User:Codeblock

Ricky Elrod on the 'net

FAS: codeblock
GPG: DAD3DF0E
Freenode (nick: CodeBlock): #fedora-admin, #fedora-noc, #phabricator, #rubyonrails, #synhak and a bunch of others.
Slashnet (nick: CodeBlock): #uakroncs
Ham Radio: N8SQL
Email: codeblock@fedoraproject.org
Blog: http://rickyelrod.tumblr.com/
Github: http://www.github.com/codeblock
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/codeblock
Google+ (rarely used): https://plus.google.com/106726601246881076299/

What I do within Fedora

• (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.

What I do outside of Fedora (in FOSS)

• I secretly love Ruby and Ruby On Rails, and tend to do web development work using this stack quite a bit.
• I maintain a small number of Ruby Gems.
• I created (and very badly need to re-create) http://da.gd/ and the "framework" that powers it.
• I contribute to Facebook's Phabricator project in my spare time.
• I am trying to make the FOSS bridge between Software and Amateur Radio more obtainable to more people. On a contribution and end-user level. I have at least one project in development right now to contribute to this goal, that will be released (and FOSS once it is) in mid-2012. This project also recently got approved by Kickstarter, so we can soon begin raising money to help make this happen.
• I love learning and playing with a lot of different programming languages.
  • Here is a small list of ones that I know: Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, Io, Java
  • Here is a small list of ones that I have played with/am learning: Clojure (and other lisps), C/C++
  • Here is a small list of ones that I want to try out one day: Magpie

Non-software things that I do

• I am a part-time student at the University of Akron.
  • I am the Vice President for W8UPD, The University of Akron's Amateur Radio Club.
  • I am the Vice President for ACM at UA.
• I am a founding member of The SYN/HAK Hackerspace in Akron, Ohio.
• I am learning Guitar in my free time.
• I play the keyboard for fun. I'm not good at it.
• I love animals.

Things that I find interesting and one-day would like to try, but currently know nothing about

• Airplane piloting.
• Astronomy.
• Upgrading my Ham Radio license to 'Extra'.