor Lucy Suchman
MIT OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-850j-the-anthropology-of-cybercultures-spring-2009/readings/

The Anthropology of Computing: Digital Cultures
Professor Lucy Suchman
MIT
https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/21A/sp09/21A.350J/

Qualitative Research Methods for Information Systems
Professor Jenna Burrell
UC Berkeley
http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i272/f10/syllabus.html

digital media & virtual performance
Prof. Kiri Miller
Brown University
https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/download/attachments/90834050/1971G+VP+syllabus+2014.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1409665583000

Information, Technology, and Society
Steve Jackson
Cornell University
http://sjackson.infosci.cornell.edu/IS6210%20InfoTechSociety%20syllabus%208nov12.pdf


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21. MARKET: Do you envision your book to have audience potential outside of the academic market, such as in the professional or practioner/policy realms? Yes

This book could influence social theorizing of cyberspace as interactive movie realistic virtual earths emerge.



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22. When you send in a manuscript (although not to begin with), then please DO NOT BIND the manuscript; just tie it together with elastic band.


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23. reviewers: Please, recommend at least four or five names (with school affiliations and e-mail addresses wherever possible) of potential reviewers qualified to assess your work.

Nelson Graburn, University of California, Berkeley, graburn@berkeley.edu
Dean MacCannell, University of California, Davis, edmaccannell@ucdavis.edu
Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine, tboellst@uci.edu
Noel Salazar, KU Leuven, Belgium, noel.salazar@soc.kuleuven.be
Jim Ferguson, Stanford University, jgfergus@stanfard.edu
Saskia Cousin, Paris Descartes, France, saskia.cousin@parisdescartes.fr


24. Any other remarks:
- In what Berlin/Hamburg/European bookstores/venues might I do readings and signings - and at what time of year would be best?

- Scott is founder and President of CC World University and School - which is like CC Wikipedia in 288 languages and best CC STEM-centric OpenCourseWare (e.g. CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) - and which plans to develop a virtual Harbin for ethnographic and STEM field work as part of a virtual Earth, and as “Classrooms” too.


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/magnolia-henryi-harbin-hot-springs.html





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Dear Scott,

We have taken the time to evaluate your book proposal and, unfortunately, we must pass on it. I don’t think that we are the best press for the project, which should find a press that is oriented toward a more general audience.
We also don't have the resources to assist with integrating the digital and print materials that you envision.

Yours looks like a compelling project, and we are positive you will find a publisher for it.

All the best,
Duncan Ranslem
____________________________________________________________________________

Duncan Ranslem
Editorial Assistant, Berghahn Books
20 Jay Street, Suite 512 | Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: +1 (212) 233-6004 | Fax: +1 (212) 233-6007



On 7/21/15 3:39 PM, "Scott MacLeod" wrote:

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Dear Duncan,

This sounds like good news indeed. Thank you.

If you'd like, I would send you a PDF of my 400 page draft "Naked
Harbin" manuscript.

Also, here are 2 further questions:

When would a new ethnographic text need to be in print to be selected
for anthropology courses at universities worldwide in autumn 2016? If
this is about a year from now, say in July or August 2016, some
professors might add it to their syllabi as a required text.

What also are some of the characteristics of ethnographic books that
sell 10,000 print copies - if these are a "group?"

All the best,
Scott




On 7/21/15 9:58 AM, Duncan Ranslem wrote:
Dear Scott,

This is a pretty unique project, and I’m excited to get into it
more over the next few weeks.

Unfortunately, our time horizons are a bit too long to allow us to
publish a book by this autumn. Realistically, we might expect a
publication date set next autumn, barring any major manuscript
revisions or unexpected delays.

All the best, Duncan Ranslem
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 Duncan Ranslem Editorial Assistant, Berghahn Books 20 Jay Street,
Suite 512 | Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tel: +1 (212) 233-6004 | Fax: +1
(212) 233-6007



On 7/21/15 11:52 AM, "Scott MacLeod"
wrote:

Dear Duncan,

Thanks so much for letting me know that Berghahn Press is
gathering comments about my actual/virtual Harbin Hot Springs' book
proposal.

My first questions are: if Berghahn Books accepted it for
publication, is there a possibility that we could publish it this
autumn? And what would that entail?

I couldn't think of a better press to publish with than Berghahn,
since you specialize in sociocultural Anthropology.

Thank you!

All the best, Scott


- -- 
- - 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) tax-exempt educational
organization, both effective April 2010.


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See too both of these Harbin exploration blog posts ...


Jerdon’s Courser: Visit the Harbin Gate now in Google Earth, and walk down the road to Middletown, California, Sent my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book proposal "Naked Harbin" to Publisher this morning, Virtual Earth for STEM research will hopefully be Google made ... And building Virtual Harbin in a virtual Earth for STEM-centric research including ethnographic and anthropological research will be part of this, including especially for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, India and B.I.R.D.S. - Bharati Integrated Rural Development Society, Here's India World University and School, with much MIT OCW, Would love to visit BIRDS in a 3D interactive film-realistic Google virtual earth ... which could be used for education, free CC university degrees and organic farming development planning


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/jerdons-courser-visit-harbin-gate-now.html



Himalayan Quail (Ophrysia superciliosa): Just "walked" ~ 'arrowed' on my computer keyboard ~ down the Harbin road from the Harbin Gatehouse to the new Middletown Library, Google Earth - great - just updated toward interactive movie realism and as virtual Harbin ethnographic field site, See, too, this interesting Lego-virtual world development re the actual and the virtual, an important aspect of my Harbin ethnographic book manuscript ... Some field notes from walking down the Harbin Springs road from the Harbin gate in the newly updated Google Earth, Harbin field notes in this blog ... free, re Harbin field work, more research is needed to reiterate an academic cliche ... When will these Google Earth tiled photos become film realistic, live, 3D and interactive?, Just "flew" above ~ clicking on satellite view in Google Earth ~ Harbin Hot Springs ... Harbin HCC 40th Anniversary pamphlet


http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/06/himalayan-quail-ophrysia-superciliosa.html









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Bird pairs: If Google Publisher works out ... Anticipating translating my Harbin book in many many languages, A WUaS universal translator, An Academic Press at WUaS in ALL 7,929 languages, Anticipating an interactive 3D film-realistic build-able Google Earth as ethnographic field site, For ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, - this would be best, And all even as a strategic partnership with Google (and with CC Wikimedia's CC Wikidata too)

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Hi M,

Too bad about my actual virtual Harbin ethnographic 400 page manuscript and Berghahn Press but ...

if Google Publisher works out, and

anticipating translating my Harbin book in many many languages (for Press learning purposes too) and even -

an Academic Press at WUaS in ALL 7,929 languages, and
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School

(Academic Books at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Books_at_WUaS - too) -

a WUaS universal translator,
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator), and

anticipating an interactive 3D film-realistic build-able Google Earth as ethnographic field site, and for

ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy,

it will be alright (and better) ... and all even as


a strategic partnership with Google
(e.g. re WUaS business plans - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/07/wuass-business-plans-7-foci-updated-in.html)


(and with CC Wikimedia's CC Wikidata too)...

but a big if ....

