User:Kushal

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 Python, KGeography, Empathy, Glib, Sugar.

Visit my blog .

About Me

• I am the coordinator of Linux User Group of Durgapur (dgplug ). I stay in Pune, 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 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 also. 2012 is the 5th year of the training. Details can be found here
• I teach Python in various workshops and also online.

Talks & Workshops

• "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 ...