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