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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 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, 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. 2015 is the 8th 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 Tadpole with Legs Bona Fide Partners in Crime The Blessing of the FPL Flock 2014 Speaker Dancing with Toshio Take this and call me in the morning Design Ninja FUDCon Pune 2015 Volunteer FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Corporate Drone Flock 2015 Attendee Fedora 22 Change Accepted Vacation Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Nuancier F24 Python SIG member PyCon 2016 Attendee Krakow Brews! Flock 2016 Speaker FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Speaker FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Attendee Pizzelle (Cookie IV) 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) Nest Attendee 2021 Lets have a party Fedora 35 Called to Action DevConf.cz 2023 Attendee Rockin' & Rollin' Ambassadors Sponsor Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Senior Editor In Search of the Bull (Tester I) FAD Phnom Penh 2014 Attendee Master Editor FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Flock 2015 Speaker Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I) Horcrux What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Delivery Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Crypto Badger Adult Frog Black and White (Cookie III) Flock 2016 Attendee Summer Coder Blag Dragster (Planet VII) Fedora 26 Change Accepted CommOps Superstar Helping Hand Nuancier F30 I Voted: Fedora 30 I Voted: Fedora 32 Extra! Extra! FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 34 It's a Cake Thing Lets have a party Fedora 36 I Voted: Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 37 Let's have a party (Fedora 38) I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2023 Flock 2023 Attendee Egg FOSSASIA 2014 Speaker FOSSASIA 2014 Attendee Paranoid Panda Pycon 2014 Attendee Flock Paparazzi Baby Badger Nuancier 21 Blog Lobber (Planet VI) Senior Badger (Badger II) Fedora 21 Change Accepted Macaron (Cookie I) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Origin What goes around comes around (Karma I) Nom Nom Nom Maestro If you build it... (Koji Success III) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Top 500 Top 100 Fedora 24 Change Accepted Docs FAD 2016 Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Parselmouth I Let's have a party (Fedora 24) Science (Kernel Tester I) Master Badger (Badger III) What goes around comes around (Karma II) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Fedora 27 Release Partygoer I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 34 Museum Visitor DevConf.cz 2022 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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