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Tom 'spot' Callaway

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

Roles

  • Tom 'spot' Callaway does not currently possess any notable mutant powers.
  • He is currently the Fedora Engineering Manager @ Red Hat.
  • He served three consecutive elected terms on the Fedora Board from 2007 to 2011.
  • He was responsible for the Aurora SPARC Linux Project, which was a port of Fedora to SPARC. This effort is long dead.
  • He has worked for Red Hat since February 2001, and is worshipped by lemurs throughout the known universe.
  • He is currently leading the Fedora Packaging Committee, responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices.
  • He handles Fedora Legal tasks (and is the Fedora liaison to Red Hat Legal).

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 Froglet Tadpole Egg Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) FOSDEM 2014 Attendee 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 The Blessing of the FPL All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Flock 2014 Speaker Flock 2014 Attendee Flock Paparazzi 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 IV) Fedora 21 Change Accepted Flock 2013 Organizer Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) OSCON 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Adult Frog Nom Nom Nom Chief Editor Badge Muse (Badges Released I) Flock 2015 Organizer Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) Top 10 Top 100 Top 25 Top 500 Parselmouth I Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora III) 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 Flock 2016 Organizer OSCON 2017 Attendee Corporate Overlord Board Member Rollercoaster Restaurant 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) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) nest-attendee-2020 It's a Cake Thing I Voted: Fedora 35 SCaLE 19x Attendee CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee Flock 2023 Attendee The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) Embryo Tadpole with Legs What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Your call may be monitored for quality assurance Patches (SCM V) Take this and call me in the morning Science (Kernel Tester I) Party Pirate Nuancier 21 What goes around comes around (Karma III) Flock 2014 Organizer Vacation Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Missed the Train Flock 2015 Speaker FOSDEM 2015 Attendee Origin United Packages of Fedora Nuancier F24 Fedora 24 Change Accepted SELF 2016 3D Printing SIG Member Flock 2016 Attendee Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) SCaLE 16x Attendee You’re on a boat! I Voted: Fedora 31 FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2021 Museum Visitor Nest Attendee 2021 I Voted: Fedora 36 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee FOSDEM 2023 Attendee FOSDEM 2024 Attendee SCaLE 21x Attendee Fedora Legal Badge of Doom Helping Hand Pycon 2014 Attendee It still works! Consolation Prize Corporate Shill Flock 2015 Attendee Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) Delivery Packager Sponsor Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 The cat came back... Common Bugs Contributor Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Apprentice (Badge Artist I) Science (Kernel Tester II) Red Hat Summit 2016 Krakow Brews! Badge Muse (Badges Released II) FOSDEM 2017 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2017 Black and White (Cookie III) Steampunk Arcade Flock 2017 Attendee FOSDEM 2018 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2018 Flock 2018 Attendee DevConf.us Attendee 2018 FOSDEM 2019 Attendee Flock 2019 Attendee Parselmouth II Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) I Voted: Fedora 33 Community Messenger I Council Member I Voted: Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I Fedora 38 Change Accepted

Packages

He also maintains a LOT of packages in Fedora. He used to keep a list here, but it was a pain to maintain. 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.