As a friend said, he's keeping his fingers' crossed about Google.











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Congolese forests: Returning to Harbin after many weeks away, A kind of Yoga dreaming, A crossing over that Congolese river into Bonobo jungles in Africa, metaphorically ... where here the "river" is that of Mt St Helena just north of the Napa Valley ... and Harbin is on the Bonobo side, whereas the "chimpanzees" could be on the Bay Area side ... Field work ... ethnographic meditating in the Harbin warm pool ahead ... But not explicitly about the Bonobo_chimpanzee Subject at WUaS, although I explore Bonobo conceptualizations in my 400 actual - virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic manuscript ... Would Oxford publish my manuscript?

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Returning to Harbin after many weeks away ...

A kind of Yoga dreaming ~

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


A crossing over that Congolese river into Bonobo jungles in Africa, metaphorically ...

where here the "river" is that of Mt St Helena just north of the Napa Valley ... and Harbin is on the Bonobo side, whereas the "chimpanzees" could be on the Bay Area side ...

Field work ... ethnographic meditating in the Harbin warm pool ahead ...


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But not explicitly about the Bonobo_chimpanzee Subject at WUaS ~

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bonobo_chimpanzee ~

although I explore Bonobo conceptualizations in my 400 actual - virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic manuscript ...


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Would Oxford UP publish my manuscript?

Oxford Anthro on Twitter -
https://twitter.com/oxford_anthro

Oxford Anthro -
http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk














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Peaks: Sing the Sun, Heard Harbin's Sun~Heart called Strong-Heart ... while World Uni singing

Next: Lily Pond: Digital Marketing Course from Google, eMarketing and a WUaS best STEM course?, How to create a new WUaS Digital Marketing course for our undergraduate degree, 7 MIT OCW Marketing Courses from Sloan School of Management none of them for undergraduates, WUaS's undergraduate best CC STEM "Business" Major - Stokes, Rob. 2014 DIGITAL MARKETING TEXTBOOK (5th edition) - How to crowdsource the ideas for a course which would teach MASTERY of this subject to undergraduates for free and effectively, building on Google, and the amazing number of Twitter social marketing feeds, as well as inter-lingually?, As I watch this Grateful Dead introduction to the 1978 New Years' Eve show for free on Youtube, I see a lot of good examples of eMarketing ... long after the Dead have passed on ... they're marketing hippies of the 1960s
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Sing the Sun,
Heard
Harbin's Sun~Heart
called Strong-Heart
there today
in the pool area,
and called him
"Sung Sun," while
World Uni singing.













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Lily Pond: Digital Marketing Course from Google, eMarketing and a WUaS best STEM course?, How to create a new WUaS Digital Marketing course for our undergraduate degree, 7 MIT OCW Marketing Courses from Sloan School of Management none of them for undergraduates, WUaS's undergraduate best CC STEM "Business" Major - Stokes, Rob. 2014 DIGITAL MARKETING TEXTBOOK (5th edition) - How to crowdsource the ideas for a course which would teach MASTERY of this subject to undergraduates for free and effectively, building on Google, and the amazing number of Twitter social marketing feeds, as well as inter-lingually?, As I watch this Grateful Dead introduction to the 1978 New Years' Eve show for free on Youtube, I see a lot of good examples of eMarketing ... long after the Dead have passed on ... they're marketing hippies of the 1960s

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Google Digital Marketing course for free -

http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/dmc/


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Prasanna in India writes to me and World University

Hi folks, see what all, is going on, on line! Quick, let us do something at SOA, with guidance from Scott! RPV

...

Be a PRO in
Digital Marketing

Become a Certified Digital Marketer

Master the fundamentals of SEO, SEM, Web
Analytics, Social Media, Online PR, and much more.                     
http://online.manipalglobal.com/digital-marketing-certification/

3 month certification program
13,700 Rupees (in India) - about $2.00 ...


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Hi Prasanna and Friends,
This "Online Program in Digital Marketing" you shared has special merit especially in a large variety of languages in India and around the world.

WUaS could draw from CC OpenCourseWare for this, focus on specific aspects of web - as our matriculated student bodies grow for free CC University degrees - and concurrently offer a certificate for a single course, if donors and governments could help finance this.

World University is beginning the process of accreditation for online CC Bachelor's degrees (e.g. CC MIT OCW-centric and 36 courses, with students first graduating in 2020), but could explore offering single certificate courses too!

13,700 Rupees' donation per student doesn't sound like it would be too much for donors and governments. WUaS plans to remain Creative Commons' licensed to draw on CC Yale OYC and CC MIT OCW in 7 languages, so we can't charge students.

Best regards,
Scott


-  Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
412 478 0116
http://scottmacleod.com
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. 



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Ravi Venkateswaran writes to Prasanna, myself and WUaS: 


Yes, I agree with you Scott!
In fact, this institute throw a heavy discount - even 50% slashing!!
If it is worth doing, we can consider and approach.
Regards
V. Ravi


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Hi Ravi and Prasanna,
Thanks. In looking for "Digital Marketing" courses per your emails, I went to the Sloan School of Management at CC MIT OpenCourseWare - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/ - but didn't find any undergraduate courses in "Digital Marketing." And CC World University is planning an undergraduate major in Business (where students will take 14 MIT OCW-centric courses in their major out of about 36 total courses over 4 years, graduating in 2020), first online in English.

This MIT OCW course however may come closest, however ...
Management Communication for Undergraduates -
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-279-management-communication-for-undergraduates-spring-2005/
So I created a new wiki subject at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Marketing - to which I added this course, and about 7 other MIT OCW graduate courses, mostly about Marketing Management, which I cross-linked with http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Business_Management








To offer a single semester course - as a World University and School course - that would teach digital marketing and give the skills to anyone taking the course, besides matriculated undergraduate students, would be World University and School's goal at the CC MIT OCW-centric and CC Yale OYC levels. 
Then I searched in the Open Education Consortium - http://www.oeconsortium.org/courses/search/?search=marketing - and found this course by Rob Stokes - "eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing" - which actually seems to be a textbook - http://www.amazon.com/eMarketing-essential-guide-marketing-digital-ebook/dp/B00I9FJENM - and a good start for a WUaS course ...


Stokes, Rob. 2014. [https://www.redandyellow.co.za/courses/textbook-digital/ DIGITAL MARKETING TEXTBOOK]. (5th edition). Quirk eMarketing (Pty) Ltd.

So the next step for WUaS would be in what ways we could further develop a Creative Commons' licensed course for our undergraduates beginning in autumn 2016 - and how would this articulate with the online course you shared for 13,700 Rupees - and what could WUAS matriculated or certificate students learn in a 17 week course that would be helpful and contribute to their degree and major? 
Additionally what web skills would be helpful? I think Web Page production skills would be very helpful - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Web_Page_Design_and_Production - but wasn't able to cross link this page with the new WUaS Marketing page.

