October 10 2015 ANNUAL Business Meeting MINUTES and Agenda for World University and School
Minutes for October 10, 2015 ANNUAL Business Meeting for World University and School
World University and School
{Open} Business Meeting – Agenda (hour-long meeting)
October 10, 2015
9 a.m., Pacific Time
Present: Juan Mendez, Larry Viehland, Rema Jani, and Scott MacLeod (Presiding clerk and recording clerk)
World University and School's 2015 Annual Business Meeting Video
October 10, 2015 ANNUAL Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School
Minute 1:
World University and School will attend a workshop in UC Berkeley Law Professor Will Kell's New Business Seminar probably in late October 2014, and will be a "real entrepreneurial client" in this course beginning in February 2016.
Minute 2:
WUaS board member Juan Mendez from Spain will become lead developer for World University and School, as we prepare to donate CC WUaS to CC Wikidata. He'll also first focus on developing WUaS MediaWiki.
Minute 3:
World University will reach out to UC Hastings Bill Wang and UC Hastings Law school re accrediting WUaS with the new WASC senior incubation policy.
Minute 4:
Here's the video of World University and School's 2015 Annual Business Meeting
Next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting - Saturday, November 14, 2015, 9 am Pacific Time in group video.
Scott MacLeod
President and Presiding Clerk
- 415 480 4577
- PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516
- World University and School - like 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, both effective April 2010.
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Agenda for October 10, 2015 ANNUAL Business Meeting for World University and School
October 10, 2015 ANNUAL Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School
World University and School
{Open} Business Meeting – Agenda (hour-long meeting)
October 10, 2015
9 a.m., Pacific Time
Email - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - if you'd like to participate:
In preparation for World University and School's open monthly business meeting tomorrow at 9 am PDT in a G+ group video Hangout from this related G+ Profile page - https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottMacLeodWUaS/posts (from which you should be able to click "JOIN HANGOUT" tomorrow) - I think everyone should use a gmail address, - and have added each other to their circles.
1. Welcome and Greetings
1.1 News:
Dear Universitians and friends,
Greetings!
Recent and upcoming NEWS about World University and School:
1 WUaS's Annual Business Meeting is on Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 9am PDT and mediated electronically - All are welcome. This will be World University's 5th Annual Business Meeting (with minutes!).
2 World University heard back from Stanford University's President Hennessy that Stanford will not incubate startup World University under a new WASC senior incubation policy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/09/giant-panda-stanford-and-world.html. WUaS has received an intake form from UC Berkeley and will explore WASC incubation with Berkeley and the University of California.
3 WUaS is also preparing to give CC World University and School as a present to the Wikidata community for Wikidata's 3rd birthday, and in so doing is seeking to wiki-develop CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC in Wikidata (an interlingual database developed for CC Wikipedia's 289 languages) for CC accrediting university degrees - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/10/garretts-mint-flower-curious-to-learn.html.
4 Scott's course "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University" (open and free) is postponed until 2016. All are welcome. The new course web page and syllabus for this course are accessible here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org.
The agenda for the upcoming Saturday, October 10th, 2014 WUaS, monthly, business meeting is here - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/10/october-10-2015-annual-business-meeting.html.
1.2 Minutes
a
WUaS Annual Business Meeting minutes from the past 4 years -
b
Minutes
2. Committees
2.1 Planning committee
see Master plan and Business plan below
2.1.1
2.2 Finance
a.
Treasurer's report for September 2015
b.
Heard back from G, C, and K that we didn't get these grants.
c.
WUaS will participate as "real entrepreneurial client" in New Business Practicum at UC Berkeley, both once this autumn and beginning in February 2016.
d.
WUaS has the Guidestar (affiliated with the IRS) Gold Label -
2.3 Information Technology
a.
Preparing to donate CC WUaS to CC Wikidata
b.
2.4 WUaS Outreach
a.
This Knight Data grant is outreach - Knight Data - https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/data/entries/world-university-and-school-and-data
b.
2.5 Hiring planning
a.
