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