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Neal Gompa
Personal information
Pronouns: he/him
Location: Norwalk, CT, USA


GPG key: BA9778545005C10C
Contact information
Twitter: Det_Conan_Kudo
LinkedIn: ngompa
Fediverse: @Conan_Kudo@fosstodon.org
GitHub: Conan-Kudo
GitLab: Conan_Kudo

Fedora-specific information
FAS name: ngompa
Fedora e-mail: ngompa@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage: ngompa.fedorapeople.org
 


Neal Gompa

General Information

DevOps Engineer by day, Linux systems aficionado and developer by night!

I'm a developer and contributor in Fedora and other Linux distributions, focusing primarily on the base Linux system components, such as package and software management. I'm a big believer in "upstream first", which has led me all over the open source world.

I've been a user of Red Hat Linux and Fedora since 2002, and I've been a contributor to Fedora since 2007. I used to primarily work in software and systems management projects, but now I focus on desktop Fedora Linux, especially on multimedia; video games and game development; and audio+video production on Fedora Linux.

Contact

  • Email: ngompa A fedoraproject D org
  • Matrix: A conan_kudo C matrix D org
  • IRC: Conan_Kudo, Pharaoh_Atem, Son_Goku, King_InuYasha, Sir_Gallantmon, Eighth_Doctor on Libera Chat and OFTC

Activities within Fedora

  • Maintain many packages in Fedora
  • Participate in the Admin, CoreOS, RelEng, Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Rust, KDE, GNOME/Workstation, Modularity, MinGW, Server, Cloud, Buildsys, and OKD groups
  • Created and run the Asahi SIG
  • Contribute to many different projects as part of working on desktop Linux use-cases
  • Contribute to RPM, DNF, Mock/Koji, Pagure, and many other applications

Badges

Involvement Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 In Search of the Bull (Tester I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) If you build it... (Koji Success II) Corporate Drone Mugshot You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) Don't Call it a Comeback Riddle Me This Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Embryo Paranoid Panda Egg Froglet Tadpole Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Tadpole with Legs Take this and call me in the morning Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Bona Fide If you build it... (Koji Success I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) White Rabbit Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) BrickHack 2016 Attendee It still works! Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Top 500 Macaron (Cookie I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) The cat came back... Partners in Crime What goes around comes around (Karma I) Nuancier F24 Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Senior Badger (Badger II) Junior Editor Taming the Bull (Tester V) If you build it... (Koji Success III) Python SIG member Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Red Hat Summit 2016 Let Me Introduce Myself Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) Associate Editor Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Packager Sponsor Helping Hand Binary Star The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) Proven Packager Fedora 26 Change Accepted Red Hat Summit 2017 What goes around comes around (Karma II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Old Yeller Override, you say? You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) What goes around comes around (Karma III) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) White Hat Fedora 27 Change Accepted Crypto Panda Senior Editor Red Hat Summit 2018 Fedora 28 Change Accepted Flock 2018 Attendee Rollercoaster Restaurant DevConf.us Attendee 2018 Fedora 29 Change Accepted Patches (SCM V) Top 100 Parselmouth I Speak Up! What goes around comes around (Karma IV) Both Bull and Self Transcended (Tester VIII) Fedora 30 Change Accepted Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Flock 2019 Attendee Black and White (Cookie III) Parselmouth II Fedora 31 Change Accepted Readiness You’re on a boat! Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Corporate Shill Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Fedora 32 Change Accepted I Voted: Fedora 30 Master Badger (Badger III) All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020 The Blessing of the FPL Reaching the Source (Tester IX) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) Secretary General I Voted: Fedora 32 Social Panda Community Messenger I Fedora 33 Change Accepted The Last Argument of Kings Fedora Legal Badge of Doom I converted to btrfs! Master Editor Let's do lunch! Pizzelle (Cookie IV) nest-attendee-2020 Fedora 34 Change Accepted It's a Cake Thing I Voted: Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 33 Linux App Summit 2021 Adult Frog Fedora Podcast Interviewee NYE Party Panda DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 Red Hat Summit 2021 Learning from Sensei Community Survey Taker I Akademy 2021 United Packages of Fedora Nest Attendee 2021 Podcast Contributor Fedora 35 Change Accepted GUADEC 2021 Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 35 Lets have a party Fedora 35 Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Fedora 36 Change Accepted Corporate Overlord FOSDEM 2022 Attendee Top 25 Return to Society (Tester X) SCaLE 19x Attendee Fedora Mentor Summit 2022 Community Survey Taker 2022 I Voted: Fedora 36 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 36 Fedora Week of Diversity 2022 Fedora 37 Change Accepted Lets have a party Fedora 37 I voted: Fedora 37 Fedora 38 Change Accepted CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee FOSDEM 2023 Attendee Flock 2023 Attendee Let's have a party (Fedora 38) Community Survey Taker 2023 Fedora 39 Change Accepted I voted: Fedora 38 Ghost Tour LXQt SIG Member Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) I voted: Fedora 39 KDE SIG FOSDEM 2024 Attendee SCaLE 21x Attendee CentOS Connect 2024 Attendee