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Jared Smith
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 (186)
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 Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Bloggin' it! (Planet III) Bloggin' it! (Planet I) Bloggin' it! (Planet II) Tadpole with Legs Apex Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Proven Packager Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Flock 2014 Speaker Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) Party Pirate What goes up... (Koji Failure I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Flock 2015 Speaker Nom Nom Nom Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Nuancier F23 Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor Top 100 Top 500 Paranoid Panda Nuancier F24 Security Team Nuancier F26 Adult Frog Steampunk Arcade Chief Editor Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Meeting of the Minds Flock 2019 Attendee Fedora Advocate I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 32 Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Tadpole White Hat Novice (Wordsmith I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Secretary General Vacation Associate Editor No Longer a Ronin The Blessing of the FPL Flock 2014 Attendee Nuancier 21 Readiness Shellshocked Fedora Docs FAD 2014 Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) What goes around comes around (Karma II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) FUDCon Managua DevConf 2015 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Let's have a party (Fedora 42) Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Corporate Shill Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Black and White (Cookie III) Senior Editor Top 25 Krakow Brews! Community Messenger I Nuancier F25 Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Binary Star Fedora Podcast Interviewee It's a Cake Thing Rollercoaster Restaurant Catching the Bull (Tester IV) I Voted: Fedora 29 Parselmouth I You’re on a boat! Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) I Voted: Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 33 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee I voted: Fedora 37 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) F32 i18n Test Day Participant nest-attendee-2020 Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 36 IoT Working Group Member Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) I voted: Fedora 39 Embryo Flock 2013 Speaker Baby Badger Tagger (Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Egg Take this and call me in the morning Sensei Froglet What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Corporate Drone The Panda Is In Flock 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) OSCON 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Origin Delivery Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Partners in Crime Now, I return to my farm Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Patches (SCM V) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Flock 2016 Attendee The cat came back... All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Flock 2017 Attendee Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 F28 i18n Test Day Participant Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Flock 2018 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 30 Magazine Editor Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 35 Community Survey Taker 2022 Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2023 I voted: Fedora 40
 

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 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) Apex Novice (Wordsmith I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Secretary General Vacation Associate Editor No Longer a Ronin Proven Packager Flock 2014 Speaker Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) Flock 2014 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Readiness Shellshocked Corporate Drone FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Origin Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Nom Nom Nom Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Black and White (Cookie III) Senior Editor Now, I return to my farm Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Nuancier F24 Flock 2016 Attendee Nuancier F26 Adult Frog Flock 2017 Attendee Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Meeting of the Minds It's a Cake Thing Rollercoaster Restaurant F32 i18n Test Day Participant Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Embryo Flock 2013 Speaker Baby Badger Tagger (Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Egg Sensei Froglet Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Party Pirate Fedora Docs FAD 2014 Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) The Panda Is In Flock 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Delivery Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Nuancier F23 Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Corporate Shill Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Top 100 Top 500 Patches (SCM V) Krakow Brews! Community Messenger I Nuancier F25 Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Binary Star Chief Editor F28 i18n Test Day Participant Fedora Podcast Interviewee I Voted: Fedora 29 Parselmouth I You’re on a boat! Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) I Voted: Fedora 32 I Voted: Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 33 Magazine Editor I Voted: Fedora 34 Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee I voted: Fedora 37 Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 38 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) I Voted: Fedora 35 I Voted: Fedora 36 IoT Working Group Member Community Survey Taker 2023 I voted: Fedora 39 I voted: Fedora 40 Tadpole Tadpole with Legs White Hat Take this and call me in the morning Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit The Blessing of the FPL Nuancier 21 What goes up... (Koji Failure I) What goes around comes around (Karma II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) FUDCon Managua DevConf 2015 Attendee OSCON 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Flock 2015 Speaker Let's have a party (Fedora 42) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Partners in Crime What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor Top 25 Paranoid Panda Fedora 24 Change Accepted The cat came back... All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Security Team Steampunk Arcade Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Flock 2018 Attendee Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Flock 2019 Attendee Fedora Advocate nest-attendee-2020 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I Community Survey Taker 2022