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

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

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.