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Tom 'spot' Callaway

You can email him at: spotaws<AT>amazon.com
On IRC (freenode.net), he's "spot".

Roles

  • Tom 'spot' Callaway does not currently possess any notable mutant powers.
  • For 19 years (2001-2020), he was at Red Hat in a variety of roles including (but not limited to)
    • He was the Fedora Engineering Manager
    • He was the Fedora Packaging Committee chair (responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices)
    • He handled Fedora Legal tasks (and was the Fedora liason to Red Hat Legal)
    • He served three consecutive elected terms on the Fedora Board from 2007 to 2011.
  • In addition:
    • He was responsible for the Aurora SPARC Linux Project, which was a port of Fedora to SPARC. This effort is long dead.
    • He is worshipped by lemurs throughout the known universe.
  • Currently:
    • I work on the Open Source Strategy and Marketing team at AWS (Amazon) as a Principal Open Source Evangelist.

Badges

Bona Fide If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) If you build it... (Koji Success III) If you build it... (Koji Success I) FOSSY 2024 Junior Editor Senior Editor Associate Editor Speak Up! Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Flock 2013 Attendee Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Proven Packager Involvement Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora II) Riddle Me This Tanked! Crypto Panda Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Partners in Crime Master Editor What goes up... (Koji Failure III) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Trust me, I know what I am doing Mugshot Ambassador Let Me Introduce Myself Senior Badger (Badger II) Paranoid Panda Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F20) Flock 2024 Attendee Pixel Perfect Night Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) White Hat Secretary General White Rabbit Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Binary Star Baby Badger Old Yeller Flock 2013 Speaker Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) You Can Pry It From My Cold, Undead Hands Embryo Froglet Tadpole Egg Tadpole with Legs What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Fedora Legal Badge of Doom Helping Hand Your call may be monitored for quality assurance Science (Kernel Tester I) Party Pirate Nuancier 21 What goes around comes around (Karma IV) Corporate Shill Flock 2015 Attendee Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) OSCON 2015 Attendee Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) Delivery Packager Sponsor Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Adult Frog Chief Editor Badge Muse (Badges Released I) Flock 2015 Organizer United Packages of Fedora Nuancier F24 Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora III) Flock 2016 Organizer Flock 2016 Attendee Badge Muse (Badges Released II) Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) Red Hat Summit 2017 OSCON 2017 Attendee Black and White (Cookie III) Steampunk Arcade Flock 2017 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2018 Rollercoaster Restaurant FOSDEM 2019 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) Community Messenger I Council Member Red Hat Summit 2021 CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) What goes around comes around (Karma I) What goes around comes around (Karma II) Override, you say? Now, I return to my farm Crypto Badger Patches (SCM V) It still works! Flock 2014 Speaker Flock 2014 Attendee Flock Paparazzi Consolation Prize Fedora 21 Change Accepted Flock 2014 Organizer Vacation Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Flock 2015 Speaker FOSDEM 2015 Attendee Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Macaron (Cookie I) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) Common Bugs Contributor Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Apprentice (Badge Artist I) Science (Kernel Tester II) Top 10 Top 100 Top 25 Top 500 Parselmouth I Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Horcrux Master Tagger (Tagger IV) Taming the Bull (Tester V) Master Package Tagger (Package Tagger IV) Let's do lunch! Don't Call it a Comeback Gold Macklemore (Tagger V) Bronze Silver FOSDEM 2017 Attendee Corporate Overlord Board Member Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) FOSDEM 2018 Attendee SCaLE 16x Attendee Flock 2019 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) nest-attendee-2020 It's a Cake Thing FOSDEM 2021 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 34 Museum Visitor Flock 2023 Attendee Nest Attendee 2021 SCaLE 19x Attendee Fedora 38 Change Accepted FOSDEM 2024 Attendee SCaLE 21x Attendee FOSDEM 2014 Attendee Pycon 2014 Attendee The Blessing of the FPL Take this and call me in the morning All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Corporate Drone Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Master Badger (Badger III) The Panda Is In What goes around comes around (Karma III) Flock 2013 Organizer Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Missed the Train Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Origin Nom Nom Nom Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 The cat came back... Fedora 24 Change Accepted SELF 2016 Red Hat Summit 2016 3D Printing SIG Member Krakow Brews! Flock 2018 Attendee DevConf.us Attendee 2018 You’re on a boat! Parselmouth II I Voted: Fedora 33 Community Survey Taker I I Voted: Fedora 35 I Voted: Fedora 36 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee FOSDEM 2023 Attendee The Bull Transcended (Tester VII)

Packages

He also maintains a LOT of packages in Fedora. He used to keep a list here, but it was a pain to maintain. A full list can be found here: https://src.fedoraproject.org/user/spot

Pkgdb has this list: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/spot?acls=owner&acls=commit (some things I only co-maintain, or are dead packages now)

While I do sponsor new Packagers, I do so rarely these days, mostly because I'm super busy.

Here is a list of some of the people I've sponsored:

Chuck R. Anderson
Dmitry Butskoy
Jeff Carlson
Didier Casse
Mark Cox
Kushal Das
Patrice Dumas
Ralf Ertzinger
Kevin Fenzi
Chris Grau
Kevin Gray
Ed Hill
Dan Horák
Neil Horman
Patrick Laughton
John Patrick Mahowald
José Matos
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Karen Rei Pease
Ian Pilcher
Orion Poplawski
Jef Spaleta
Quentin Spencer
Richard A. Stout
Andreas Thienemann
Axel Thimm
Jason L Tibbitts III
Toni Willberg
Paul Wouters

If any of them screw up, feel free to let me know.