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