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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.  For all the nitty gritty details, see http://www.jaredsmith.net/about/.


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