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= Tom 'spot' Callaway =
= Tom 'spot' Callaway =


Tom 'spot' Callaway does not currently possess any notable mutant powers.
[[Image:Lemur.jpg]]
 
You can email him at: spotaws<AT>amazon.com <BR>
On IRC (freenode.net), he's "spot".


However, he is currently the Fedora Engineering Manager.
== Roles ==
* Tom 'spot' Callaway does not currently possess any notable mutant powers.


He is currently serving a term on the Fedora Board.
* 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.


He is also responsible for the Aurora SPARC Linux Project, which is a port of Fedora to SPARC.<BR>
* In addition:
He's worked for Red Hat since February 2001, and is worshipped by lemurs throughout the known universe.
** 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.


[[Image:Lemur.jpg]]
* Currently:
** I work on the Open Source Strategy and Marketing team at AWS (Amazon) as a Principal Open Source Evangelist.


You can email him at: tcallawa<AT>redhat.com <BR>
== Badges ==
On IRC (freenode.net), he's "spot".
{{ #fedorabadges: spot }}


== Packages ==
He also maintains a LOT of packages in Fedora. He used to keep a list here, but it was a pain to maintain.
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 (some things I only co-maintain, or are dead packages now)
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)


He's currently leading the Fedora Packaging Committee, responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices.
== Sponsor ==


Due to an incredibly erratic and unpredictable schedule, he doesn't currently keep regular office hours in #fedora (or anywhere on IRC for that matter).
While I do sponsor new Packagers, I do so rarely these days, mostly because I'm super busy.


And last but not least, he's a Sponsor for new Contributors. Currently, he sponsors these fine people:
Here is a list of some of the people I've sponsored:


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

Latest revision as of 20:03, 28 October 2020

Tom 'spot' Callaway

Lemur.jpg

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

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