Posted these on Sunday, January 14, 2018
Minutes for the
A) Minutes for January 13, 2018 World University and School Monthly Business Meeting and
B) January 13, 2018 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting
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Minutes for January 13, 2018 World University & School Monthly Business Meeting
(Agendas:
Present:
- Larry Viehland (Board Chair and CFO/Treasurer of World University and School)
- Scott MacLeod (President, Presiding Clerk and Recording Clerk of World University and School)
Minute 1
World University and School seeks to grow its team, conceptually, emerging from collaborations with MIT, Stanford, Google and Wikimedia/Wikipedia, and eventually to engage the academic and organizational hiring practices of these organizations, - and in all ~200 nation states’ official languages as well as wiki schools in all 7,099 living languages.
Minute 2
Re World University and School "independent study" courses for credit, WUaS seeks too to explore a possible collaboration with MIT OCW into MITx “self paced” courses, among other ways of academic advising.
Minute 3
World Univ & Sch's first matriculated class is continuing into 2018!
Minute 4
Accreditation
Re free CC MIT OCW-centric degree focus, where WUaS in its MIT OCW-centricity seeks in the beginning to be a kind of a self-accrediting organization. As WUaS grows WUaS interested in exploring whether WUaS could collaborate with edX for their MIT OCW into MITx courses (i.e. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mitx-related-courseware/) and with regard to accreditation too; at World University and School, MIT OCW-centricity is WUaS’s standard for self-accreditation, allowing for the development of creative computing learning environment, in all ~200 countries official languages, and wiki-wise in all 8,461 languages.
Minute 5
The IRS accepted World Univ and Sch's 990 tax form this morning, January 14, 2018 so World University and School continues as a 510 c 3 non-profit organization.
In a related vein, World University and School should be getting Google "Knowledge Panel" soon, per this communication from Google around December 11 , 2017:
“Where can users donate to my nonprofit on Google?
Currently, users in eligible countries searching for your nonprofit directly on Google.com will see a donation button in your nonprofit's Knowledge Panel, after you have signed up to receive donations. “ … https://support.google.com/donations/answer/7570174?hl=en&ref_topic=7569204
Minute 6
World Univ and Sch's home page - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - is due for a remake and in planning for free CC OCW DEGREES, and WIKI schools in all 8,461 entries in languages WUaS would like to develop in these directions: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/01/gentiana-acaulis-in-what-ways-will-we.html ...
Minute 7
Financial report - no change, but there was a donation in late December that will be reported in the next financial report
Minute 8
World University and School monthly business meeting minutes is newly beginning to email these minutes separately (from the WUaS Corporation’s minutes) and to different groups of people.
Sincerely,
Scott
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- World University and School
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Minutes for January 13, 2018 WUaS Corporation Board Meeting
(Agendas:
Present:
- Larry Viehland (acting CFO/Treasurer of WUaS Corporation)
- Scott MacLeod (acting President/Secretary and Founder/Facilitator of the emergent WUaS Corporation as it forks from World Univ & Sch)
Minute 1
Minute 2
A) Please respond to the WUaS Corp by email (to me) before we email the December shares, and to say that you'll plan to attend monthly board meetings;
B) from now on the WUaS Corp would like to require you to attend monthly business meeting (2nd Saturdays) to participate in guiding this organization for which you are being paid in stock (which will have value when we go public), and hereafter we will distribute shares after each monthly board meeting.
Minute 3
- Shares and acting president, CFO et al.
- Same amount of shares to go to acting CFO as WUaS Corp CEO thus far
- 10x as many shares to acting president/founder
- entered into ledger for this
Minute 4
- WUaS Press - NEW BOOK FORMAT -Curious to explore developing a completely new book format in something like a virtual world with Google Street View with time slider with text on the side -& re my Harbin actual/virtual project http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds … & NEW Haiku-ish poetry http://www.scottmacleod.com/HaikuishPoetryBook.html in the Poetry Press at WUaS ~
See, too - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/951629696860483584
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/951530334205526016
Sincerely,
Scott MacLeod
(Acting president and secretary of the WUaS Corp)
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
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