So the upshot is, let's not contact the "Digital Marketing" course you shared at this point on behalf of World University.
Thank you and looking forward to further communication.

Sincerely,
Scott


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How to crowdsource the ideas for a course which would teach MASTERY of this subject to undergraduates for free and effectively, building on Google, and the amazing number of Twitter social marketing feeds, as well as inter-lingually?


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As I watch this Grateful Dead introduction to the 1978 New Years' Eve show for free on Youtube, I see a lot of good examples of eMarketing ... long after the Dead have passed on ... they're marketing hippies of the 1960s


Grateful Dead - Full Concert - 12/31/78 - Winterland (OFFICIAL)


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


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Hi Prasanna, Ravi and Friends,

I just found this Google Digital Marketing course for free -

http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/dmc/
Since WUaS was Google-verified on May 8, 2015, I hope WUaS will offer this course as part of our CC undergraduate business degree (36 courses).

I've added this Google Course as well as our correspondence about a WUaS course here in my blog post from today -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/08/lily-pond-emarketing-and-wuas-best-stem.html
I've also added this Google course as well as other related resources (e.g. http://www.diygenius.com/10-free-online-courses-in-social-media-and-inbound-marketing/ and http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2014/08/19/free-online-marketing-courses) to the Marketing wiki subject page at World University.

Google's role in shaping the internet and social media is for me important in defining a kind of MIT OCW-centric excellence, and their online resources are also very student- and learning-centric

Sincerely,
Scott












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Northern muriqui: Loving and becoming tender ... I'm curious as an anthropologist how Friendly discourse or culture can generate love, care and tenderness

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Loving and becoming tender ...

While there's a literature among Quakers about loving and becoming tender that goes back centuries - in Friends' journals and writings - I'm curious as an anthropologist how Friendly discourse or culture can generate love, care and tenderness - both among Quakers and more widely - and when it's also not there. Quakers aren't by any means solely focused on becoming tender as expressions of love and care, but softening in response to hardened positions is something that may emerge for Friends out of Quaker Meeting itself. For example, Friends' social witnesses in prison reform can raise tensions, as can witnessing to peace / non-harming, but Friends have also sought to open to these witnesses by learning from Quaker Meeting itself, and thus perhaps become tender and in so doing perhaps seek to connect with others (who may not at first be tender or caring) to effect change.

I appreciate the distributedness, as well as fluidity, of Monthly Meetings among Friends - it's a very decentralized process which can lead to the emergence of new meetings - forms of troop bonding in an evolutionary sense, so connecting within a group - which can also open ways to becoming tender and loving, when a Monthly Meeting has tensions or has gotten into some "hard" places.

While the language of love and becoming tender come out of Quaker history and trajectory in specific ways, and thus are a kind of generator as discourse already, it's partly the "meditation" (for me a kind of relaxation response) of Quaker Meeting itself, which facilitates this becoming tender in ongoing ways, as human primates who identify as Friends ... and this can also spread - meme-like (as replicating cultural unit), and it's this that is one kind of a generator of love and tenderness.

In seeking for these ways of becoming tender and loving to open in the ecology of human social life, I seek a kind of light through discernment to lead to such openings in connecting with people. (Urban life, cities, modernity can all in my experience influence kinds of hardenings or lack of connecting communication leading to the kinds of easing I'm writing about here).

In my ongoing interest in eliciting loving bliss neurophsyiology, however, for which there isn't an abundance of Quaker language, for example, or much other language in science or in other discourses that I'm aware of, it's exploring this Loving Bliss generation {and as biology}, in different languages eventually even - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology) - that is one approach to its further generation, which I think will help a lot of people if much better understood.

Here too is the caring and loving wiki subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Caring_and_Loving - at World University for open teaching and learning and planned in many languages.


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In what other ways will the universal education of Friendly-informed World University and School - with STEM, enjoyment, excellence and careers' foci - also help facilitate becoming tender and loving, while also facilitate great learning in hopefully ever growing flourishing ways?




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Trillium: Oxford Business School (Said), WUaS is Creative Commons' licensed-centric, Service Innovation Triangle (SIT) Model - and information-focused companies, CC WUaS will accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC in all nation states -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - if possible for free university degrees while also developing wiki schools in CC Wikipedia's new CC Wikidata database in all 7,900 + languages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages - where Wikipedia is in 288 + languages and we all wrote it

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Richard and Peder, 

Thanks very much for your very edifying ISSIP Service Innovation Triangle Model ISSIP presentation today.

The question I posted into the chat area is - 

How does or would an explicit information-focused group of firms add to, or come into conversation with, your consumer-service-firm model? 

As a specific case, I'm thinking in terms of Creative Commons' licensed World University and School, which is like CC Wikipedia in 288 languages with CC best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare (eg CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) ... and also articulates with, for example, the free-mium information-oriented Google, and World University was Google-verified in May 2015, so will also collaborate with Google, in addition to the other two companies above. 

Besides WUaS' explicitly information-technology company focus, a) Creative Commons' licensing is another unique aspect of WUAS, as is b) wiki (group editing), WUaS vis-a-vis your model, as is being c) an online university planning to accredit in all countries' main languages, while also facilitating wiki-schools for open teaching and learning in all nearly 8,000 languages. 

Will WUaS's a) CC licensing, b) Wiki, and c) (great OpenEducationalResource) university also enhance service innovations in unforeseen ways? 

For example, would this explicit information focus also be able to offer greater-than-other information-oriented organizations measurable approaches to innovation in your model? 

Thank you. 

Sincerely, 
Scott








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Scott,

Thanks for your question – and sorry we did not get enough time to discuss online yesterday.

I think information-focused group of firms, such as the World University and School, fit well with the SIT model. In fact, we have modelled a number of them, such as Google. I think I mentioned that the model is not only to be used by consumer service firms; this is just the dominant logic in business today

If you participate in the WebEx in a couple of weeks, we’ll explain further how the model can be used and I think you will see the application to any firm, regardless of sector.

Happy to discuss further at the next WebEx.

Regards,
Richard.



Hi Richard,

Thanks. I think Creative Commons' licensing (CC) in contrast to copyright vis-a-vis information consumerism adds a new significant dimension to consumer service firms - and possibly in your model. CC is a new licensing arrangement for sharing information for free; see Creative_Commons_Law at WUaS 

CC WUaS will accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC in all nation states -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - if possible for free university degrees while also developing wiki schools in CC Wikipedia's new CC Wikidata database in all 7,900 + languages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages - where Wikipedia is in 288 + languages and we all wrote it. 

Looking forward to your next ISSIP presentation in WebEx. 

Regards, 
Scott


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Scott,

Thanks for your thoughts. I’ll consider further.

