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