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