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My name is Jared Smith.  I'm a geek.
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 ==
== Contact ==


* '''Email''': [mailto:jsmith-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org Jared's Email]
* '''Email''': [mailto:jsmith-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org Jared's Email]
* '''IRC''': jsmith (in #fedora-docs, #asterisk-doc, #asterisk-dev, #asterisk-bugs)
* '''IRC''': jsmith (in #fedora-docs, #fedora-admin, #asterisk-docs)
* '''GPG key''': Key ID 8B670B7A
* '''GPG key''': Key ID 210BDF5A
* '''Fedora Account''': jsmith
* '''Fedora Account''': jsmith
* '''Blog''': http://www.jaredsmith.net/


== Activities within Fedora ==
== Activities within Fedora ==
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* I was the [[FPL|Fedora Project Leader]] for two years.
* I help out with the Fedora Docs project, and generally make a nuisance of myself
* 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. 
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* 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.)
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* I do my best to report bugs when I find them, and work with those responsible to ensure the problems get solved.
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== Goals as the Fedora Project Leader ==
 
* Oversee the entire Fedora Project -- if it's in Fedora, ultimately I'm accountable for it.
* Act as a catalyst within the community to improve communications and encourage excellent behavior
* Work with the Fedora Program Manager [[user:JohnPoelstra|John Poelstra]], Fedora Engineering Manager [[user:spot|Tom "Spot" Callaway]], and the Community Architecture team to make sure that Fedora is making constant, substantial progress in its mission to advance free and open source software.
* Chair the [[Board| Fedora Project Board]], and ensure that the Board is effectively advising and guiding the Fedora Project where needed.
* Be an effective bridge between the external volunteer contributor base and the contributor community inside Red Hat, such as RHEL engineers.
* Lower contributor barriers to the absolute minimum, and encourage others to get involved in FOSS through Fedora.
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== Education Background ==
 
Jared graduated in 2001 from Utah State University with a degree in Computer Engineering.
 
His fondest memory of his USU education involves a course taught by [http://digital.cs.usu.edu/~allan/ Professor Stephen J. Allan]:
 
"The class was something like "Unix Basics" or something boring like that, but the teacher made the assignments interesting, by forcing you to work with others in the class to solve a problem. A typical assignment might go something like this: 'Joe, you write an awk script to take this file I give you and transform it to look like this -- Susie, you take that, and use grep and sed to do this to it, Jared -- you take that and write a Perl script to do this...' and so on. So not only did we learn the tools, we had to communicate our expectations and assumptions with the other members of our team."
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== Badges ==
To hightlight some of the work I've done in Fedora, here are the badges I've accumulated:
 
{{ #fedorabadges: jsmith }}

Revision as of 20:39, 25 March 2014

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