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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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== 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 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 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 [https://fedorahosted.org/pym here]
* I wrote a book on Python programming language, 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. 2015 is the 8th year of the training. Details can be found [https://dgplug.org/summertraining15.html 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 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
* "Python workshop" at FUDCon KL 2012
* "Darkserver, way to the new world" at FUDCon KL 2012
* "Darkserver, way to the new world" at FUDCon KL 2012

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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.

Visit my blog .

About Me

  • I am the coordinator of Linux User Group of Durgapur (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 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, 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. 2015 is the 8th 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) Froglet Tadpole Egg Tadpole with Legs FOSSASIA 2014 Speaker FOSSASIA 2014 Attendee Rockin' & Rollin' Paranoid Panda Ambassadors Sponsor Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Bona Fide Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Partners in Crime The Blessing of the FPL Pycon 2014 Attendee Flock 2014 Speaker Flock Paparazzi Baby Badger Blog Lobber (Planet VI) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Dancing with Toshio Nuancier 21 Senior Editor Take this and call me in the morning Senior Badger (Badger II) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Fedora 21 Change Accepted FAD Phnom Penh 2014 Attendee Master Editor Flock 2015 Speaker Design Ninja FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker FUDCon Pune 2015 Volunteer Corporate Drone Flock 2015 Attendee Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Macaron (Cookie I) Origin Horcrux Delivery What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Fedora 22 Change Accepted What goes around comes around (Karma I) Nom Nom Nom Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) If you build it... (Koji Success III) Maestro Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Vacation Black and White (Cookie III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Crypto Badger What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Top 500 Top 100 Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Adult Frog Fedora 24 Change Accepted Nuancier F24 Docs FAD 2016 Python SIG member Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) PyCon 2016 Attendee Flock 2016 Speaker Parselmouth I Flock 2016 Attendee Krakow Brews! Let's have a party (Fedora 24) Science (Kernel Tester I) Summer Coder Master Badger (Badger III) Blag Dragster (Planet VII) Fedora 26 Change Accepted FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Speaker FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Attendee What goes around comes around (Karma II) CommOps Superstar Pizzelle (Cookie IV) I Voted: Fedora 31 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! Extra!  Extra! I Voted: Fedora 34 Nest Attendee 2021 It's a Cake Thing Lets have a party Fedora 35 Lets have a party Fedora 36 Let's have a party (Fedora 38) I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2023 Flock 2023 Attendee Helping Hand Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Fedora 27 Release Partygoer Nuancier F30 I Voted: Fedora 30 I Voted: Fedora 32 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 34 Museum Visitor DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 37 Called to Action DevConf.cz 2023 Attendee 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 ...