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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/.
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 ==
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* '''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, #fedora-admin, #asterisk-docs)
* '''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/
* '''Blog''': http://www.jaredsmith.net/


== Activities within Fedora ==
== Activities within Fedora ==
* I work for [http://redhat.com Red Hat] as the [[FPL|Fedora Project Leader]].
* 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 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'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 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 ==
== Goals as the Fedora Project Leader ==


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