User:Spot

Tom 'spot' Callaway

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

Roles

• Tom 'spot' Callaway does not currently possess any notable mutant powers.

• For 19 years (2001-2020), he was at Red Hat in a variety of roles including (but not limited to)
  • He was the Fedora Engineering Manager
  • He was the Fedora Packaging Committee chair (responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices)
  • He handled Fedora Legal tasks (and was the Fedora liason to Red Hat Legal)
  • He served three consecutive elected terms on the Fedora Board from 2007 to 2011.

• In addition:
  • He was responsible for the Aurora SPARC Linux Project, which was a port of Fedora to SPARC. This effort is long dead.
  • He is worshipped by lemurs throughout the known universe.

• Currently:
  • I work on the Open Source Strategy and Marketing team at AWS (Amazon) as a Principal Open Source Evangelist.

Badges

Packages

He also maintains a LOT of packages in Fedora. He used to keep a list here, but it was a pain to maintain. A full list can be found here: https://src.fedoraproject.org/user/spot

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)

Sponsor

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.