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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

Flock 2024 Attendee Pixel Perfect Night Fedora Mentor Summit 2024 DevConf.us 2024 Attendee Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Involvement You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Corporate Drone If you build it... (Koji Success II) Mugshot 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) 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) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Stop That Update! I voted: Fedora 41 Nuancier F24 What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Fedora 42 Change Accepted Fedora+CentOS Classroom at SCALE 22x Let Me Introduce Myself Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) Associate Editor Python SIG member Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) Binary Star Old Yeller Override, you say? You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) 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) Fedora 28 Change Accepted Red Hat Summit 2018 Flock 2018 Attendee DevConf.us Attendee 2018 Parselmouth I Patches (SCM V) Both Bull and Self Transcended (Tester VIII) Speak Up! Fedora 30 Change Accepted Black and White (Cookie III) Parselmouth II Fedora 31 Change Accepted Flock 2019 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Corporate Shill Readiness I Voted: Fedora 32 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) White Rabbit Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) It still works! Top 500 BrickHack 2016 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Let's have a watch party (Fedora 41) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) The cat came back... Partners in Crime Mirror, Mirror on the Wall What goes around comes around (Karma I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Senior Badger (Badger II) Junior Editor If you build it... (Koji Success III) Fedora 41 Change Accepted Taming the Bull (Tester V) CentOS Connect 2025 Attendee SCaLE 22x Attendee Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) Red Hat Summit 2016 Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Helping Hand Packager Sponsor Fedora 26 Change Accepted Proven Packager What goes around comes around (Karma II) Red Hat Summit 2017 Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Rollercoaster Restaurant Fedora 29 Change Accepted Top 100 What goes around comes around (Karma IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) You’re on a boat! I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Fedora 32 Change Accepted I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Master Badger (Badger III) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) The Blessing of the FPL Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020 Community Messenger I Now, I return to my farm Fedora Legal Badge of Doom Let's do lunch! Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Fedora 34 Change Accepted I Voted: Fedora 33 NYE Party Panda DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Fedora Podcast Interviewee Linux App Summit 2021 Red Hat Summit 2021 Learning from Sensei Akademy 2021 Community Survey Taker I United Packages of Fedora Podcast Contributor Fedora 35 Change Accepted Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) Nest Attendee 2021 Lets have a party Fedora 35 Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Top 25 Community Survey Taker 2022 Lets have a party Fedora 36 I Voted: Fedora 36 SCaLE 19x Attendee Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Fedora 38 Change Accepted CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee Fedora 39 Change Accepted Let's have a party (Fedora 38) Community Survey Taker 2023 Ghost Tour LXQt SIG Member FOSDEM 2024 Attendee Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) I voted: Fedora 40 Rainbow (Cookie V) Chief Editor Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) Reaching the Source (Tester IX) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Social Panda Secretary General I converted to btrfs! Master Editor Fedora 33 Change Accepted nest-attendee-2020 It's a Cake Thing Lets have a party Fedora 33 FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Adult Frog I Voted: Fedora 34 Lets have a party Fedora 34 GUADEC 2021 Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 35 Fedora 36 Change Accepted FOSDEM 2022 Attendee Corporate Overlord Return to Society (Tester X) Fedora Mentor Summit 2022 Fedora Week of Diversity 2022 Lets have a party Fedora 37 Fedora 37 Change Accepted I voted: Fedora 37 FOSDEM 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 38 Flock 2023 Attendee KDE SIG Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) I voted: Fedora 39 CentOS Connect 2024 Attendee SCaLE 21x Attendee Red Hat Summit 2024 Let's have a party (Fedora 40) DevConf.cz 2024 Attendee Fedora Week of Diversity 2024 Fedora 40 Change Accepted