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Tom 'spot' Callaway

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You can email him at: tcallawa<AT>redhat.com
On IRC (freenode.net), he's "spot".

Roles

  • Tom 'spot' Callaway does not currently possess any notable mutant powers.
  • He is currently the Fedora Engineering Manager @ Red Hat.
  • He served three consecutive elected terms on the Fedora Board from 2007 to 2011.
  • He was responsible for the Aurora SPARC Linux Project, which was a port of Fedora to SPARC. This effort is long dead.
  • He has worked for Red Hat since February 2001, and is worshipped by lemurs throughout the known universe.
  • He is currently leading the Fedora Packaging Committee, responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices.

Badges

Bona Fide If you build it... (Koji Success II) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) If you build it... (Koji Success III) If you build it... (Koji Success I) Junior Editor Senior Editor Associate Editor Speak Up! Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Flock 2013 Attendee Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Tagger (Tagger II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Proven Packager Involvement Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora I) Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora II) Riddle Me This Tanked! Crypto Panda Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Partners in Crime Master Editor What goes up... (Koji Failure III) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Trust me, I know what I am doing Mugshot Ambassador Let Me Introduce Myself Senior Badger (Badger II) Paranoid Panda Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F20) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) White Hat Secretary General White Rabbit Binary Star Baby Badger Flock 2013 Speaker Old Yeller Embryo Bob Loblaw (Planet V) Bloggin' it! (Planet IV) You Can Pry It From My Cold, Undead Hands Tadpole Froglet Egg Tadpole with Legs Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) What goes around comes around (Karma I) Fedora Legal Badge of Doom FOSDEM 2014 Attendee Helping Hand What goes around comes around (Karma II) Override, you say? Your call may be monitored for quality assurance Take this and call me in the morning Crypto Badger Patches (SCM V) Pycon 2014 Attendee It still works! The Blessing of the FPL The Last Argument of Kings Flock 2014 Attendee All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Flock 2014 Speaker Party Pirate Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Nuancier 21 Corporate Drone Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Master Badger (Badger III) The Panda Is In What goes around comes around (Karma III) What goes around comes around (Karma IV) Consolation Prize Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Fedora 21 Change Accepted Flock 2013 Organizer Flock 2014 Organizer Missed the Train Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Vacation Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Corporate Shill Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Flock 2015 Attendee FOSDEM 2015 Attendee Flock 2015 Speaker Delivery OSCON 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Origin Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) Packager Sponsor Adult Frog Nom Nom Nom Flock 2015 Organizer Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Chief Editor Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 Badge Muse (Badges Released I) The cat came back... Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) Apprentice (Badge Artist I) United Packages of Fedora Common Bugs Contributor Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Top 10 Science (Kernel Tester II) Top 100 Top 25 Top 500 Parselmouth I Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Nuancier F24 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Fedora 24 Change Accepted SELF 2016 Curious Penguin (Ask Fedora III) Master Package Tagger (Package Tagger IV) Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Let's do lunch! Horcrux Master Tagger (Tagger IV) Taming the Bull (Tester V) Macklemore (Tagger V) Bronze Don't Call it a Comeback Silver Gold Krakow Brews! 3D Printing SIG Member Flock 2016 Organizer Red Hat Summit 2016 Flock 2016 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2017 Badge Muse (Badges Released II) Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) FOSDEM 2017 Attendee OSCON 2017 Attendee Flock 2017 Attendee Black and White (Cookie III) Corporate Overlord Steampunk Arcade FOSDEM 2018 Attendee Board Member Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) Flock 2018 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2018 SCaLE 16x Attendee Rollercoaster Restaurant FOSDEM 2019 Attendee DevConf.us Attendee 2018 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Flock 2019 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Parselmouth II I Voted: Fedora 31 You’re on a boat! Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) nest-attendee-2020 It's a Cake Thing I Voted: Fedora 33 Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) Community Messenger I I Voted: Fedora 35 Council Member I Voted: Fedora 34 Museum Visitor FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2021 Community Survey Taker I Nest Attendee 2021 SCaLE 19x Attendee I Voted: Fedora 36 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Fedora 38 Change Accepted CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee SCaLE 21x Attendee FOSDEM 2023 Attendee Flock 2023 Attendee The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) FOSDEM 2024 Attendee

Packages

He also maintains a LOT of packages in Fedora. He used to keep a list here, but it was a pain to maintain. Pkgdb has this list: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/spot?acls=owner&acls=commit (some things I only co-maintain, or are dead packages now)


While I do sponsor new Packagers, I do so rarely these days, mostly because I'm super busy.

Here is a list of some of the people I've sponsored:

Chuck R. Anderson
Dmitry Butskoy
Jeff Carlson
Didier Casse
Mark Cox
Kushal Das
Patrice Dumas
Ralf Ertzinger
Kevin Fenzi
Chris Grau
Kevin Gray
Ed Hill
Dan Horák
Neil Horman
Patrick Laughton
John Patrick Mahowald
José Matos
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Karen Rei Pease
Ian Pilcher
Orion Poplawski
Jef Spaleta
Quentin Spencer
Richard A. Stout
Andreas Thienemann
Axel Thimm
Jason L Tibbitts III
Toni Willberg
Paul Wouters

If any of them screw up, feel free to let me know.