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|REAL-NAME=Ricky Elrod
|image=CodeBlock.jpg
|homepage=elrod.me
|location=Ohio, USA
|birthday=August 2
|fas-name=codeblock
|email=codeblock@fedoraproject.org
|gpg=FC3C6A07
|irc-nick=relrod
|irc-channels=#fedora-admin, #fedora-noc, #fedora-apps, #haskell, #scalaz, and a bunch of others
|facebook=codeblock
|github=relrod
|callsign=N8SQL
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= Ricky Elrod on the 'net =
= Introduction =
'''FAS''': [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/view/codeblock codeblock]<br />
I live in Youngstown, OH, USA, and am currently attending Youngstown State University where I am majoring in computer science and 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.
'''GPG''': [http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x002710B0DAD3DF0E DAD3DF0E]<br />
 
'''Freenode''' (nick: CodeBlock): #fedora-admin, #fedora-noc, #phabricator, #rubyonrails, #synhak and a bunch of others.<br />
= What I do within Fedora (current-ish) =
'''Slashnet''' (nick: CodeBlock): #uakroncs<br />
* I packaged and maintain a number of [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/codeblock packages] that I find useful.
'''Ham Radio''': [http://callook.info/n8sql N8SQL]<br />
** I am also a packager sponsor and currently sponsor a small number of people
'''Email''': [mailto:codeblock@fedoraproject.org codeblock@fedoraproject.org]<br />
* I'm a member of the core infrastructure team
'''Blog''': [http://rickyelrod.tumblr.com/ http://rickyelrod.tumblr.com/]<br />
** Web app development
'''Github''': [https://www.github.com/codeblock http://www.github.com/codeblock]<br />
** Server maintenance/upkeep
'''Facebook''': [https://www.facebook.com/codeblock http://www.facebook.com/codeblock]<br />
* I lead the [https://github.com/fedora-infra/mobile Fedora Mobile] Android app project
'''Google+''' (rarely used): [https://plus.google.com/106726601246881076299/ https://plus.google.com/106726601246881076299/]<br />
* I am on the websites team and occasionally fix issues with project websites


= What I do within Fedora =
= Timeline of my Fedora history =
* (June 2010) - Sent intro email to infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org, started helping out wherever I could.
* (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!)
* (January 2011) - Got funded to go to [[FUDCon:Tempe_2011]]. (Thank you, Fedora!)
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* (June 2011) - Won the [[Scholarship | Fedora Scholarship]]. (Thank you, Fedora!)
* (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.
* (November 2011) - Started administrating the [[Scholarship | Fedora Scholarship]] since the previous winner has the opportunity to run the next year's scholarship.
* (February 2011) - Became an intern at Red Hat (Fedora Engineering Intern).
* (February 2012) - Became an intern at Red Hat (Fedora Engineering Intern).
* (December 2013 - present) - Title change to "Associate Software Engineer, Fedora Engineering"


= What I do outside of Fedora (in FOSS) =
= 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 work on a lot of small FOSS projects that I started (see my GitHub page linked above).
* I maintain a small number of [https://rubygems.org/profiles/6607 Ruby Gems].
* I love learning about programming paradigms, particularly Functional Programming.
* I created (and very badly need to re-create) [http://da.gd/ http://da.gd/] and the [https://github.com/CodeBlock/dagd "framework"] that powers it.
** Along with that, I love learning the math behind it. Type theory and category theory are enjoyable. Provable correctness is amazing. :)
* I contribute to [https://github.com/facebook/phabricator Facebook's Phabricator project] in my spare time.
** In fact Programming Language Theory in general is amazing. :)
* 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 maintain a small number of [https://rubygems.org/profiles/6607 Ruby Gems], but this is about all I do with Ruby nowadays.
* I love learning and playing with a lot of different programming languages.
* I maintain some Haskell packages on [http://hackage.haskell.org/user/RickyElrod Hackage].
** Here is a small list of ones that I know: Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, [http://iolanguage.com Io], Java
* I created [http://da.gd/ http://da.gd/] and am currently rewriting it in Haskell.
** Here is a small list of ones that I have played with/am learning: [http://clojure.org/ Clojure] (and other lisps), C/C++
* I sometimes contribute to [https://github.com/facebook/phabricator Facebook's Phabricator project] in my spare time.
** Here is a small list of ones that I want to try out one day: [http://magpie-lang.org Magpie]


