Codesmith vs Rithm

OSLabs is a charity that owns and manages all of the OSPs that Codesmith students work on for 3 weeks and they end up being the highlight of your experience at Codesmith on your resume - assuming you have no prior SWE experience. OSLabs collects donations and pays mentors to review open source projects. Which happen to be the same open source projects that Codesmith people pay $20K to do during the OSP phase of Codesmith... hence why it's so important that there be a clear line between the two entities or it could look like OSLabs is funneling tax deductible donations from people to mentor Codesmith students who are paying Codesmith $20K each. OSLabs has full control over all the OSP projects and is responsible for choosing students to work on them and not a single person at Codesmith has the ability to influence these decisions or that would be a conflict of interest (people tell me that this is not the case, but it's supposed to be this way) Anyone can work on the open source projects but I don't know anyone that has tried without being a Codesmith student, if you have **let me know!** The quality of the projects is really poor - I've reviewed numerous repos and most projects have issues that would make people unhireable (e.g. console.log a plain text password for no reason) so I wouldn't recommend anyone work on them anyways - there are much better open source projects to work on if you want to go that route.