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Ricky Elrod on the 'net

FAS: codeblock
GPG: DAD3DF0E
Freenode (nick: relrod): #fedora-admin, #fedora-noc, #fedora-apps, #fedora-fedmsg, #haskell, #scalaz and a bunch of others.
Internal/Red Hat (nick: relrod)
Slashnet (nick: CodeBlock): #uakroncs
Ham Radio: N8SQL
Email: codeblock@fedoraproject.org
Website: http://elrod.me/
Blog: http://blog.elrod.me/
Github: https://www.github.com/CodeBlock
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/codeblock
Google+ (rarely used): https://plus.google.com/106726601246881076299/

Introduction

I live in Akron, OH, USA, and am currently attending Youngstown State University where I am majoring in computer science and minoring in mathematics. I have a very strong interest in Programming Language Theory (PLT) and the connection between mathematics and programming by way of things like category theory, type theory, and the Curry-Howard correspondence.

What I do within Fedora (current-ish)

I packaged and maintain a number of packages that I find useful.
- I am also a packager sponsor and currently sponsor a small number of people
I'm a member of the core infrastructure team
- Web app development
- Server maintenance/upkeep
I lead the Fedora Mobile Android app project
I am on the websites team and occasionally fix issues with project websites

Timeline of my Fedora history

(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).
(December 2013 - present) - Title change to "Associate Software Engineer, Fedora Engineering"

Perhaps most importantly, I earn badges!

What I do outside of Fedora (in FOSS)

I love learning about programming paradigms, particularly Functional Programming.
- Along with that, I love learning the math behind it. Type theory and category theory are enjoyable. Provable correctness is amazing. :)
- In fact Programming Language Theory in general is amazing. :)
I maintain a small number of Ruby Gems, but this is about all I do with Ruby nowadays.
I maintain some Haskell packages on Hackage.
I created http://da.gd/ and am currently rewriting it in Haskell.
I sometimes contribute to Facebook's Phabricator project in my spare time.

Non-software things that I do

I am a full-time student, currently majoring in CS and minoring in Mathematics at Youngstown State University.
- I am the current Vice President for the YSU ACM student chapter.
- 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 UAkron.
I am a founder of The SYN/HAK Hackerspace in Akron, Ohio.
I am learning calligraphy in my free time.
I enjoy photography - I shoot Pentax.
I am still active with the University of Akron Amateur Radio club, though I no longer attend UAkron. I write code for them.

