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My name is Jared Smith.  I'm a geek.
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 ==
== Contact ==


* '''Email''': [mailto:jsmith-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org Jared's Email]
* '''Email''': [mailto:jsmith-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org Jared's Email]
* '''IRC''': jsmith (in #fedora-docs, #asterisk-doc, #asterisk-dev, #asterisk-bugs)
* '''IRC''': jsmith (in #fedora-docs, #fedora-admin, #asterisk-docs)
* '''GPG key''': Key ID 8B670B7A
* '''GPG key''': Key ID 210BDF5A
* '''Fedora Account''': jsmith
* '''Fedora Account''': jsmith
* '''Blog''': http://www.jaredsmith.net/


== Activities within Fedora ==
== Activities within Fedora ==
* I was the [[FPL|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.


* I help out with the Fedora Docs project, and generally make a nuisance of myself
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== Goals as the Fedora Project Leader ==
 
* Oversee the entire Fedora Project -- if it's in Fedora, ultimately I'm accountable for it.
* Act as a catalyst within the community to improve communications and encourage excellent behavior
* Work with the Fedora Program Manager [[user:JohnPoelstra|John Poelstra]], Fedora Engineering Manager [[user:spot|Tom "Spot" Callaway]], and the Community Architecture team to make sure that Fedora is making constant, substantial progress in its mission to advance free and open source software.
* Chair the [[Board| Fedora Project Board]], and ensure that the Board is effectively advising and guiding the Fedora Project where needed.
* Be an effective bridge between the external volunteer contributor base and the contributor community inside Red Hat, such as RHEL engineers.
* Lower contributor barriers to the absolute minimum, and encourage others to get involved in FOSS through Fedora.
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== Education Background ==
 
Jared graduated in 2001 from Utah State University with a degree in Computer Engineering.
 
His fondest memory of his USU education involves a course taught by [http://digital.cs.usu.edu/~allan/ Professor Stephen J. Allan]:
 
"The class was something like "Unix Basics" or something boring like that, but the teacher made the assignments interesting, by forcing you to work with others in the class to solve a problem. A typical assignment might go something like this: 'Joe, you write an awk script to take this file I give you and transform it to look like this -- Susie, you take that, and use grep and sed to do this to it, Jared -- you take that and write a Perl script to do this...' and so on. So not only did we learn the tools, we had to communicate our expectations and assumptions with the other members of our team."
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== Badges ==
To hightlight some of the work I've done in Fedora, here are the badges I've accumulated:
 
{{ #fedorabadges: jsmith }}

Latest revision as of 16:49, 31 August 2017

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 (185)
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) Baby Badger Tagger (Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Tadpole Egg Tadpole with Legs Apex Sensei Proven Packager Flock 2014 Speaker Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) Party Pirate Nuancier 21 Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Fedora Docs FAD 2014 Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) What goes around comes around (Karma II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) FUDCon Managua The Panda Is In Flock 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee DevConf 2015 Attendee OSCON 2015 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Origin Delivery Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) 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) 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 Patches (SCM V) The cat came back... Community Messenger I Nuancier F26 Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Binary Star Chief Editor Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Flock 2018 Attendee Catching the Bull (Tester IV) I Voted: Fedora 29 You’re on a boat! I Voted: Fedora 30 Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 35 I Voted: Fedora 36 Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2023 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) White Hat Novice (Wordsmith I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Secretary General Vacation Associate Editor No Longer a Ronin Froglet Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio Readiness Shellshocked You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Macaron (Cookie I) Flock 2015 Speaker 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 V) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Black and White (Cookie III) Top 25 Paranoid Panda Krakow Brews! All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Security Team Adult Frog Steampunk Arcade Fedora Podcast Interviewee I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2022 IoT Working Group Member Take this and call me in the morning Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit The Blessing of the FPL Flock 2014 Attendee Corporate Drone FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Nom Nom Nom Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Partners in Crime Senior Editor Now, I return to my farm Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Fedora 24 Change Accepted Nuancier F24 Flock 2016 Attendee Nuancier F25 Flock 2017 Attendee F28 i18n Test Day Participant Meeting of the Minds Fedora Docs FAD 2018 It's a Cake Thing Rollercoaster Restaurant Parselmouth I Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Flock 2019 Attendee Fedora Advocate F32 i18n Test Day Participant I Voted: Fedora 32 I Voted: Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 33 nest-attendee-2020 Magazine Editor Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee I voted: Fedora 37 I voted: Fedora 39 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 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) Baby Badger Tagger (Tagger II) Senior Tagger (Tagger III) Junior Tagger (Tagger I) Tadpole Egg Tadpole with Legs Apex White Hat Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit The Blessing of the FPL Flock 2014 Speaker Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) Party Pirate Nuancier 21 Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Fedora Docs FAD 2014 Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) What goes around comes around (Karma II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) FUDCon Managua FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee OSCON 2015 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Origin Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Nuancier 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) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor Top 25 Patches (SCM V) Nuancier F25 Nuancier F26 Flock 2017 Attendee F28 i18n Test Day Participant Meeting of the Minds Fedora Podcast Interviewee Flock 2018 Attendee Catching the Bull (Tester IV) I Voted: Fedora 29 Parselmouth I You’re on a boat! I Voted: Fedora 30 Lets have a party Fedora 34 Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Take this and call me in the morning Sensei Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio Corporate Drone The Panda Is In Flock 2015 Attendee Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Macaron (Cookie I) Flock 2015 Speaker Delivery Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Nom Nom Nom If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Partners in Crime Black and White (Cookie III) Senior Editor Top 100 Top 500 Paranoid Panda Fedora 24 Change Accepted Flock 2016 Attendee The cat came back... Community Messenger I Security Team Steampunk Arcade Chief Editor Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Fedora Docs FAD 2018 It's a Cake Thing Rollercoaster Restaurant Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) Flock 2019 Attendee Fedora Advocate Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) F32 i18n Test Day Participant I Voted: Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 33 nest-attendee-2020 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Magazine Editor I Voted: Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I I Voted: Fedora 35 Community Survey Taker 2022 I voted: Fedora 37 I voted: Fedora 38 IoT Working Group Member I voted: Fedora 39 Novice (Wordsmith I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Secretary General Vacation Associate Editor No Longer a Ronin Proven Packager Froglet What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Flock 2014 Attendee Readiness Shellshocked You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker DevConf 2015 Attendee Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Now, I return to my farm Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Nuancier F24 Krakow Brews! All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Adult Frog Binary Star Pizzelle (Cookie IV) I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 32 I Voted: Fedora 36 Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2023 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) I voted: Fedora 40