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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 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.  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 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 ==
== Contact ==
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* '''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, #fedora-admin, #asterisk-docs)
* '''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 ==
* 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 was the [[FPL|Fedora Project Leader]] for two years.
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* 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.   
<!-- Add info about general Asterisk experience, and specifically how it applied to Fedora Talk -->
* 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.
<!-- Link to a self introduction somewhere in the project: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/infrastructure/2008-February/003614.html ... should work nicely -->
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== Goals as the Fedora Project Leader ==
== Goals 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
* Work with the Fedora Program Manager [[user:poelcat|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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
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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 In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Tadpole Baby Badger Tagger (Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Flock 2013 Speaker Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Tadpole with Legs Egg Apex White Hat Novice (Wordsmith I) Take this and call me in the morning Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Sensei Vacation Associate Editor Secretary General No Longer a Ronin Let Me Introduce Myself Proven Packager White Rabbit Froglet If you build it... (Koji Success III) The Blessing of the FPL Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Helping Hand Flock 2014 Speaker Fedora Docs FAD 2014 What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Flock Paparazzi Nuancier 21 Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Readiness Flock 2014 Attendee Party Pirate Science (Kernel Tester I) Dancing with Toshio What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Shellshocked Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Corporate Drone You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) What goes around comes around (Karma II) FUDCon Managua The Panda Is In Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Flock 2015 Attendee Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Science (Kernel Tester II) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) DevConf 2015 Attendee OSCON 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Nuancier (F22) Flock 2015 Speaker Origin Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Delivery Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Nom Nom Nom If you build it... (Koji Success IV) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Nuancier F23 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Corporate Shill Partners in Crime Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Senior Editor Black and White (Cookie III) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor Top 500 Top 100 The Last Argument of Kings Top 25 Nuancier F24 Patches (SCM V) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Flock 2016 Attendee Krakow Brews! The cat came back... Nuancier F25 Community Messenger I Nuancier F26 Security Team F28 i18n Test Day Participant Binary Star Chief Editor Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Adult Frog Steampunk Arcade Flock 2017 Attendee Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Meeting of the Minds Fedora Podcast Interviewee Flock 2018 Attendee It's a Cake Thing Parselmouth I Rollercoaster Restaurant Catching the Bull (Tester IV) I Voted: Fedora 29 You’re on a boat! Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Flock 2019 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 31 Fedora Advocate Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) I Voted: Fedora 32 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) F32 i18n Test Day Participant nest-attendee-2020 Lets have a party Fedora 33 I Voted: Fedora 33 Magazine Editor DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I I Voted: Fedora 34 Nest Attendee 2021 I Voted: Fedora 36 Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 35 Community Survey Taker 2023 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee IoT Working Group Member I voted: Fedora 37 Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2022 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 Bloggin' it! (Planet III) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) 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 White Hat Apex Novice (Wordsmith I) Take this and call me in the morning Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Secretary General Froglet No Longer a Ronin Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Vacation Associate Editor Sensei Proven Packager If you build it... (Koji Success III) The Blessing of the FPL Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Flock 2014 Speaker Helping Hand Nuancier 21 What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Flock 2014 Attendee Party Pirate Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio What goes around comes around (Karma II) Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Shellshocked Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Corporate Drone Readiness Fedora Docs FAD 2014 FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) The Panda Is In Flock 2015 Attendee What goes up... (Koji Failure II) FUDCon Managua FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Science (Kernel Tester II) DevConf 2015 Attendee OSCON 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Nuancier (F22) Delivery Origin Flock 2015 Speaker Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Nom Nom Nom Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Nuancier F23 If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Partners in Crime Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Corporate Shill Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Top 100 The Last Argument of Kings Black and White (Cookie III) Senior Editor What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor Top 25 Top 500 Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Patches (SCM V) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Nuancier F26 Nuancier F24 Flock 2016 Attendee Krakow Brews! The cat came back... All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Community Messenger I Nuancier F25 Security Team Steampunk Arcade Adult Frog Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Binary Star F28 i18n Test Day Participant Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Chief Editor Flock 2017 Attendee Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Meeting of the Minds Rollercoaster Restaurant Fedora Podcast Interviewee Flock 2018 Attendee It's a Cake Thing Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Parselmouth I I Voted: Fedora 29 Badge Junkie (Badger IV) You’re on a boat! Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Flock 2019 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 30 Fedora Advocate I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) nest-attendee-2020 F32 i18n Test Day Participant I Voted: Fedora 32 I Voted: Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 34 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Magazine Editor Nest Attendee 2021 I Voted: Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Museum Visitor Community Survey Taker 2022 I Voted: Fedora 35 I Voted: Fedora 36 I voted: Fedora 38 IoT Working Group Member Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 37 Community Survey Taker 2023 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) I voted: Fedora 39