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