School of Webcraft Charter
DRAFT 0.9 – January 2011

The School of Webcraft is a joint venture between Mozilla and Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) to create a grassroots learning community focused on web development based on open standards.

Purpose

The problem: Web developer training is expensive, out of reach, and out of touch with how the internet is evolving, especially for open web skills.

The solution: Peer learning powered by mentors and learners like you; self-organized study groups which leverage existing open learning materials.

The goal: Make web developer training free and open, and globally accessible; offer skills and certification that build careers around the open web.

Scope

Learning opportunities and certification offered by the School of Webcraft focus exclusively on open standards-based web development. As an example: courses on HTML5 are in scope, courses on Flash are not. This focus is defined on an ongoing basis by the Webcraft community.

Courses must be built around tools that are accessible to any learner free of cost and that allow participants to openly share their work. Participants are expected to openly license their code, so that they can review, revise, and adapt each others work.

Structure

School of Webcraft is operated by Mozilla and P2PU in a spirit of goodwill and partnership, and eschews unnecessary bureaucracy. Decisions will be made in an open and transparent manner.

Mozilla commits to taking leadership on course and badge content, and final decisions in this area are being made according to the Mozilla governance structure (we hope to establish SoW as a module).

P2PU commits to taking leadership on the learning platform and assessment, and final decisions in this area are being made based on P2PU values and using P2PU governance structures.

P2PU and Mozilla jointly control the rights to SoW names and logos. Any potential revenue from the School of Webcraft is shared between Mozilla and P2PU.

All content and software source code developed by School of Webcraft are openly licensed. Non-software content is licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.