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

Email: kushal AT fedoraproject DOT org ...

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