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My name is Jared Smith.  I'm a geek.
My name is Jared Smith.  I'm a big Linux geek.  I enjoy systems administration, relational databases, web programming, and VoIP.  I eat too many donuts, and don't blog as regularly as I should.  I've managed small systems and large-scale networks (over 6500 servers and 800 network devices).  As a college freshman, I once stuffed 26 jumbo marshmallows in my mouth to win a contest.  Oh, and I wrote a book for O'Reilly on Asterisk and the future of telephony.  For all the nitty gritty details, see http://www.jaredsmith.net/about/.  I currently work for Endurance International (the parent company of web hosting firms such as Bluehost and Host Gator) doing open source outreach and technical oversight.


== Contact ==
== Contact ==


* '''Email''': [mailto:jsmith-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org Jared's Email]
* '''Email''': [mailto:jsmith-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org Jared's Email]
* '''IRC''': jsmith (in #fedora-docs, #asterisk-doc, #asterisk-dev, #asterisk-bugs)
* '''IRC''': jsmith (in #fedora-docs, #fedora-admin, #asterisk-docs)
* '''GPG key''': Key ID 8B670B7A
* '''GPG key''': Key ID 210BDF5A
* '''Fedora Account''': jsmith
* '''Fedora Account''': jsmith
* '''Blog''': http://www.jaredsmith.net/


== Activities within Fedora ==
== Activities within Fedora ==
* I was the [[FPL|Fedora Project Leader]] for two years.
* I help out with the Fedora Docs project, and generally make a nuisance of myself.  I have a lot of experiece with DocBook publication toolchains, such as Publican. 
* I've also helped out on the Fedora Infrastructure team, mostly around the Fedora Talk server.  (I have *lots and lots* of experience with Asterisk and voice over IP.)
* I do my best to report bugs when I find them, and work with those responsible to ensure the problems get solved.


* I help out with the Fedora Docs project, and generally make a nuisance of myself
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== Goals as the Fedora Project Leader ==
 
* Oversee the entire Fedora Project -- if it's in Fedora, ultimately I'm accountable for it.
* Act as a catalyst within the community to improve communications and encourage excellent behavior
* Work with the Fedora Program Manager [[user:JohnPoelstra|John Poelstra]], Fedora Engineering Manager [[user:spot|Tom "Spot" Callaway]], and the Community Architecture team to make sure that Fedora is making constant, substantial progress in its mission to advance free and open source software.
* Chair the [[Board| Fedora Project Board]], and ensure that the Board is effectively advising and guiding the Fedora Project where needed.
* Be an effective bridge between the external volunteer contributor base and the contributor community inside Red Hat, such as RHEL engineers.
* Lower contributor barriers to the absolute minimum, and encourage others to get involved in FOSS through Fedora.
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== Education Background ==
 
Jared graduated in 2001 from Utah State University with a degree in Computer Engineering.
 
His fondest memory of his USU education involves a course taught by [http://digital.cs.usu.edu/~allan/ Professor Stephen J. Allan]:
 
"The class was something like "Unix Basics" or something boring like that, but the teacher made the assignments interesting, by forcing you to work with others in the class to solve a problem. A typical assignment might go something like this: 'Joe, you write an awk script to take this file I give you and transform it to look like this -- Susie, you take that, and use grep and sed to do this to it, Jared -- you take that and write a Perl script to do this...' and so on. So not only did we learn the tools, we had to communicate our expectations and assumptions with the other members of our team."
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== Badges ==
To hightlight some of the work I've done in Fedora, here are the badges I've accumulated:
 
