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

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 ...