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-= Richard (Ricky) B. Elrod =
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-I am a Linux enthusiast, who recently decided to find an already-active Open Source community to participate in. Because of that, I recently joined the Fedora Infrastructure Team. I'll talk a bit about that below, but so far I really enjoy it.
+= Ricky Elrod on the 'net =
+'''FAS''': [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/view/codeblock codeblock]<br />
+'''GPG''': [http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x002710B0DAD3DF0E DAD3DF0E]<br />
+'''Freenode''' (nick: relrod): #fedora-admin, #fedora-noc, #fedora-apps, #fedora-fedmsg, #haskell, #scalaz and a bunch of others.<br />
+'''Internal/Red Hat''' (nick: relrod)<br />
+'''Slashnet''' (nick: CodeBlock): #uakroncs<br />
+'''Ham Radio''': [http://callook.info/n8sql N8SQL]<br />
+'''Email''': [mailto:codeblock@fedoraproject.org codeblock@fedoraproject.org]<br />
+'''Website''': [http://elrod.me/ http://elrod.me/]<br />
+'''Blog''': [http://blog.elrod.me/ http://blog.elrod.me/]<br />
+'''Github''': [https://www.github.com/codeblock https://www.github.com/CodeBlock]<br />
+'''Facebook''': [https://www.facebook.com/codeblock https://www.facebook.com/codeblock]<br />
+'''Google+''' (rarely used): [https://plus.google.com/106726601246881076299/ https://plus.google.com/106726601246881076299/]<br />
-= My Life =
+= Introduction =
-At some point I can probably just link to my portfolio, but right now it's a bit specific to the class that I had to develop it for. After I graduate High School (two weeks left, as of this writing), I will remove some of the class-specific elements of it, and link to it here.
+I live in Akron, OH, USA, and am currently attending Youngstown State University where I am majoring in computer science and minoring in mathematics. I have a very strong interest in Programming Language Theory (PLT) and the connection between mathematics and programming by way of things like category theory, type theory, and the Curry-Howard correspondence.
-Basically, I have been using Linux for nearly 5 years now. Started out with Freespire, moved up to Ubuntu, then to Arch. Then I stopped for a while, and went a different direction: Into the world of the BSD's. I really liked FreeBSD for some time. The ports system was excellent, and the community was very helpful. However, there were some things that irked me a bit, and made me want to try something new.
+= What I do within Fedora (current-ish) =
+* I packaged and maintain a number of [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/codeblock packages] that I find useful.
+** I am also a packager sponsor and currently sponsor a small number of people
+* I'm a member of the core infrastructure team
+** Web app development
+** Server maintenance/upkeep
+* I lead the [https://github.com/fedora-infra/mobile Fedora Mobile] Android app project
+* I am on the websites team and occasionally fix issues with project websites
-That's where Fedora comes in. After playing around with Fedora for some time, I decided that I'd like to give back to the community a bit. The Infrastructure Team was very accepting of me, and [[User:mmcgrath]] helped me get started. He gave me my first job, which is to create an automated script to make Fedorahosted projects and repos, as needed, by parsing out Trac tickets from a template. For the full concept, see the ticket here: http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2131. This is still a work in progress.
+= Timeline of my Fedora history =
+* (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 [[Scholarship | Fedora Scholarship]]. (Thank you, Fedora!)
+* (November 2011) - Started administrating the [[Scholarship | 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).
+* (December 2013 - present) - Title change to "Associate Software Engineer, Fedora Engineering"
-I hold an amateur radio license, KB3LLM, though I am very rarely active on the bands anymore. As mentioned above, I graduate High School in two weeks, and plan on entering the University of Akron, to major in Computer Science.
+= Perhaps most importantly, I earn badges! =
+{{ #fedorabadges: codeblock }}
-I am active on IRC, on Freenode (irc.freenode.net) and a small network I help run, Ninthbit (irc.ninthbit.net). On both of them, I use the nick "CodeBlock". That is probably the best way to contact me, or via email, at codeblock@fedoraproject.org.
+= What I do outside of Fedora (in FOSS) =
+* I love learning about programming paradigms, particularly Functional Programming.
+** Along with that, I love learning the math behind it. Type theory and category theory are enjoyable. Provable correctness is amazing. :)
+** In fact Programming Language Theory in general is amazing. :)
+* I maintain a small number of [https://rubygems.org/profiles/6607 Ruby Gems], but this is about all I do with Ruby nowadays.
+* I maintain some Haskell packages on [http://hackage.haskell.org/user/RickyElrod Hackage].
+* I created [http://da.gd/ http://da.gd/] and am currently rewriting it in Haskell.
+* I sometimes contribute to [https://github.com/facebook/phabricator Facebook's Phabricator project] in my spare time.
-= Thanks =
+= Non-software things that I do =
-And finally, I just want to say thanks to the Fedora Infrastructure Team for allowing me to be a part of it, and letting me help out. I have yet to see another Distro's infra team be so open to people helping.
+* I am a full-time student, currently majoring in CS and minoring in Mathematics at Youngstown State University.
+** I am the current Vice President for the YSU ACM student chapter.
+** I am the former Vice President for [http://www.w8upd.org/ W8UPD], The University of Akron's Amateur Radio Club.
+** I am the former Vice President for [http://acm.cs.uakron.edu ACM at UAkron].
+* I am a founder of [http://synhak.org The SYN/HAK Hackerspace] in Akron, Ohio.
+* I am learning calligraphy in my free time.
+* I enjoy photography - I shoot Pentax.
+* I am still active with the University of Akron Amateur Radio club, though I no longer attend UAkron. I write code for them.

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