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=== Goals ===
== Goals as the Fedora Project Leader ==


==== 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
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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.
==== As a Contributor ====
* Provide top-tier quality documentation for Fedora products and services.
* Provide the odd low-maintenance package such as non-critical add-ons, where my programming skill (or lack thereof) is not a limiting factor.
* Strive to provide a good example of dealing with other people in a constructive, friendly way at all times.

Revision as of 20:23, 9 July 2010

Jared Smith
Jared Smith
Fedora Information
FAS name: jsmith
Fedora email: jsmith@fedoraproject.org
IRC nick: jsmith
IRC channels: #fedora-docs, #asterisk-doc, #asterisk-dev, #asterisk-bugs (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 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 White Rabbit Associate Editor Froglet Proven Packager Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) The Blessing of the FPL Flock 2014 Speaker Helping Hand What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Party Pirate Flock 2014 Attendee If you build it... (Koji Success III) Science (Kernel Tester I) Dancing with Toshio Nuancier 21 Flock Paparazzi Readiness Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Shellshocked Fedora Docs FAD 2014 What goes around comes around (Karma II) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Corporate Drone What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Flock 2015 Attendee FUDCon Managua You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) The Panda Is In FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker DevConf 2015 Attendee Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) OSCON 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Nuancier (F22) Science (Kernel Tester II) Origin Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Flock 2015 Speaker Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Delivery Nom Nom Nom FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Nuancier F23 Corporate Shill Partners in Crime Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) The Last Argument of Kings Senior Editor What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor Black and White (Cookie III) Top 500 Top 25 Top 100 Fedora 24 Change Accepted Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Patches (SCM V) Nuancier F24 Flock 2016 Attendee Krakow Brews! The cat came back... All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Nuancier F25 Community Messenger I Nuancier F26 Security Team Adult Frog Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Steampunk Arcade Binary Star Flock 2017 Attendee Chief Editor Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Pizzelle (Cookie IV) F28 i18n Test Day Participant Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Meeting of the Minds Flock 2018 Attendee Fedora Podcast Interviewee Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Rollercoaster Restaurant Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Parselmouth I Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) It's a Cake Thing I Voted: Fedora 29 You’re on a boat! Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Fedora Advocate Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Flock 2019 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 30 Magazine Editor Lets have a party Fedora 33 nest-attendee-2020 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee F32 i18n Test Day Participant I Voted: Fedora 32 I Voted: Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 34 Nest Attendee 2021 I Voted: Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I I Voted: Fedora 35 Museum Visitor Community Survey Taker 2022 I Voted: Fedora 36 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee IoT Working Group Member I voted: Fedora 37 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2023 Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 39
 
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This page will be changing soon.
I'm joining 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.

Contact

  • Email: Jared's Email
  • IRC: jsmith (in #fedora-docs, #fedora-admin, #asterisk-docs)
  • GPG key: Key ID 8B670B7A
  • Fedora Account: jsmith

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.)

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 John Poelstra, Fedora Engineering Manager 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 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.