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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 Rockin' & Rollin' Ambassadors Sponsor Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Take this and call me in the morning Senior Editor In Search of the Bull (Tester I) FAD Phnom Penh 2014 Attendee Design Ninja Flock 2015 Speaker FUDCon Pune 2015 Volunteer Corporate Drone Flock 2015 Attendee Horcrux What goes around comes around (Karma I) Maestro If you build it... (Koji Success III) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Nuancier F24 Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Parselmouth I Flock 2016 Speaker Summer Coder FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Speaker FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Attendee Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Pizzelle (Cookie IV) I Voted: Fedora 30 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) Extra! Extra! I Voted: Fedora 34 Lets have a party Fedora 35 Lets have a party Fedora 36 I Voted: Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Called to Action DevConf.cz 2023 Attendee FOSSASIA 2014 Speaker FOSSASIA 2014 Attendee Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Flock 2014 Speaker Dancing with Toshio Delivery Fedora 22 Change Accepted Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Vacation Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Black and White (Cookie III) Flock 2016 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester I) Master Badger (Badger III) What goes around comes around (Karma II) I Voted: Fedora 32 Lets have a party Fedora 34 Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 37 Community Survey Taker 2023 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) Paranoid Panda Bona Fide Partners in Crime Pycon 2014 Attendee The Blessing of the FPL Flock Paparazzi Baby Badger Nuancier 21 Blog Lobber (Planet VI) Senior Badger (Badger II) Fedora 21 Change Accepted Master Editor FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I) Macaron (Cookie I) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Origin What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Nom Nom Nom Crypto Badger What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Top 500 Top 100 Adult Frog Fedora 24 Change Accepted Docs FAD 2016 Python SIG member PyCon 2016 Attendee Krakow Brews! Let's have a party (Fedora 24) Blag Dragster (Planet VII) Fedora 26 Change Accepted CommOps Superstar Helping Hand Fedora 27 Release Partygoer Nuancier F30 I Voted: Fedora 31 FOSDEM 2021 Attendee It's a Cake Thing Let's have a party (Fedora 38) I voted: Fedora 38 Flock 2023 Attendee

Badges Count: 143

Talks & Workshops

  • "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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