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= Kushal Das =
= 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 am the Fedora Cloud Engineer, and also a 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 Python, KGeography, Empathy, Glib, Sugar.
I am a CPython Core developer and fellow at Python Software Foundation.


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Visit my [http://www.kushaldas.in blog] .
Visit my [http://www.kushaldas.in blog] .
== About Me ==
== About Me ==
* I am the coordinator of Linux User Group of Durgapur ([http://www.dgplug.org dgplug] ). I stay in Pune, 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 the coordinator of Linux User Group of Durgapur ([http://www.dgplug.org 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 at Python Software Foundation.
* I am a fellow 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 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 [http://pymbook.rtfd.org here]
* I wrote a book on Python programming language, which is available for free, you can read it at [http://pymbook.rtfd.org here]
* I organize an online summer training for students which is generally attended by students all across India and from few other countries also. 2012 is the 5th year of the training. Details can be found [http://wiki.dgplug.org/index.php/SummerTraining 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 [http://wiki.dgplug.org/index.php/SummerTraining here]
* I teach Python in various workshops and also online.
* I teach Python in various workshops and also online.
== Badges ==
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== Talks & Workshops ==
== Talks & Workshops ==


* "Document your code", workshop at FOSSASIA 2015
* "Exciting days with Python", at FOSSASSIA 2015
* "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 PyCon India 2013
* "Document your code", python sphinx workshop at Flock 2013
* "Document your code", python sphinx workshop at Flock 2013

Revision as of 08:33, 15 July 2015

Kushal Das

I am the Fedora Cloud Engineer, and also a Fedora Ambassador and mentor from India. I keep contributing to various teams inside Fedora, like docs, l10n, artwork, packaging, marketing. I am a CPython Core developer and fellow 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 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 You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Embryo Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Froglet Egg Tadpole FOSSASIA 2014 Attendee Tadpole with Legs FOSSASIA 2014 Speaker Ambassadors Sponsor Paranoid Panda Rockin' & Rollin' Flock 2014 Speaker Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Pycon 2014 Attendee Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Bona Fide Partners in Crime The Blessing of the FPL Dancing with Toshio Baby Badger Flock Paparazzi Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Nuancier 21 Blog Lobber (Planet VI) Senior Badger (Badger II) Take this and call me in the morning Senior Editor Master Editor Fedora 21 Change Accepted FAD Phnom Penh 2014 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Design Ninja FUDCon Pune 2015 Volunteer Flock 2015 Speaker FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Corporate Drone Delivery Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I) Flock 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Horcrux Origin What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) What goes around comes around (Karma I) Fedora 22 Change Accepted Nom Nom Nom Fedora 24 Change Accepted Vacation Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Crypto Badger Top 100 Adult Frog Maestro If you build it... (Koji Success III) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Top 500 Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Nuancier F24 Docs FAD 2016 Python SIG member Flock 2016 Attendee PyCon 2016 Attendee Black and White (Cookie III) Parselmouth I Summer Coder Krakow Brews! Let's have a party (Fedora 24) Flock 2016 Speaker Science (Kernel Tester I) 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 CommOps Superstar Helping Hand Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) What goes around comes around (Karma II) Pizzelle (Cookie IV) I Voted: Fedora 30 Nuancier F30 I Voted: Fedora 31 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) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) I converted to btrfs! Extra!  Extra! I Voted: Fedora 34 FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 34 It's a Cake Thing Nest Attendee 2021 I Voted: Fedora 36 Museum Visitor DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 36 Lets have a party Fedora 35 Community Survey Taker 2022 Let's have a party (Fedora 38) Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 37 Called to Action DevConf.cz 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 38 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) Community Survey Taker 2023 Flock 2023 Attendee

Badges Count: 143

Talks & Workshops

  • "Document your code", workshop at FOSSASIA 2015
  • "Exciting days with Python", at FOSSASSIA 2015
  • "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

Email: kushal AT fedoraproject DOT org ...