Scintillant hummingbird: Minutes for World Univ & Sch Monthly Business Meeting 19 Oct 2019

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World University and School is seeking our 2nd online undergraduate class of 500-2000 students for 2020 as we begin BPPE licensing for online free-to-students’ CC-4 OCW best STEAM Bachelor potentially with students from all ~200 countries around the world - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and who will be able to register and apply here - worlduniversityandschool.org


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World Univ and Sch continues to seek funding for first licensing with CA’s BPPE for the fees, as well as for accreditation fees, including committed funding over years. WUaS is a 501 (c) 3 tax exempt charity - https://www.guidestar.org/profile/27-3105368 - and welcomes your donations (see, too: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation).


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NEW WUaS Livestream page - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHof-u-dlkA - accessible from
- worlduniversityandschool.org - and which records to - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch.

World Univ and Sch is also now streaming WUaS Q & A and News on Mondays at 10 am PT via LightStream video conferencing platform which records to Youtube - https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch. If you'd like to join the conversation here (about research, about academics, about becoming a student, etc.), please let me know at info@worlduniversityandschool.org ... WUaS announces these with this #Hashtag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldUnivAndSchNewsQandA?src=hashtag_click - here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch.


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WUaS has inquired with Google Director of AI Peter Norvig about coding CC-4 MIT OCW for students at World Univ & Sch, keeping student’s time in mind, and in so many other ways.

ii.WUaS has recently heard back from Laurence Moroney, Lead of AI Developer Relations at Google / Artificial Intelligence Advocate at Google, and responded: 
Dear Laurence, 

Thanks so much for your email. I had included you with Denny Vrandecic, Peter Norvig, John Hennessy, Houcemeddine Turki, Wikidatans and all, and with regards to CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, because you are Lead of AI Developer Relations at Google / Artificial Intelligence Advocate at Google, - and World Univ & Sch had included you in the agenda (item 4ii) for WUaS monthly business meeting (3rd Saturdays at 9am PT) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/bright-eyes-catharanthus-roseus-agenda.html - recenlty too. FYI, World Univ & Sch donated ourselves to Wikidata in 2015 for co-development and received WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 as a consequence, but they're not yet interoperable. (And Wikidata is in ~300 languages, and Denny Vrandecic is its founder). WUaS is also seeking to develop our 'You at WUaS' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata Q-item - and with TensorFlow - and, for example, for A) avatar bot electronic medical records, B) possible universal basic income experiments, and for C) matriculating students in all 200 countries, and Universitians in all 7111 known living languages (like Wikipedians) ... and in planning for 7.5 billion open wiki teachers and learners at WUaS too. 
In World University and School seeking to become major online research universities in each of ~200 countries' official/main languages - and with TensorFlow - the University of Sfax in Tunisia, which is developing with Wikidata / Wikibase, seems like a good place to start (and in the Arabic language as well) for WUaS to begin to collaborate and develop. 
Here too are the beginnings of online MIT OCW-centric WUaS Medical Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School - with online teaching hospitals - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital - in all ~200 countries' main languages (and potentially with Project Baseline, Stanford / Duke Universities, and Project ECHO eventually too). 
Thank you. How might WUaS further best communicate about TensorFlow and developing World University and School's "front end" (WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki) and "back end" (Wikidata / Wikibase structured knowledge database) with you - and for Universitians in 7,111 known living languages - and with regard to Sfax Medical Student Houcemeddine Turki's new "Data Engineering and Semantics" research unit in Tunisia? 
Sincerely, Scottworlduniversityandschool.org 
World University and School - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1184919293248454656
Scott MacLeod's Twitter - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1184920692652826624
Languages - World Univ: https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1184921167041187840
WUaS Press / Corporation https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1184921622123175936


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World Univ & Sch has recently updated our web site - worlduniversityandschool.org - with updated logo as well as our 'WUaS Livestream' page - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHof-u-dlkA -

(And also the WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press Web site - see below)



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WUaS Medical Schools are planned in ~200 countries' official languages online, and glad to have communicated recently in these regards with medical student Houcemeddine Turki in Tunisia:


https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/arundina-bamboo-orchid-wiki-medicine.html



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WUaS Law Schools are planned in ~200 countries' official languages online:
WUaS continues to seek to collaborate and build on:

CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics -https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL48E61C121CAD0E1B

University Of Denver,Sturm College Of Law (September 26-28):Online & Hybrid Learning Pedagogy in Legal Education Conference - https://law.du.edu/online-learning-co...


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UC Berkeley Anthropology

Scott MacLeod will give another talk/paper in the UC Berkeley Anthropology department in March 2020, tentatively entitled - "Harbin Hot Springs, Music and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy" at the  Sorbonne and University of Geneva's UC Berkeley TOURISM AND MUSICAL IMAGINARIES' Conference http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103050552852&ca=46c4af21-fddf-466e-ac95-de8df705dced (See Scott's previous 4-5 Harbin Anthropology talks (at UC Berkeley TSWG) here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html)



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Scott MacLeod is planning too to teach newly a course entitled "Virtual Harbin" (Anthropology), in addition to "Society, Information Technology and Global University" (Sociology) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - in 2020 or 2021.



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In World Univ & Sch's active ethics' and legality investigation with the Stanford Faculty Senate into Stanford University, the WUaS Chairman of the Board, Larry Viehland, observes that the administration makes the decisions there, and that the Stanford Senate is likely to play an advisory role.

WUaS seeks to begin to grow our faculty, and then explore related WUaS governance questions and how to address ethics' questions as well.



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World Univ & Sch will join a Reed College conference call on November 1, 2019, and has asked to add an agenda item about WUaS hiring Reedie interns to help begin grow World University and School. World University and School is also seeking Ph.D. student applicants from Reed College to study online for best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare Ph.D. degrees (as WUaS licenses for this with BPPE as well).

See, too:
From the microorganisms in your gut to the chemistry of smog, Reed students tackle questions that lie at the cutting edge. Check out this video of students presenting their research:
https://twitter.com/Reed_College_/status/1187110322403823616




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WUaS Financial report
World Univ & Sch has $1,347.55 in our non-profit bank account, and hasn't begun financial operations.

(See attached financial reports).



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Multi-lingual wiki schools at WUaS:
WUaS will explore collaborating
Stanford Center for Latin America's Cafecito's holds classes in Quechua and Spanish, as well as English, and some online - see: https://mailchi.mp/stanford.edu/first...? …




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World Univ & Sch is in communications with the university on a ship, Semester at Sea (and which is not yet in a realistic virtual earth, for example, that WUaS knows of).





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WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press


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WUaS and facilitating a single cryptocurrency backed by some central banks and distributed via universal basic income experiments to all 7.5 billion people each a Wikidata Q item



Glasgow hospital?


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"To the Dance or the Pools ~ Virtually?: How Different it is to Soak at Harbin, than to Realize it in Virtual Reality,"

the next Academic Press at World University and School book is due this autumn –


... but not yet in a realistic virtual earth



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WUaS Press web site updates with updated logo and book title:

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/A...



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WUaS Corporation finances
The parallel legal entity, the WUaS Corporation has .01, and also hasn't begun financial operations; see the WUaS Corporation section below.








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