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