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