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Jared Smith
Jared Smith
Fedora Information
FAS name: jsmith
Fedora email: jsmith@fedoraproject.org
IRC nick: jsmith
IRC channels: #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #asterisk-doc, #asterisk-dev (and others)
Fedorapeople page: https://jsmith.fedorapeople.org
Badges (183)
Speak Up! Junior Editor Flock 2013 Attendee Involvement Tanked! Crypto Panda You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Bona Fide You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) If you build it... (Koji Success II) Junior Badger (Badger I) Mugshot Ambassador FUDCon Cusco Nuancier Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Embryo Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Flock 2013 Speaker In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Baby Badger Tagger (Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Tadpole Egg Tadpole with Legs Apex White Hat Take this and call me in the morning Novice (Wordsmith I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Secretary General Vacation Associate Editor No Longer a Ronin Sensei Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Proven Packager Froglet The Blessing of the FPL Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Flock 2014 Speaker Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Flock 2014 Attendee Party Pirate Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio Nuancier 21 Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Readiness Shellshocked Fedora Docs FAD 2014 Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Corporate Drone What goes around comes around (Karma II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) FUDCon Managua The Panda Is In Flock 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) DevConf 2015 Attendee Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) OSCON 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Origin Flock 2015 Speaker Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Delivery Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Nom Nom Nom Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Nuancier F23 FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker Corporate Shill FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Partners in Crime Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Black and White (Cookie III) Senior Editor Top 25 What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor The Last Argument of Kings Top 500 Top 100 Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Krakow Brews! Patches (SCM V) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Nuancier F24 Flock 2016 Attendee Nuancier F25 The cat came back... All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Community Messenger I Nuancier F26 Security Team Adult Frog Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Binary Star Steampunk Arcade Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Chief Editor Flock 2017 Attendee Pizzelle (Cookie IV) F28 i18n Test Day Participant Meeting of the Minds Flock 2018 Attendee Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Fedora Podcast Interviewee It's a Cake Thing Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Rollercoaster Restaurant I Voted: Fedora 29 Parselmouth I You’re on a boat! Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Flock 2019 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 30 Fedora Advocate I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) F32 i18n Test Day Participant Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) I Voted: Fedora 32 Lets have a party Fedora 33 I Voted: Fedora 33 nest-attendee-2020 Magazine Editor DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I I Voted: Fedora 34 Nest Attendee 2021 I Voted: Fedora 36 Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 35 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2022 IoT Working Group Member Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 37 I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2023 I voted: Fedora 39 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39)
 

My name is Jared Smith. I'm a big Linux geek. I enjoy systems administration, relational databases, web programming, and VoIP. I eat too many donuts, and don't blog as regularly as I should. I've managed small systems and large-scale networks (over 6500 servers and 800 network devices). As a college freshman, I once stuffed 26 jumbo marshmallows in my mouth to win a contest. Oh, and I wrote a book for O'Reilly on Asterisk and the future of telephony. For all the nitty gritty details, see http://www.jaredsmith.net/about/. I currently work for Endurance International (the parent company of web hosting firms such as Bluehost and Host Gator) doing open source outreach and technical oversight.

Contact

Activities within Fedora

  • I was the Fedora Project Leader for two years.
  • I help out with the Fedora Docs project, and generally make a nuisance of myself. I have a lot of experiece with DocBook publication toolchains, such as Publican.
  • I've also helped out on the Fedora Infrastructure team, mostly around the Fedora Talk server. (I have *lots and lots* of experience with Asterisk and voice over IP.)
  • I do my best to report bugs when I find them, and work with those responsible to ensure the problems get solved.


Badges

To hightlight some of the work I've done in Fedora, here are the badges I've accumulated:

Speak Up! Junior Editor Flock 2013 Attendee Involvement Tanked! Crypto Panda You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Bona Fide You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) If you build it... (Koji Success II) Junior Badger (Badger I) Mugshot Ambassador FUDCon Cusco Nuancier Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Embryo Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Flock 2013 Speaker In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Baby Badger Tagger (Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Tadpole Tadpole with Legs Egg Apex White Hat Novice (Wordsmith I) Take this and call me in the morning Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Vacation Secretary General Associate Editor Let Me Introduce Myself No Longer a Ronin Sensei White Rabbit Froglet Proven Packager Flock 2014 Speaker The Blessing of the FPL Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) If you build it... (Koji Success III) Helping Hand Flock 2014 Attendee What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Party Pirate Dancing with Toshio Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Nuancier 21 What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Shellshocked Readiness Fedora Docs FAD 2014 You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Corporate Drone What goes around comes around (Karma II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) The Panda Is In FUDCon Managua FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Flock 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) OSCON 2015 Attendee DevConf 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Science (Kernel Tester II) Delivery Nuancier (F22) Origin Flock 2015 Speaker Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Nom Nom Nom FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Nuancier F23 Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Corporate Shill Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Partners in Crime Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Master Badger (Badger III) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Black and White (Cookie III) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Senior Editor Master Editor The Last Argument of Kings Top 25 Top 500 Top 100 Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Nuancier F24 Patches (SCM V) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Flock 2016 Attendee Krakow Brews! The cat came back... All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Community Messenger I Security Team Nuancier F25 Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Nuancier F26 Adult Frog Steampunk Arcade Binary Star Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Chief Editor Flock 2017 Attendee F28 i18n Test Day Participant Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Flock 2018 Attendee Meeting of the Minds Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Fedora Podcast Interviewee It's a Cake Thing Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Rollercoaster Restaurant I Voted: Fedora 29 Parselmouth I Badge Junkie (Badger IV) You’re on a boat! Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Fedora Advocate Flock 2019 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) F32 i18n Test Day Participant I Voted: Fedora 33 I Voted: Fedora 32 nest-attendee-2020 Lets have a party Fedora 33 Magazine Editor DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I Nest Attendee 2021 I Voted: Fedora 35 Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 36 Community Survey Taker 2022 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee IoT Working Group Member Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 37 I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2023 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) I voted: Fedora 39