UC Berkeley Law Business Practicum case study in February 2016 - focus on hiring
2.6 Fundraising
a
Donation from European friend of WUaS - Thank you!
b
Will hear back from Knight Data - https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/data/entries/world-university-and-school-and-data - in January 2016.
c
Grants to write:
UC Berkeley CTSP Proposal
Strawberry Creek Monthly Meeting (Quaker) Dime-A-Gallon Fund
Knight Cities Challenge
Open Education Europa October 31 2015
2.7 Nominating committee
Seeking committee members, facilitators and recorders
2.8 Languages' and Countries’ committee
a.
plan for students who's English is marginal - please attend these Language Google Hangouts
b.
bilingual degrees?
2.9 Accreditation committee
a.
UC Hastings Law Prof. B.W. returns from Fr. after October 20
b.
2.9.1
BPPE
2.9.2
WASC senior
2.9.3
Common Application / NACAC - how to get on their list of schools? Costs?
2.9.4
Become member of NACAC for Common Application
3. WUaS Master Plan
4. WUaS Business Plan
5. WUaS Board
- is looking for a new Board member to focus WUaS fundraising
6. New WUaS pages and updates
a. Updates:
b. New pages:
c. Blog entries:
Banksia: Minutes for October 10, 2015 ANNUAL Business Meeting Agenda for World University and School
Lepidoptera: Minutes from 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 - from the past four World University and School ANNUAL business meetings
Common chicory: How best to collaborate with UC Berkeley/Cal and the University of California, for hiring of graduate students, partnering, accreditation, and for many languages at World University and School?
Banksia cuneata: Students and friends loving learning when it's dancing and fun ... How to make a course at World University like a party ... and in its best STEM CC OpenCourseWare-centricity? Beings_Enjoying_Life at WUaS ... and other forms of great enjoyment while learning ... further examples to come ... I see these PA students and special needs friends also finding / creating a liminal space in the modern world of an old high achieving school, but not explicitly in response to the internet
Garretts mint flower: curious to learn after CC WUaS is donated to CC Wikidata for its birthday, how I and others can keep developing it in a newly modified WUaS MediaWiki (accessible here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/), Looking forward to the Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016 in San Francisco, CA
Cereus: WUAS's Annual Business Meeting this Saturday
Dahlias: Libraries in all 7941 languages planned here at CC WUaS in CC Wikidata that are WIKI too, Have you organised translation campaigns on #Wikipedia? Participate in our sessions, we want to learn from you, To Translators_at_WUaS http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Translators_at_WUaS …? Planned in all 7,941 languages-Matriculated Students+@googlestudents
Okefenokee refuge: In what ways would you focus, Carol, teachers in order 1) to attract talented people 2) to help cities expand economic prospects by breaking down divides and making new connections and 3) to spur connection and civic involvement - such a proposal and project further in terms of Knight Foundation city priorities?, And I found this later on Chris Barr's Twitter feed: The Real Arts Economy: Place-Making, Not Tourism, Thank you @ccoletta, @jpalfrey & Chris Barr, This article is a good partial answer to my question in reddit earlier
Moon rocks: Margaret Hamilton wrote the code for the Apollo Mission putting a man on the moon-Can the Open Band do this to you Scottish Country Dancing?, This Tweet to Scottish_Country_Dancing at World University?, Margaret Hamilton may have had Quaker roots since she went to Earlham College in Indiana, every-photo-taken-apollo-moon-missions-are-now-online
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/10/moon-rocks-margaret-hamilton-wrote-code.html
Asian black bear: World University and School's proposal to prepare to donate WUaS to Wikidata September 2015, World University Realistic Detailed Proposal as a Set of Instructions
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/10/asian-black-bear-world-university-and.html
Harbin waters: Interesting wedding dress, suit and corsages in the last Harbin wedding in the warm pool from 2001 (on Xmas), Planning to document some aspects of Harbin before the fire in my "Naked Harbin: Harbin Hot Springs' Actual~Virtual Ethnography" ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ...
Red Maple: World University and School: Wiki Data-centric Education, Knight Foundation News Challenge
Gumwood: Jethro Tull - "Locomotive Breath" ... and "Aqualung" [Full Album] - with interview at end ... 56:00 minute mark "a lot of overdubs ...", "Thick as a Brick" is kind of cool too, Kind of brought me back to Edinburgh, and appreciate the amalgam of classical, blues and rock ... flute ... + ... and read the Youtube video notes ... Ian Anderson dubbed much of this because ... Scottish hippies? Naw .... Beginning World University Music School planned for ALL instruments and ALL languages, each a wiki subject page to begin, Flute, Classical_Western_Music, Blues, Folk_rock_music
Nilgiri marten: Strawberry Creek Monthly Meeting (Quaker) Dime-A-Gallon Fund, To develop a “Green Quaker Great University Brownbag and Online Talk Series.”
