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Tom 'spot' Callaway

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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.

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