The platform

This page describes what codrlabs open is, how people take part in it, and the terms their work happens under. It exists so that nobody has to guess.

Plain description, not a contract

This page explains how things actually work here in plain language. It is not a contract, not a licence, and not legal advice. Where a signed agreement exists — a school placement agreement, a repository licence — that document governs, not this page.

What codrlabs open is

codrlabs open is the open-source side of codrlabs, a company based in Canada. It is a set of public software projects and the documentation you are reading.

It is deliberately separate from codrlabs client work. No project here is billed to a customer, and no project here has a delivery date set by one. The repositories live under github.com/codrlabs.

How people take part

There are three distinct ways, and they carry different expectations.

1. Open contribution

Anyone can open an issue or a pull request on a public repository. No agreement, no onboarding, no commitment on either side. Your pull request gets reviewed; that is the whole relationship.

2. Mentored contribution

Some contributors work with a maintainer over a longer stretch — regular review, direction on what to pick up, explanation of the reasoning. This is informal and either side can stop at any time.

3. School placement

Where a student’s institution recognises the work for academic credit, that is arranged directly between codrlabs and the school, in writing, before the placement starts. The school defines what counts: required hours, learning objectives, evaluation, and what evidence it needs from codrlabs. codrlabs provides supervision and whatever assessment the school asks for.

There is one such agreement in place at present.

What mentoring is not

Stated plainly, because ambiguity here is how people get hurt:

• It is not employment. No wage, no salary, no stipend, no contractor agreement. Contributors are not codrlabs employees, workers, or contractors, and this is not a paid internship.
• It is not a job offer or a pathway to one. Nobody is being evaluated for a role, and taking part creates no expectation of future work.
• It is not exchange of labour for a service. Nobody pays codrlabs for mentoring, and codrlabs does not sell it.
• It has no service level. Reviews come when maintainers have time, because the maintainers are unpaid here too.

Where academic credit is involved, the credit comes from the student’s school under the school’s own rules — not from codrlabs.

Your work, and who owns it

Contributions go into public repositories.

• You keep the copyright in what you write. codrlabs does not ask contributors to assign copyright.
• Your contribution is licensed under the licence of the repository you contribute to. Check the LICENSE file in that repository before you start; if a repository has no licence file, ask before contributing, because without one your rights and everyone else’s are unclear.
• Attribution is the git history. Your commits carry your name, permanently and publicly.

Being fixed

Not every repository has a licence file yet, and the org does not yet publish a contributor guide or a code of conduct. Those gaps are known and are being closed. Until a repository has a LICENSE, treat it as source-available rather than open source.

Privacy

This site is a set of static pages.

• It sets no cookies and runs no analytics or tracking scripts.
• Fonts, styles and search are served from this site itself — no third-party requests, so no third party learns you visited.
• Search runs entirely in your browser; queries are never sent anywhere.
• The host keeps ordinary server request logs, as any web host does.

Taking part in a project means using GitHub, which is a separate service with its own terms and privacy policy. Anything you post there is public.

Contact

open@codrlabs.com — including for anything on this page that is unclear, or that turns out to be wrong.