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

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.