don't go to Hack Reactor/ Galvanize - choose another BootCamp like codesmith or app academy - they're probably better

I did some digging and OSLabs and Open Source Labs are not registered entities that I could find anywhere and don't appear to be anything legitimate. An early Codesmith and executive is listed as a "sponsor", and there are two other sponsors, one seems shut down and 404s and the other has their executives working at multiple companies. I don't think there is any funding or legitimacy associated with this institution and it's a label that's used to try to legitimize the projects and separate them from Codesmith. I have two interpretations of this from people who have talked to me about it: 1. This was a good intentioned idea from Philip Troutman to create an open source ecosystem supported by Codesmith and other companies as a way to get students visibility in the community. And as Codesmith grew that vision didn't work out so it's day to day usage is just a legacy label put on the open source projects to keep the ship running as it has been. 2. The other is that Philip Troutman is fiercely defensive of the projects and has intentionally crafted this branding layer to make people's resumes appear not affiliated with Codesmith and to get by with companies making mistakes and thinking it's experience. He does reference calls that validate the "extended" timeframe specified on people's resumes and Codesmith recommends people put their entire time at Codesmith as the time window for their OSP. I've seen evidence supporting both (screenshots and transcripts), and maybe it's a combination of the two?