Best wishes,
Richard.













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Myrtus communis: Ten things to talk with about WUaS to Donors, 1) "No-cost, accredited degree-track credits," 2) ... Three aspects of a clear, demonstrable and efficacious structure at WUaS - "supporting documentation" - "previous fundraising successes" - "some actual personnel" - Yep ... baby steps ... What you mention also already exist, albeit in very limited ways

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Scott,

Headliners in this dept.--

No-cost, accredited degree-track credits


High-level STEM subject and liberal arts courses, taught online by professors of a major university,

Google hangouts available for student-student, student-instructor, student-administrator/counselor interactions (?)

Courses available in all or most of world languages (?)

Wide-spread availability to many of world's underserved populations, especially those prevented from access otherwise by limited resources, social or caste/gender hierarchies, and other forms of prejudice (?)

Competent academic & personal advisors available to deal with course-counseling, financial assistance questions and personal issues as they arise(?)

Question marks denote services that may not yet be active yet, but should be in the future.


Just add to & revise as appropriate.

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Carl,

These are a great seven-ten things to talk about with possible donors to World University, which I'll add to only a little below ... per Paul Jolly's Jump Start Growth recent July 30, 2015 email "One of my clients has a list of ten (10) priorities to explain the agenda to donors." ... 

And here again is the %10 Letter of Agreement for WUaS - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s_GBHW0gC1LPSbKNgwZz0_F2WVec_OgcWVK0WNtdkO0/edit?usp=sharing - for expenses to you or other Universitians for fundraising.

1
No-cost, accrediting degree tracks (for planning purposes not transferable at this point)

2
High-level STEM subject and liberal arts' courses, taught online by professors of a major university (with CC MIT OCW in English only having approximately 150 courses in video in English currently and CC Yale OYC having 42 courses in video)

3
Google - group video - hangouts available for student-student, student-instructor, student-administrator/counselor interactions 

4
Courses planned by WUaS in nearly all of the world's countries' main languages, and open wiki schools in all 7,929 languages 

5
Planning very wide-spread availability to many of world's underserved populations, including broadband and potentially computers for the poorest, especially those prevented from access otherwise by limited resources, social or caste/gender hierarchies, and other forms of prejudice (?)

6
Competent academic & personal advisors available to deal with course-counseling, financial assistance questions and personal issues as they arise(?) - will probably be graduate students and possibly their university faculty in the very very beginning in most smaller/the smallest languages for degrees ...

open wiki schools in all 7929+ languages where anyone can teach or add great online teaching and learning for free

The other language here for donors that could work is: that giving to World University is like providing SCHOLARSHIPS for deserving students from poor backgrounds ... but this would need to be stated carefully since CC WUaS will be free - so everyone will be receiving a scholarship in a sense which doesn't really make donors' giving money like giving for actual scholarships ... so this idea is more a way of conversing with potential donors ...

Integrity of language will be important in fundraising and for building World University's reputation ... CC and free and best STEM-centric for these planned degrees - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links . 


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Best regards, 
Scott



Scott: 

There is no way to responsibly raise money for your concept alone!  You must have a clear, demonstrable and efficacious structure at a minimum with supporting documentation, previous fundraising successes (but how to get the first one?  That's a good question.), some actual personnel, and much of the beginnings I've already discussed with you.  Otherwise it's all a fantasy.  But go ahead!  Raise some money in your own way.  Get the Google Challenge Grant or anything like that!  Then I'll believe you, and I'll say, "You were right, Scott.  You can pull money off the 'net with just a neat idea!"

Carl


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Carl, 

Yep ... baby steps ...

Yet what you mention also already exist albeit in very limited ways ... and are not substantial enough to fund raise on substantially: 

"supporting documentation" - 
700+ wiki pages, 2 wikis, a main page, a Sign UP form, STEM CC MIT OCW in 7 languages, CC Yale OYC, CC Wikipedia in 7 languages, letters of incorporation, ByLaws, 501 c 3 status, Guidestar (https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx)

"previous fundraising successes" -
a couple of $1000s each over the past 3 years +

"some actual personnel" -
a few core volunteers, such as myself, Larry ... you I'm glad to see ... a Board of Trustees, some 2000 folks on monthly email lists


Do you want to take on developing Guidestar's further fields - 
https://www.guidestar.org/organizations/27-3105368/world-university-school.aspx - as part of furthering the documentation and planning side of things - with its much practical business foci?

With Friendly baby-steps,
Scott



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Here are the current main business/revenue plans - 

:WUaS's Business Plan's 7 Foci - Updated, In all 7,929 languages and 242 countries, MIT OCW, Yale OYC ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) (3) WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring, 6) universal broadband internet connectivity 7) all-language academic online manpower jobs' source for our graduates" - 
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/07/wuass-business-plans-7-foci-updated-in.html - and WUaS's blog as well. 

Best wishes, 
Scott




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North American river otter: Dear Quaker Institute for the Future Friends, QIF Publications at "Economics" and "Quakers"' WUaS, "Cooperatives" and "Ocean and Climate Change Management Plan," Mondragon and Finnish Team Academy Blog Posts

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Dear QIF Friends,

Very nice to meet and share with you these past few days in Berkeley. 

I've added the QIF publications - http://www.quakerinstitute.org/?page_id=5 - to World University and School's Quaker wiki subject page for open teaching and learning - "Quakers - Religious Society of Friends" -  http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends  - if this is ok.

And since there are many pamphlets about economics in QIF, I've also added this collection of QIF pamphlets to the Economics' wiki subject page at World University -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Economics - with much CC MIT OpenCourseWare and CC Yale OYC. It's these CC STEM courses and related that WUaS plans to accredit on first in California, and this Economics' wiki page is also a good example of an academic subject page at WUaS which could grow to 100s of pages, and into many countries' main languages for free CC university degrees - and Friendly-informed.  

And here's the "Cooperatives" wiki subject page -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Cooperatives - at WUaS. Here, too, are two links to blog posts - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/04/senna-siamea-cooperatives-wiki-subject.html - and - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/05/cassia-genus-cooperatives-and-academic.html - of mine exploring focusing on creating Cooperatives by online matriculating students at World University and in collaboration with Team Academy Mondragon and Team Academy Finland too from some video conferences this spring with Mondragon and Finnish Team Academy representatives. You'll find them both linked to the Cooperatives' wiki page as well.

Lastly, here are the open World University teaching and learning resources I shared yesterday with L and S concerning the WUaS Ocean & Climate Management Plan wiki subject page -

and a related blog post resource on urgency -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20climate%20change .

