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