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Kushal Das

I am an Fedora Ambassador and mentor from India. I keep contributing to various teams inside Fedora, like docs, l10n, artwork, packaging, marketing. I do keep contributing to various other projects upstream projects like KGeography, Empathy, Glib, Sugar. I am a CPython Core developer and director at Python Software Foundation.

Visit my blog .

About Me

  • I am the coordinator of Linux User Group of Durgapur (dgplug ). I stay in Kolkata, in India. I try to cover different GNU/Linux events though the country to spread the words of Fedora. My LUG, dgplug is mainly full of Fedora users :)
  • I am a fellow and director at Python Software Foundation.
  • I maintain various packages in Fedora , a list can be found at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/kushal?acls=owner&acls=commit
  • I wrote a book on Python programming language, which is available for free, you can read it at here
  • I organize an online summer training for students which is generally attended by students all across India and from few other countries. 2014 is the 7th year of the training. Details can be found here
  • I teach Python in various workshops and also online.

Badges

White Rabbit Associate Editor Mugshot Involvement Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Junior Editor Tanked! Flock 2013 Attendee Let Me Introduce Myself Speak Up! Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Secretary General Ambassador You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Flock 2013 Speaker Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Embryo You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Froglet Tadpole FOSSASIA 2014 Attendee Paranoid Panda Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) The Blessing of the FPL Flock Paparazzi Baby Badger Dancing with Toshio Blog Lobber (Planet VI) Take this and call me in the morning Senior Editor In Search of the Bull (Tester I) FAD Phnom Penh 2014 Attendee Design Ninja Flock 2015 Speaker Corporate Drone Horcrux Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Python SIG member Let's have a party (Fedora 24) Summer Coder Blag Dragster (Planet VII) Fedora 26 Change Accepted Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Pizzelle (Cookie IV) I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 30 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Nest Attendee 2021 Lets have a party Fedora 35 DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 Lets have a party Fedora 37 Let's have a party (Fedora 38) I voted: Fedora 38 Flock 2023 Attendee Egg Tadpole with Legs FOSSASIA 2014 Speaker Bona Fide Partners in Crime Flock 2014 Speaker Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Nuancier 21 Senior Badger (Badger II) Fedora 21 Change Accepted FUDCon Pune 2015 Volunteer Flock 2015 Attendee Origin Fedora 22 Change Accepted Nom Nom Nom Vacation Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Crypto Badger What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Top 500 Top 100 Fedora 24 Change Accepted Docs FAD 2016 Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) PyCon 2016 Attendee Black and White (Cookie III) Parselmouth I Flock 2016 Attendee Flock 2016 Speaker Master Badger (Badger III) FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Speaker FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Attendee What goes around comes around (Karma II) I Voted: Fedora 32 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Extra! Extra! FOSDEM 2021 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 34 It's a Cake Thing Lets have a party Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2023 Rockin' & Rollin' Ambassadors Sponsor Pycon 2014 Attendee Master Editor FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I) Macaron (Cookie I) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Delivery What goes around comes around (Karma I) Maestro If you build it... (Koji Success III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Adult Frog Nuancier F24 Krakow Brews! Science (Kernel Tester I) CommOps Superstar Helping Hand Fedora 27 Release Partygoer Nuancier F30 I converted to btrfs! Lets have a party Fedora 34 Museum Visitor Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Called to Action DevConf.cz 2023 Attendee Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39)

Badges Count: 143

Talks & Workshops

  • "Document your code", python sphinx workshop at PyCon India 2013
  • "Document your code", python sphinx workshop at Flock 2013
  • "Darkserver: Current and future roadmap" at Flock 2013
  • "Darkserver: help to debug userspace" at PyCon US 2013
  • "Document your code" at foss.in 2012
  • "Introduction to Python" at PyCon India 2012
  • "Document your code" at PyCon India 2012
  • "Python workshop" at FUDCon KL 2012
  • "Darkserver, way to the new world" at FUDCon KL 2012
  • "gobject-introspection, a new friend to help" at PyConIndia, 2011
  • "Fedora Activity Day" at NIT Durgapur, 2011
  • "Python workshop" at NIT Durgapur, 2011
  • "System programming using Python" at NIT Durgapur, 2011
  • "Python Deadly Combo" at PyConIndia, 2010
  • "Python workshop" at GNUnify, 2010
  • "Deadly Combo" at FOSS.IN, 2009
  • "Python Workshop" at Malda Engineering College, 2009
  • "OpenPCD: Free Hardware, Software for RFID" at LinuxTag , Berlin , Germany, 2007
  • "OpenPCD: Free Hardware, Software for RFID" at FOSS.NITC meet, Calicut, 2007
  • "Python and PyQt4" at SISCR, Pune , 2008
  • "KDE Application Development" in Horizon07, Durgapur, 2006
  • "Inside of Fedora Extras, a technical journey" in FOSS.IN 2006
  • "Its Fedora" in "A day with Fedora", Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, 2006
  • "An introduction to AJAX & Rico" in Linuxasia 2006
  • "dgplug,­first trip Round the Sun..problems & answer” in FOSS.IN 2005

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