Friendly regards, 
Scott








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Bonobos: A Friendly-informed WUaS's "Quaker Institute for the Future," or similar, weekly talk online coming into conversation with the form of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School at Harvard University, A Quaker Peace-Making course based on primatological videos taught at a Haverford or Swarthmore?, Saw this video this morning at Quaker Institute for the Future with Stanford Professor of Primatology, Robert Sapolsky ... "Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche"

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Donald, 

May explore developing a Friendly-informed World University and School's "Quaker Institute for the Future," or similar, weekly talk online coming into conversation with the form (and hiring of enormous numbers of interns and fellows) of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School at Harvard University's Tuesday at 9:30 am PDT talks when Harvard is in session ... and perhaps on Thursdays at noon or 12:30 pm PDT (3:30 EDT). How to find the Quaker-thinkers who attended Haverford, Swarthmore as undergraduates, now studying for the Ph.D.s, and Quaker Stanford graduate students, and post Docs, and very young professors to give these talks - and in ways that rock about information technology, law, STEM, medicine, humanities ... and eventually fly them out ...? It could be great to have an in-person lunch brown-bag gatherings at Berkeley Monthly Meeting or SFFM, for example, as we also broadcast these on the web over the decades, and archive these too ... all in the name/process of Friendly WUaS community building too.  

Will be asking you about interesting Quaker thinkers over time, I think :)

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Scott


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A Quaker Peace-Making course based on primatological videos and primate research taught at a Haverford or Swarthmore, for example, and beginning with Bonobos as a reference primate?

And where we all can add videos to this wiki subjects, and well as create new related wiki subjects ...

Quakers - Religious Society of Friends: 




Saw this video this morning at Quaker Institute for the Future with Stanford Professor of Primatology, Robert Sapolsky ... 

Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (by dr. Robert Sapolsky)


... and it added to my reading/understanding of Bonobos as peaceful, non harming, egalitarian, matriarchal, whereas Chimps can be aggressive and do a kind of primitive war ... and also vis-a-vis Gorillas and Orangutans and all of the approximately 376 species of higher primates ... 



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Puffins on St Kilda: Celtic ... Scottish ... hints of India even - "Transatlantic Sessions 4...", "Scottish piping : Allan MacDonald ...", Virtual_Choir wiki subject page at World University ... where you can start a choir and here at World University, Eric Whitacre in a TED Talk "A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong" ... , Eric' Whitacre's good at connecting with friends in Google Hangouts, Let's make music online paralleling Eric Whitacre's great explorations .... Music School at WUaS with Music Playing Spaces in Hangouts Ahead, All Instruments in ALL Langs, Each a Wiki page

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Celtic ... Scottish ... hints of India even ... "Transatlantic Sessions 4 (2009) Black, Black, Black - Ronan Browne" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNezKd8DpIE ... kinda cool ... they're wailin' ... could be from the Isles and Islands from centuries ago ...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNezKd8DpIE


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Scottish piping : Allan MacDonald - "The Viennese Waltz / The Jewels Of The Ocean"
 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsQM2NJ5oMQ ... Scottish small pipes or reel pipes ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes ... Allan is a great piper ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsQM2NJ5oMQ



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Virtual_Choir  wiki subject page at World University ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Choir ... where you can start a choir and here at World University ... and in the Music School at WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - planned in all languages in all instruments, each a wiki page to begin ...


Eric Whitacre in a TED Talk "A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong" ... 



Eric' Whitacre's good at connecting with friends in Google Hangouts  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmQK0MDU_UE

Eric Whitacre chats with fans in Google Hangouts
 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNh3F_y2C-U


At the 4 minute mark of - "Eric Whitacre chats with fans in Google Hangouts - he talks about lag in google hangouts and the next virtual choir



Let's make music online paralleling Eric Whitacre's great explorations .... 

Virtual Choir ... 


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Music School at WUaS with Music Playing Spaces in Hangouts Ahead

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/07/western-red-and-black-and-white-colobus.html

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

All Instruments in ALL Langs, Each a Wiki page


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You'll find most of these posts above here just before this date, Friday, August 6, 2015, on this personal G+ Profile page focused on Music as well as WUAS  -

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodMusic/posts
















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Ailanthus altissima (Paradise Tree): MINUTES and Agenda World University Monthly Business Meeting, August 8, 2015, Draft letter to Stanford University President Hennessey inquiring about Stanford incubating World University at the Bachelor, Ph.D. Law and M.D. degree levels

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August 8 2015 Monthly Business Meeting MINUTES and Agenda for World University and School

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

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/08/august-8-2015-minutes-of-wuass-monthly.html 


Minute 1: 

Scott will email Wikidata about finding a possible “Wikidatan volunteer coder” to be part of the team for a WUaS Knight Foundation grant proposal due to be submitted by August 17, 2015.


Minute 2: 

Scott will begin teaching on Saturday, September 19, 2015 - not September 12th -  "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University" on Saturdays from 11 am - 1 pm PDT. 

People interested in taking this free open online course can read the first chapter of "INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: A SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE" (Routledge 2014) by Columbia University Professor Hugh Cline (who has a Harvard Ph.D. in the social sciences) accessible here - http://www.hughcline.com/?page_id=89 .

Further information available here:


Minute 3: 

Scott is teaching open free English as a Second Language for the next few Saturdays beginning at 11am PDT (and leading up to Saturday, September 19th’s open course on "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University"), accessible from this G+ Profile - https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/posts .  

Further information available here:


Minute 4: 

The draft letter to Stanford University President Hennessey inquiring about Stanford incubating World University at the Bachelor, Ph.D. Law and M.D. degree levels, under the new WASC senior incubation policy, is below in the agenda. 





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August 8, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School


World University and School
{Open} Business Meeting – Agenda (hour-long meeting)
August 8, 2015
9 a.m., Pacific Time


Email - info@worlduniversityandschool.org - if you'd like to participate:


1. Welcome and Greetings


1.1 News:

Dear Universitians and friends,

Greetings!

Here's recent and upcoming news about World University and School: 

News

1 World University continues to be WIKI-open for your teaching and learning enjoyment - simply teach to, create, or edit a page in a subject you're interested in here, for example - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects.

2 CC World University and School invites high school students interested in signing up for a free, since CC, and accrediting best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare degrees to apply this autumn to add your names here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/.

3 World University's first 3 JOB listings' contracts are now confirmed as received by Reed College (for Reed students who have been awarded Federal Work Study - FWS) and these job descriptions are viewable in Reed College's Symplicity database, part of The Center for Life Beyond Reed. They are 3 Academic Tutor Intern positions which you can also see here: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/06/greater-rhea-just-posted-3-new-reed.html

4 Last Saturday CC WUaS had a half hour Skype-talk with Q.G., a Spanish Wikimedian (CC Wikipedia's foundation), who has now returned to live in Europe from the SF Bay Area, about WUaS developing in CC Wikidata's inter-lingual database and is continuing to explore wiki-developing in conjunction with Wikidata's 288 languages, - and planning for all 7,929+ languages, each a wiki school. WUaS seeks to develop "a Wikidata volunteer team" for an upcoming Knight Foundation grant. 

