The Viral Academy is not about creating a centralised site or platform. One of it's Core objectives is to facilitate Diversity in Learning. To acheive this objective we need to scale down the cost and size of academy creation, running and management to a sustainable core - so that we can quickly and easily pop-up an academy for a context, and motivation which may be transient, or non-commercial.
An academy starts with a minimum of 3-6 people. There are costs associated with running an academy. They may be very small - but they are not zero. Thousands of small academies will cost someone money to host. Academies must pay for themselves. They must be autonomous.
The following aspects are important with regard to the implementation of pop-up academies: