Hi! I'm Jared Smith, and I'm finally getting around to introducing myself. I've been a long-time lurker on the IRC channel and the mailing list.
OK, so what do you need to know about me? Let's see... I've been using Linux professionally for about ten years now, and was using various flavors of UNIX before that. I managed over 6500 Linux boxes at a previous employer, and racked a fair number of those myself. I've pretty much "been there, done that, and still have the scars to prove it" when it comes to managing IT infrastructure and data centers.
I'm also big into VoIP (and even co-authored an O'Reilly book on Asterisk), so I'm hoping to help out jcollie and mmcgrath in that area as well. I'm currently working for Digium (the company behind Asterisk) as their Community Relations Manager and lead trainer.
I've also done quite a bit of database work (mostly PostgreSQL) and some programming in various languages.
Anyhoo, enough about me...
-Jared Smith (jsmith on IRC)
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Jared Smith wrote:
Hi! I'm Jared Smith, and I'm finally getting around to introducing myself. I've been a long-time lurker on the IRC channel and the mailing list.
OK, so what do you need to know about me? Let's see... I've been using Linux professionally for about ten years now, and was using various flavors of UNIX before that. I managed over 6500 Linux boxes at a previous employer, and racked a fair number of those myself. I've pretty much "been there, done that, and still have the scars to prove it" when it comes to managing IT infrastructure and data centers.
I'm also big into VoIP (and even co-authored an O'Reilly book on Asterisk), so I'm hoping to help out jcollie and mmcgrath in that area as well. I'm currently working for Digium (the company behind Asterisk) as their Community Relations Manager and lead trainer.
I've also done quite a bit of database work (mostly PostgreSQL) and some programming in various languages.
Anyhoo, enough about me...
Welcome Jared, its nice to see you hanging around more and it was good to see you at FUDCon. If you didn't already know we have weekly meetings:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings
We'd talked about re-scheduling them but no decision was made on that so, for right now at least, that still stands.
-Mike
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 18:00 -0500, Jared Smith wrote:
Hi! I'm Jared Smith, and I'm finally getting around to introducing myself. I've been a long-time lurker on the IRC channel and the mailing list.
OK, so what do you need to know about me? Let's see... I've been using Linux professionally for about ten years now, and was using various flavors of UNIX before that. I managed over 6500 Linux boxes at a previous employer, and racked a fair number of those myself. I've pretty much "been there, done that, and still have the scars to prove it" when it comes to managing IT infrastructure and data centers.
I'm also big into VoIP (and even co-authored an O'Reilly book on Asterisk), so I'm hoping to help out jcollie and mmcgrath in that area as well. I'm currently working for Digium (the company behind Asterisk) as their Community Relations Manager and lead trainer.
I've also done quite a bit of database work (mostly PostgreSQL) and some programming in various languages.
Anyhoo, enough about me...
Since I never miss a chance to run my yap, I wanted to point out that Jared lives in my neck of the woods -- until I move, at least -- and that he has been instrumental in getting our local LUG revived. He is also a fantastic speaker, a true team player, and just a darn nice guy! Now put him to to work. :-D
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