“The Seven Liberal Arts” | Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Guidi
We have resumed our regularly scheduled weekly open agenda teleconferences — a practice begun in 2014 — during which time we sort through the “stream” of public commenting opportunities available to both the academic and business side of the education industry. We display 9 to 18 opportunities for public comment every day that, in our judgement, present an opportunity to reduce #TotalCostofOwnership of the education facilities industry – a $300 billion industry — the largest non-residential building construction market in the United States. These opportunities are presented by about 100 standards development organizations worldwide. We summarize them once per week but are open for discussion every day at 11 AM Eastern time. (Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page)
As we explain in our ABOUT, participation in consensus and open source standards development provides an opportunity to discover leading practice and to reduce the cost of education by reducing redundancy and destructive competition. Anyone is welcomed to join these teleconferences from your computer, tablet or smartphone with by clicking on the image:
You can also dial in using your phone. United States : +1 (408) 650-3123 Access Code: 718-914-669
We generally review comments on proposals submitted by other user interests as individuals or trade associations, or draft proposals and comments of our own.
We especially encourage user-interest subject matter experts affiliated with the many education industry trade associations to “click in”, mark up and submit comments on the codes and standards we track every day in order to make campuses safer, simpler, lower-cost and longer-lasting (See ABOUT). Subscribers to our mailing list will have access to a detailed agenda and high priority content. Please email bella@standardsmichigan.com for a detailed agenda.
Faculty and students at all levels are also welcome. There is no enterprise on earth that provides the detailed, cross-cutting view of the blistering speed of technical and business standards development; consensus, open-source or consortia. Many organizations in the standards space host competitions for grants and paper-writing. We can walk them through the highlights of successful faculty grants and student-paper winners.
Next open agenda teleconference: December 5th. Note that we meet daily on specific policy, management and technical standards more or less on a daily basis at 11 AM Eastern time. See CALENDAR.
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