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= Kushal Das =
= 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 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 director at Python Software Foundation.
I am a CPython Core developer and fellow at Python Software Foundation.


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== About Me ==
== About Me ==
* 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 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 and director 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]
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== Badges ==
== 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
* "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 2014

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

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 ...