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Tom 'spot' Callaway

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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

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

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)

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.