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Neal Gompa
Personal information
Pronouns: he/him
Location: Norwalk, CT, USA


GPG key: BA9778545005C10C
Contact information
Twitter: Det_Conan_Kudo
LinkedIn: ngompa
Fediverse: @Conan_Kudo@fosstodon.org
GitHub: Conan-Kudo
GitLab: Conan_Kudo

Fedora-specific information
FAS name: ngompa
Fedora e-mail: ngompa@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage: ngompa.fedorapeople.org
 


Neal Gompa

General Information

DevOps Engineer by day, Linux systems aficionado and developer by night!

I'm a developer and contributor in Fedora and other Linux distributions, focusing primarily on the base Linux system components, such as package and software management. I'm a big believer in "upstream first", which has led me all over the open source world.

I've been a user of Red Hat Linux and Fedora since 2002, and I've been a contributor to Fedora since 2007. I used to primarily work in software and systems management projects, but now I focus on desktop Fedora Linux, especially on multimedia; video games and game development; and audio+video production on Fedora Linux.

Contact

  • Email: ngompa A fedoraproject D org
  • Matrix: A conan_kudo C matrix D org
  • IRC: Conan_Kudo, Pharaoh_Atem, Son_Goku, King_InuYasha, Sir_Gallantmon, Eighth_Doctor on Libera Chat and OFTC

Activities within Fedora

  • Maintain many packages in Fedora
  • Participate in the Admin, CoreOS, RelEng, Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Rust, KDE, GNOME/Workstation, Modularity, MinGW, Server, Cloud, Buildsys, and OKD groups
  • Created and run the Asahi SIG
  • Contribute to many different projects as part of working on desktop Linux use-cases
  • Contribute to RPM, DNF, Mock/Koji, Pagure, and many other applications

Badges

You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Involvement Corporate Drone Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 What goes up... (Koji Failure I) If you build it... (Koji Success II) Mugshot Riddle Me This You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Froglet Paranoid Panda Don't Call it a Comeback Tadpole Embryo Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Tadpole with Legs Egg Take this and call me in the morning Junior Badger (Badger I) Bona Fide If you build it... (Koji Success I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) White Rabbit Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Top 500 Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) It still works! Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) The cat came back... BrickHack 2016 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Partners in Crime Nuancier F24 What goes around comes around (Karma I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Senior Badger (Badger II) Junior Editor If you build it... (Koji Success III) Taming the Bull (Tester V) Red Hat Summit 2016 Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Let Me Introduce Myself Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) Python SIG member Associate Editor Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Helping Hand Fedora 26 Change Accepted Packager Sponsor What goes around comes around (Karma II) Binary Star The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) Proven Packager Override, you say? Red Hat Summit 2017 Old Yeller Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Crypto Panda Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Fedora 27 Change Accepted You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) White Hat Fedora 29 Change Accepted Senior Editor Red Hat Summit 2018 Rollercoaster Restaurant What goes around comes around (Karma III) Fedora 28 Change Accepted Flock 2018 Attendee DevConf.us Attendee 2018 Top 100 What goes around comes around (Karma IV) Parselmouth I Patches (SCM V) Both Bull and Self Transcended (Tester VIII) Black and White (Cookie III) Fedora 30 Change Accepted Speak Up! Flock 2019 Attendee Parselmouth II Fedora 31 Change Accepted You’re on a boat! Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Readiness Fedora 32 Change Accepted I Voted: Fedora 30 Corporate Shill Master Badger (Badger III) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) The Blessing of the FPL Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020 Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Reaching the Source (Tester IX) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) I Voted: Fedora 32 Social Panda Community Messenger I I converted to btrfs! Secretary General Master Editor The Last Argument of Kings Fedora Legal Badge of Doom nest-attendee-2020 Let's do lunch! Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Fedora 33 Change Accepted Fedora 34 Change Accepted It's a Cake Thing Lets have a party Fedora 33 I Voted: Fedora 33 NYE Party Panda Fedora Podcast Interviewee FOSDEM 2021 Attendee DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Adult Frog Linux App Summit 2021 I Voted: Fedora 34 United Packages of Fedora Red Hat Summit 2021 Lets have a party Fedora 34 Akademy 2021 Learning from Sensei Community Survey Taker I GUADEC 2021 Podcast Contributor Fedora 35 Change Accepted Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) Museum Visitor Nest Attendee 2021 Lets have a party Fedora 35 DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 35 Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) FOSDEM 2022 Attendee Fedora 36 Change Accepted Return to Society (Tester X) Corporate Overlord Fedora Mentor Summit 2022 Community Survey Taker 2022 Top 25 SCaLE 19x Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 36 I Voted: Fedora 36 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Fedora Week of Diversity 2022 Lets have a party Fedora 37 Fedora 37 Change Accepted Fedora 38 Change Accepted CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 37 I voted: Fedora 38 FOSDEM 2023 Attendee Fedora 39 Change Accepted Let's have a party (Fedora 38) Flock 2023 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2023 Ghost Tour FOSDEM 2024 Attendee Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) KDE SIG I voted: Fedora 39 LXQt SIG Member Red Hat Summit 2024 SCaLE 21x Attendee CentOS Connect 2024 Attendee