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