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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 fellow at Python Software Foundation.

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About Me

  • I am the coordinator of Linux User 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 19th 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 FOSSASIA 2014 Attendee Paranoid Panda Rockin' & Rollin' Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Ambassadors Sponsor Tagger (Tagger II) Pycon 2014 Attendee Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Bona Fide Partners in Crime Flock Paparazzi The Blessing of the FPL Flock 2014 Speaker Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Baby Badger Nuancier 21 Dancing with Toshio Senior Badger (Badger II) Take this and call me in the morning Blog Lobber (Planet VI) Senior Editor Fedora 21 Change Accepted FUDCon Pune 2015 Volunteer FAD Phnom Penh 2014 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Master Editor Design Ninja Flock 2015 Speaker Corporate Drone FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Flock 2015 Attendee Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I) Macaron (Cookie I) Horcrux Fedora 22 Change Accepted Origin What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Delivery What goes around comes around (Karma I) Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Nom Nom Nom Vacation Maestro If you build it... (Koji Success III) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Top 100 Crypto Badger Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Top 500 Adult Frog Docs FAD 2016 Fedora 24 Change Accepted Nuancier F24 Python SIG member Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) PyCon 2016 Attendee Summer Coder Black and White (Cookie III) Let's have a party (Fedora 24) Parselmouth I Flock 2016 Attendee Krakow Brews! Flock 2016 Speaker Science (Kernel Tester I) Master Badger (Badger III) Blag Dragster (Planet VII) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) What goes around comes around (Karma II) CommOps Superstar Helping Hand FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Speaker FUDCon Phnom Penh 2016 Attendee Fedora 26 Change Accepted I converted to btrfs! Fedora 27 Release Partygoer Nuancier F30 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) Pizzelle (Cookie IV) I Voted: Fedora 31 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) I Voted: Fedora 34 Extra! Extra! FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 34 Museum Visitor It's a Cake Thing Nest Attendee 2021 Lets have a party Fedora 35 DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 36 I Voted: Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 Let's have a party (Fedora 38) Called to Action Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 37 DevConf.cz 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2023 Flock 2023 Attendee Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39)

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

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