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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 at Python Software Foundation.
* I am a fellow and director 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 ==

Revision as of 08:05, 8 October 2014

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 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.

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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 and director 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) Tadpole Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Froglet Flock 2013 Speaker Embryo You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Tadpole with Legs Egg FOSSASIA 2014 Attendee FOSSASIA 2014 Speaker Ambassadors Sponsor Rockin' & Rollin' Paranoid Panda The Blessing of the FPL Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Bona Fide Partners in Crime Pycon 2014 Attendee Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Dancing with Toshio Flock Paparazzi Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Flock 2014 Speaker Baby Badger Senior Editor Nuancier 21 Blog Lobber (Planet VI) 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 Flock 2015 Speaker Master Editor Design Ninja FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Volunteer Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Flock 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Corporate Drone Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I) Horcrux Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Origin What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Delivery Fedora 22 Change Accepted What goes around comes around (Karma I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Vacation Nom Nom Nom Maestro If you build it... (Koji Success III) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Crypto Badger Top 100 Top 500 Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Docs FAD 2016 Adult Frog Nuancier F24 Fedora 24 Change Accepted Python SIG member Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Krakow Brews! PyCon 2016 Attendee Black and White (Cookie III) Parselmouth I Flock 2016 Attendee Let's have a party (Fedora 24) FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Speaker Flock 2016 Speaker Blag Dragster (Planet VII) Science (Kernel Tester I) Summer Coder Master Badger (Badger III) FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Attendee Helping Hand Fedora 26 Change Accepted CommOps Superstar What goes around comes around (Karma II) Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) I Voted: Fedora 30 Nuancier F30 Fedora 27 Release Partygoer I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) I Voted: Fedora 32 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) Nest Attendee 2021 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Extra!  Extra! FOSDEM 2021 Attendee I converted to btrfs! Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee It's a Cake Thing Lets have a party Fedora 35 Museum Visitor Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 36 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 Community Survey Taker 2023 I voted: Fedora 38 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) Flock 2023 Attendee

Badges Count: 143

Talks & Workshops

  • "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 ...