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