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Jared Smith
Jared Smith
Jared Smith
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 (185)
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 Sensei Froglet Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Readiness 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) Macaron (Cookie I) Origin Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) Partners in Crime Black and White (Cookie III) Senior Editor Top 25 Patches (SCM V) The cat came back... Community Messenger I Binary Star Flock 2017 Attendee Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Fedora Docs FAD 2018 It's a Cake Thing Rollercoaster Restaurant Catching the Bull (Tester IV) Parselmouth I I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) I Voted: Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 33 nest-attendee-2020 Magazine Editor I Voted: Fedora 35 Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee IoT Working Group Member I voted: Fedora 40 Take this and call me in the morning Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Proven Packager The Blessing of the FPL Party Pirate Corporate Drone FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee OSCON 2015 Attendee Flock 2015 Speaker Delivery Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) Nom Nom Nom Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Nuancier 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) What goes up... (Koji Failure IV) Master Editor Now, I return to my farm Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Nuancier F24 Flock 2016 Attendee Security Team Chief Editor Meeting of the Minds Flock 2018 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 29 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 I Voted: Fedora 32 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee I Voted: Fedora 34 I Voted: Fedora 36 Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2023 I voted: Fedora 39 Apex White Hat Novice (Wordsmith I) Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II) Secretary General Vacation Associate Editor No Longer a Ronin Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Flock 2014 Speaker What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Flock 2014 Attendee Nuancier 21 What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Shellshocked Fedora Docs FAD 2014 You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) DevConf 2015 Attendee Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Top 100 Top 500 Paranoid Panda Fedora 24 Change Accepted Krakow Brews! All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Nuancier F25 Nuancier F26 Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Adult Frog Steampunk Arcade F28 i18n Test Day Participant Fedora Podcast Interviewee You’re on a boat! I Voted: Fedora 31 F32 i18n Test Day Participant Lets have a party Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor Community Survey Taker 2022 I voted: Fedora 37 I voted: Fedora 38 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39)
 

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 Egg 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 The Blessing of the FPL Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Helping Hand If you build it... (Koji Success III) Party Pirate Nuancier 21 Readiness What goes around comes around (Karma II) What goes up... (Koji Failure II) FUDCon Managua The Panda Is In Flock 2015 Attendee Flock 2015 Speaker Delivery Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing III) Nom Nom Nom Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) If you build it... (Koji Success IV) You can call me "Patches" (SCM IV) 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 Paranoid Panda Fedora 24 Change Accepted Nuancier F24 Krakow Brews! All your $arch are belong to us (Koji Success V) Nuancier F26 Binary Star Fedora Docs FAD 2018 It's a Cake Thing Rollercoaster Restaurant Catching the Bull (Tester IV) F32 i18n Test Day Participant Magazine Editor I Voted: Fedora 34 Nest Attendee 2021 Museum Visitor I Voted: Fedora 35 I Voted: Fedora 36 I voted: Fedora 37 I voted: Fedora 39 Let Me Introduce Myself White Rabbit Flock 2014 Attendee Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F21) Shellshocked Corporate Drone Package Tagger (Package Tagger II) Junior Package Tagger (Package Tagger I) Senior Package Tagger (Package Tagger III) Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Science (Kernel Tester II) Nuancier (F22) Origin Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I) FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Speaker FUDCon Cordoba 2015 Attendee Nuancier F23 Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III) Master Badger (Badger III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV) Senior Editor Now, I return to my farm Badge Muse (Badge Ideas I) Flock 2016 Attendee The cat came back... Community Messenger I Nuancier F25 Hindenburg (Koji Failure V) Flock 2017 Attendee Fedora Mindshare FAD 2018 Pizzelle (Cookie IV) Fedora Podcast Interviewee Flock 2018 Attendee Parselmouth I You’re on a boat! I Voted: Fedora 31 Community Survey Taker 2022 IoT Working Group Member I voted: Fedora 38 Let's have an anniversary party (Fedora 39) Sensei Proven Packager Froglet Flock 2014 Speaker What goes around comes around (Karma I) Senior Badger (Badger II) Science (Kernel Tester I) Flock Paparazzi Dancing with Toshio What goes up... (Koji Failure I) Fedora Docs FAD 2014 Perceiving the Bull (Tester III) You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) FUDCon Pune 2015 Attendee FUDCon Pune 2015 Speaker DevConf 2015 Attendee OSCON 2015 Attendee Macaron (Cookie I) Chocolate Chip (Cookie II) Def Keepin Fedora Beautiful (F23) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Corporate Shill Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable III) Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII) Black and White (Cookie III) Top 100 Top 500 Patches (SCM V) Security Team Adult Frog Steampunk Arcade Chief Editor F28 i18n Test Day Participant Meeting of the Minds I Voted: Fedora 29 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 I Voted: Fedora 30 Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V) Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV) I Voted: Fedora 32 I Voted: Fedora 33 Lets have a party Fedora 33 nest-attendee-2020 DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee Lets have a party Fedora 34 Community Survey Taker I Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee Community Survey Taker 2023 I voted: Fedora 40