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

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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