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