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