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Ricky Elrod
Ricky Elrod
Personal information
Location: Ohio, USA
Birthday: August 2
E-mail: codeblock@fedoraproject.org
GPG key: FC3C6A07
Contact information
Ham Radio: N8SQL​
Facebook: codeblock
GitHub: relrod

Fedora-specific information
FAS name: codeblock
Fedora e-mail: codeblock@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage: codeblock.fedorapeople.org
Fedora Badges earned (142)
Senior Editor Speak Up! Flock 2013 Attendee Associate Editor Junior Editor Involvement Bloggin' it! (Planet I) If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success I) If you build it... (Koji Success III) Tagger (Tagger II) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Riddle Me This Tanked! Junior Badger (Badger I) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F20) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Crypto Panda Secretary General You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Paranoid Panda Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Trust me, I know what I am doing Mugshot Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Bona Fide Packager Sponsor What goes up... (Koji Failure III) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Maestro Bloggin' it! (Planet III) White Hat Nuancier Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Embryo Flock 2013 Speaker Senior Badger (Badger II) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Baby Badger Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Egg Tadpole Rockin' & Rollin' Take this and call me in the morning Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) No Longer a Ronin Binary Star Proven Packager Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Master Editor Fedora Scholar Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Override, you say? Helping Hand Partners in Crime The Blessing of the FPL What goes around comes around (Karma I) Flock 2014 Speaker Missed the Train Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) Flock 2014 Attendee Crypto Badger Corporate Drone Ambassador Party Pirate Badge Off! Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Shellshocked Consolation Prize Fedora 21 Change Accepted Nom Nom Nom Tadpole with Legs Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) Flock 2015 Speaker Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Origin Delivery Macaron (Cookie I) Master Badger (Badger III) Fedora Legal Badge of Doom Fedora 22 Change Accepted You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Top 100 Dancing with Toshio Flock 2015 Attendee Websites.NEXT Mirror, Mirror on the Wall It still works! Top 500 Flock Paparazzi What goes around comes around (Karma II) Flock 2016 Attendee Horcrux Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Flock 2017 Attendee Steampunk Arcade Krakow Brews! Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Froglet Black and White (Cookie III) Extra!  Extra! Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I) Don't Call it a Comeback Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) The Panda Is In LISA17 Amateur Radio SIG Member Inside Job Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Rollercoaster Restaurant Adult Frog You’re on a boat! Fedora Advocate Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Flock 2018 Attendee Meeting of the Minds DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee Flock 2019 Attendee Readiness Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020 Rainbow (Cookie V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) nest-attendee-2020 We Can Do It!
 



Introduction

I live in Youngstown, OH, USA, and am currently attending Youngstown State University where I am majoring in computer science and mathematics. I have a very strong interest in Programming Language Theory (PLT) and the connection between mathematics and programming by way of things like category theory, type theory, and the Curry-Howard correspondence.

What I do within Fedora (current-ish)

  • I packaged and maintain a number of packages that I find useful.
    • I am also a packager sponsor and currently sponsor a small number of people
  • I'm a member of the core infrastructure team
    • Web app development
    • Server maintenance/upkeep
  • I lead the Fedora Mobile Android app project
  • I am on the websites team and occasionally fix issues with project websites

Timeline of my Fedora history

  • (June 2010) - Sent intro email to infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org, started helping out wherever I could.
  • (January 2011) - Got funded to go to FUDCon:Tempe_2011. (Thank you, Fedora!)
  • (February 2011) - Was asked about and gladly accepted entrance into sysadmin-main, the core sysadmin group for the Fedora Project.
  • (June 2011) - Won the Fedora Scholarship. (Thank you, Fedora!)
  • (November 2011) - Started administrating the Fedora Scholarship since the previous winner has the opportunity to run the next year's scholarship.
  • (February 2012) - Became an intern at Red Hat (Fedora Engineering Intern).
  • (December 2013 - present) - Title change to "Associate Software Engineer, Fedora Engineering"

What I do outside of Fedora (in FOSS)

  • I work on a lot of small FOSS projects that I started (see my GitHub page linked above).
  • I love learning about programming paradigms, particularly Functional Programming.
    • Along with that, I love learning the math behind it. Type theory and category theory are enjoyable. Provable correctness is amazing. :)
    • In fact Programming Language Theory in general is amazing. :)
  • I maintain a small number of Ruby Gems, but this is about all I do with Ruby nowadays.
  • I maintain some Haskell packages on Hackage.
  • I created http://da.gd/ and am currently rewriting it in Haskell.
  • I sometimes contribute to Facebook's Phabricator project in my spare time.

Non-software things that I do

  • I am a full-time student, currently dual-majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics at Youngstown State University.
    • I am the former Vice President and current Events Coordinator for the YSU ACM student chapter.
    • I am the former Vice President for W8UPD, The University of Akron's Amateur Radio Club.
    • I am the former Vice President for ACM at UAkron.
  • I am a founder of the Northeast Ohio Experimenters Club in Ohio, USA.
  • I was a founder of The SYN/HAK Hackerspace in Akron, Ohio, USA.
  • I dabble with calligraphy.
  • I enjoy photography - I shoot Pentax.
  • I enjoy astronomy and should learn more about it one day.
  • I'm an amateur radio operator (N8SQL) and ARRL VE.
  • I play drums (but only as a hobby).
  • I play guitar (also only as a hobby).