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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.  For all the nitty gritty details, see http://www.jaredsmith.net/about/.


== 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/
* '''Blog''': http://www.jaredsmith.net/


== Activities within Fedora ==
== Activities within Fedora ==
* 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 have a lot of experiece with DocBook publication toolchains, such as Publican.   
* 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'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.
* 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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* 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:
{{ #fedorabadges: jsmith }}

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