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