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Sat 2/18/23 Agenda and News for open Monthly business meeting for World Univ & Sch and the WUaS Press Corporation 


Dear Universitians, friends, All, 

Here is the joining information for the OPEN WUaS Monthly Business Meeting (loosely conducted in the manner of unprogrammed nontheist Friends / Quakers) on Saturday: 

Topic: Sat. 2\18\23 open World Univ & Sch WUaS Monthly Business Meeting
Time: Feb 18, 2023 12:00 noon Eastern Time, 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74581482704?pwd=flxYp7uXaIyJxITvu4htUNEADjjksa.1

Meeting ID: 745 8148 2704
Passcode: Eig5CU


Here are the agenda and news: 




Best wishes, abolition-ally, Friendly greetings, 
Scott


PS 
The next OPEN WUaS Monthly Business Meeting is on Saturday, March 18, 2023, at 9 am PT, 12 noon Eastern time, and is hour-long. Please email meeting@worlduniversityandschool.org if you'd like to join either of these and participate with your ideas, questions, suggestions or thoughts.


Topic: Sat. 3\18\23 open World Univ & Sch WUaS Monthly Business Meeting
Time: Mar 18, 2023 12 noon Eastern Time, 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75919975304?pwd=r7jeI5Asp4o6XbbFyVu58jzDswV6lX.1

Meeting ID: 759 1997 5304
Passcode: eQ1i5N



Scott GK MacLeod
President, CEO, Founder, Presiding Clerk, Professor
http://WorldUniversityAndSchool.org 


World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand







CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU - centric ... wiki ... 

World University and School 





Agenda item 1

WUaS has received the 'green light' from the state of Pennsylvania' Department of Education to license, AND the Middle States' Commission on Higher Education to accredit with offices in the greater Philadelphia area. 



1a
Licensing fees will be $5,000 with the state of PA, and the MSCHE Pre-Application fee is $1,500. If everything goes well, this will allow us to enroll large numbers of students at accrediting World Univ & Sch this September, and, accredited, seek reimbursement from departments of education not only from 50 US states, but also from all ~200 countries, per student per year, and thanks to the CC-4 licensing of OCW.MIT.EDU, as well as the free CC-4 licensed "CS First with Google at WUaS" Scratch programming language course - https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/home - for example.

But WUaS doesn't have the money to pay these fees; if everyone in this list can chip in, say, $50, WUaS will be able to begin the process soon - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 


Please donate to tax-exempt 501 (c) (3)

World University & School

 

via PayPal, or credit card



Agenda item 2 
 
Here again are the MOMENTOUS milestones in these licensing and accrediting regards (from last week too): 

2a
FW: PA Department of Education Authorization
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023, WUaS received a phone call and an email from Michelle Simmons with the about licensing authorization -

See -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/01/weaver-bird-ploceus-recording-of-monday.html
and
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/03/green-darner-dragonfly.html


2b
And on Thu, Jan 12, 2023, World Univ & Sch received a call from Diana Bonner at Middle States Commission on Higher Education with Green Light to proceed with contacting the state of PA to begin licensing:

See: "Thank you so much for your call Diana Bonner just ... " - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/01/virginia-opossum.html


Also, 
2c
Saturday, January 28, 2023 - WUaS sent in the "Reply to FTB, state of CA's Franchise Tax Board - Questionnaire" - and regarding a request from them for a 199N for the 2020 tax year ... and wrote too that WUaS is opening a new main office in Pennsylvania (during my asylum in PA from CA), and regarding accreditation and licensing too.  


2d
Thnx to #TomMartin @LawDroid whose #ChatBotAI on 4/13/17 in physical #StanfordLawCodeX pres. by him lead to #WUaSCorporation @WUaSPress. #WUaSCorp wrote #WUaSArticlesofIncorporation in 10 minutes leading to #WUaS becoming a 3rd legal entity #ForProfitGeneralStockCompanyInCA :)

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1622279994180255744?s=20&t=9hJ86QMcOfG5rLosIX_orA

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1622280642737086466

retweeting - 

Tom Martin
@lawdroid
·
Feb 3
The way to innovate responsibly in the new world of #legal #GenerativeAI? Engage with state regulators, professional responsibility lawyers and stakeholders.

