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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 KGeography, Empathy, Glib, Sugar. 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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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 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 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 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, 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. 2014 is the 7th 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
* "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 08:23, 3 February 2016

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