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Tom 'spot' Callaway

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

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.