5 WUaS submitted a Google Impact Challenge grant | Bay Area on July 23rd and should hear by October. 

6 WUaS talked today, August 6, with Dartmouth's Tuck Business School about its First-Year Project (FYP) consulting program and will explore updating WUaS's business plan with a new business item for careers/"manpower" in all 8,000 languages for our students, graduates and others - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/07/wuass-business-plans-7-foci-updated-in.html.  

7 Scott will be teaching the open free "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University" on Saturdays from 11 am - 1 pm PDT beginning on September 12 on Harvard's virtual island and in Google group video Hangouts - and newly in Google Classroom, and exploring Columbia Professor Hugh Cline's new book "Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation: A Social and Historical Perspective." See, for example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJIy6LpZLeI . Developing your own blog relating to class resources will be a key part of this course. All are welcome. 



News:

a

Universitians:

This month we'll meet in Free Conference Call.

Free Conference Call number is - - and the 
Access Code is - 


The agenda for the upcoming August 8th, 2015 WUaS, monthly, business meeting is here -

1.2 Minutes




2. Committees


2.1 Planning committee

a.

Scott will postpone beginning teaching his course this autumn from September 12 to begin September 19th from 11 am-1 pm PDT.

b.
We'll also use the first chapter of the Columbia Hugh Cline's book available here for free - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Information_Communication_Technology.


see Master plan and Business plan below

2.1.1



2.2 Finance

a.
Treasurer's report for July 2015


b.

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


2.3 Information Technology

a.

Hi Quim,  Very nice to Skype with you just now about World University and School, and eventually accessing Wikidata in many many languages, as well as about Wiki Loves Open Data.  Here's an email to you and Jane Darnell in my blog from around July 3, with the all the main subject areas that World University and School would like to make into Templates - to donate to and get data from Wikidata - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/impatiens-species-structuring- world.html.  In this central WUaS SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - which informs almost all pages at wiki WUaS, you'll find a number of data and Wikidata sections for aggregating all kinds of databases that computers can read, and planned in all nation states' main languages, for example (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages).  Thank you again for our real-time meeting in Skype. What WUaS would be very interested in is a team of one or two people, one a Wikidata coder who could help develop a prototype of the above - "a Wikidata volunteer team" - that I could enter into the WUaS Knight Foundation grant due August 17. Thank you, and cheers.  Best, Scott


b.
Email draft to Q.G.

"In WUaS applying to the Knight Foundation to their Prototype Fund, we’d like to try to coordinate with another organization, Wikimedia, which you said funded by the same Foundation."

Could we possibly develop a small nation-state-specific pilot program in the Netherlands and in Dutch, for example, with country-specific databases in that country such as with the Dutch Wikimedia in terms of databases

WUaS is seeking a "a Wikidata volunteer team" and wonder whether Magnus Manske might be one name we could add to the grant, or also possibly Serge Strattan or Georg Wild (both at TU Dresden) as Wikidata volunteers?


c.

Waiting to hear back from Google Impact Challenge Grant | Bay Area re Googlifying WUaS



2.4 WUaS Outreach

a.

Waiting to hear back from Google Impact Challenge Grant | Bay Area re Googlifying WUaS


b.



2.5 Hiring planning

a.

World University's first 3 JOB listings' contracts are now confirmed as received by Reed College (for Reed students who have been awarded Federal Work Study - FWS) and these job descriptions are viewable in Reed College's Symplicity database, part of The Center for Life Beyond Reed. They are 3 Academic Tutor Intern positions which you can also see here: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/06/greater-rhea-just-posted-3-new-reed.html.



2.6 Fundraising

a.
Knight Foundation grant .... need "a Wikidatan volunteer team"

b.
Proposal draft to L


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.

Dear President Hennessy, 

I'm writing to explore possibly meeting with you to talk about Stanford University incubating World University and School, and in regards to a new incubation policy from WASC senior. World University is like Wikipedia with best STEM OpenCourseWare, and planning to accredit on CC MIT OpenCourseWare in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, to offer online accrediting university degrees. WUaS would like to explore becoming incubated by Stanford for accreditation re the accreditation agencies' WASC Senior (which accredits Stanford), and the state of California's BPPE, - and for Bachelor, Ph.D., Law and MD degrees, first in English, then in most countries in their main languages. President Hennessy, in what ways might it be possible to best communicate further about Stanford becoming an incubator of World University? 

WUaS would like to explore being incubated by Stanford, just as Stanford has incubated so many companies in a variety of ways over the last century, engaging Stanford's infrastructure and degrees in many ways, including its Stanford China Guiding Cases Project (directed by Mei Gechlik - https://www.law.stanford.edu/profile/mei-gechlik) and its student-driven Law Projects (directed by Erik Jensen - https://www.law.stanford.edu/profile/erik-g-jensen) in Afghanistan, Bhutan, Timor-Leste, and Iraq, by offering, for example, online Law Schools in main languages in all countries, as well as engaging Stanford's admissions' and IT departments, - and seek online applicants at World University this autumn 2015 to matriculate online in autumn 2016. 

Stanford would benefit from some fraction of the $44,000/year per student it costs for tuition to go to Harvard, donated by countries around the world. World University seeks to become the Harvard MIT of the internet and accrediting in all countries main languages. 

Here's the WASC senior incubation policy update - http://www.cooley.com/new-pathways-for-unaccredited-entities-and-non-institutional-education-providers?MailKey=9163118 - of May 12, 2015, from UC Hastings' Professor of Law, Bill Wang, if that might be helpful. I can also share another related Cooley Report update from him from July 9th, relating to BPPE oversight, if that would also be helpful. 

If we might explore this idea further with time, whom might you suggest talking to at Stanford about Undergraduate Admissions (http://admission.stanford.edu/academic/programs/index.html), Graduate Admissions (https://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/gradadmissions), Stanford Law School Admissions' (https://www.law.stanford.edu/organizations/offices/office-of-admissions), Stanford Medical School Admissions https://med.stanford.edu/md-admissions.html, as well as Stanford Music School Admissions' (https://music.stanford.edu/academics/graduate-students/prospective-graduates/admissions)? 

I know, for example, a number of Stanford Law Professors including Hank Greely in the SLS - https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU - but don't know its Dean. 

World University and School would like to become a major academic employer in all 7,929 languages, and the Harvard/MIT of the internet in all 200 countries' main languages (accrediting on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to begin and for planning purposes), and significantly hire Stanford and other greatest universities' graduates in multiple languages to teach, and practice law and medicine, for example, for online accredited University degrees. 

Thank you very much for your consideration of this inquiry, President Hennessy, and I hope Stanford would consider exploring incubating World University, and even beginning this autumn in English, with student applying to WUaS. 

Thank you. 

