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

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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