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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.

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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 through 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, 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. 2017 is the 19th 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 FUDCon Pune 2015 Volunteer Flock 2015 Speaker FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Flock 2015 Attendee Corporate Drone Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Macaron (Cookie I) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Horcrux Origin What goes around comes around (Karma I) Delivery Fedora 22 Change Accepted Maestro Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Nom Nom Nom You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) If you build it... (Koji Success III) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Vacation Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Top 100 Crypto Badger What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Top 500 Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Docs FAD 2016 Adult Frog Fedora 24 Change Accepted Nuancier F24 Python SIG member Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) PyCon 2016 Attendee Krakow Brews! Black and White (Cookie III) Parselmouth I Flock 2016 Attendee Let's have a party (Fedora 24) Flock 2016 Speaker Blag Dragster (Planet VII) Master Badger (Badger III) Science (Kernel Tester I) Summer Coder FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Speaker FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Attendee What goes around comes around (Karma II) Fedora 26 Change Accepted Helping Hand CommOps Superstar Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Nuancier F30 I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 30 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! Fedora 27 Release Partygoer Nest Attendee 2021 Extra! Extra! FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 It's a Cake Thing Lets have a party Fedora 35 Museum Visitor Lets have a party Fedora 36 DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 Lets have a party Fedora 37 Called to Action DevConf.cz 2023 Attendee Let's have a party (Fedora 38) I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2023 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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