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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

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