= Non-software things that I do =
= Non-software things that I do =
* I am a part-time student at the [http://www.uakron.edu/ University of Akron].
* I am a full-time student, currently dual-majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics at Youngstown State University.
** I am the Vice President for [http://www.w8upd.org/ W8UPD], The University of Akron's Amateur Radio Club.
** I am the former Vice President and current Events Coordinator for the YSU ACM student chapter.
** I am the Vice President for [http://acm.cs.uakron.edu ACM at UA].
** I am the former Vice President for [http://www.w8upd.org/ W8UPD], The University of Akron's Amateur Radio Club.
* I am a founding member of [http://synhak.org The SYN/HAK Hackerspace] in Akron, Ohio.
** I am the former Vice President for [http://acm.cs.uakron.edu ACM at UAkron].
* I am learning Guitar in my free time.
* I am a founder of the [https://noexc.org/ Northeast Ohio Experimenters Club] in Ohio, USA.
* I play the keyboard for fun. I'm not good at it.
* I was a founder of [http://synhak.org The SYN/HAK Hackerspace] in Akron, Ohio, USA.
* I love animals.
* I dabble with calligraphy.
* I enjoy photography - I shoot Pentax.
* I enjoy astronomy and should learn more about it one day.
* I'm an amateur radio operator (N8SQL) and ARRL VE.
* I play drums (but only as a hobby).
* I play guitar (also only as a hobby).


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

Revision as of 19:36, 23 April 2018

Ricky Elrod
Ricky Elrod
Personal information
Location: Ohio, USA
Birthday: August 2
Homepage: elrod.me
E-mail: codeblock@fedoraproject.org
GPG key: FC3C6A07
Contact information
Ham Radio: N8SQL​
Facebook: codeblock​
GitHub: relrod

​

Fedora-specific information
FAS name: codeblock
Fedora e-mail: codeblock@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage: codeblock.fedorapeople.org
Fedora Badges earned (142)
Senior Editor Speak Up! Flock 2013 Attendee Associate Editor Junior Editor Involvement Bloggin' it! (Planet I) If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success I) If you build it... (Koji Success III) Tagger (Tagger II) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Riddle Me This Tanked! Junior Badger (Badger I) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F20) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Crypto Panda Secretary General You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Paranoid Panda Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Trust me, I know what I am doing Mugshot Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Bona Fide Packager Sponsor What goes up... (Koji Failure III) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Maestro Bloggin' it! (Planet III) White Hat Nuancier In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Embryo Baby Badger Flock 2013 Speaker Senior Badger (Badger II) Tadpole Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Binary Star Egg Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Rockin' & Rollin' No Longer a Ronin Take this and call me in the morning Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Override, you say? Helping Hand What goes around comes around (Karma I) Flock 2014 Speaker If you build it... (Koji Success IV) Proven Packager Fedora Scholar Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Partners in Crime The Blessing of the FPL Master Editor Party Pirate Flock 2014 Attendee Crypto Badger Missed the Train Ambassador Corporate Drone Badge Off! Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Fedora 21 Change Accepted Tadpole with Legs Nom Nom Nom Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Consolation Prize Shellshocked Origin Flock 2015 Speaker Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Delivery Fedora Legal Badge of Doom Master Badger (Badger III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Fedora 22 Change Accepted Macaron (Cookie I) Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Flock 2015 Attendee Dancing with Toshio Websites.NEXT Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Top 100 What goes around comes around (Karma II) Flock 2016 Attendee Krakow Brews! Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Froglet It still works! Top 500 Horcrux Black and White (Cookie III) Rollercoaster Restaurant Don't Call it a Comeback Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) The Panda Is In Flock Paparazzi Inside Job Flock 2018 Attendee Extra! Extra! Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Flock 2017 Attendee Steampunk Arcade LISA17 Amateur Radio SIG Member What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Meeting of the Minds Adult Frog DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee Fedora Advocate You’re on a boat! Flock 2019 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Readiness Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) nest-attendee-2020 Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020 Rainbow (Cookie V) We Can Do It! Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)
 



Introduction

I live in Youngstown, OH, USA, and am currently attending Youngstown State University where I am majoring in computer science and 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"

What I do outside of Fedora (in FOSS)

  • I work on a lot of small FOSS projects that I started (see my GitHub page linked above).
  • 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 dual-majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics at Youngstown State University.
    • I am the former Vice President and current Events Coordinator 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 Northeast Ohio Experimenters Club in Ohio, USA.
  • I was a founder of The SYN/HAK Hackerspace in Akron, Ohio, USA.
  • I dabble with calligraphy.
  • I enjoy photography - I shoot Pentax.
  • I enjoy astronomy and should learn more about it one day.
  • I'm an amateur radio operator (N8SQL) and ARRL VE.
  • I play drums (but only as a hobby).
  • I play guitar (also only as a hobby).
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