User:Codeblock



= Ricky Elrod on the 'net = FAS: codeblock

GPG: DAD3DF0E

Freenode (nick: CodeBlock): #fedora-admin, #fedora-noc, #phabricator, #rubyonrails, #synhak and a bunch of others.

Slashnet (nick: CodeBlock): #uakroncs

Ham Radio: N8SQL

Email: [mailto:codeblock@fedoraproject.org codeblock@fedoraproject.org]

Blog: http://rickyelrod.tumblr.com/

Github: http://www.github.com/codeblock

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/codeblock

Google+ (rarely used): https://plus.google.com/106726601246881076299/

= What I do within Fedora =
 * (June 2010) - Sent intro email to infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org, started helping out wherever I could.
 * (January 2011) - Got funded to go to FUDCon:Tempe_2011. (Thank you, Fedora!)
 * (February 2011) - Was asked about and gladly accepted entrance into sysadmin-main, the core sysadmin group for the Fedora Project.
 * (June 2011) - Won the Fedora Scholarship. (Thank you, Fedora!)
 * (November 2011) - Started administrating the Fedora Scholarship since the previous winner has the opportunity to run the next year's scholarship.
 * (February 2012) - Became an intern at Red Hat (Fedora Engineering Intern).

= What I do outside of Fedora (in FOSS) =
 * I secretly love Ruby and Ruby On Rails, and tend to do web development work using this stack quite a bit.
 * I maintain a small number of Ruby Gems.
 * I created (and very badly need to re-create) http://da.gd/ and the "framework" that powers it.
 * I contribute to Facebook's Phabricator project in my spare time.
 * I am trying to make the FOSS bridge between Software and Amateur Radio more obtainable to more people. On a contribution and end-user level. I have at least one project in development right now to contribute to this goal, that will be released (and FOSS once it is) in mid-2012. This project also recently got approved by Kickstarter, so we can soon begin raising money to help make this happen.
 * I love learning and playing with a lot of different programming languages.
 * Here is a small list of ones that I know: Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, Io, Java
 * Here is a small list of ones that I have played with/am learning: Clojure (and other lisps), C/C++
 * Here is a small list of ones that I want to try out one day: Magpie

= Non-software things that I do =
 * I am a part-time student at the University of Akron.
 * I am the former Vice President for W8UPD, The University of Akron's Amateur Radio Club.
 * I am the former Vice President for ACM at UA.
 * I am a founding member of The SYN/HAK Hackerspace in Akron, Ohio.
 * I am learning Guitar in my free time.
 * I play the keyboard for fun. I'm not good at it.
 * I love animals.

= Things that I find interesting and one-day would like to try, but currently know nothing about =
 * Airplane piloting.
 * Astronomy.
 * Upgrading my Ham Radio license to 'Extra'.