User:Codeblock

Ricky Elrod
Ricky Elrod
Personal information
Location:	Ohio, USA
Birthday:	August 2
Homepage:	elrod.me
E-mail:	codeblock@fedoraproject.org
GPG key:	FC3C6A07
Contact information
Ham Radio:	N8SQL​
Facebook:	codeblock​
GitHub:	relrod ​
Fedora-specific information
FAS name:	codeblock
Fedora e-mail:	codeblock@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage:	codeblock.fedorapeople.org
Fedora Badges earned (142)

NOTE!

By FAR, the best way to reach me is by pinging me on IRC or dropping me a PM (relrod on freenode). Please try to contact me there before resorting to other methods.

Introduction

I live in Youngstown, OH, USA, and am currently attending Youngstown State University where I am majoring in computer science and mathematics. I have a very strong interest in Programming Language Theory (PLT) and the connection between mathematics and programming by way of things like category theory, type theory, and the Curry-Howard correspondence.

What I do within Fedora (current-ish)

• I packaged and maintain a number of packages that I find useful.
  • I am also a packager sponsor and currently sponsor a small number of people
• I'm a member of the core infrastructure team
  • Web app development
  • Server maintenance/upkeep
• I have been working on the websites team and leading website updates for the last few releases.

Timeline of my Fedora history

• (June 2010) - Sent intro email to infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org, started helping out wherever I could.
• (January 2011) - Got funded to go to FUDCon:Tempe_2011. (Thank you, Fedora!)
• (February 2011) - Was asked about and gladly accepted entrance into sysadmin-main, the core sysadmin group for the Fedora Project.
• (June 2011) - Won the Fedora Scholarship. (Thank you, Fedora!)
• (November 2011) - Started administrating the Fedora Scholarship since the previous winner has the opportunity to run the next year's scholarship.
• (February 2012) - Became an intern at Red Hat (Fedora Engineering Intern).
• (December 2013 - present) - Title change to "Associate Software Engineer, Fedora Engineering"

What I do outside of Fedora (in FOSS)

• I work on a lot of small FOSS projects that I started (see my GitHub page linked above).
• I love learning about programming paradigms, particularly Functional Programming.
  • Along with that, I love learning the math behind it. Type theory and category theory are enjoyable. Provable correctness is amazing. :)
  • In fact Programming Language Theory in general is amazing. :)
• I maintain a small number of Ruby Gems, but this is about all I do with Ruby nowadays.
• I maintain some Haskell packages on Hackage.
• I created http://da.gd/ and am currently rewriting it in Haskell.
• I sometimes contribute to Facebook's Phabricator project in my spare time.

Non-software things that I do

• I am a full-time student, currently dual-majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics at Youngstown State University.
  • I am the former Vice President and current Events Coordinator for the YSU ACM student chapter.
  • I am the former Vice President for W8UPD, The University of Akron's Amateur Radio Club.
  • I am the former Vice President for ACM at UAkron.
• I am a founder of the Northeast Ohio Experimenters Club in Ohio, USA.
• I was a founder of The SYN/HAK Hackerspace in Akron, Ohio, USA.
• I dabble with calligraphy.
• I enjoy photography - I shoot Pentax.
• I enjoy astronomy and should learn more about it one day.
• I'm an amateur radio operator (N8SQL) and ARRL VE.
• I play drums (but only as a hobby).
• I play guitar (also only as a hobby).