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{{Admon/note | This page will be changing soon. | I'm joining [http://redhat.com Red Hat] as the new [[Fedora Project Leader]] starting Monday, July 12You'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 contestOh, 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.
 
My name is Jared Smith.  I'm a geek.


== Contact ==
== Contact ==


* '''Email''': [mailto:jsmith-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org Jared's Email]
* '''Email''': [mailto:jsmith-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org Jared's Email]
* '''IRC''': jsmith (in #fedora-docs, #asterisk-doc, #asterisk-dev, #asterisk-bugs)
* '''IRC''': jsmith (in #fedora-docs, #fedora-admin, #asterisk-docs)
* '''GPG key''': Key ID 8B670B7A
* '''GPG key''': Key ID 210BDF5A
* '''Fedora Account''': jsmith
* '''Fedora Account''': jsmith
* '''Blog''': http://www.jaredsmith.net/


== Activities within Fedora ==
== Activities within Fedora ==
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* I was the [[FPL|Fedora Project Leader]] for two years.
* I help out with the Fedora Docs project, and generally make a nuisance of myself
* 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. 
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* 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.)
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* I do my best to report bugs when I find them, and work with those responsible to ensure the problems get solved.
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== 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 [[user:JohnPoelstra|John Poelstra]], Fedora Engineering Manager [[user:spot|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 [[Board| 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.
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== Education Background ==
 
Jared graduated in 2001 from Utah State University with a degree in Computer Engineering.
 
His fondest memory of his USU education involves a course taught by [http://digital.cs.usu.edu/~allan/ Professor Stephen J. Allan]:
 
"The class was something like "Unix Basics" or something boring like that, but the teacher made the assignments interesting, by forcing you to work with others in the class to solve a problem. A typical assignment might go something like this: 'Joe, you write an awk script to take this file I give you and transform it to look like this -- Susie, you take that, and use grep and sed to do this to it, Jared -- you take that and write a Perl script to do this...' and so on. So not only did we learn the tools, we had to communicate our expectations and assumptions with the other members of our team."
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== Badges ==
To hightlight some of the work I've done in Fedora, here are the badges I've accumulated:
 
{{ #fedorabadges: jsmith }}

Latest revision as of 16:49, 31 August 2017

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