OSCA MU: OpenSource - The What N Why

Presented at the OpenSource Community Africa - Mauritius chapter. Explains how OS is a key piece in the modern world, how it helped me and why it's a must for professionals.

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1. OpenSource,
   The What N Why
   Why you should care
   

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2. Thanks OSCA MU for invite
   OpenSource Community Africa - Mauritius Chapter. Thank you Girish Mahabir
   

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3. About - PyMUG
   PyMUG organising member (local py
   usergroup)
   www.pymug.com
   - events, reports, uni, meetups,
   workshops
   - https://www.mscc.mu/python-mauriti
   us-usergroup-pymug/
   

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4. About - Work
   Independent Soft Developer
   www.compileralchemy.com
   - cool stuffs with Python, many web
   stuffs
   - companies here and there
   

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5. About - Python
   - Arabic Coordinator for the docs
   - FlaskCon draft author and first event
   coordinator. A conf hosting speakers
   from Google and the federal govt
   

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6. About - OpenSource
   - Most followers on Github [2]
   

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7. Table of contents
   Explaining OS, the
   motivation behind
   and the continued
   interest it garners
   What
   01
   How OS is a key
   piece in the soft
   world
   Foundation
   02
   How OS helps you
   and helped me
   Help
   03
   It’s hot air until
   your patch is
   merged
   Contribute
   04
   

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8. Table of contents
   A tour of the local
   scene
   Local
   05
   Some projects.
   OS as hobby
   Me & OS
   06
   

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9. What is
   Open
   Source
   01
   

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10. —Opensource.com [1]
    “Open source software is software
    with source code that anyone can
    inspect, modify, and enhance”
    

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11. Why OS
    Free labour
    No need to pay workers
    

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12. Why OS
    A large pool of feedback
    and usage agents
    Robust
    

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13. Why OS
    Even higher than internal
    projects sometimes. Paid
    to OSS shows average
    level standard.
    High Standard
    

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14. Why OS
    No licensing fee if FOSS
    Free soft
    

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15. Why OS
    Compare paid soft’s
    user-generated contents
    Support
    

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16. OS as the
    foundation
    of the soft
    world
    02
    

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17. Linux share on the top 500
    supercomputers (2020) [3]
    Linux Others
    100% 0 %
    

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18. —Edx.org, May 24 2021,
    9 Top Programming Languages for Data
    Science [4]
    "There is no comparison in terms of online documentation,
    user community, ease-of-learning, and general capabilities of
    Python."
    

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19. IDE popularity, AUG 21 [5]
    Rank Tool OpenSource?
    1 Visual studio
    2 Eclipse
    3 Visual Studio Code
    4 Android Studio
    5 PyCharm
    

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20. Add to it frameworks
    - web
    - mobile
    - pretty much everything
    

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21. How OS
    helps
    03
    

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22. How it helped me?
    01
    02
    03
    contribute
    skills
    real projects
    cash
    04
    

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23. Rs 100, 000+
    Only on the basis of my GITHUB profile
    

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24. Your Career: typical
    YOU
    your job
    growth
    achievements
    brilliant minds
    

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25. Your Career: reality
    YOU
    your job
    growth
    achievements
    brilliant minds
    limited by the
    company
    hidden by NDA
    company-wide
    

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26. OpenSoure: Define Yourself
    YOU
    growth
    achievements
    brilliant minds
    you choose
    your limit
    publicly
    verifiable
    recognised
    worldwide
    

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27. OpenSource + Job
    YOU
    growth
    achievements
    brilliant minds
    YOU
    job
    x2
    x2
    x2
    

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28. OpenSource contrib
    RESEARCH
    DOCS
    UPGRADE
    JOY OF
    SOURCE
    READING
    LEARNING
    EXPERT
    REVIEWS
    

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29. Contributing
    to
    OpenSource
    04
    

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30. Version Control Systems &
    Collaboration
    

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31. The Social Side of VCS
    

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32. Projects on Github
    

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33. ISSUES KANBAN STARS
    FORKS
    FOLLOW
    FILE
    EXPLORATION
    SYNTAX
    HIGHLIGHTING
    CI
    GH
    PACKAGES
    VERSIONS
    NAVIGATION
    BLAME VIZ
    COMMIT
    VISUALISATION
    PR & MERGE
    VIEW
    CONTRIBUTORS
    VIZ
    

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34. SOURCE
    CODE
    SEARCH
    GITHUB-WIDE
    SEARCH
    BRANCHES
    UI
    ACTIVITY
    INSIGHTS
    GITHUB
    ACTIONS
    GITIGNORE
    SUGGESTIONS
    TRAFFIC
    MONITORING
    MD, RST
    RENDERING
    STATIC
    PAGES
    LANGUAGE
    BREAKDOWN
    DISCUSSION
    TAB
    GUI FILE
    CREATION
    DELETION
    LICENSE
    SUGGESTIONS
    WIKI
    PR
    FEEDBACKS
    

