Hi Christoph and Gerold,
Thanks for your email and request for concretization re the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services. I comment further on your comments:
"Dear Scott,
I think I understand (as least partially) what you are looking for, and I can surely support you to find someone. I comment your suggestions:"
1. “developing and professionalizing World University and School's web site in HTML 5 in Switzerland's 4 languages”
"Question: You expect someone to develop a web site. What is the incentive of this “someone” to do the work? Are you going to pay something? If yes, a respective salary indication would surely help. If no, you should offer another nonfinancial reward, otherwise nobody will be interested, I guess."
In terms of incentive for web site development and professionalization, WUaS's Bookstore for Textbooks per my previous email to you about "14 Planned WUaS Revenue Streams" - http://worlduniversityandsch
Developing both the "You at WUaS" web site (planning for all ~11 billion people by 2100 in all 8,000 wiki schools in each of every language per Glottolog) as well as the nation states' WUaS "multi-lingual donation software" - for individual courses, as well as for free-to-students' CC MIT OpenCourseWare-centric and Yale OYC-centric university and high school degrees (Bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D., and I.B. high school, first in large Swiss languages, and then in all countries' languages) are possible related incentives.
WUaS would like to develop its for-profit wing (to support its non-profit wing) into a publicly traded company in all countries' official languages - especially French, German and Italian and Romansh (this last in the bookstore and Academic Press at WUaS for example) - another incentive - and eventually in all ~200 countries' official languages.
2. “with developing CC WUaS's "course catalog," planning for incorporating individual courses from CC MIT OCW in its 7 languages and CC Yale OYC”
"Why should we promote CC WUaS course catalog, and invest in developing? This is not our core business, and we need a justification for such expenses."
The Swiss Alliance's tripartite mission of a) innovation, b) education and c) inspiration would seem to potentially extend readily to offering individual free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric (and possibly free MIT x / edX courses per MIT Dean Cecilia d'Oliveira - more about this in a subsequent email if interested) courses which your members might be interested in and which would benefit them - in French, German, Italian and Romansh - on WIKI pages, each course with its own wiki page, for free and open courses. This would mean that the Swiss Alliance members, and indeed anyone, could add its courses (or an individual could teach to their web camera). The Swiss Alliance's mission of a) innovation, b) education and c) inspiration would be furthered with free CC MIT OCW individual courses, the open wiki in each of the Swiss Alliance's languages, ad the opportunity for anyone to teach innovation and inspiration. A inter-lingual conversation will also lead to innovation.
3. “could SAfD-IS please work in collaboration with CC Wikidata / Wikimedia (so, Wikimedia Germany) and its 358 languages (Wikipedia's too), in developing further WUaS languages and our WUaS wiki schools..”
"I don’t see that we have those competencies."
By the Swiss Alliance exploring collaborating with CC Wikidata / Wikimedia / Wikipedia in its 358 languages - per Switzerland's 4 languages - we/you could network for these competencies. And the Wikidata CC-O book and document resources in Wikidata could inform the WUaS Bookstore for Textbooks in French, German, Italian and Romansh - which countries / nation states could also donate for (in a similar way to that where K-12 public schools in the U.S. buy the text books from publicly traded companies like McGraw-Hill, for example, and give them to students for free in the U.S. public school system).
"Thanks for concretization on 1. and 2.
Best
Christoph"
The web site "front ends" too for the 3 WUaS Universities -
French language WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.c
German language WUaS http://worlduniversity.wikia.c
Italian language WUaS - http://worlduniversity.wikia.c
as well as
accrediting Switzerland WUaS itself - http://worlduniversity.wikia.c
(e.g. many countries in Africa have French as an official language, and each would become a major WUaS university in those African countries, accrediting on CC MIT OCW and CC Yale OYC)
- will potentially benefit incentive-wise the Swiss Alliance.
All of these universities will be different from the WUaS Romansh language wiki school - which isn't begun yet at WUaS - but emerge here in its next iteration - http://worlduniversity.wikia.c
In developing and professionalizing WUaS's web site in HTML 5 for all of this in Switzerland's 4 languages, the Swiss Alliance would benefit from both planning for its 3 languages' countries' universities, as well as its one language wiki school for open teaching and learning.
This are just a few of the incentives that the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services would benefit from in concretizing, realizing, developing and professionalizing the WUaS web site in HTML 5.
Looking forward to communicating further about all of this soon.
(So, I've reposted my "short and sweet" email from Feb. 6th below).
Best regards,
Scott
So ...
"World University and School would like to become partners with the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services (SAfD-IS) - http://www.data-service-alli
Per our conversation, could Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services please begin developing and professionalizing World University and School's web site in HTML 5 in Switzerland's 4 languages (planning for A) all 7,097 living languages as wiki schools, B) all nation states/countries/territories/t
And could the SAfD-IS please also begin with developing CC WUaS's "course catalog," planning for incorporating individual courses from CC MIT OCW in its 7 languages and CC Yale OYC, as well as begin developing the WUaS "You at WUaS" main page, planning for 11 billion people in 2100?
And, as part of the wiki school development process, could SAfD-IS please work in collaboration with CC Wikidata / Wikimedia (so, Wikimedia Germany) and its 358 languages (Wikipedia's too), in developing further WUaS languages and our WUaS wiki schools. (World University and School donated CC WUaS to CC Wikidata in October 2015; I'm including L.P. in this email, who is Wikidata's Product Manager).
Thank you."
Scott ~
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