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Jared Smith
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 (184)
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 Egg Tadpole with Legs Sensei The Blessing of the FPL What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Party Pirate Readiness Shellshocked Fedora Docs FAD 2014 Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) What goes around comes around (Karma II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) FUDCon Managua FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee DevConf 2015 Attendee OSCON 2015 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Nom Nom Nom FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Nuancier F23 Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor Top 25 Nuancier F24 Krakow Brews! All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Security Team Nuancier F26 Steampunk Arcade Binary Star Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Meeting of the Minds Fedora Podcast Interviewee It's a Cake Thing Rollercoaster Restaurant I Voted: Fedora 29 Parselmouth I Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 30 F32 i18n Test Day Participant DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 35 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee I voted: Fedora 37 White Hat Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Froglet Flock 2014 Speaker Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Corporate Drone Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Flock 2015 Speaker Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Corporate Shill Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Now, I return to my farm Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Flock 2016 Attendee Nuancier F25 Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Chief Editor Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 F28 i18n Test Day Participant Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Flock 2019 Attendee Fedora Advocate Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) I Voted: Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 33 Community Survey Taker I Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor Community Survey Taker 2022 Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2023 Apex Take this and call me in the morning Novice (Wordsmith I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Secretary General Vacation Associate Editor No Longer a Ronin Proven Packager Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Flock 2014 Attendee Nuancier 21 What goes up... (Koji Failure I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) The Panda Is In Flock 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Macaron (Cookie I) Origin Delivery Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Partners in Crime Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Black and White (Cookie III) Senior Editor Top 100 Top 500 Patches (SCM V) The cat came back... Community Messenger I Adult Frog Flock 2017 Attendee Flock 2018 Attendee You’re on a boat! I Voted: Fedora 32 nest-attendee-2020 Magazine Editor Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 36 IoT Working Group Member I voted: Fedora 38 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) I voted: Fedora 39 I voted: Fedora 40
 

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 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 Egg Tadpole with Legs Apex White Hat Novice (Wordsmith I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Secretary General Vacation Associate Editor No Longer a Ronin Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Shellshocked Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) What goes around comes around (Karma II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) FUDCon Managua Flock 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Flock 2015 Speaker Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Nom Nom Nom Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Partners in Crime Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Black and White (Cookie III) Senior Editor Top 25 Patches (SCM V) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Nuancier F24 Flock 2016 Attendee The cat came back... Nuancier F25 Nuancier F26 Flock 2017 Attendee Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Flock 2018 Attendee Catching the Bull (Tester IV) You’re on a boat! Flock 2019 Attendee Fedora Advocate I Voted: Fedora 31 Magazine Editor Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker 2022 IoT Working Group Member I voted: Fedora 38 Take this and call me in the morning Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit The Blessing of the FPL What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Flock 2014 Attendee Corporate Drone DevConf 2015 Attendee Origin If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Nuancier F23 Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Corporate Shill Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Top 100 Top 500 Krakow Brews! All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Security Team Adult Frog Chief Editor Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 F28 i18n Test Day Participant Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) F32 i18n Test Day Participant I Voted: Fedora 32 I Voted: Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 33 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2023 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) I voted: Fedora 39 Sensei Proven Packager Froglet Flock 2014 Speaker Party Pirate Nuancier 21 Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Readiness Fedora Docs FAD 2014 You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) The Panda Is In FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) OSCON 2015 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Delivery Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor Now, I return to my farm Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Community Messenger I Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Steampunk Arcade Binary Star Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Meeting of the Minds Fedora Podcast Interviewee It's a Cake Thing Rollercoaster Restaurant I Voted: Fedora 29 Parselmouth I nest-attendee-2020 Community Survey Taker I Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 35 I Voted: Fedora 36 I voted: Fedora 37 I voted: Fedora 40