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