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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 }}

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