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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 ==
* 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'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 help out with the Fedora Docs project, and generally make a nuisance of myself
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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 }}

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