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