Models & Code

Who owns the models & code produced by students?

Each student (or her/his mentoring organization) must license all student SUMO code under a license palatable to the mentoring organization. Some organizations will require students to assign copyright to them, but many will allow them to retain copyright. If SIDE-Labs is a student's sponsoring organization, then the student keeps copyright to her/his code.

What licenses do I have to choose from?

That depends on your mentoring organization. All code created by student participants must be released under an Open Source Initiative approved license. It's also extremely likely that your mentoring organization will have a preferred license(s) and that you will need to release your code under the license(s) chosen by that organization.

What language(s) should a student program in?

Talk with your mentoring organization about this and other technical style questions. Of course, the Python people will prefer Python submissions, and so on. Students should let us know in their applications what languages they're thinking about using.

Where must development occur?

All development occurs online; there is no requirement to travel as part of the program. SIDE-Labs makes no provisions for office space or travel to mentoring locations. Any such travel is undertaken outside the scope of the program.

All domain modeling and code development must happen in the open and everything must be made available publicly. Students may mirror development on their personal infrastructure if they wish. Students must also provide a copy of their work,, models & code, to SIDE-Labs to be publicly hosted by us.