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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

Flock 2024 Attendee Pixel Perfect Night Fedora Mentor Summit 2024 DevConf.us 2024 Attendee In Search of the Bull (Tester I) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) Egg Tadpole with Legs Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) White Rabbit Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) It still works! The cat came back... Nuancier F24 What goes up... (Koji Failure II) If you build it... (Koji Success III) Let Me Introduce Myself Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI) Associate Editor Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Packager Sponsor What goes around comes around (Karma II) Old Yeller Override, you say? Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Fedora 27 Change Accepted Crypto Panda Fedora 29 Change Accepted Top 100 Both Bull and Self Transcended (Tester VIII) Fedora 31 Change Accepted Flock 2019 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 31 I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II) Master Badger (Badger III) Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020 Reaching the Source (Tester IX) I Voted: Fedora 32 Social Panda Secretary General I converted to btrfs! Fedora 34 Change Accepted I Voted: Fedora 33 NYE Party Panda Adult Frog I Voted: Fedora 34 Red Hat Summit 2021 Learning from Sensei Community Survey Taker I United Packages of Fedora Podcast Contributor Fedora 35 Change Accepted GUADEC 2021 Lets have a party Fedora 35 Tectonic! (Updates-Stable V) Return to Society (Tester X) Community Survey Taker 2022 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 Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) BrickHack 2016 Attendee Stop That Update! Partners in Crime Mirror, Mirror on the Wall What goes around comes around (Karma I) Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Red Hat Summit 2016 Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Helping Hand The Bull Transcended (Tester VII) Proven Packager Binary Star Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) What goes up... (Koji Failure III) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) White Hat Senior Editor What goes around comes around (Karma III) Fedora 28 Change Accepted Flock 2018 Attendee Speak Up! Fedora 30 Change Accepted Parselmouth II Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III) You’re on a boat! Readiness Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable IV) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Fedora Legal Badge of Doom Pizzelle (Cookie IV) nest-attendee-2020 It's a Cake Thing Lets have a party Fedora 33 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Fedora Podcast Interviewee Linux App Summit 2021 Lets have a party Fedora 34 Mic Check! (Updates-Testing V) Nest Attendee 2021 DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee Top 25 Fedora Week of Diversity 2022 Fedora at RH Summit, 2015 Involvement Embryo Froglet Tadpole 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) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI) Top 500 Macaron (Cookie I) Let's have a watch party (Fedora 41) I voted: Fedora 41 Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II) Senior Badger (Badger II) Junior Editor Taming the Bull (Tester V) Python SIG member Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Fedora 26 Change Accepted Red Hat Summit 2017 You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) Red Hat Summit 2018 Rollercoaster Restaurant DevConf.us Attendee 2018 Parselmouth I Patches (SCM V) What goes around comes around (Karma IV) Black and White (Cookie III) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I) Corporate Shill Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Fedora 32 Change Accepted The Blessing of the FPL Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing IV) Community Messenger I Now, I return to my farm Master Editor Fedora 33 Change Accepted Let's do lunch! FOSDEM 2021 Attendee Akademy 2021 Badge Junkie (Badger IV) Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 35 Fedora 36 Change Accepted FOSDEM 2022 Attendee Corporate Overlord Fedora Mentor Summit 2022 SCaLE 19x Attendee Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Let's have a party (Fedora 38) KDE SIG Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) CentOS Connect 2024 Attendee Red Hat Summit 2024 Let's have a party (Fedora 40) Rainbow (Cookie V) Chief Editor DevConf.cz 2024 Attendee Fedora 40 Change Accepted Lets have a party Fedora 36 I Voted: Fedora 36 Lets have a party Fedora 37 Fedora 37 Change Accepted I voted: Fedora 37 CentOS Connect 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 38 Community Survey Taker 2023 Flock 2023 Attendee I voted: Fedora 39 LXQt SIG Member SCaLE 21x Attendee Fedora 38 Change Accepted FOSDEM 2023 Attendee Fedora 39 Change Accepted Ghost Tour FOSDEM 2024 Attendee Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) I voted: Fedora 40 Fedora Week of Diversity 2024