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