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