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35. SSH KEYS
    CODESPACES: VSCODE
    IN THE CLOUD
    2FA
    IMPORT REPO FROM
    SOMEWHERE
    BIO & INFO
    ORGANISATION
    ARCHIVE REPO
    DEPENDENCY
    LISTING
    USED BY
    SPONSORS 💚
    ACTIVITY
    GRAPH
    BADGES
    NOTIFICATIONS
    WATCH
    WEBHOOKS
    INTEGRATIONS
    

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36. Anatomy of Projects
    CODE OF
    CONDUCT
    LICENSE
    README CONTRIBUTE
    AUTHORS
    CONTRIBUTORS
    SECURITY
    DOCS
    SOURCE
    CONFIG
    FILES
    PACKAGE
    FILES
    

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37. Github flow
    CREATE
    ACCOUNT
    CHOOSE
    PROJECT
    READ
    CONTRIBUTE
    GUIDE
    FORK
    CLONE
    CREATE NEW
    BRANCH
    MODIFY FILES
    COMMIT
    

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38. Github flow
    PUSH PR
    

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39. Help & Discuss
    JOIN SOCIAL
    SPACES: IRC,
    MAILING LIST,
    CHOOSE MOST
    ACTIVE
    FOR BIG OR
    BREAKING
    CHANGES,
    DISCUSS WITH
    MAINTAINERS
    FIRST
    

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40. A tour of
    the local
    scene
    05
    

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41. https://humeira.github.io/made
    -in-Mauritius/
    

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42. https://github.com/vue-gapi/vu
    e-gapi
    Google API Client Library wrapper for Vue.js
    CEDRIC POILLY
    

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43. https://github.com/MrSunshyne
    - Mauritius Sea Cable
    - Mauritius Fuel Prices
    - Covid Tracking
    - Etc
    SANDEEP RAMGOLAM
    

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44. Loganaden Velvindron,
    cyberstorm and TLS
    - https://tunnelix.com/ietf-100-hackathon-on-
    tls-1-3-by-hackers-mu/
    - https://medium.com/@loganaden/ietf-100-h
    ackathon-day-1-e4c3a335ebc8
    

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45. Others to check out
    - https://github.com/wkhayrattee
    - https://github.com/search?l=&o=desc&q=locatio
    n%3AMauritius&s=followers&type=Users
    - DevCon’s website if Open. A nice contributing
    opportunity every year
    - Kishan Takoordyal
    https://github.com/EdgeKing810/kinesis-connec
    t-api
    

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46. OpenSource in Mauritius
    Needs more love. We need more package maintainers,
    more products built from scratch
    

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47. Me and
    Open
    Source
    06
    

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48. 100+
    People helped to make their first commit meaningfully
    

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49. 64, 051
    downloads on pypi [6]
    

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50. /shopyo/shopyo
    Flask-based framework providing Django
    advantages, python -m pip install shopyo
    

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51. /pyhoneybot/ho
    neybot
    IRC bot with one of the largest collections
    of plugins
    

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52. /abdur-rahmaan
    j/hooman
    Wrapper for pygame for clean pygame
    codebases, python -m pip install hooman
    

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53. /jamstackpy/ja
    mstack
    Jinja-based sites with livewatch
    

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54. /abdur-rahmaan
    j/meteomoris
    Meteo for mauritius, python -m pip install
    meteomoris
    

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55. /abdur-rahmaan
    j/newsmoris
    News from defimedia including top news
    and article reading, cli experience, python
    -m pip install newmoris
    

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56. /shopyo/shopcu
    be
    Ecommerce solution written in Flask
    

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57. /shopyo/market
    flow
    Marketplace written in Flask
    

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58. /Maurilearn/lear
    nings/
    Elearning platform written in Flask
    

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59. REFS
    - [1] https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source
    - [2] https://github.com/search?l=&o=desc&q=location%3AMauritius&s=followers&type=Users
    - [3] https://itsfoss.com/linux-runs-top-supercomputers/
    - [4] https://blog.edx.org/9-top-programming-languages-for-data-science
    - [5] https://pypl.github.io/IDE.html
    - [6] pepy.tech stats for shopyo, hooman, newsmoris, meteomoris, jamstack
    

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    Thanks!
    Do you have any questions?
    arj.python@gmail.com
    @osdotsystem
    compileralchemy.com
    github.com/abdur-rahmaanj
    

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