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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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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.

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