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