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