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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

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