To Do List

Welcome to World University and School, a global, virtual, open, (potentially degree-granting - Ph.D., M.D., & Music School, etc.), free-to-students, university and school, with great universities (e.g. MIT, Ivy League Schools, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, Oxford, T.U.M., Sorbonne, L.M.U., Juilliard Music School, Cambridge, Collège de France, Cal Tech, B.T.U., University of Chicago, etc.) as key web content generators, based on a Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware model, especially for the developing world, and for everyone.

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World University and School {in a virtual world}

Welcome to World University and School Wiki
which anyone can add to or edit.
The Global, Virtual/Digital, Open, Free, {potentially Degree- and Credit-Granting},
Multilingual University & School
where anyone can teach or take a class or course

Mission

World University & School's (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware) - mission, in reaching out to the entire world, is to provide a free, wiki-based education platform and, through facilitating the development of broadband worldwide, to make our service accessible to under served parts of the world. The WUaS mission is thus to facilitate all levels of teaching and learning opportunities (and future degrees) through an open, editable wiki in all languages, nation-states and subjects with great universities, and for One Laptop per Child countries and everyone.

(Master Plan)

To Do List edit

Develop 1, 3 and 5 minute elevator pitches for Youtube, too.

Fundraising "asks" budgeted out:

(e.g., one intern for one year ($15,000), BPPE fee ($5,000), a matching grant, etc. $40)

Apply to lots of organizations that give small grants (i.e. places that never give more than $50,000)

Introduce World University and School to students around the world.

Get Funding for WUaS

Link Amazon.com button for texts, with payment to World University and School

Credit card affinity card, for WUaS.

Paypal WUaS

Obtain Domain Name

Generate Email List

Hire WUaS General Manager

Hire WUaS Head Fundraiser

Hire 15 WUaS Interns

Presentation for WUaS

Wikipedia entry WUaS

Travel budget WUaS

WUaS would like to become the 'Digital Stanford-UC Berkeley-MIT-Harvard-OLPC-Quaker/Friendly' World University and School

Questionnaires – Survey Monkey WUaS

WUaS publishing of books

WUaS Membership?

Choose one or two languages, including an OLPC language, to start, then Google Translate's 52 languages, then Wikipedia's 272 languages.

Weekly email - 'World University Nows' - like Harvard's "Berkman Buzz"

Merchandise World University & School - (like http://mashable.com/2010/06/27/android-accessories/)

IT person

https://

ad-free wiki - Plone / and MediaWiki, or just MediaWiki

contact database/SQL person

Wikipedia-like community of Universitians

visit Cal Computer science department

Fundraising Events

Develop Auctions; for example individuals with a second home could donate a week's vacation time and people could bid for this.

Invite people well-known in education and technology fields to speak for World University and School, and ask for contributions, as a fundraiser. E.g. Scott McNealy.

Guatemalan law school?

1st 10 contributors, 100 students, 1000 dollars WUaS

Complete Email list for WUaS - top priority

Teacher training section WUaS

Grant finder position WUaS - Find appropriate WUaS grants

Universal Translator as part of 'Research' and 'Language' pages - Google translate and ethnologue? WUaS

Wiki/Technology development WUaS

Conference calls WUaS

Moving beyond startup WUaS

Clarify how translation will work on languages' page WUaS

WUaS jobs wtih Quakers/Friends

Thera C., Jason P. - Africa WUAS