Scintillant hummingbird: Minutes for World Univ & Sch - WUaS Monthly Business Meeting 19 Oct 2019

Minutes:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/10/minutes-for-world-univ-sch-monthly.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/scintillant-hummingbird-minutes-for.html



Present:
-       Larry Viehland (World Univ & Sch Board Chair, and CFO)
-       Scott MacLeod (President, CEO, Professor, Founder, Presiding Clerk +)



(Agenda from 10/17/19:
- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/10/agenda-for-oct-19-2019-world-university.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bright-eyes-catharanthus-roseus-agenda.html)


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The World University and School Annual Meeting will meet on Saturday, November 16, 2019 (at the next online open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting) at 9am PT.


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World University and School is seeking our 2nd online undergraduate class of 500-2000 students for 2020 as we begin BPPE licensing for online free-to-students’ CC-4 OCW best STEAM Bachelor potentially with students from all ~200 countries around the world - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and who will be able to register and apply here - worlduniversityandschool.org

WUaS plans to develop information technology for this further in Google Education/WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki/Wikidata ... and with licensing and accreditation facilitating becoming listed in / on USA high schools' college counseling resources / web sites.


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World Univ & Sch has a part time fund raiser position available. Please contact - info@worlduniversityandschool.org - if interested.

And World Univ and Sch continues to seek funding for first licensing with CA’s BPPE for the fees, as well as for accreditation fees, including committed funding over years. WUaS is a 501 (c) 3 tax exempt charity - https://www.guidestar.org/profile/27-3105368 - and welcomes your donations (see, too: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation).

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NEW WUaS Livestream page - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHof-u-dlkA - accessible from
- worlduniversityandschool.org - and which records to - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch.

World Univ and Sch is also now streaming WUaS Q & A and News on Mondays at 10 am PT via LightStream video conferencing platform which records to Youtube - https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch. If you'd like to join the conversation here (about research, about academics, about becoming a student, etc.), please let me know at info@worlduniversityandschool.org ... WUaS announces these with this #Hashtag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA?src=hashtag_click - here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch.


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WUaS has inquired with Google Director of AI Peter Norvig about coding CC-4 MIT OCW for students at World Univ & Sch, keeping student’s time in mind, and in so many other ways.


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World Univ & Sch has recently updated our web site - worlduniversityandschool.org - with updated logo as well as our 'WUaS Livestream' page - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHof-u-dlkA ...

(And also the WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press Web site - see below)


Thanks much to Peter Bothe for both the updated Logos, as well as the files for LightStream, and the Youtube WUaS Livestream channel background image and set up.



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WUaS Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - and online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - are planned in ~200 countries' official languages (both online).

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WUaS is glad to have communicated recently in these regards with University of Sfax medical student Houcemeddine Turki in Tunisia, and WUaS has written a letter of support for their "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit:


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WUaS Law Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School - are planned in ~200 countries' official languages online.

WUaS continues to seek to collaborate and build on:

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UC Berkeley Anthropology

Scott MacLeod will give another talk/paper in the UC Berkeley Anthropology department in March 2020, tentatively entitled - "Harbin Hot Springs, Music and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy" at the  Sorbonne and University of Geneva's UC Berkeley TOURISM AND MUSICAL IMAGINARIES' Conference http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103050552852&ca=46c4af21-fddf-466e-ac95-de8df705dced (See Scott's previous 4-5 Harbin Anthropology talks (at UC Berkeley TSWG) here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html).



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Scott MacLeod is planning too to teach newly a course entitled "Virtual Harbin" (Anthropology), in addition to "Society, Information Technology and Global University" (Sociology) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - in 2020 or 2021.



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In World Univ & Sch's active ethics' and legality investigation with the Stanford Faculty Senate into Stanford University, the WUaS Chairman of the Board, Larry Viehland, observes that the administration makes the decisions there, and that the Stanford Senate is likely to play an advisory role.

World Univ & Sch seeks to begin to grow our WUaS faculty, and then explore related WUaS governance questions, and how to address ethics' questions as well.



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World Univ & Sch will join a Reed College conference call on November 1, 2019, and has asked to add an agenda item about WUaS hiring Reedie interns to help begin grow World University and School. World University and School is also seeking Ph.D. student applicants from Reed College to study online for best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare Ph.D. degrees (as WUaS licenses for this with BPPE as well).

See, too:
From the microorganisms in your gut to the chemistry of smog, Reed students tackle questions that lie at the cutting edge. Check out this video of students presenting their research:
https://twitter.com/Reed_College_/status/1187110322403823616


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WUaS Financial report
World Univ & Sch has $1,347.55 in our non-profit bank account, and hasn't begun financial operations.

(See attached financial reports).


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Multi-lingual wiki schools at WUaS:

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WUaS will explore collaborating
Stanford Center for Latin America's Cafecito's holds classes in Quechua and Spanish, as well as English, and some online - see: https://mailchi.mp/stanford.edu/first-cafecito-quechua-happening-tonight?e=94f78f5eea?…
The beginning of Tunisia World University and School, planned in Arabic language, as well as French and English - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tunisia -


(but not yet the Medical School at Tunisia World University and School or the Law School at Tunisia World University and School)


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Thanks too to WUaS Board Member, Kyle Wagner, for the recent Twitter conversation -  https://twitter.com/hashtag/transformschoolchat?src=hashtag_click ...
#transformschoolchat ... around conditions for self-directed learning
- applicable in many languages.
See: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/arundina-bamboo-orchid-wiki-medicine.html

and, for example:
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1186438523932438528?s=20
- and -
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1186439432963944448?s=20



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World Univ & Sch is in communications with the university on a ship, Semester at Sea (and which is not yet in a realistic virtual earth, for example, that WUaS knows of).




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WUaS and facilitating a single cryptocurrency backed by some central banks and distributed via universal basic income experiments to all 7.5 billion people each a Wikidata Q item



Glasgow hospital as example for finding families that could benefit from Universal Basic Income UBI experiments - https://twitter.com/lthomas_pg/status/1186467201408212992?



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"To the Dance or the Pools ~ Virtually?: How Different it is to Soak at Harbin, than to Realize it in Virtual Reality,"

the next Academic Press at World University and School book is due this autumn –

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html -

... but not yet in a realistic virtual earth



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WUaS Press web site updates with updated logo and upcoming book title here

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


Thanks again much to Peter Bothe for both the updated Logos (as well as the files for LightStream, and the Youtube WUaS Livestream channel background image and set up).



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WUaS Corporation finances

The parallel legal entity, the WUaS Corporation has .01, and also hasn't begun financial operations; see the WUaS Corporation section below.

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Could Google's TensorFlow generate a daily stock price for the WUaS Corporation (and any other corporation that works with Alphabet / Google) in each of all ~200 countries' stock markets eventually - and potentially based on the dollar, the local currency, or a single cryptocurrency with blockchain backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (and distributed via UBI experiments?