{{ #fedorabadges: jsmith }}

Latest revision as of 16:49, 31 August 2017

Jared Smith
Jared Smith
Fedora Information
FAS name: jsmith
Fedora email: jsmith@fedoraproject.org
IRC nick: jsmith
IRC channels: #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #asterisk-doc, #asterisk-dev (and others)
Fedorapeople page: https://jsmith.fedorapeople.org
Badges (183)
Speak Up! Junior Editor Flock 2013 Attendee Involvement Tanked! Crypto Panda You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Bona Fide You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) If you build it... (Koji Success II) Junior Badger (Badger I) Mugshot Ambassador FUDCon Cusco Nuancier Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Embryo Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Flock 2013 Speaker In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Tadpole Baby Badger Tagger (Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Tadpole with Legs Egg White Hat Apex Vacation Take this and call me in the morning Novice (Wordsmith I) Associate Editor Secretary General No Longer a Ronin Let Me Introduce Myself Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Sensei White Rabbit Froglet Proven Packager Flock 2014 Speaker Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) The Blessing of the FPL Helping Hand Party Pirate Flock 2014 Attendee If you build it... (Koji Success III) What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Flock Paparazzi Science (Kernel Tester I) Dancing with Toshio What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Nuancier 21 Corporate Drone Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Readiness Shellshocked Fedora Docs FAD 2014 What goes up... (Koji Failure II) What goes around comes around (Karma II) FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee FUDCon Managua The Panda Is In You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Flock 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) OSCON 2015 Attendee Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) DevConf 2015 Attendee Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Origin Macaron (Cookie I) Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Flock 2015 Speaker Delivery Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Nom Nom Nom Nuancier F23 Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker Corporate Shill FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Partners in Crime Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Senior Editor What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Black and White (Cookie III) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor Top 500 Top 25 Top 100 The Last Argument of Kings Krakow Brews! Nuancier F24 Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Patches (SCM V) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Flock 2016 Attendee The cat came back... Nuancier F25 All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Community Messenger I Security Team Adult Frog Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Nuancier F26 Steampunk Arcade Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Binary Star Chief Editor Flock 2017 Attendee F28 i18n Test Day Participant Pizzelle (Cookie IV) It's a Cake Thing Fedora Podcast Interviewee Flock 2018 Attendee Meeting of the Minds Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Rollercoaster Restaurant Parselmouth I Catching the Bull (Tester IV) I Voted: Fedora 29 You’re on a boat! Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Fedora Advocate Flock 2019 Attendee Community Survey Taker I I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) I Voted: Fedora 32 I Voted: Fedora 33 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) F32 i18n Test Day Participant Lets have a party Fedora 33 nest-attendee-2020 Magazine Editor Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 Museum Visitor Nest Attendee 2021 I Voted: Fedora 36 I Voted: Fedora 35 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2022 I voted: Fedora 37 Community Survey Taker 2023 IoT Working Group Member Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 38 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) I voted: Fedora 39
 

My name is Jared Smith. I'm a big Linux geek. I enjoy systems administration, relational databases, web programming, and VoIP. I eat too many donuts, and don't blog as regularly as I should. I've managed small systems and large-scale networks (over 6500 servers and 800 network devices). As a college freshman, I once stuffed 26 jumbo marshmallows in my mouth to win a contest. Oh, and I wrote a book for O'Reilly on Asterisk and the future of telephony. For all the nitty gritty details, see http://www.jaredsmith.net/about/. I currently work for Endurance International (the parent company of web hosting firms such as Bluehost and Host Gator) doing open source outreach and technical oversight.

Contact

Activities within Fedora

  • I was the Fedora Project Leader for two years.
  • I help out with the Fedora Docs project, and generally make a nuisance of myself. I have a lot of experiece with DocBook publication toolchains, such as Publican.
  • I've also helped out on the Fedora Infrastructure team, mostly around the Fedora Talk server. (I have *lots and lots* of experience with Asterisk and voice over IP.)
  • I do my best to report bugs when I find them, and work with those responsible to ensure the problems get solved.


Badges

To hightlight some of the work I've done in Fedora, here are the badges I've accumulated:

Speak Up! Junior Editor Flock 2013 Attendee Involvement Tanked! Crypto Panda You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Bona Fide You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) If you build it... (Koji Success II) Junior Badger (Badger I) Mugshot Ambassador FUDCon Cusco Nuancier Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Embryo Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Flock 2013 Speaker In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Baby Badger Tagger (Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Tadpole Egg Tadpole with Legs Apex White Hat Take this and call me in the morning Novice (Wordsmith I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Secretary General Vacation Associate Editor No Longer a Ronin Sensei Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Proven Packager Froglet The Blessing of the FPL Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Flock 2014 Speaker Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Flock 2014 Attendee Party Pirate Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio Nuancier 21 Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Readiness Shellshocked Fedora Docs FAD 2014 Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Corporate Drone What goes around comes around (Karma II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) FUDCon Managua The Panda Is In Flock 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) OSCON 2015 Attendee Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) DevConf 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Origin Flock 2015 Speaker Delivery FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Nom Nom Nom Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Nuancier F23 Partners in Crime Corporate Shill Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Senior Editor Black and White (Cookie III) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor The Last Argument of Kings Top 100 Fedora 24 Change Accepted Top 500 Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Top 25 Patches (SCM V) Nuancier F24 Krakow Brews! Flock 2016 Attendee Community Messenger I The cat came back... All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Nuancier F26 Nuancier F25 Security Team Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Meeting of the Minds Steampunk Arcade Chief Editor Flock 2017 Attendee Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Adult Frog Binary Star F28 i18n Test Day Participant It's a Cake Thing Fedora Podcast Interviewee Flock 2018 Attendee Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Rollercoaster Restaurant Museum Visitor Catching the Bull (Tester IV) I Voted: Fedora 29 You’re on a boat! Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Flock 2019 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Lets have a party Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I Parselmouth I Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Fedora Advocate Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) F32 i18n Test Day Participant I Voted: Fedora 32 I Voted: Fedora 33 nest-attendee-2020 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Magazine Editor I Voted: Fedora 34 Nest Attendee 2021 I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2022 IoT Working Group Member I voted: Fedora 37 I Voted: Fedora 35 I Voted: Fedora 36 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2023 I voted: Fedora 39 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39)