u/cozyonly wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Yeah that’s what I meant. Contributing to open source is difficult. Especially as a beginner and especially for a large project. That’s why it’s crazy they’re able to do it in 3 weeks during a 12 week bootcamp. I’m guessing it’s a project that’s purposefully open ended and with i
u/michaelnovati replied ·
The projects are made from scratch and then released to open source. I would almost say they aren't "real open source projects" but I can't really say that because they technically area, but they are not done in the spirit of what "real" open source software was meant to be. If they were real, they would be less complete, more well thought out starting points, rather than rushed and almost unusable end to end projects.