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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 (186)
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) Egg 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 Flock 2014 Speaker Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) Party Pirate Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Shellshocked Fedora Docs FAD 2014 Corporate Drone The Panda Is In FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker DevConf 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Delivery Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Partners in Crime Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Senior Editor Now, I return to my farm Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Paranoid Panda Nuancier F24 Krakow Brews! Community Messenger I Nuancier F26 Adult Frog Chief Editor Flock 2017 Attendee Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 F28 i18n Test Day Participant Meeting of the Minds Fedora Docs FAD 2018 It's a Cake Thing Rollercoaster Restaurant 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 nest-attendee-2020 Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 36 IoT Working Group Member Community Survey Taker 2023 Tadpole with Legs White Hat Sensei The Blessing of the FPL What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Flock 2014 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) FUDCon Managua 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 Let's have a party (Fedora 42) Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) 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 III) Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Black and White (Cookie III) Top 25 Patches (SCM V) Security Team Catching the Bull (Tester IV) I Voted: Fedora 29 Parselmouth I You’re on a boat! I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 30 I Voted: Fedora 32 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Magazine Editor Community Survey Taker 2022 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 39 I voted: Fedora 40 Tadpole Apex Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Froglet Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Nuancier 21 Readiness Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) What goes around comes around (Karma II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee OSCON 2015 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Origin Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Nom Nom Nom Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor Top 100 Top 500 Fedora 24 Change Accepted Flock 2016 Attendee The cat came back... All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Nuancier F25 Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Steampunk Arcade Binary Star Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Fedora Podcast Interviewee Flock 2018 Attendee 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 33 Lets have a party Fedora 33 I Voted: Fedora 35 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) Egg Apex White Hat Sensei Proven Packager Froglet Flock 2014 Speaker Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) Party Pirate Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Readiness Shellshocked Corporate Drone Flock 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker DevConf 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Flock 2015 Speaker Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Nom Nom Nom Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Corporate Shill Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Top 25 Paranoid Panda Fedora 24 Change Accepted Krakow Brews! All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Security Team Nuancier F26 Adult Frog Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Fedora Docs FAD 2018 It's a Cake Thing Rollercoaster Restaurant I Voted: Fedora 29 I Voted: Fedora 32 nest-attendee-2020 Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor Community Survey Taker 2022 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee I voted: Fedora 37 I voted: Fedora 38 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) I voted: Fedora 40 Take this and call me in the morning Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Flock 2014 Attendee Nuancier 21 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 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 Origin Delivery Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) 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) Nuancier F24 The cat came back... Community Messenger I Nuancier F25 Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Steampunk Arcade Binary Star Chief Editor Meeting of the Minds Fedora Podcast Interviewee Flock 2019 Attendee Fedora Advocate I Voted: Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 33 Magazine Editor Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee Tadpole Tadpole with Legs Novice (Wordsmith I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Secretary General Vacation Associate Editor No Longer a Ronin The Blessing of the FPL What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio What goes up... (Koji Failure I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Let's have a party (Fedora 42) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Nuancier F23 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Partners in Crime Senior Editor Now, I return to my farm Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Flock 2016 Attendee Flock 2017 Attendee Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 F28 i18n Test Day Participant Flock 2018 Attendee Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Parselmouth I You’re on a boat! 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 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) F32 i18n Test Day Participant DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 35 I Voted: Fedora 36 IoT Working Group Member Community Survey Taker 2023 I voted: Fedora 39