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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/.
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 ==
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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 work for [http://redhat.com Red Hat] as the [[FPL|Fedora Project Leader]].
* 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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== Goals as the Fedora Project Leader ==
== Goals as the Fedora Project Leader ==


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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 ==
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"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."
"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 }}

Latest revision as of 16:49, 31 August 2017

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