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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 (181)
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 Vacation White Hat Take this and call me in the morning Novice (Wordsmith I) Apex Associate Editor Secretary General Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Froglet No Longer a Ronin Sensei White Rabbit Let Me Introduce Myself Proven Packager Flock 2014 Speaker The Blessing of the FPL Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) If you build it... (Koji Success III) Helping Hand What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Flock 2014 Attendee Flock Paparazzi Party Pirate Science (Kernel Tester I) Dancing with Toshio Nuancier 21 Readiness Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Shellshocked Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Fedora Docs FAD 2014 What goes around comes around (Karma II) Corporate Drone You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) The Panda Is In What goes up... (Koji Failure II) FUDCon Managua Flock 2015 Attendee Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Nuancier (F22) DevConf 2015 Attendee OSCON 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Science (Kernel Tester II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Flock 2015 Speaker Delivery Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Origin Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Nom Nom Nom Nuancier 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) Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Master Badger (Badger III) Partners in Crime Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Black and White (Cookie III) Senior Editor Master Editor Top 100 The Last Argument of Kings Top 25 Patches (SCM V) Top 500 Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Nuancier F24 Krakow Brews! Flock 2016 Attendee The cat came back... Security Team Nuancier F25 Community Messenger I Steampunk Arcade Nuancier F26 Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Adult Frog Flock 2017 Attendee Binary Star Chief Editor Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Parselmouth I F28 i18n Test Day Participant Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Flock 2018 Attendee It's a Cake Thing Catching the Bull (Tester IV) I Voted: Fedora 29 Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Meeting of the Minds Fedora Podcast Interviewee Rollercoaster Restaurant You’re on a boat! Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Flock 2019 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) I voted: Fedora 38 Fedora Advocate Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) F32 i18n Test Day Participant I Voted: Fedora 32 I Voted: Fedora 33 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Lets have a party Fedora 33 nest-attendee-2020 Magazine Editor Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 35 I Voted: Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee IoT Working Group Member I voted: Fedora 37 Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2023
 

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 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 Sensei Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Proven Packager Froglet The Blessing of the FPL Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Flock 2014 Speaker Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Flock 2014 Attendee Party Pirate Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio Nuancier 21 Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Readiness Shellshocked Fedora Docs FAD 2014 Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Corporate Drone What goes around comes around (Karma II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) FUDCon Managua The Panda Is In Flock 2015 Attendee 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) DevConf 2015 Attendee Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) OSCON 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Origin Flock 2015 Speaker Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) 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) Corporate Shill Partners in Crime Delivery Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Nuancier F23 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Senior Editor Black and White (Cookie III) Top 25 What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor The Last Argument of Kings Nuancier F24 Top 500 Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Patches (SCM V) Top 100 Fedora 24 Change Accepted Chief Editor Flock 2016 Attendee All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Parselmouth I Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Fedora Advocate I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) F32 i18n Test Day Participant I Voted: Fedora 32 Lets have a party Fedora 33 nest-attendee-2020 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Krakow Brews! The cat came back... Community Messenger I Nuancier F25 Security Team Nuancier F26 Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Adult Frog Steampunk Arcade Binary Star Flock 2017 Attendee Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 F28 i18n Test Day Participant Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Meeting of the Minds Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Fedora Podcast Interviewee Flock 2018 Attendee It's a Cake Thing Rollercoaster Restaurant Catching the Bull (Tester IV) I Voted: Fedora 29 You’re on a boat! Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Flock 2019 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) I Voted: Fedora 33 I Voted: Fedora 35 Magazine Editor Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 Nest Attendee 2021 Community Survey Taker I Museum Visitor Community Survey Taker 2023 I Voted: Fedora 36 I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2022 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee IoT Working Group Member I voted: Fedora 37 Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee