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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 (180)
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 Flock 2013 Speaker Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) 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 with Legs Tadpole Egg Take this and call me in the morning White Hat Apex Vacation Novice (Wordsmith I) Associate Editor White Rabbit Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) No Longer a Ronin Secretary General Sensei Let Me Introduce Myself Proven Packager If you build it... (Koji Success III) Froglet The Blessing of the FPL Flock 2014 Speaker Helping Hand Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Nuancier 21 What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Flock 2014 Attendee Party Pirate Science (Kernel Tester I) Dancing with Toshio Flock Paparazzi What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Readiness Corporate Drone Fedora Docs FAD 2014 Shellshocked Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) What goes around comes around (Karma II) The Panda Is In What goes up... (Koji Failure II) FUDCon Managua Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Flock 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker OSCON 2015 Attendee Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) DevConf 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Science (Kernel Tester II) Flock 2015 Speaker Delivery Nuancier (F22) Origin Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Nom Nom Nom Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Nuancier F23 If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Corporate Shill Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Master Badger (Badger III) Partners in Crime 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) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) 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 25 Patches (SCM V) Top 500 Top 100 Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Nuancier F24 Flock 2016 Attendee All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Krakow Brews! The cat came back... Adult Frog Security Team Nuancier F26 Community Messenger I Nuancier F25 Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Steampunk Arcade Chief Editor Binary Star Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Flock 2017 Attendee Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 F28 i18n Test Day Participant Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Meeting of the Minds Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Flock 2018 Attendee It's a Cake Thing Catching the Bull (Tester IV) I Voted: Fedora 29 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Fedora Advocate I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Fedora Podcast Interviewee Rollercoaster Restaurant Parselmouth I You’re on a boat! Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Flock 2019 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 33 I Voted: Fedora 32 F32 i18n Test Day Participant I Voted: Fedora 33 Magazine Editor nest-attendee-2020 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Community Survey Taker I Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 Nest Attendee 2021 I Voted: Fedora 35 Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 36 I voted: Fedora 37 Community Survey Taker 2022 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee IoT Working Group Member Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 38
 

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