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

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 ...