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