Asteraceae: Musical Outreach Talk {for WUaS} in Berkeley, Scottish Country Dancers, Scottish Small Pipes, "The Desperate Battle,""The Battle of Waterloo," Amanda Palmer TED Talk on "The Art of Asking," We want to accredit in California and begin to hire and grow, All this costs money, Just the initial accreditation fee with the state of California's BPPE costs $5000 and WUAS has the green light

Friends and Scottish Country Dancers,

I'd like to play a little Piobaireachd from "The Desperate Battle" for you on my Scottish Small Pipes ... and then share a little something about a little big project called World University and School I'm working on ...

I've been developing Creative Commons' licensed World University and School - 

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - which seeks to make university degrees (Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, M.D. and I.B.) available on the internet for free, accrediting on MIT OCW and Yale OYC in many languages, for example, - since 2008, (in addition to having written a 400 page actual /virtual  ethnographic book manuscript about Harbin Hot Springs for which I'm continuing to look for an academic publisher). 

On World University and School's wiki side - which are editable web pages, we want to create a platform for open teaching and learning in all nearly 8000 languages, each a school.

For example, there's a Scottish Country Dance wiki subject / school -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Country_Dancing - for open teaching and learning, and there are also beginning wiki pages probably for every musical instrument we play here in the Open Band ... hop into a Google hangout to jam teach and learn (e.g. via the Music School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School - planned for all languages and all instruments) .

Startup World University and School is like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare.

We want to accredit in California and begin to hire and grow. All this costs money. For example just the initial accreditation fee with the state of California's BPPE costs $5000 and WUAS has the green light that we can submit this. 

So I'm coming to ask you ... inspired by the TED Talk by Amanda Palmer on "The Art of Asking" (http://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking) - if you could possibly please give or make 501 c 3 tax deductible donations to WUaS to help this worthy cause get off the ground and begin to grow. 

WUaS will help so many people, both in California as well as in the developing world.

And now I'd like to play the Battle of Waterloo to say thank you ...

Thank you,

Scott