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Ben Cotton
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Personal information
Location: Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Homepage: https://funnelfiasco.com
E-mail: bcotton@fedoraproject.org
Contact information
#fedora-council,#fedora-devel,#fedora-mktg, #opensource.com​
Ham Radio: kc9fyx​
Twitter: funnelfiasco
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/BCotton/

Fedora-specific information
FAS name: [[fas:{{{fas-name}}}|{{{fas-name}}}]]
Fedora e-mail: {{{fas-name}}}@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage: {{{fas-name}}}.fedorapeople.org
 


Ben Cotton

Greetings from your Fedora Program Manager!

Activities within Fedora

Fedora Program Manager

I started as the Fedora Program Manager in June 2018. I wrangle the Changes changes, manage the Schedule schedule, and generally help herd the cats.

My Badges

  Involvement  Mugshot  Bloggin' it! (Planet III)  Bloggin' it! (Planet I)  Bloggin' it! (Planet II)  Embryo  Tadpole  Egg  Junior Editor  Let Me Introduce Myself  You can call me "Patches" (SCM I)  Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I)  If you build it... (Koji Success I)  Associate Badger (Badger 1.5)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I)  White Hat  Associate Editor  Origin  Macaron (Cookie I)  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  Council Member  Riddle Me This  Senior Editor  Let's do lunch!  Master Editor  Flock 2018 Attendee  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  White Rabbit  Crypto Badger  Black and White (Cookie III)  Community Messenger III  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  Nuancier F30  Prolific!  Flock 2019 Attendee  Top 100  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  Adult Frog  DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee  Master Badger (Badger III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  iot-name-game  Lets have a party Fedora 33  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  I Voted: Fedora 34  Lets have a party Fedora 34  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  GUADEC 2021  Nest Attendee 2021  Fedora Week of Diversity  Science (Kernel Tester III)  Community Survey Taker 2022  GUADEC 2022  IoT Working Group Member  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  Called to Action  I voted: Fedora 38  I voted: Fedora 39  Let's have a party (Fedora 40)  Tadpole with Legs  Take this and call me in the morning  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  Speak Up!  Vacation  Helping Hand  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Community Messenger I  Rollercoaster Restaurant  CommOps Superstar  Chief Editor  Common Bugs Contributor  DevConf 2019 Attendee  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Community Messenger IV  Community Messenger V  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  I Voted: Fedora 31  Science (Kernel Tester I)  Pizzelle (Cookie IV)  Catching the Bull (Tester IV)  Summer Coder  The Blessing of the FPL  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  SCaLE 18x Attendee  Fedora Advocate  I Voted: Fedora 32  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  Rainbow (Cookie V)  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  I Voted: Fedora 33  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  Magazine Editor  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  Learning from Sensei  Museum Visitor  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  Lets have a party Fedora 35  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  I voted: Fedora 37  Community Messenger VII  Community Messenger VI  Community Messenger VIII  Community Survey Taker 2023  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I)  Junior Badger (Badger I)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer IV)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer III)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer II)  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Novice (Wordsmith I)  Bloggin' it! (Planet IV)  Bona Fide  Froglet  LISA16  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  Secretary General  Top 500  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  Community Messenger II  It's a Cake Thing  I Voted: Fedora 29  Grandmaster Editor  You’re on a boat!  Rockin' & Rollin'  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  It still works!  Readiness  I Voted: Fedora 30  Extra!  Extra!  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III)  Fedora 32 Change Accepted  NeuroFedora SIG Member  Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020  The Panda Is In  Fedora Legal Badge of Doom  I converted to btrfs!  nest-attendee-2020  Social Panda  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  Community Survey Taker I  United Packages of Fedora  Akademy 2021  Science (Kernel Tester II)  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  I Voted: Fedora 36  I Voted: Fedora 35  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  Lets have a party Fedora 36  SCaLE 19x Attendee  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 37  Top 25  I voted: Fedora 40

Packaging

I am an owner or co-owner of

  • condor
  • wordgrinder
  • latex2html

Marketing

I joined the Marketing team in December 2017. I'm interested in starting an I am Fedora short video series.

Documentation Project

I was volunteered to be the Docs project leader in November 2011. Mostly my contributions involve administrivia, easy bug fixes, and occasional chapters about printing. I sort of faded away from the docs project when life got in the way.