Digium’s Fond Farewell to Jared Smith
kshumard July 6th, 2010
It is with a mixture of pride and sorrow that I share the news that long-time Digium employee and Asterisk community member Jared Smith is leaving Digium to become the Fedora Project Leader, employed by Red Hat. Jared has contributed to the Asterisk community for the better part of a decade, and has worked tirelessly for the last few years at Digium in community relations and training roles. I’m confident that he will remain engaged with Asterisk — he assures me he’ll be at Astricon in October — but it will be a challenge to find such a capable and committed colleague to take his place within the ranks of Digium. We wish Jared all the best in his new role, and we’re confident he’ll do well there. We’ll certainly miss him here.
Digium’s Training Department has been working on some exciting projects, and more work remains to be done. If you know Asterisk, have an interest in training, and want to work for Digium, we’d love to hear from you! Contact us at training@digium.com. And stay tuned to digium.com/training to hear what we’re up to…
All the best Jared for your new challenge. It looks, though, that our loss is our gain too as you move from one open-source company to one of the “original” open-source companies!
nice farewell to jared smith,
its true that digium will not find a good person soon like him digium will miss him but its nice that smith is moved up high in his career great for his future.
all the best to the smith.he will be again in digium.
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I’m sorry to see Jared leave, but I’m pleased that he’ll be contributing to another fantastic Open-Source project. I know that this will create even better ties between the two huge OSS communities, and I also know that Jared won’t be going away from the Asterisk sphere of influence – he’s got too many ideas to remain silent.
I suspect we’ll see him this fall at AstriCon, perhaps as an MC… yes… that would be good.
PS: I have no idea who Dr. McQuackery is above in the comments, but it seems suitably odd enough to leave it in the comment section.
JT
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Best of luck Jared. Good to hear you will still be involved with an open source project.God Bless you on your new endeavor.
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