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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

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