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= Kushal Das =
= 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 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 director at Python Software Foundation.
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 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 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, which is available for free, you can read it at [http://pymbook.rtfd.org here]

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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.

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

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