Bursera simaruba, (commonly known as gumbo-limbo, copperwood, chaca, naked Indian and turpentine tree): VIDEO from M 4/26/21 open WUaS News and Q&A * * EdX-WUaS impasse? Dear Matthew (WUaS's edX representative or contact), Larry, (Universitians, Ed, Jane, Jim, Henry, Sid, Tym, David, Rob, David), Having followed up in the past few weeks with some WUaS email inquiries to Anant Agarwal, as edX CEO, founder and MIT Professor of EECS, and Sanjay Sarma, as VP of MIT Open Learning (with whom I've met videoconferencing for ~30 minutes), and President Reif, as president of MIT, and Google Chairman Hennessey as Anant's Stanford PhD professor, and President of Stanford for 16 years, and Chairman of Alphabet too, and Larry Viehland (whom you may know by now), as Chairman of the Board of CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School (& WUaS), and CFO and acting CFO of both wings, and as 3 legal entities, of WUaS * * * Didn't play my Scottish Small Pipes last night for the first time in many months of Daily play right before bed, but did do a full range of introductory Yoga standing poses this morning and more, after my daily morning sit or (inner releasing action) meditation, in my newly cleaned Yoga space. Interesting 'ecology' * Are Yoga standing poses or asanas like playing the bagpipes ;)? With all this tubes akimbo and energy or breath streaming outwardly from the opening in the bore or hole or space in the middle? :) (sounds a bit taoism-informed)

Dear Anant, Sanjay, President Reif (Chairmen John Hennessey and Larry Viehland), 

How are you? I hope this email finds you all well. I'm reaching out to you, Anant, as edX CEO and MIT Professor of EECS, and you Sanjay, as VP of MIT Open Learning (with whom I've met videoconferencing for ~30 minutes), and you President Reif, as president of MIT, and you Chairman Hennessey as Anant's Stanford PhD professor, and President of Stanford for 16 years, and Chairman of Alphabet, and you, Larry, as Chairman of the Board of CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School (& WUaS), and CFO and acting CFO of both wings, and as 3 legal entities, of WUaS.

Anant, I emailed you on Thursday, April 8th, with some questions about an 'edX-WUaS impasse?' - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/edxwuas-impasse.html - and regarding reaching out to our WUaS prospective PhD and Bachelor degree program students, taking edX courses for these degrees beginning 9/1/21. 

Here's the 4/8/21 'edX-WUaS impasse?' partnering letter again: 

Greetings and I hope this email finds you well. (Am glad WUaS just today completed filling out the 2020 tax form for the WUaS Corp in CA with regard to the following, and thanks to Larry Viehland for this).

I'm glad WUaS's edX representative Matthew wrote on Tu 4/6/21 -

If WUaS were to prepay edX for our prospective ~5 WUaS students (for both PhD and Bachelor degree programs, taking a first WUaS year of edX courses, toward WUaS degrees) with our edX-WUaS agreed-upon $349 per student per year for unlimited edX courses, could we please receive these documents soon (and since WUaS doesn't have $50,000 to pay for an edX dashboard integration into WUaS G-Suite for Education)? As you may know CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is planning online major universities, offering Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school degrees, in each of all ~200 countries in their official and main languages, and also wiki schools for open teaching and learning for speakers of all 7,139 known living languages, - and, brainstorming-wise, to code for all 7.8 Billion people on the planet as wiki teachers and learners (and for a number of other reasons too) - so the growth potential for edX is enormous.

Reimbursement to WUaS in WUaS G-Suite for Education, from ~200 countries' COUNTIES (with parallels to the Olympics) for Creative Commons-4 MIT OCW-centric WUaS degrees is the business plan, - for students initially taking edX courses toward WUaS degrees, from which WUaS would subsequently pay edX $349 per student per year for unlimited edX courses for WUaS PhD degrees and 4-year Bachelor degrees. This is the understanding edX's Matthew and I have been operating with for many months, and which WUaS is inquiring about in this email. Could we please write these understandings into our WUaS-edX legal partnering documents regarding these - "three main categories: 1. Billing information, 2. Integration and Access Configuration 3. Learner data privacy" - this week?

Since WUaS may only have at this point about 5-10 prospective PhD and Bachelor degree students, from the USA, India, Morocco and Indonesia, for these WUaS programs, - but which number WUaS thinks will grow dramatically, when WUaS can receive an edX registration URL (something like: https://authn.edx.org/register with Legal disclaimers on our WUaS edX registration page, and further develop a professional WUaS website in Google Sites anticipating many languages) - in signing these legal documents, how might WUaS best get these edX-WUaS partnering documents in the next few business days?

3/20/21 WUaS Minutes for open Monthly Business Meeting

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/synchiropus-splendidus-32021-wuas_1.html - ... "

How might we best proceed regarding the above and the edX-WUaS partnering documents? 

Thank you, Anant, Sanjay, Rafael, John, and Larry, - and looking forward to communicating further with you about this. 

Sincerely, Scott

Video recording from yesterday's 4/17/21 WUaS Monthly Business Meeting, conducted loosely in the manner of Quakers, (with WUaS MBM Minutes to come)

- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tX_i8kYifNXcigF3ep1ggU1inbNOuHPg/view -

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/proxima-centauri-b-open-wuas-monthly.html

Universitians, Prasanth, Imad, Aviv, Chinmay, Tanya, All, see you in 25 minutes, with an invitation to join the WUaS News and Q&A  in Google Meet - meet.google.com/est-kzwo-xqc.