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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.

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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 FOSSASIA 2014 Attendee Rockin' & Rollin' Paranoid Panda Pycon 2014 Attendee Flock 2014 Speaker Flock Paparazzi Baby Badger Senior Editor In Search of the Bull (Tester I) FAD Phnom Penh 2014 Attendee Design Ninja Flock 2015 Speaker Macaron (Cookie I) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Origin Delivery Fedora 22 Change Accepted Nom Nom Nom Vacation Fedora 24 Change Accepted Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) PyCon 2016 Attendee Parselmouth I FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Speaker FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Attendee CommOps Superstar Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Nuancier F30 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! Extra! Extra! FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Nest Attendee 2021 DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 Called to Action Community Survey Taker 2023 Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Bona Fide Partners in Crime The Blessing of the FPL Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Nuancier 21 Blog Lobber (Planet VI) Senior Badger (Badger II) Fedora 21 Change Accepted Master Editor FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Volunteer FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Flock 2015 Attendee Horcrux What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Maestro If you build it... (Koji Success III) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Crypto Badger Adult Frog Nuancier F24 Python SIG member Black and White (Cookie III) Flock 2016 Attendee Let's have a party (Fedora 24) Science (Kernel Tester I) Master Badger (Badger III) Blag Dragster (Planet VII) Fedora 26 Change Accepted Helping Hand I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 30 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 Museum Visitor Lets have a party Fedora 36 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee DevConf.cz 2023 Attendee Flock 2023 Attendee Ambassadors Sponsor Dancing with Toshio Take this and call me in the morning Corporate Drone Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I) What goes around comes around (Karma I) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Top 500 Top 100 Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Docs FAD 2016 Krakow Brews! Flock 2016 Speaker Summer Coder What goes around comes around (Karma II) Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Fedora 27 Release Partygoer I Voted: Fedora 32 It's a Cake Thing Lets have a party Fedora 35 Lets have a party Fedora 37 Let's have a party (Fedora 38) I voted: Fedora 38 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39)

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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