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Arabian sand gazelle: Minutes for ANNUAL MEETING on Saturday, November 16, 2019 for A) World University & School and B) WUaS Corporation at WUaS Monthly Business Meeting

Previous: Tunicate (sea squirts): Tele-medicine, Chief Operating Officer (COO) brainstorming. Per your Qs about 501c3 World Univ & Sch's biz plan, looked up A) tuition at Stanford $47,940 USD 2016–17 . . . tuition at UC Berkeley In-state $13,509 USD, Out-of-state $40,191 USD 2016–17 . . . tuition at MIT $ 48,452 USD 2016–17 . . . Telemedicine and a specific condition: Alcoholism - Approaches for Scotland too . . . and re all 7.5 billion people as well? * * * Aleš and Chris, Magnus in Sweden just shared your emails with me, and we've been talking about planning presumably for all 7.5 billion people per WikiTree planning for 'growing an accurate single family tree' . . . IF NOT Wikidata Q-item for 7.5 billion, then WUaS P-item for all 7.5 billion people? . . . WUaS is seeking to plan, brainstorming-wise, for all 7.5 billion people for these reasons, to begin: All 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item number for 1) wiki Universitians in 7,111 known living languages, and matriculated students in all ~200 countries, 2) Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records, with genetic therapies, and for molecular tele robotic surgery, 3) Universal Basic Income EXPERIMENTS (and to alleviate poverty), and to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks 4) a single family tree for genealogy research as in WikiTree, and for aggregating DNA samples too
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World University and School 


Minutes for Annual Meeting 
on Saturday, November 16, 2019 
at World University & School
Monthly Business Meeting


Minutes


- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/arabian-sand-gazelle-minutes-for-annual.html


(Agenda & News ...



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


Minutes -

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To seek and reach out to World University and School's second undergraduate class for the autumn of 2020, at licensing WUaS (with CA's BPPE), WUaS is seeking the initial $5000 in fees, and committed funding annually after this for both licensing and accreditation. WUaS seeks hereby too to become listed in High School Counseling Offices (see, for ex., - https://www.nacacnet.org/globalassets/documents/publications/research/hsls_counseling.pdf).

See the WUaS 6 Bachelor degree majors in the course catalog here - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VRHhXYsk-V9lvSh5onaU2hnEhwoapSN7HyBK1P09LIk/edit?usp=sharing (accessible from - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/) - including especially the 2 undergraduate MIT OCW-centric Engineering degrees, in EECS, and General Engineering, (where WUaS will build upon this Engineering OCW - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=engineering), as well as the Business (see: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/) degrees.


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In seeking to develop the WUaS high school international baccalaureate (IB) diploma - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - in all ~200 countries' official / main languages, WUaS seeks to collaborate with or create inspiring IB course ware online, and emerging both from MIT OCW High School - https://ocw-origin.odl.mit.edu/high-school/ - and which in part is potentially 'makey-makey,' possibly coding and gaming-centric, project based learning oriented, builds on the conference method (Harkness table method - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harkness_table ?) and which cultivates critical thinking, from home. WUaS doesn't want to lose high school students from the beginning of their online studies.




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Financial reports -

Please find the monthly financial reports attached to the WUaS Annual Meeting Minutes' email. 


The annual financial report will be emailed in January, after the close of the WUaS Jan-Dec fiscal year.


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In terms of reimbursement from Departments of Education in all ~200 countries, and 501 c 3's World Univ & Sch's revenue and business plan, WUaS is seeking comparable reimbursement to the following great universities' tuitions . . .

tuition at Stanford
47,940 USD
2016–17

tuition at UC Berkeley
In-state 13,509 USD, Out-of-state 40,191 USD
2016–17

tuition at MIT
48,452 USD
2016–17

And CC-4 MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch seeks to offer a world class online education  education comparable to Stanford's and MIT's as WUaS accredits first with the state of California's BPPE (Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education) - so as a private university, in the context of the USA.

And, again, WUaS can use the MIT OCW name if we add the following clarifications - see: worlduniversityandschool.org ...

"MIT OCW Creative Commons' licensing and endorsement clarifications:

a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu"


- so WUaS isn't entirely a 'no-name' startup university, and there's also a gold mine or motherlode of courses to grow from here in MIT OCW's 5 languages as WUaS seeks highest achieving students online in all ~200 countries' main languages.




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Information Technology -
Re beginning with ... 
'You at World University' ... 

MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School (which is like Wikipedia in 300 languages with MIT OCW in 5 languages), in donating itself to Wikidata for co-development and having received WUaS Miraheze MedIaWiki as a consequence, is seeking to make them interoperable for online matriculating WUaS students, in 200 countries, and for volunteer editors, open wiki teachers and learners (or 'Universitians' at WUaS), so for speakers in each of all 7,111 known living languages ... and then potentially a Person item # or Qitem# for 7.5 billion people, conceptually.

Additionally, WUaS is seeking to plan for, brainstorming-wise, coding for all 7.5 billion people for the following reasons:

All 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item number for

i) wiki Universitians in 7,111 known living languages, and matriculated students in all ~200 countries,


ii) Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records, with genetic therapies, and for molecular tele robotic surgery, for ex.,


iii) Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments (and to alleviate poverty), and to DISTRIBUTE a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks (where the Euro is in 19 out of 28 EU countries, and backed by their central banks in one way or another) ... and potentially with UBI experiment recipients able, for example, to mine the "Mine Pi" cryptocurrency (as a mineable single cryptocurrency), developed by Stanford graduates, by clicking on the 'lightning button' brainstorming-wise. 


iv) a single family tree for genealogy research as in WikiTree (https://www.wikitree.com, and see too World Family Tree - https://www.geni.com/worldfamilytree), and for aggregating DNA samples too (see item 2 again).

