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=== Goals ===
== Goals as the Fedora Project Leader ==


==== As the Fedora Project Leader ====
* Oversee the entire Fedora Project -- if it's in Fedora, ultimately I'm accountable for it.
* Oversee the entire Fedora Project -- if it's in Fedora, ultimately I'm accountable for it.
* Act as a catalyst within the community to improve communications and encourage excellent behavior
* Act as a catalyst within the community to improve communications and encourage excellent behavior
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* Be an effective bridge between the external volunteer contributor base and the contributor community inside Red Hat, such as RHEL engineers.
* Be an effective bridge between the external volunteer contributor base and the contributor community inside Red Hat, such as RHEL engineers.
* Lower contributor barriers to the absolute minimum, and encourage others to get involved in FOSS through Fedora.
* Lower contributor barriers to the absolute minimum, and encourage others to get involved in FOSS through Fedora.
==== As a Contributor ====
* Provide top-tier quality documentation for Fedora products and services.
* Provide the odd low-maintenance package such as non-critical add-ons, where my programming skill (or lack thereof) is not a limiting factor.
* Strive to provide a good example of dealing with other people in a constructive, friendly way at all times.

Revision as of 20:23, 9 July 2010

Jared Smith
Jared Smith
Fedora Information
FAS name: jsmith
Fedora email: jsmith@fedoraproject.org
IRC nick: jsmith
IRC channels: #fedora-docs, #asterisk-doc, #asterisk-dev, #asterisk-bugs (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 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 Tadpole with Legs Apex White Hat Take this and call me in the morning Novice (Wordsmith I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Vacation Associate Editor No Longer a Ronin Sensei Secretary General Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Proven Packager Froglet The Blessing of the FPL Helping Hand Flock 2014 Speaker Party Pirate Flock 2014 Attendee If you build it... (Koji Success III) What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Science (Kernel Tester I) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Flock Paparazzi Nuancier 21 Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Dancing with Toshio Readiness What goes around comes around (Karma II) Shellshocked Fedora Docs FAD 2014 Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Corporate Drone You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) The Panda Is In FUDCon Managua FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Flock 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Science (Kernel Tester II) DevConf 2015 Attendee OSCON 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Nuancier (F22) Delivery Flock 2015 Speaker Origin Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Nom Nom Nom If you build it... (Koji Success IV) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Nuancier F23 FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Corporate Shill Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Partners in Crime Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Black and White (Cookie III) Top 25 What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor Senior Editor The Last Argument of Kings Top 500 Top 100 Fedora 24 Change Accepted Patches (SCM V) Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Krakow Brews! Nuancier F24 Flock 2016 Attendee All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) The cat came back... Community Messenger I Nuancier F26 Nuancier F25 Security Team Meeting of the Minds Adult Frog Steampunk Arcade Binary Star Chief Editor Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Flock 2017 Attendee F28 i18n Test Day Participant Rollercoaster Restaurant Fedora Podcast Interviewee Flock 2018 Attendee Fedora Docs FAD 2018 It's a Cake Thing Flock 2019 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 29 You’re on a boat! Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Parselmouth I Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Fedora Advocate I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) I Voted: Fedora 32 F32 i18n Test Day Participant Magazine Editor I Voted: Fedora 33 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 33 nest-attendee-2020 Community Survey Taker I Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 35 Community Survey Taker 2022 Nest Attendee 2021 I Voted: Fedora 36 I voted: Fedora 39 IoT Working Group Member I voted: Fedora 37 Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2023 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39)
 
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This page will be changing soon.
I'm joining Red Hat as the new Fedora Project Leader starting Monday, July 12. You'll find more information here shortly about me and my work in the Fedora Project.

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.

Contact

  • Email: Jared's Email
  • IRC: jsmith (in #fedora-docs, #fedora-admin, #asterisk-docs)
  • GPG key: Key ID 8B670B7A
  • Fedora Account: jsmith

Activities within Fedora

  • 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.)

Goals as the Fedora Project Leader

  • Oversee the entire Fedora Project -- if it's in Fedora, ultimately I'm accountable for it.
  • Act as a catalyst within the community to improve communications and encourage excellent behavior
  • Work with the Fedora Program Manager John Poelstra, Fedora Engineering Manager Tom "Spot" Callaway, and the Community Architecture team to make sure that Fedora is making constant, substantial progress in its mission to advance free and open source software.
  • Chair the Fedora Project Board, and ensure that the Board is effectively advising and guiding the Fedora Project where needed.
  • Be an effective bridge between the external volunteer contributor base and the contributor community inside Red Hat, such as RHEL engineers.
  • Lower contributor barriers to the absolute minimum, and encourage others to get involved in FOSS through Fedora.