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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

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