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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) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) Flock 2013 Speaker Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Embryo Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Froglet Egg Tadpole FOSSASIA 2014 Speaker Tadpole with Legs Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Rockin' & Rollin' Paranoid Panda Ambassadors Sponsor FOSSASIA 2014 Attendee Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Pycon 2014 Attendee Bona Fide Partners in Crime Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) The Blessing of the FPL Flock Paparazzi Flock 2014 Speaker Baby Badger Nuancier 21 Dancing with Toshio Blog Lobber (Planet VI) Take this and call me in the morning Flock 2015 Speaker Senior Badger (Badger II) Fedora 21 Change Accepted FAD Phnom Penh 2014 Attendee Design Ninja FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Senior Editor In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Master Editor FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker FUDCon Pune 2015 Volunteer What goes around comes around (Karma I) Corporate Drone Macaron (Cookie I) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Horcrux Origin What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Delivery Fedora 22 Change Accepted Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I) Flock 2015 Attendee If you build it... (Koji Success III) Maestro Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Nom Nom Nom Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Vacation What goes up... (Koji Failure II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Top 100 Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Crypto Badger Top 500 Black and White (Cookie III) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Nuancier F24 Docs FAD 2016 Adult Frog Fedora 24 Change Accepted Python SIG member Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) PyCon 2016 Attendee Parselmouth I Flock 2016 Attendee Flock 2016 Speaker Krakow Brews! Let's have a party (Fedora 24) Fedora 26 Change Accepted Summer Coder Master Badger (Badger III) FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Speaker FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester I) Blag Dragster (Planet VII) CommOps Superstar What goes around comes around (Karma II) Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Helping Hand Fedora 27 Release Partygoer Extra! Extra! 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! Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Nuancier F30 Lets have a party Fedora 34 FOSDEM 2021 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 34 Museum Visitor Nest Attendee 2021 It's a Cake Thing Lets have a party Fedora 35 Lets have a party Fedora 36 DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 Lets have a party Fedora 37 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee 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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