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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'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. Nowadays, I largely work in software and systems management projects, but I also dabble in video games and other things.
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 ==
== Contact ==

Revision as of 23:12, 30 December 2022

Neal Gompa
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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
  • Contribute to RPM, DNF, Mock/Koji, Pagure, and many other applications

Badges

In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Involvement Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Top 500 You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Red Hat Summit 2016 Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) Proven Packager Red Hat Summit 2017 Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Fedora 27 Change Accepted Crypto Panda Fedora 28 Change Accepted Red Hat Summit 2018 Flock 2018 Attendee Parselmouth II Fedora 31 Change Accepted Flock 2019 Attendee Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Readiness Fedora 32 Change Accepted Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Master Badger (Badger III) The Blessing of the FPL Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020 What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Community Messenger I Secretary General I converted to btrfs! Master Editor Fedora 33 Change Accepted Let's do lunch! Fedora 34 Change Accepted I Voted: Fedora 33 FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Adult Frog Linux App Summit 2021 Learning from Sensei Community Survey Taker I United Packages of Fedora Podcast Contributor Fedora 35 Change Accepted Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Museum Visitor Lets have a party Fedora 35 You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) 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) 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) BrickHack 2016 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) The cat came back... Mirror, Mirror on the Wall What goes around comes around (Karma I) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) If you build it... (Koji Success III) Taming the Bull (Tester V) Let Me Introduce Myself Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) Associate Editor Python SIG member Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Helping Hand Packager Sponsor Fedora 26 Change Accepted Binary Star Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) White Hat DevConf.us Attendee 2018 What goes around comes around (Karma IV) Both Bull and Self Transcended (Tester VIII) Fedora 30 Change Accepted I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 30 All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Reaching the Source (Tester IX) I Voted: Fedora 32 Social Panda The Last Argument of Kings Pizzelle (Cookie IV) nest-attendee-2020 It's a Cake Thing Lets have a party Fedora 33 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 34 Lets have a party Fedora 34 GUADEC 2021 Nest Attendee 2021 Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Top 25 Lets have a party Fedora 36 Fedora Week of Diversity 2022 I voted: Fedora 37 CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 38 KDE SIG CentOS Connect 2024 Attendee Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Corporate Drone If you build it... (Koji Success II) Mugshot Riddle Me This Don't Call it a Comeback Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Paranoid Panda Embryo Froglet Tadpole White Rabbit It still works! Partners in Crime Nuancier F24 Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Senior Badger (Badger II) Junior Editor What goes around comes around (Karma II) Old Yeller Override, you say? You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Senior Editor What goes around comes around (Karma III) Rollercoaster Restaurant Fedora 29 Change Accepted Top 100 Parselmouth I Patches (SCM V) Speak Up! Black and White (Cookie III) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) You’re on a boat! Corporate Shill Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) Fedora Legal Badge of Doom NYE Party Panda Fedora Podcast Interviewee Red Hat Summit 2021 Akademy 2021 Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) I Voted: Fedora 35 Fedora 36 Change Accepted FOSDEM 2022 Attendee Corporate Overlord Fedora Mentor Summit 2022 Community Survey Taker 2022 SCaLE 19x Attendee Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 37 Fedora 37 Change Accepted Flock 2023 Attendee Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) I voted: Fedora 40 Let's have a party (Fedora 40) Rainbow (Cookie V) SCaLE 21x Attendee DevConf.cz 2024 Attendee Fedora 40 Change Accepted Return to Society (Tester X) I Voted: Fedora 36 Fedora 38 Change Accepted FOSDEM 2023 Attendee Fedora 39 Change Accepted Let's have a party (Fedora 38) Community Survey Taker 2023 Ghost Tour I voted: Fedora 39 LXQt SIG Member FOSDEM 2024 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2024 Chief Editor