From Fedora Project Wiki

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 fellow at Python Software Foundation.

Visit my blog .

About Me

  • I am the coordinator of Linux User Group of Durgapur (dgplug ). I stay in Kolkata, in India. I try to cover different GNU/Linux events though 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, which is available for free, 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. 2014 is the 7th 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 Tadpole with Legs FOSSASIA 2014 Attendee Paranoid Panda Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Bona Fide Partners in Crime Pycon 2014 Attendee The Blessing of the FPL Flock 2014 Speaker Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Senior Editor In Search of the Bull (Tester I) FAD Phnom Penh 2014 Attendee Flock 2015 Speaker FUDCon Pune 2015 Volunteer FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Corporate Drone Macaron (Cookie I) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Delivery What goes around comes around (Karma I) Nom Nom Nom If you build it... (Koji Success III) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Crypto Badger Adult Frog Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Flock 2016 Speaker Master Badger (Badger III) Fedora 26 Change Accepted CommOps Superstar Helping Hand I Voted: Fedora 31 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 Voted: Fedora 34 It's a Cake Thing Lets have a party Fedora 35 Lets have a party Fedora 36 Called to Action DevConf.cz 2023 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2023 Egg FOSSASIA 2014 Speaker Rockin' & Rollin' Flock Paparazzi Baby Badger Nuancier 21 Take this and call me in the morning Senior Badger (Badger II) Fedora 21 Change Accepted Master Editor FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I) Horcrux Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Vacation You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Nuancier F24 Black and White (Cookie III) Krakow Brews! Let's have a party (Fedora 24) Summer Coder Blag Dragster (Planet VII) FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Speaker FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Attendee What goes around comes around (Karma II) Pizzelle (Cookie IV) I Voted: Fedora 30 I Voted: Fedora 32 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Lets have a party Fedora 34 Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 37 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) Ambassadors Sponsor Dancing with Toshio Blog Lobber (Planet VI) Design Ninja Flock 2015 Attendee Origin Fedora 22 Change Accepted Maestro What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Top 500 Top 100 Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Docs FAD 2016 Python SIG member PyCon 2016 Attendee Parselmouth I Flock 2016 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester I) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Fedora 27 Release Partygoer Nuancier F30 I converted to btrfs! Extra!  Extra! FOSDEM 2021 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 Let's have a party (Fedora 38) I voted: Fedora 38 Flock 2023 Attendee

Badges Count: 143

Talks & Workshops

  • "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 ...