Teacher agreement

This agreement supplements the terms of use and applies only to people proposing or teaching a course. If you are a student, it does not concern you.

The signing party is Libreria de Satoshi, Inc., a corporation organized in the state of Delaware, United States, with a postal contact address at 651 North Broad Street, Suite 201, Middletown, DE 19709, United States.

Teaching here is voluntary

Proposing and teaching a course is a voluntary contribution to an open educational project. It is not an employment contract or a services contract, and it creates no employment, agency or exclusivity relationship.

There may be financial compensation, and sometimes there is, but it is agreed case by case. There is no rate, percentage or amount fixed in advance, here or anywhere else. Proposing a course creates no entitlement to payment, and having been paid for one creates no entitlement for the next. Where compensation applies in your case, it is agreed and documented separately.

One limit is not ours to set: we cannot make payments to people resident in countries under a comprehensive OFAC embargo — currently Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria. This restricts payment, not teaching, which is why the form warns you when you enter your residency. You can still contribute; what we cannot do is pay you.

What we need before you submit a proposal

To submit a course you must have completed your profile: country of residence, years of teaching experience and the environments you have taught in. Building the course requires none of that; the profile is only checked at submission.

We also check the country of residence against sanctions lists, and that check can block a submission.

The course material

It stays yours

You keep authorship and ownership of what you write. We do not ask you to assign ownership or exclusivity: you can teach the same content elsewhere, publish it yourself, or reuse it however you like.

What you grant us is a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free licence to host, publish, translate, adapt to the campus format, teach and promote the course within the project. Non-exclusive means exactly that: carry on doing whatever you want with your own material, in parallel.

Course materials are published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), the same licence as the rest of our educational content. In practice: anyone may use, adapt and translate your course, crediting you, as long as they keep the result under that same licence. Nobody can close it off.

If your course includes sample code, tell us when you submit it: code is licensed separately under MIT, because CC BY-SA is not meant for software and would leave your students unable to reuse it in their own projects.

It is published in the open

This is worth being clear about before you write anything, because it cannot be undone:

When you submit a proposal, its content is recorded as a pull request in the LibreriadeSatoshi/courses repository on GitHub, credited to the name or GitHub username you gave.

That repository is private right now, but the plan is to open it to the public. Count on that from your first submission: assume your proposal, and your name as its author, will end up visible to anyone. If that does not work for you, do not submit it.

What is final from the first submission is that it enters the repository’s history, and removing something from Git history without rewriting the whole thing is not realistic.

Submitting a proposal obliges nobody to accept it. Accepting and merging it does not guarantee the course will ever run either: that depends on someone building it in the campus.

What you warrant

That the material is yours or you have the right to use it; that it infringes nobody else’s rights; and that the images, code and quotations you include are properly attributed and licensed. If a claim reaches us over something you contributed, we will count on you to help resolve it.

How we expect you to teach

• Treat your students with respect. The same code of conduct applies to you as to everyone else in the community.
• Answer questions within a reasonable time while the course is running.
• Do not use the classroom to sell your own or anyone else’s products, or to source clients.
• Do not give financial advice or recommend specific investments.
• Never ask a student for their private key, their seed phrase or access to their wallet. Not even to “help” them. No exercise justifies it.

Stepping down, and ending

You can stop teaching a course by giving us reasonable notice. If people are enrolled at that point, we will work out the least bad outcome for them together.

We may withdraw or unpublish a course if it breaches this agreement or the code of conduct, if the content becomes outdated or wrong, or if the law requires it. Except in urgent cases we will tell you first and give you the chance to fix it.

Withdrawing a course from the campus does not erase what is already in the GitHub history, nor the badges students have already earned.

Changes

If we change this agreement we will announce it and update the date on this page. Courses already running stay under the version in force when they were accepted.

Questions

Write to us at docentes@ismos.xyz.