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

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

Email: kushal AT fedoraproject DOT org ...