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Tom 'spot' Callaway

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You can email him at: tcallawa<AT>redhat.com
On IRC (freenode.net), he's "spot".

Roles

  • Tom 'spot' Callaway does not currently possess any notable mutant powers.
  • He is currently the Fedora Engineering Manager @ Red Hat.
  • He served three consecutive elected terms on the Fedora Board from 2007 to 2011.
  • He was responsible for the Aurora SPARC Linux Project, which was a port of Fedora to SPARC. This effort is long dead.
  • He has worked for Red Hat since February 2001, and is worshipped by lemurs throughout the known universe.
  • He is currently leading the Fedora Packaging Committee, responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices.

Badges

Bona Fide If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) If you build it... (Koji Success III) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Junior Editor Senior Editor Associate Editor Speak Up! Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Flock 2013 Attendee Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Proven Packager Involvement Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora II) Riddle Me This Tanked! Crypto Panda Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Partners in Crime Master Editor What goes up... (Koji Failure III) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Trust me, I know what I am doing Mugshot Ambassador Let Me Introduce Myself Senior Badger (Badger II) Paranoid Panda Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F20) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) White Hat Secretary General White Rabbit Binary Star Baby Badger Old Yeller Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Flock 2013 Speaker Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Embryo You Can Pry It From My Cold, Undead Hands Tadpole with Legs Froglet Tadpole Egg Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) What goes around comes around (Karma II) FOSDEM 2014 Attendee Fedora Legal Badge of Doom All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Override, you say? Your call may be monitored for quality assurance The Last Argument of Kings Patches (SCM V) Pycon 2014 Attendee It still works! The Blessing of the FPL Take this and call me in the morning What goes around comes around (Karma I) Helping Hand Crypto Badger Flock 2014 Speaker Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock 2014 Attendee Flock Paparazzi Party Pirate Consolation Prize Nuancier 21 Corporate Drone Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Master Badger (Badger III) The Panda Is In Flock 2014 Organizer What goes around comes around (Karma IV) What goes around comes around (Karma III) Flock 2013 Organizer Fedora 21 Change Accepted Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Vacation Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Corporate Shill Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Missed the Train Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Flock 2015 Attendee Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Flock 2015 Speaker Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) FOSDEM 2015 Attendee Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) OSCON 2015 Attendee Origin Macaron (Cookie I) Delivery Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Adult Frog Packager Sponsor Nom Nom Nom Flock 2015 Organizer Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Chief Editor Badge Muse (Badges Released I) Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 The cat came back... United Packages of Fedora Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) Science (Kernel Tester II) Common Bugs Contributor Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Apprentice (Badge Artist I) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Nuancier F24 Top 10 Top 100 Top 25 Top 500 Parselmouth I Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Fedora 24 Change Accepted SELF 2016 Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora III) Horcrux Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Master Tagger (Tagger IV) Taming the Bull (Tester V) Master Package Tagger (Package Tagger IV) Macklemore (Tagger V) Red Hat Summit 2016 Bronze Silver Let's do lunch! Don't Call it a Comeback Gold 3D Printing SIG Member Badge Muse (Badges Released II) Flock 2016 Organizer Krakow Brews! Flock 2016 Attendee Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) OSCON 2017 Attendee FOSDEM 2017 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2017 Corporate Overlord Black and White (Cookie III) Flock 2017 Attendee Steampunk Arcade Board Member Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) SCaLE 16x Attendee Rollercoaster Restaurant FOSDEM 2018 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2018 Flock 2018 Attendee DevConf.us Attendee 2018 FOSDEM 2019 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Parselmouth II Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Flock 2019 Attendee You’re on a boat! It's a Cake Thing I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) nest-attendee-2020 Community Survey Taker I Community Messenger I I Voted: Fedora 34 Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) I Voted: Fedora 33 FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Council Member Red Hat Summit 2021 Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 35 I Voted: Fedora 36 SCaLE 19x Attendee Fedora 38 Change Accepted CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee FOSDEM 2024 Attendee Flock 2023 Attendee The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) FOSDEM 2023 Attendee SCaLE 21x Attendee

Packages

He also maintains a LOT of packages in Fedora. He used to keep a list here, but it was a pain to maintain. Pkgdb has this list: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/spot?acls=owner&acls=commit (some things I only co-maintain, or are dead packages now)


While I do sponsor new Packagers, I do so rarely these days, mostly because I'm super busy.

Here is a list of some of the people I've sponsored:

Chuck R. Anderson
Dmitry Butskoy
Jeff Carlson
Didier Casse
Mark Cox
Kushal Das
Patrice Dumas
Ralf Ertzinger
Kevin Fenzi
Chris Grau
Kevin Gray
Ed Hill
Dan Horák
Neil Horman
Patrick Laughton
John Patrick Mahowald
José Matos
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Karen Rei Pease
Ian Pilcher
Orion Poplawski
Jef Spaleta
Quentin Spencer
Richard A. Stout
Andreas Thienemann
Axel Thimm
Jason L Tibbitts III
Toni Willberg
Paul Wouters

If any of them screw up, feel free to let me know.