In what ways could Wikdiata plan for all 7.5 billion people each a Wikidata Q-item # and for the above reasons and many more (and keeping in sync with Wikipedia's mission of "the sum of all human knowledge" where all 7.5 billion people generate this with their language, for example)?




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Organizational structure for WUaS developments -

WUaS is two parallel legal entities, and re questions of ownership as well:

a
World Univ & Sch, a non profit 501 (c) 3 (in the US), and in California -

C3289561    WORLD UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL



b
WUaS Corporation, a for profit general stock company (with named CEO Julian Dumitrascu)

C4018051    WUaS CORPORATION



... where both of these are planned in all ~200 countries' official languages, and in all 7111 known living languages (with machine translation too).



In addition to ... 

i) Building on the WUaS Monthly Business Meeting organizational structure (see links to 2019 WUaS Minutes in Agenda)


ii) Seeking to move from writing as management style to Chief Operating Officer approach


iii) Seeking to code the WUaS web site - on A) Google platform in its ~100 languages with Translate, with B) best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare in its 5 languages, and in C) Wikidata's 300 languages, - and with licensing (BPPE) and accreditation (WASC senior?)


iv) seeking to develop financial processes in these regards


... WUaS seeks to create 2.2 million jobs in all ~200 countries and 7111 known living languages on both wings.




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WUaS as startup will explore incubation by Schoolab SF International, a French entrepreneurial education innovation hub, further ...

See: 
Rosa chinensis: Schoolab San Francisco International - and incubating World Univ & Sch? * * * The 'gold mine' or 'mother lode' of Creative Commons' 4 licensed MIT OpenCourseWare (in its 5 languages), where CC-4 licensing says users can, with MIT OCW, A) share it, B) adapt it, C) but non-commercially, WUaS cannot ask for tuition from students - so online WUaS will be free-to-students - but WUaS will seek reimbursement from governments (eg federal, state, local, etc) per student per year; this could extend to all 29 French speaking countries





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WUaS seeks to begin now in 2020 with BPPE Licensing - https://twitter.com/CaBPPE (& possibly WASC senior Accreditation)

World Univ & Sch is seeking $5,000 to begin licensing with the state of California's BPPE (Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education) in January, and annual fees for this, and for accreditation too (potentially with WASC senior). WUaS is seeking to matriculate our 2nd online undergraduate class for free-to-students' CC-4 MIT OCW-centric Bachelor degrees (taking 4 years to complete) in the autumn of 2020, with online students from all ~200 countries first in English, - and has had to postpone this licensing process this year, once already, due to lack of funding.




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Some WUaS highlights in this past year included

i)
BPPE licensing workshop on 2/20/2019 - but WUaS still need $5000 to begin the licensing process, now in 2020


ii)
Further developing in the Google Search / Google My Business / other Google platforms . . . 


WUaS seeks to grow potentially online IB schools https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme in Arabic @Csisc1994, English, French, Spanish+ & which are also MIT OCW High School-centric https://ocw-origin.odl.mit.edu/high-school/ & https://local.google.com/place?id=13580134555851014887&use=posts&lpsid=792871498435883844 (@WUaSPress Languages-World Univ: @sgkmacleod)





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World University and School is developing a new academic methodology, Ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - and in facilitating co-creating a single realistic virtual earth - as related methodology ... 




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World Univ & Sch is developing actual-virtual, physical-digital methodologies in seeking to do research and, for example, further understand consciousness, - as potential developments in neuroscience / philosophy of mind / brain and cognitive science ...



WUaS seeks to explore this further too via:

Pixels & Qubits in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology a #RealisticVirtualEarth a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM? #FilmTo3D App into Google Street View w TIME SLIDER/Maps/Earth/TensorFlow/Translate & at cell/atomic levels wi group build-able SL #VR w avatar bots but realistic


And with ...
Language too ~ Pixels & Qubits in #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages? #FilmTo3D App > Google Street View w TIME SLIDER/Maps/Earth/TensorFlow/Translate & at cell/atomic levels w group build-able SL #VR w real avatar bots





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We approved (in the manner of Friends/Quakers' monthly business meeting) the following in Annual Meeting:

World University and School will repeat same budget as last year.

World University and School will elect the same officers as last year.







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WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press


Minutes for November 16, 2019, 2019 
WUaS Corporation Annual Board Meeting


Present:
-       Larry Viehland (Acting WUaS Corporation Board Chair, and acting CFO)


-       Scott MacLeod (Acting President, acting CEO, Professor, Founder, Presiding Clerk +)



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WUaS seeks to develop our online bookstores / computer stores / robotics' stores / hospital technologies' stores, with web site platform developments (see above) ... in ~200 countries and 7,111 living languages. 

See too, 14 planned revenue streams - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html


This will occur both Actually-Virtually, and Physically-Digitally, and includes the on-the-ground "Big Box" stores' idea in all ~200 countries.

And these stores may carry food as well with time, to attract people to them. (World University and School academics, including medical schools with online teaching hospitals, still plan to be as much online and distributed as possible).


B
The WUaS Press's next book is due out soon -

tentatively titled - 

"To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual reality"


C
The WUaS Press will now have published 4 books -
neither yet available in the WUaS online bookstore, nor yet with machine translation.


D
We approved (in the manner of Friends/Quakers' monthly business meeting) the following in Annual Meeting:

WUaS Corporation will repeat the same budget as last year.

And WUaS Corporation will elect the same officers as last year





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Sincerely,
Scott

- 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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