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{{Admon/note | This page will be changing soon. | I'm joining [http://redhat.com Red Hat] as the new [[Fedora Project Leader]] starting Monday, July 12.  You'll find more information here shortly about me and my work in the Fedora Project.}}
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.
 
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.


== Contact ==
== Contact ==
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* '''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, #fedora-admin, #asterisk-docs)
* '''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 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 was the [[FPL|Fedora Project Leader]] for two years.
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* 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.   
<!-- Add info about general Asterisk experience, and specifically how it applied to Fedora Talk -->
* 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.)
<!-- Add outside experience from previous employment -->
* I do my best to report bugs when I find them, and work with those responsible to ensure the problems get solved.
<!-- Link to a self introduction somewhere in the project: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/infrastructure/2008-February/003614.html ... should work nicely -->
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=== Goals ===
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== Goals as the Fedora Project Leader ==


==== As the Fedora Project Leader ====
* Oversee the entire Fedora Project -- if it's in Fedora, ultimately I'm accountable for it.
* 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
* Act as a catalyst within the community to improve communications and encourage excellent behavior
* Work with the Fedora Program Manager [[user:poelcat|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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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:


==== As a Contributor ====
{{ #fedorabadges: jsmith }}
* Provide top-tier quality documentation for Fedora products and services.
* Provide the odd low-maintenance package such as non-critical add-ons, where my programming skill (or lack thereof) is not a limiting factor.
* Strive to provide a good example of dealing with other people in a constructive, friendly way at all times.

Latest revision as of 16:49, 31 August 2017

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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 (184)
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 Novice (Wordsmith I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Secretary General Vacation Associate Editor No Longer a Ronin Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) What goes around comes around (Karma II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) FUDCon Managua FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker OSCON 2015 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Partners in Crime Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor Top 25 Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Krakow Brews! All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Chief Editor F28 i18n Test Day Participant Meeting of the Minds Flock 2018 Attendee Catching the Bull (Tester IV) I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 33 Magazine Editor I Voted: Fedora 36 IoT Working Group Member I voted: Fedora 39 Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Proven Packager Froglet Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Flock 2014 Attendee Nuancier 21 Readiness Fedora Docs FAD 2014 Corporate Drone DevConf 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Origin 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) Black and White (Cookie III) Senior Editor Top 100 Top 500 Fedora 24 Change Accepted Nuancier F24 The cat came back... Nuancier F26 Adult Frog Steampunk Arcade Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Fedora Podcast Interviewee It's a Cake Thing Rollercoaster Restaurant 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) Flock 2019 Attendee Fedora Advocate F32 i18n Test Day Participant I Voted: Fedora 32 nest-attendee-2020 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Community Survey Taker I Community Survey Taker 2022 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2023 Take this and call me in the morning Sensei The Blessing of the FPL Flock 2014 Speaker Party Pirate Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Shellshocked You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) The Panda Is In Flock 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Flock 2015 Speaker Delivery Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Nom Nom Nom 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 Patches (SCM V) Flock 2016 Attendee Community Messenger I Nuancier F25 Security Team Binary Star Flock 2017 Attendee Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Fedora Docs FAD 2018 I Voted: Fedora 29 I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Lets have a party Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 34 Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 35 I voted: Fedora 37 I voted: Fedora 38 Let's have an anniversary party (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 Tadpole with Legs Apex White Hat Take this and call me in the morning Novice (Wordsmith I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Secretary General Vacation Associate Editor No Longer a Ronin Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Proven Packager The Blessing of the FPL What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Party Pirate Readiness Shellshocked You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Origin Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor Now, I return to my farm Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Patches (SCM V) Krakow Brews! Community Messenger I Nuancier F25 Nuancier F26 Adult Frog Binary Star Fedora Mindshare 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) I Voted: Fedora 30 F32 i18n Test Day Participant Lets have a party Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker 2022 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee I voted: Fedora 37 Community Survey Taker 2023 Egg Sensei Froglet Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio 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 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) Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Nom Nom Nom 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 V) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) Senior Editor Top 25 Flock 2017 Attendee F28 i18n Test Day Participant Fedora Docs FAD 2018 Catching the Bull (Tester IV) I Voted: Fedora 29 I Voted: Fedora 31 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) nest-attendee-2020 Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 38 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) Flock 2014 Speaker Flock 2014 Attendee Nuancier 21 Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Corporate Drone DevConf 2015 Attendee Flock 2015 Speaker Delivery Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Partners in Crime Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Black and White (Cookie III) Top 100 Top 500 Fedora 24 Change Accepted Nuancier F24 Flock 2016 Attendee The cat came back... All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Security Team Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Steampunk Arcade Chief Editor Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Meeting of the Minds Fedora Podcast Interviewee Flock 2018 Attendee Parselmouth I You’re on a boat! Flock 2019 Attendee Fedora Advocate I Voted: Fedora 32 I Voted: Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 33 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Magazine Editor I Voted: Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I I Voted: Fedora 35 I Voted: Fedora 36 IoT Working Group Member I voted: Fedora 39 I voted: Fedora 40