Ans: Projects to be submitted should be of good quality and it can fall under categories (but not limited to) IoT, Automotive, Agriculture, Machine learning, AR/VR, Software Port, etc...
Ans: Since, we assign the author full ownership of their repository, they can do whatever they want. But, it should not break project format and the project should be working.
Ans: Author of the project is welcomed to write a blog about the project and we will publish it on our 96Boards website. Also, they are more welcomed to take part in weekly OpenHours and talk about their project ,ask questions and share the experience.
Ans: Strictly NO. But if there are cases where the author doesn't have access to the source code like shared libraries, firmware blob etc... they will be considered after discussion. But we do encourage authors to post relevant source code always.
Ans: Benefits are uncountable and mostly it is the visibility among the community. Also, submitting a project to Project Org gives the author a chance to be part of the growing 96Boards ecosystem!