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

Badges Count: 143

Talks & Workshops

  • "Moments from my ongoing journey", keynote at PyCon India 2014
  • "Document your code", python sphinx workshop at PyCon India 2014
  • "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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