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{{Admon/note | This page will be changing soon. | I'm joining [http://redhat.com Red Hat] as the new [[Fedora Project Leader]] starting Monday, July 12.  You'll find more information here shortly about me and my work in the Fedora Project.}}
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.
 
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.


== Contact ==
== Contact ==
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* '''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, #fedora-admin, #asterisk-docs)
* '''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 ==
* 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 was the [[FPL|Fedora Project Leader]] for two years.
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* 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.   
<!-- Add info about general Asterisk experience, and specifically how it applied to Fedora Talk -->
* 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.
<!-- Link to a self introduction somewhere in the project: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/infrastructure/2008-February/003614.html ... should work nicely -->
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=== Goals ===
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== Goals as the Fedora Project Leader ==


==== As the Fedora Project Leader ====
* Oversee the entire Fedora Project -- if it's in Fedora, ultimately I'm accountable for it.
* 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
* Act as a catalyst within the community to improve communications and encourage excellent behavior
* Work with the Fedora Program Manager [[user:poelcat|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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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:


==== As a Contributor ====
{{ #fedorabadges: jsmith }}
* Provide top-tier quality documentation for Fedora products and services.
* Provide the odd low-maintenance package such as non-critical add-ons, where my programming skill (or lack thereof) is not a limiting factor.
* Strive to provide a good example of dealing with other people in a constructive, friendly way at all times.

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