Beech trees: Open Band Berkeley (@TheOpenBand) - SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING - Animation ... Scottish Country Dancing at World University, The BBBS aka the Bees also known as the bees knees but not the beetles - new name?
River Esk in Eskdale, Cumbria: Postponement of teaching this "social history of the internet course" course and ESL this autumn due to class size - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html . But it looks like I'll be assisting / co-teaching this other open "Tourism, Art and Modernity" course using these same "classroom" technologies, namely Harvard's virtual island in SL and Google group video Hangouts, here https://www.academia.edu/s/19ac1100ab beginning later this autumn, if anyone is interested (see, too: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/09/crab-tourism-studies-and-virtual.html)
Bamburgh Dunes: Curious to explore recounting Berkeley stories from the 1960s and 70s to music as another innovative thing - inspired a little by Kathryn Tickell's Northumbrian narratives with music.
Crab: Tourism studies and virtual research, As a film-realistic 3D interactive build-able virtual earth develops, I hope we as (STEM) researchers will all be able to add our data, pictures, videos, and languages even (and historically too)
Gilbert's Potoroo: A realistic proposal about preparing to donate CC WUaS to CC Wikidata for their 3rd birthday in late October invitation, World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education
Southern Cassowary: Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering Team, Thanks - a truly universal translator will be far-reaching especially if it's CC and robust - that's World University's plan and goal, Apertium and MediaWiki Content Translation, All online museums in all languages, In preparing to donate CC WUaS to Wikidata, World University would like to explore developing this in Wikidata.
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos: Re our conversation about music, theorizing learning, and practicing, now I may return to R.C. theory
Indian giant squirrel: WUaS IBM's communication about translation and universities
Western Ghats: Thanks for your email about the ever so sad and dramatic Harbin / Middletown / Valley fire, A little more about the fire here plus how this crisis might dovetail with publication of my "Naked Harbin" book ... In preparing to make a present of CC wiki World University, Both L and L went to MIT at the same time in Cambridge, MA, in the late 1960s and know each other from that time, and as MIT graduates Len and Larry may be able to facilitate working with CC MIT OCW in Wikidata
Lycoris: Creative Commons Global Summit in South Korea, CC WUaS developing CC MIT OCW and CC Yale OYC in CC Wikidata in all 288 languages?
Harbin Gate House: Building vaporization at Harbin after fire is incroyable ... I was interested to see all the green trees after the fire around this Harbin Gate House photo I just found ... which makes me think visitors as campers could come back to soak in a jiff, Here's the Gate House pre-fire, Harbin Gate House in Google Street View / Earth / Maps
Sundew: WUaS’s Business Model Update: Creative Commons' 501 (c) (3) Side and Commercial Side; 9 Planned Revenue Sources
Fraser fir: Great and informative Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering Team conversation for Wikipedia translation now in 289 languages today .... New Youtube Playlist: Social History of the Internet for the course "Information Technology, Network Society and the Global University" http://worlduniversityandschool.org, Information Technology and the Network Society video lectures at World Lecture Project
Milk Thistle: The Open Band - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand - New Twitter Feed
Harbin Hot Springs and Middletown WILD FIRE! Destroys Harbin and Middletown, CA, 4 miles away, Blogging about this here, accessible from book page http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ... found these articles and photos ...
Sierra rivers: New course "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University," Begins next week, Sat. September 19th, Free and Open, In Google group video Hangouts and on Harvard's virtual island
Deep sea fish: WUaS MINUTES & September 12, 2015 Monthly Business Meeting AGENDA, WUaS's Annual Business Meeting will be on Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 9am PDT.
7. SF f/Friends/Quaker WUaS developments
a.
"Green Quaker Great University Brownbag and Online Talk Series" proposal to the Strawberry Creek Monthly Meeting (Quaker) Dime-A-Gallon Fund
b.
Ongoing conversation with SFFM and SF Bay Area Friends about WUaS.
8. Closure
9. Next WUaS Monthly Business Meeting - Saturday, November 14, 2015, 9 am Pacific Time
Scott MacLeod
President and Presiding Clerk
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577
- PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516
- World University and School - like 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, both effective April 2010.
