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Tom 'spot' Callaway

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You can email him at: tcallawa<AT>redhat.com
On IRC (freenode.net), he's "spot".

Roles

  • Tom 'spot' Callaway does not currently possess any notable mutant powers.
  • He is currently the Fedora Engineering Manager @ Red Hat.
  • He served three consecutive elected terms on the Fedora Board from 2007 to 2011.
  • He was responsible for the Aurora SPARC Linux Project, which was a port of Fedora to SPARC. This effort is long dead.
  • He has worked for Red Hat since February 2001, and is worshipped by lemurs throughout the known universe.
  • He is currently leading the Fedora Packaging Committee, responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices.

Badges

Bona Fide If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) If you build it... (Koji Success III) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Junior Editor Senior Editor Associate Editor Speak Up! Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Flock 2013 Attendee Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Proven Packager Involvement Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora II) Riddle Me This Tanked! Crypto Panda Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Partners in Crime Master Editor What goes up... (Koji Failure III) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Trust me, I know what I am doing Mugshot Ambassador Let Me Introduce Myself Senior Badger (Badger II) Paranoid Panda Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F20) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) White Hat Secretary General White Rabbit Binary Star Baby Badger Old Yeller Flock 2013 Speaker Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) You Can Pry It From My Cold, Undead Hands Tadpole Egg Tadpole with Legs FOSDEM 2014 Attendee Fedora Legal Badge of Doom Helping Hand Your call may be monitored for quality assurance Pycon 2014 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester I) Party Pirate Nuancier 21 Consolation Prize What goes around comes around (Karma IV) Fedora 21 Change Accepted Flock 2014 Organizer Vacation Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Flock 2015 Attendee Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) Flock 2015 Organizer Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) Common Bugs Contributor Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Apprentice (Badge Artist I) Science (Kernel Tester II) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Horcrux Master Tagger (Tagger IV) Taming the Bull (Tester V) Master Package Tagger (Package Tagger IV) Let's do lunch! Don't Call it a Comeback Gold Macklemore (Tagger V) Bronze Silver Red Hat Summit 2016 Flock 2016 Organizer Krakow Brews! Badge Muse (Badges Released II) Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) Red Hat Summit 2017 OSCON 2017 Attendee Black and White (Cookie III) SCaLE 16x Attendee Rollercoaster Restaurant nest-attendee-2020 It's a Cake Thing I Voted: Fedora 33 Council Member I Voted: Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 35 CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee SCaLE 21x Attendee Froglet What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) What goes around comes around (Karma I) What goes around comes around (Karma II) It still works! The Blessing of the FPL All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Corporate Drone Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Master Badger (Badger III) The Panda Is In Flock 2013 Organizer Corporate Shill Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Missed the Train Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Flock 2015 Speaker FOSDEM 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Delivery Packager Sponsor Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Adult Frog Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Chief Editor Badge Muse (Badges Released I) Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 The cat came back... United Packages of Fedora Parselmouth I Nuancier F24 SELF 2016 3D Printing SIG Member FOSDEM 2017 Attendee Steampunk Arcade Flock 2017 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2018 Flock 2018 Attendee FOSDEM 2019 Attendee Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Flock 2019 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2021 Community Survey Taker I Museum Visitor Nest Attendee 2021 SCaLE 19x Attendee Fedora 38 Change Accepted FOSDEM 2023 Attendee Embryo Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Override, you say? The Last Argument of Kings Crypto Badger Patches (SCM V) Take this and call me in the morning Flock 2014 Speaker Flock 2014 Attendee Flock Paparazzi What goes around comes around (Karma III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) OSCON 2015 Attendee Origin Nom Nom Nom Top 10 Top 100 Top 25 Top 500 Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora III) Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Flock 2016 Attendee Corporate Overlord Board Member Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) FOSDEM 2018 Attendee DevConf.us Attendee 2018 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) You’re on a boat! Parselmouth II I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Community Messenger I I Voted: Fedora 36 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Flock 2023 Attendee The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) FOSDEM 2024 Attendee

Packages

He also maintains a LOT of packages in Fedora. He used to keep a list here, but it was a pain to maintain. Pkgdb has this list: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/spot?acls=owner&acls=commit (some things I only co-maintain, or are dead packages now)


While I do sponsor new Packagers, I do so rarely these days, mostly because I'm super busy.

Here is a list of some of the people I've sponsored:

Chuck R. Anderson
Dmitry Butskoy
Jeff Carlson
Didier Casse
Mark Cox
Kushal Das
Patrice Dumas
Ralf Ertzinger
Kevin Fenzi
Chris Grau
Kevin Gray
Ed Hill
Dan Horák
Neil Horman
Patrick Laughton
John Patrick Mahowald
José Matos
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Karen Rei Pease
Ian Pilcher
Orion Poplawski
Jef Spaleta
Quentin Spencer
Richard A. Stout
Andreas Thienemann
Axel Thimm
Jason L Tibbitts III
Toni Willberg
Paul Wouters

If any of them screw up, feel free to let me know.