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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) Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Flock 2013 Speaker You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) Embryo Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Froglet Egg Tadpole Tadpole with Legs FOSSASIA 2014 Speaker Rockin' & Rollin' FOSSASIA 2014 Attendee The Blessing of the FPL Ambassadors Sponsor Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Bona Fide Partners in Crime Pycon 2014 Attendee Paranoid Panda Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Baby Badger Flock 2014 Speaker Flock Paparazzi Nuancier 21 Dancing with Toshio Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Senior Editor Blog Lobber (Planet VI) Take this and call me in the morning Master Editor In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Fedora 21 Change Accepted FAD Phnom Penh 2014 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Design Ninja FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Flock 2015 Speaker FUDCon Pune 2015 Volunteer Corporate Drone Flock 2015 Attendee Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Macaron (Cookie I) Origin Horcrux Delivery What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Fedora 22 Change Accepted What goes around comes around (Karma I) Maestro Nom Nom Nom If you build it... (Koji Success III) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Vacation Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Top 100 Crypto Badger What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Top 500 Adult Frog Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Nuancier F24 Docs FAD 2016 Python SIG member Blag Dragster (Planet VII) PyCon 2016 Attendee Black and White (Cookie III) Parselmouth I Flock 2016 Attendee Krakow Brews! Flock 2016 Speaker Science (Kernel Tester I) Let's have a party (Fedora 24) Summer Coder Master Badger (Badger III) FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Speaker FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Attendee Fedora 26 Change Accepted Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) What goes around comes around (Karma II) CommOps Superstar Helping Hand Nuancier F30 Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Fedora 27 Release Partygoer I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) I Voted: Fedora 30 I Voted: Fedora 32 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! FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Extra! Extra! I Voted: Fedora 34 Lets have a party Fedora 34 It's a Cake Thing Nest Attendee 2021 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 35 DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 36 Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 DevConf.cz 2023 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 37 Called to Action Community Survey Taker 2023 Let's have a party (Fedora 38) I voted: Fedora 38 Flock 2023 Attendee

Badges Count: 142

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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