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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.

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 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) Flock 2013 Speaker Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Embryo Froglet You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Tadpole Tadpole with Legs Egg FOSSASIA 2014 Speaker Rockin' & Rollin' Paranoid Panda FOSSASIA 2014 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) The Blessing of the FPL Flock 2014 Speaker Baby Badger Dancing with Toshio Nuancier 21 In Search of the Bull (Tester I) FAD Phnom Penh 2014 Attendee Master Editor Corporate Drone Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I) Flock 2015 Attendee Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Ambassadors Sponsor Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Bona Fide Partners in Crime Pycon 2014 Attendee Flock Paparazzi Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Blog Lobber (Planet VI) Take this and call me in the morning Senior Editor Senior Badger (Badger II) Fedora 21 Change Accepted Design Ninja FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Flock 2015 Speaker FUDCon Pune 2015 Volunteer FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Horcrux Origin What goes up... (Koji Failure I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) If you build it... (Koji Success III) Vacation Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Delivery Fedora 22 Change Accepted What goes around comes around (Karma I) Nom Nom Nom Maestro Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Crypto Badger Top 500 Nuancier F24 Top 100 Adult Frog Fedora 24 Change Accepted Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Docs FAD 2016 Python SIG member Flock 2016 Attendee PyCon 2016 Attendee Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Black and White (Cookie III) Parselmouth I Let's have a party (Fedora 24) Krakow Brews! Summer Coder Flock 2016 Speaker Science (Kernel Tester I) Blag Dragster (Planet VII) Master Badger (Badger III) FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Speaker FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Attendee Helping Hand Fedora 26 Change Accepted CommOps Superstar What goes around comes around (Karma II) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Fedora 27 Release Partygoer Pizzelle (Cookie IV) I Voted: Fedora 30 Nuancier F30 I Voted: Fedora 31 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) 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! Lets have a party Fedora 34 Extra! Extra! FOSDEM 2021 Attendee It's a Cake Thing Nest Attendee 2021 I Voted: Fedora 34 Lets have a party Fedora 36 Museum Visitor Lets have a party Fedora 35 DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 37 DevConf.cz 2023 Attendee Flock 2023 Attendee Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) Called to Action Let's have a party (Fedora 38) I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2023

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 ...

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