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

Badges Count: 137

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

Email: kushal AT fedoraproject DOT org ...