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