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