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

Badges Count: 143

Talks & Workshops

  • "Document your code", workshop at FOSSASIA 2015
  • "Exciting days with Python", at FOSSASSIA 2015
  • "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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