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