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Neal Gompa
Personal information
Pronouns: he/him
Location: Norwalk, CT, USA


GPG key: BA9778545005C10C
Contact information
Twitter: Det_Conan_Kudo
LinkedIn: ngompa
Fediverse: @Conan_Kudo@fosstodon.org
GitHub: Conan-Kudo
GitLab: Conan_Kudo

Fedora-specific information
FAS name: ngompa
Fedora e-mail: ngompa@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage: ngompa.fedorapeople.org
 


Neal Gompa

General Information

DevOps Engineer by day, Linux systems aficionado and developer by night!

I'm a developer and contributor in Fedora and other Linux distributions, focusing primarily on the base Linux system components, such as package and software management. I'm a big believer in "upstream first", which has led me all over the open source world.

I've been a user of Red Hat Linux and Fedora since 2002, and I've been a contributor to Fedora since 2007. I used to primarily work in software and systems management projects, but now I focus on desktop Fedora Linux, especially on multimedia; video games and game development; and audio+video production on Fedora Linux.

Contact

  • Email: ngompa A fedoraproject D org
  • Matrix: A conan_kudo C matrix D org
  • IRC: Conan_Kudo, Pharaoh_Atem, Son_Goku, King_InuYasha, Sir_Gallantmon, Eighth_Doctor on Libera Chat and OFTC

Activities within Fedora

  • Maintain many packages in Fedora
  • Participate in the Admin, CoreOS, RelEng, Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Rust, KDE, GNOME/Workstation, Modularity, MinGW, Server, Cloud, Buildsys, and OKD groups
  • Created and run the Asahi SIG
  • Contribute to many different projects as part of working on desktop Linux use-cases
  • Contribute to RPM, DNF, Mock/Koji, Pagure, and many other applications

Badges

You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 Involvement Corporate Drone Mugshot In Search of the Bull (Tester I) If you build it... (Koji Success II) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) Don't Call it a Comeback Riddle Me This Paranoid Panda Egg Embryo Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Froglet Tadpole Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Tadpole with Legs Take this and call me in the morning Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Bona Fide If you build it... (Koji Success I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) White Rabbit Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Top 500 Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) It still works! Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) What goes around comes around (Karma I) BrickHack 2016 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) The cat came back... Partners in Crime You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Nuancier F24 Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Senior Badger (Badger II) If you build it... (Koji Success III) Junior Editor Proven Packager Red Hat Summit 2016 Let Me Introduce Myself Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) Associate Editor Python SIG member Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Packager Sponsor Taming the Bull (Tester V) Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Helping Hand Fedora 26 Change Accepted The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) What goes around comes around (Karma II) Override, you say? Binary Star Red Hat Summit 2017 Old Yeller Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) White Hat Fedora 27 Change Accepted Senior Editor Crypto Panda Red Hat Summit 2018 Fedora 28 Change Accepted What goes around comes around (Karma III) DevConf.us Attendee 2018 Rollercoaster Restaurant Flock 2018 Attendee Fedora 29 Change Accepted Parselmouth I Top 100 What goes around comes around (Karma IV) Patches (SCM V) Fedora 30 Change Accepted Both Bull and Self Transcended (Tester VIII) Speak Up! Fedora 32 Change Accepted Black and White (Cookie III) Parselmouth II Flock 2019 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Fedora 31 Change Accepted You’re on a boat! Corporate Shill Readiness I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Master Badger (Badger III) The Blessing of the FPL All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Community Messenger I Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020 Reaching the Source (Tester IX) Social Panda Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) I Voted: Fedora 32 Master Editor Secretary General The Last Argument of Kings I converted to btrfs! Let's do lunch! Fedora Legal Badge of Doom Fedora 33 Change Accepted Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Fedora 34 Change Accepted nest-attendee-2020 I Voted: Fedora 33 It's a Cake Thing Lets have a party Fedora 33 FOSDEM 2021 Attendee NYE Party Panda DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Adult Frog Linux App Summit 2021 Fedora Podcast Interviewee Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 Red Hat Summit 2021 Akademy 2021 Learning from Sensei Podcast Contributor United Packages of Fedora Community Survey Taker I Fedora 35 Change Accepted GUADEC 2021 Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) Badge Junkie (Badger IV) DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Museum Visitor Nest Attendee 2021 Lets have a party Fedora 35 Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) I Voted: Fedora 35 Corporate Overlord FOSDEM 2022 Attendee Fedora 36 Change Accepted Return to Society (Tester X) Fedora Mentor Summit 2022 Lets have a party Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 Top 25 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 36 SCaLE 19x Attendee Fedora Week of Diversity 2022 I voted: Fedora 37 Fedora 38 Change Accepted Lets have a party Fedora 37 Fedora 37 Change Accepted CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee Fedora 39 Change Accepted FOSDEM 2023 Attendee Let's have a party (Fedora 38) I voted: Fedora 38 Flock 2023 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2023 I voted: Fedora 39 Ghost Tour KDE SIG Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) FOSDEM 2024 Attendee LXQt SIG Member SCaLE 21x Attendee CentOS Connect 2024 Attendee