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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 director at Python Software Foundation.

Visit my blog .

About Me

  • I am a Free Software developer and a coordinator of Linux Users 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 10th 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 Rockin' & Rollin' Junior Tagger (Tagger I) FOSSASIA 2014 Attendee Ambassadors Sponsor Paranoid Panda The Blessing of the FPL Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Bona Fide Partners in Crime Pycon 2014 Attendee Flock 2014 Speaker Dancing with Toshio Flock Paparazzi Baby Badger Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Nuancier 21 Blog Lobber (Planet VI) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Senior Editor Take this and call me in the morning Senior Badger (Badger II) FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Fedora 21 Change Accepted FAD Phnom Penh 2014 Attendee Master Editor Flock 2015 Speaker FUDCon Pune 2015 Volunteer Design Ninja FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Delivery Corporate Drone Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I) Flock 2015 Attendee Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Horcrux Origin What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Macaron (Cookie I) Fedora 22 Change Accepted Vacation What goes around comes around (Karma I) Nom Nom Nom If you build it... (Koji Success III) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Maestro You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) 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 Nuancier F24 Fedora 24 Change Accepted Python SIG member Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Parselmouth I Black and White (Cookie III) PyCon 2016 Attendee Master Badger (Badger III) Flock 2016 Attendee Let's have a party (Fedora 24) Flock 2016 Speaker Science (Kernel Tester I) Krakow Brews! Summer Coder FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Speaker Blag Dragster (Planet VII) FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Attendee Fedora 26 Change Accepted CommOps Superstar What goes around comes around (Karma II) I Voted: Fedora 31 Helping Hand Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Nuancier F30 Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Fedora 27 Release Partygoer I Voted: Fedora 30 I converted to btrfs! 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) Extra! Extra! Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Lets have a party Fedora 34 FOSDEM 2021 Attendee It's a Cake Thing I Voted: Fedora 34 Nest Attendee 2021 Lets have a party Fedora 35 Museum Visitor DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 36 Lets have a party Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 DevConf.cz 2023 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 37 Called to Action Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Let's have a party (Fedora 38) I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2023 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) Flock 2023 Attendee

Badges Count: 143

Talks & Workshops

  • "MicroPython and NodeMCU", workshop at FOSSASIA, 2017
  • "Micropython workshop for kids", Science Hack Day, India 2016
  • "Testing containers using Tunir", Flock, Poland, 2016
  • "Automated testing of CPython patches", Language summit, PyCon 2016
  • "Tunir, a simple CI", Flock, USA, 2015
  • "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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