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

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.