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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/.
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 ==
== 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/
* '''Blog''': http://www.jaredsmith.net/


== Activities within Fedora ==
== Activities within Fedora ==
* I work for [http://redhat.com Red Hat] as the [[FPL|Fedora Project Leader]].
* 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 ==


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