Sincerely, 
Scott



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


2.9.4
Become member of NACAC for Common Application


3. WUaS Master Plan
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Plan


4. WUaS Business Plan


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:

Marketing:


c. Blog entries:


Puffins on St Kilda: Celtic ... Scottish ... hints of India even - "Transatlantic Sessions 4...", "Scottish piping : Allan MacDonald ...", Virtual_Choir wiki subject page at World University ... where you can start a choir and here at World University, Eric Whitacre in a TED Talk "A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong" ... , Eric' Whitacre's good at connecting with friends in Google Hangouts, Let's make music online paralleling Eric Whitacre's great explorations .... Music School at WUaS with Music Playing Spaces in Hangouts Ahead, All Instruments in ALL Langs, Each a Wiki pageÓ



Bonobos: A Friendly-informed WUaS's "Quaker Institute for the Future," or similar, weekly talk online coming into conversation with the form of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School at Harvard University, A Quaker Peace-Making course based on primatological videos taught at a Haverford or Swarthmore?, Saw this video this morning at Quaker Institute for the Future with Stanford Professor of Primatology, Robert Sapolsky ... "Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche"



North American river otter: Dear Quaker Institute for the Future Friends, QIF Publications at "Economics" and "Quakers"' WUaS, "Cooperatives" and "Ocean and Climate Change Management Plan," Mondragon and Finnish Team Academy Blog Posts



Myrtus communis: Ten things to talk with about WUaS to Donors, 1) "No-cost, accredited degree-track credits," 2) ... Three aspects of a clear, demonstrable and efficacious structure at WUaS - "supporting documentation" - "previous fundraising successes" - "some actual personnel" - Yep ... baby steps ... What you mention also already exist, albeit in very limited ways



Trillium: Oxford Business School (Said), WUaS is Creative Commons' licensed-centric, Service Innovation Triangle (SIT) Model - and information-focused companies, CC WUaS will accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC in all nation states -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States - if possible for free university degrees while also developing wiki schools in CC Wikipedia's new CC Wikidata database in all 7,900 + languages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages - where Wikipedia is in 288 + languages and we all wrote it , Here are the current main business/revenue plans



Northern muriqui: Loving and becoming tender ... I'm curious as an anthropologist how Friendly discourse or culture can generate love, care and tenderness



Lily Pond: Digital Marketing Course from Google, eMarketing and a WUaS best STEM course?, How to create a new WUaS Digital Marketing course for our undergraduate degree, 7 MIT OCW Marketing Courses from Sloan School of Management none of them for undergraduates, WUaS's undergraduate best CC STEM "Business" Major - Stokes, Rob. 2014 DIGITAL MARKETING TEXTBOOK (5th edition) - How to crowdsource the ideas for a course which would teach MASTERY of this subject to undergraduates for free and effectively, building on Google, and the amazing number of Twitter social marketing feeds, as well as inter-lingually?, As I watch this Grateful Dead introduction to the 1978 New Years' Eve show for free on Youtube, I see a lot of good examples of eMarketing ... long after the Dead have passed on ... they're marketing hippies of the 1960s



Peaks: Sing the Sun, Heard Harbin's Sun~Heart called Strong-Heart ... while World Uni singing



Congolese forests: Returning to Harbin after many weeks away, A kind of Yoga dreaming, A crossing over that Congolese river into Bonobo jungles in Africa, metaphorically ... where here the "river" is that of Mt St Helena just north of the Napa Valley ... and Harbin is on the Bonobo side, whereas the "chimpanzees" could be on the Bay Area side ... Field work ... ethnographic meditating in the Harbin warm pool ahead ... But not explicitly about the Bonobo_chimpanzee Subject at WUaS, although I explore Bonobo conceptualizations in my 400 actual - virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic manuscript ... Would Oxford publish my manuscript?



Bird pairs: If Google Publisher works out ... Anticipating translating my Harbin book in many many languages, A WUaS universal translator, An Academic Press at WUaS in ALL 7,929 languages, Anticipating an interactive 3D film-realistic build-able Google Earth as ethnographic field site, For ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, - this would be best, And all even as a strategic partnership with Google (and with CC Wikimedia's CC Wikidata too)



Syzygium: Harbin Hot Springs' Book Publisher - Recent Outline, How to look at my Harbin book as an ASSET, Just heard back from a great sociocultural Anthropology book publisher in Brooklyn NY / Oxford UK that they won't publish my Harbin Hot Springs' manuscript, Here below is the outline as well as Duncan's email, An opportunity to focus on finding / developing a publisher that fully integrates the web, including virtual worlds, STEM and "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy" with paper print publishing - Quaker publishers with Google Publisher with World University and School's Academic Press (planned in all 7,929 languages)



Red Fox - Grey Fox: MIT Tech Review's "The Skeptic: Stanford's John Hennessy,""India Loves MOOCs,""China's startup boom in online learning,""The Believer: Duke's Sally Kornbluth," World University and School can facilitate excellence in all these learning spheres ... Admissions at WUaS - Students! ... Sign Up here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org



Pinar Sierra de Guadarrama: Two NEW Flyers - WUaS Free, Creative Commons’ licensed (CC), Online BACHELOR Degrees Accrediting in California on best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare, SIGN UP HERE ... ... Scottish Small Piping Weddings, Celebrations & Surprise Events San Francisco, East Bay & Northern California



Mount Whitney: A realistic virtual earth for historical climate change "ice shelf" questions etc and a virtual Harbin (in a developing Google Earth), Threshold Effect & Rapid Ice Cap melt? - Here appears to be a key answer: It's hard to say whether meters of ocean rising could occur in this century or subsequent centuries, but it's very important to do better science and especially modeling for this - A key recent paper, New York Times -- Sea Level Questions and Answers: http://youtu.be/1Dqar1x-F70?a, And in conjunction with a virtual Harbin, such STEM virtual world modeling - historically and predictive-wise too - gets into very very complex virtual Earth building ... * What a cool STEM-centric far-reaching Harbin virtual world and virtual earth this will become!



Mount Muir: Lovely Kathryn Tickell - 'Air Moving' video here (her narrative style is a little like Angela's) ... Haven't yet found a good example of her on Northumbrian Smallpipes with just keyboard but I'm looking, How to "Begin Re-evaluation Counseling” is all quite familiar, Nothing about the unconscious as a language per Jacques Lacan though in RC theory which I've found so far, How can we make music together explicitly to elicit neural cascades of pleasure, I wonder? What's the sheet music notation for this? Curious who may organize Reevaluation Counseling among students at World University and School for learning, and counseling, beyond in any specific class ... and based on what further theory?, Counseling at WUaS



Mt Banner and Thousand Island Lake: Hope World University and School's application to the Google Impact Challenge | Bay Area will help a lot of SF Bay Area High Schoolers with free (since CC) best STEM-centric college degrees which are enjoyable and excellent, Thank you, Google Impact Challenge | Bay Area!



