School of Webcraft Charter

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

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 & 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 accessible to any learner free of cost and that allow participants to openly share their work. Participants in School of Webcraft courses will be required to openly license their code.

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 Module governance structure (module still to be established.)

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 for P2PU schools. 

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/.

Earlier draft:  http://etherpad.mozilla.org:9000/webcraftcharterdraft 

FAQ Questions

• What is peer learning?
• Do I need to be an expert to lead a course?
• What do you mean by "open"?
  • link to free software defintions etc
  • "By “open standards” I mean standards that can have any committed expert involved in the design, that have been widely reviewed as acceptable, that are available for free on the Web, and that are royalty-free (no need to pay) for developers and users. Open, royalty-free standards that are easy to use create the diverse richness of Web sites, from the big names such as Amazon, Craigslist and Wikipedia to obscure blogs written by adult hobbyists and to homegrown videos posted by teenagers."
    • Tim Berner's Lee
    • http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web&page=3
• I'd like to work on School of Webcraft in a language other than English. How can I do this?
• I'd like someone to present School of Webcraft at a conference. Who should I talk to?
• I'd like to present School of WEbcraft to an audience. How can I do this?
• I'd like to do research on School of Webcraft / P2PU. Who should I talk to?
• I'd like to support School of Webcraft, How can I get involved?
  • link to Drumbeat donations, ToDO List, translations, expertise, mailing lists
• Where is School of WEbcraft based?
  • On the internet, if you'd like to talk to us you can join in on our weekly community calls.
• What guides Mozilla's involvement in the School of Webcraft?
  • ref to Mozilla Foundation mission statement
• How are decisions made in Mozilla?
  • refer to Mozilla Module docs
• How are decisions made in Peer 2 Peer University?
  • refer to open governance policy and working groups and their recommendations
• Why was a CC Attribution- Share Alike chosen?
• What open license(s) do you recommend for my code?