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Neal Gompa
Personal information
Pronouns: he/him
Location: Norwalk, CT, USA


GPG key: BA9778545005C10C
Contact information
Twitter: Det_Conan_Kudo
LinkedIn: ngompa
Fediverse: @Conan_Kudo@fosstodon.org
GitHub: Conan-Kudo
GitLab: Conan_Kudo

Fedora-specific information
FAS name: ngompa
Fedora e-mail: ngompa@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage: ngompa.fedorapeople.org
 


Neal Gompa

General Information

DevOps Engineer by day, Linux systems aficionado and developer by night!

I'm a developer and contributor in Fedora and other Linux distributions, focusing primarily on the base Linux system components, such as package and software management. I'm a big believer in "upstream first", which has led me all over the open source world.

I've been a user of Red Hat Linux and Fedora since 2002, and I've been a contributor to Fedora since 2007. I used to primarily work in software and systems management projects, but now I focus on desktop Fedora Linux, especially on multimedia; video games and game development; and audio+video production on Fedora Linux.

Contact

  • Email: ngompa A fedoraproject D org
  • Matrix: A conan_kudo C matrix D org
  • IRC: Conan_Kudo, Pharaoh_Atem, Son_Goku, King_InuYasha, Sir_Gallantmon, Eighth_Doctor on Libera Chat and OFTC

Activities within Fedora

  • Maintain many packages in Fedora
  • Participate in the Admin, CoreOS, RelEng, Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Rust, KDE, GNOME/Workstation, Modularity, MinGW, Server, Cloud, Buildsys, and OKD groups
  • Created and run the Asahi SIG
  • Contribute to many different projects as part of working on desktop Linux use-cases
  • Contribute to RPM, DNF, Mock/Koji, Pagure, and many other applications

Badges

The Panda Is In Flock 2024 Attendee Pixel Perfect Night Fedora Mentor Summit 2024 Let's have a party (Fedora 42) Involvement You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) Embryo Froglet Tadpole Junior Badger (Badger I) Take this and call me in the morning Bona Fide If you build it... (Koji Success I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Flock 2025 Attendee Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) It still works! Top 500 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall What goes around comes around (Karma I) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Junior Editor If you build it... (Koji Success III) Fedora 42 Change Accepted Fedora+CentOS Classroom at SCALE 22x Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora II) DevConf.cz 2025 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2016 Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Python SIG member Fedora 26 Change Accepted The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) Proven Packager What goes around comes around (Karma II) Red Hat Summit 2017 You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Fedora 28 Change Accepted DevConf.us Attendee 2018 Patches (SCM V) What goes around comes around (Karma IV) Speak Up! Fedora 30 Change Accepted Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Corporate Shill Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) I Voted: Fedora 30 All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Reaching the Source (Tester IX) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Community Messenger I Secretary General I converted to btrfs! Let's do lunch! I Voted: Fedora 33 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Adult Frog DevConf.us 2024 Attendee Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Corporate Drone If you build it... (Koji Success II) Mugshot Riddle Me This Don't Call it a Comeback Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Paranoid Panda Egg Tadpole with Legs Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) New Day, New Cake White Rabbit Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Let's have a watch party (Fedora 41) I voted: Fedora 41 Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Nuancier F24 Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Senior Badger (Badger II) Fedora 41 Change Accepted Taming the Bull (Tester V) SCaLE 22x Attendee Let Me Introduce Myself Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) Associate Editor Packager Sponsor Binary Star Old Yeller Override, you say? Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Rollercoaster Restaurant Fedora 29 Change Accepted Top 100 Parselmouth I Both Bull and Self Transcended (Tester VIII) Black and White (Cookie III) Parselmouth II You’re on a boat! I Voted: Fedora 31 Fedora 32 Change Accepted Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Master Badger (Badger III) Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020 Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) Social Panda Master Editor Fedora 33 Change Accepted Pizzelle (Cookie IV) nest-attendee-2020 It's a Cake Thing Lets have a party Fedora 33 NYE Party Panda FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Fedora Podcast Interviewee Linux App Summit 2021 Learning from Sensei Akademy 2021 Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) Nest Attendee 2021 Lets have a party Fedora 35 DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Return to Society (Tester X) Lets have a party Fedora 36 SCaLE 19x Attendee Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Fedora 38 Change Accepted FOSDEM 2023 Attendee Fedora 39 Change Accepted Let's have a party (Fedora 38) Community Survey Taker 2023 I voted: Fedora 39 SCaLE 21x Attendee Red Hat Summit 2024 Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) I voted: Fedora 40 Let's have a party (Fedora 40) Rainbow (Cookie V) Chief Editor DevConf.cz 2024 Attendee Fedora Week of Diversity 2024 Fedora 40 Change Accepted Lets have a party Fedora 34 United Packages of Fedora Podcast Contributor Fedora 35 Change Accepted GUADEC 2021 I Voted: Fedora 35 Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) Fedora Mentor Summit 2022 Lets have a party Fedora 37 Fedora 37 Change Accepted I voted: Fedora 37 Ghost Tour LXQt SIG Member FOSDEM 2024 Attendee In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) BrickHack 2016 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Stop That Update! The cat came back... Partners in Crime You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) CentOS Connect 2025 Attendee I voted: Fedora 42 Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Helping Hand Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) White Hat Fedora 27 Change Accepted Crypto Panda Senior Editor What goes around comes around (Karma III) Red Hat Summit 2018 Flock 2018 Attendee Fedora 31 Change Accepted Flock 2019 Attendee Readiness Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) The Blessing of the FPL Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) I Voted: Fedora 32 Now, I return to my farm Fedora Legal Badge of Doom Fedora 34 Change Accepted I Voted: Fedora 34 Red Hat Summit 2021 Community Survey Taker I Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Museum Visitor Fedora 36 Change Accepted FOSDEM 2022 Attendee Corporate Overlord Top 25 Community Survey Taker 2022 I Voted: Fedora 36 Fedora Week of Diversity 2022 CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 38 Flock 2023 Attendee KDE SIG Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) CentOS Connect 2024 Attendee