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