#legalhack #legal #innovation #ethical #AI #legaltech #lawyers

https://twitter.com/lawdroid/status/1621651236318576644?s=20&t=9hJ86QMcOfG5rLosIX_orA





Agenda item 3 
Glad for WUaS to have joined GEG Pennsylvania (Google Educators' Groups), and to have just shared the following with GEG Pennsylvania (and you can join the GEG group in your region by searching on for example "How to join GEG Pennsylvania?" for where you live) - 


Just shared: 

Dear GEG Pennsylvania, All, 

Thanks. At MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, the "CS First With Google at WUaS" course learning the Scratch programming language is a favorite Google Educators' resource. Currently, students can matriculate in to World Univ & Sch for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees with it: 


Thanks too to GEG PA for making it possible to sign up for a leadership role in this group, which I'm new to. How best for WUaS to begin to reach out to online PA GEG students in offering free degrees as we proceed with licensing with the state of PA's department of Education, and accrediting with the Middle States' Commission on Higher Education?

Thank you, Scott 




Agenda item 4
WUaS Google Cloud Organization with Billing is now available for World Univ & Sch - 


Fortunately, World Univ & Sch WUaS just received this announcement from Google Cloud -

We are happy to announce that the Cloud Organization is now available for your domain!

The Cloud Organization allows Google Cloud Platform admins to centrally manage all the Cloud Platform resources associated with their domain, apply IAM policies, consolidate Billing, and much more.

... 
and see the bottom post -





5
Wiki WUaS 

World Univ & Sch seeks to become the Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Oxbridge + of the internet in each of all 200 countries as major online MIT OCW-centric universities and in these countries' main languages, as well as wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7151 known living languages - - where you can begin to teach or learn now simply by, for example, teaching to you Youtube about something you love, or adding a resource, of beginning a new wiki subject page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (currently in English)- and seeing if there are any MIT OCW courses and adding them or similar.




Agenda item 6

Some further related WUaS News: 

Veda, 
was looking to see if Korean language is in ChatGPT (the AI software I'm just beginning to learn about, but haven't used yet) and see that it is supported apparently -

"ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue" since they've "trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way" 
https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/


FYI, here are a number of ChatGPT videos - 
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/02/shagbark-hickory.html - after attending a Google Educationors Group India on Use of AI for Productivity out of GEG Ahmedabad 

Will add some of these further to https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) including especially this one from Karen L. McKee of the US Geological Service 

Can ChatGPT Write Your Next Scientific Paper?
Karen L. McKee
https://youtu.be/wnGPt030IG4 





Agenda item 7

Participated in a fascinating philosophy learning salon with the great David Chalmers - with some exploration too of whether ChatGPT and similar could be considered to be conscious (and how, and what is consciousness or subjective experience?) - 


Thnx Dave for your 3hr "Could a #LargeLanguageModel be Conscious?" F 1/20 talk https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/58 (RECORDING!) Delving further >https://philpapers.org/archive/CHACAL-3.pdf (https://philpeople.org/profiles/scott-gk-macleod) re #LLM & #RealisticVirtualHarbinEthnography in #GSV w #TimeSlider w #GTranslate #TensorFlowAI ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1621143411381391361

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1621145223241023490?s=20&t=5fkxXW90wZDmJ4WO127c_Q

At about 2 hours and 50 minutes, you see how my PHysical Digital Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic Book project may begin to explore how to make the Large Language Model of Google Translate with Google AI - like possibly ChatGPT (in Korean and Tamil languages) for example, conscious. 

And in a related vein, I think this is a fascinating and very bemusing or funny question too - 

Could we create #RealisticVirtualHarbinEthnography in #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider w #GTranslate #TensorFlowAI as #LLM to become #CONSCIOUS in @HarbinBook #WUaSEthnography Project 2 https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 http://bit.ly/HarbinBook #NakedHarbinEthnography @WUaSPress as #WebBook?



The 'dance' meditation in warm water in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool (which is a key field site in my Harbin anthropological studies) is very different from Appalachian square dancing (or Scottish Country Dancing) too :)





Agenda item 8 

World Univ & Sch's online planned 200 Medical Schools in all 200 countries and with related 200 online teaching hospitals, and even with Toyota Ambulance Vans as WUaS medical schools, with telerobotic surgery (in what ways can World Univ & Sch Toyota Humanoid Robot THR3s to become a MD professor of surgery with time, as an autonomous system, in the Toyota Proace Electric Ambulance vans, as another autonomous system) - and for hand surgery - might be of interest to your husband. World Univ & Sch, brainstorming-wise, is also seeking to develop a Physical-Digital Realistic Virtual Earth for Surgery (thinking Google Street View with Time Slider with Maps Earth TensorFlowAI TensorStore where these medical simulations or virtual reality would inform the telerobotic surgery with AI and machine learning and their algorithms). 




Agenda item 9







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WUaS Corporation - WUaS Press





Agenda item A







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- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric. Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
- 210 East End Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15221
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

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