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

Badges Count: 142

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

Email: kushal AT fedoraproject DOT org ...