Sky pilot (Polemonium eximium): A PUBLISHER for my first Harbin book - BERGHAHN PRESS, An Endless Garden of Creativity ... and in combination with a virtual EARTH for STEM research based on making a virtual Harbin, in a kind of film-realistic interactive buildable Google Earth, such as here, Click on this link to Visit the Harbin Gate now in Google Earth, and walk down the road - with "Big Foot" steps - to Middletown, California here, Virtual Earth for STEM research will hopefully be Google-made ... See too both of these recent Harbin exploration blog posts



Prunus avium: This is VERY funny, and it illustrates some of the complexities of meaning in learning a language, World University plans to offer a wiki school in each of all 7,929 languages, - many of which are started here - but not yet in their languages (except for the CC MIT OCW in 7 languages) with an invitation to begin and teach these universities IN these languages, Where's the Universal Translator of binary, in voice, when you need it?



Palisades in Sierras: "U.S. vs. Hackers: Still Lopsided Despite Years of Warnings and a Recent Push," MIT OpenCourseWare Press Conference - April 4, 2001, Google has the know-how and is scalable unlike any other computer organization in terms of making the internet secure in ways that are sensible for many many stakeholders, - and WUaS planning to be in all 7,929 languages will make World University with Google - if at all possible please - an important player in all of this, Edit, too, Hacking at WUaS



Plumeria: Just added "Telemedicine puts a doctor virtually at your bedside"… to the Digital Medical School at WUaS, Seeking to a) "Googlify" World University this week ... and then b) "Wikidata" it in all 7,929 languages and then c) "Stanford" it in terms of accreditation, all the while remaining d) Creative Commons' licensed - being CC - re e) CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC



Tiara: WUaS's Business Plan's SEVEN Foci - Updated, In all 7,929 languages and 242 countries, MIT OCW, Yale OYC ...1) Fundraising for 501 (c) (3) WUaS, 2) Bookstore/Computer Store, 3) Governments' collaboration for CC Academic Degrees, 4) Academic Press, 5) Non CC Music lessons and tutoring, 6) universal broadband internet connectivity 7) all-language academic online manpower jobs' source for our graduates, By simply coding this in the upcoming "You at WUaS" database - (for 5.4 billion wiki-people in all 242+ countries?) - for matriculated students especially, and planning for all 7,929 languages, perhaps WUaS can plan to become the best online academic manpower source over time and in all languages, World University's 10% Fundraising Letter of Agreement



Tansy: 100 words' Elevator Pitch for World University and School, WUaS is the solution to a lack of highest quality universal education



Zanzibar red colobus: WUaS's Need for Fundraising, 6 Main WUaS Business Foci, Plus 1 New One - of planning to become an all-language academic online manpower jobs' source for our graduates and others, Daily Guidestar email http://trust.guidestar.org/, How a Director of Corporate Relations' position works, As WUaS Development begins to develop a track record we will need to hire one, 7 Main Business Plan Foci



Pygmy three-toed sloth: Mission of World University, WUaS clarifying ideas and helpful questions, e.g. "I don't understand perhaps the stipulations of OCW, Wiki- and CC-licensed terms"> FAQs at WUaS, "Counseling,""Finding / creating a job you really love,""Career counseling,""WUaS Job hunting," WUaS will be offering free since CC online degrees that would otherwise cost $44,000 per year at a MIT or a Stanford, and seek to further great learning as well.



Bellis perennis: In what ways will WUaS successfully build in Pandora Music's thumbs up/down at accrediting WUaS with CC MIT OCW in VIDEO in 7 languages & CC YALE OYC? How to integrate this into the Conference Method online? And for the Music of Learning? In what ways will this be best coded for in the wiki side of World University and for inter-lingual study of how students learn, and how courses and learning can be more and more enjoyable and also lead to interesting careers?



Peregrine falcon: Rebuilding Society Anew in the Information Age and with Cognitive Assistants, HAT - Hub of All Things, As a Castellian I share his definition of society in the information age emphasing for one the role of global networks, References from our conversation for David, Starting languages from scratch, WUaS and degrees and Universal Translator as language generator



Fertile biomes: "Maintaining Institutional Pension Responsibilities" presentation at Friends Association for Higher Education



Indian crested porcupine: Free high school chem A.P. online ... and forty other FREE high school courses at edX ... World University would like to develop with the I.B. standard high school standard (building on AP) and in all countries and languages



Gouldian Finch: Great to have Press about my upcoming Actual - Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book. Thank you - and PRESS online for World University, Virtual World blog posts ... In my actual-virtual NAKED HARBIN ethnographic book, the publishing of which I hope will involve sharing audio transcripts online from Harbin ... and in which I also come into conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life"



Wild columbine: July 11, 2015 Minutes (and Agenda) for Monthly Business Meeting for World University and School




7. SF f/Friends/Quaker WUaS developments

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Attended Quaker Institute for the Future this past week meeting at Berkeley's Pacific School of Religion.


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WUaS has added the "Quaker Institute for the Future" approximately 37 publications to the Quakers' wiki subject page at World University -

Quakers - Religious Society of Friends:

- and it's their goal to make their publications more widely available.


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


8. Closure


9. Next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting - Saturday, September 12, 2015, 9 am Pacific Time


Scott MacLeod

President and Presiding 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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Bay Checkerspot Butterfly: Thank you and nice to visit with you at Quaker Institute for the Future!, Here's the "Quaker Green Fund" - fossil fuel free, "Investing - Socially Responsible" wiki subject for open teaching and learning at World University

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Hi Catja, Leonard, Shelley, Charlie, John, Richard and QIF Friends, 

Thank you and very nice to meet with you at Quaker Institute for the Future in Berkeley! 

Here's the "Quaker Green Fund" - fossil fuel free -
http://www.friendsfiduciary.org/quaker-green-fund/ -
but which began December 31, 2013 so it isn't in

"The Very Quick Guide To A Green Portfolio" (5/20/2014) - 

Both of these resources, and more, are in the 

"Investing - Socially Responsible" wiki subject for open teaching and learning at World University -


And here's my blog entry from yesterday coming into conversation with your, Catja, "Horizontal Democracy," proposing an online weekly talk of academic Quaker videos - QIF and WUaS? - as well as an academic course on Quaker Peace-Making based on primatological online videos, and the video you showed, Dale, and also primate research among other ideas ... 
Bonobos: A Friendly-informed WUaS's "Quaker Institute for the Future," or similar, weekly talk online focusing on "Academic Horizontal Democracy" coming into conversation with the form of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School at Harvard University, A Quaker Peace-Making course based on primatological videos taught at a Haverford or Swarthmore?, Saw this video this morning at Quaker Institute for the Future with Stanford Professor of Primatology, Robert Sapolsky ... "Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche"

Check out the Bonobo and Primatology wiki subjects at WUaS for open teaching and learning without much MIT OCW at this point. 

Here again is the Quakers wiki school at World University - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends - where I've added the QIF publications. 

For Quaker high schoolers, looking for a free and MIT online accrediting education, here's the beginning Admissions department -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School#World_University_and_School_Links - at WUaS and Quaker teens can sign up here -  http://worlduniversityandschool.org . 

Friendly regards, 
Scott




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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  
- 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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