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Ben Cotton
Personal information
Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Homepage: https://funnelfiasco.com
E-mail: bcotton@fedoraproject.org
Contact information
#fedora-council,#fedora-pgm,#fedora-devel,#fedora-admin,#fedora-qa,#fedora-kde​
Ham Radio: kc9fyx​
Twitter: funnelfiasco
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/BCotton/
Fediverse: @funnelfiasco@hachyderm.io
GitHub: funnelfiasco

Fedora-specific information
FAS name: bcotton
Fedora e-mail: bcotton@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage: bcotton.fedorapeople.org
 


Ben Cotton

Greetings!

Activities within Fedora

Community Blog

I am the editor-in-chief for the Fedora Community Blog.

Docs

My first foray into Fedora was joining the Docs team in 2009. 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. I still pop in every once in a while to offer opinions and minor contributions.

Magazine

I was one of the Fedora Magazine Editors from 2019-2021.

Packaging

I am an maintainer or co-maintainer of

  • condor
  • wordgrinder
  • latex2html

I also maintain Copr builds for

QA

I occasionally contribute to QA activities, mostly by upgrading to the next release prior to the Beta release and enabling updates-testing. I also frequently vote on blockers/freeze exceptions.

Fedora Program Manager

I was the Fedora Program Manager (FPgM) frpm June 2018 until I was laid off by Red Hat in May 2023. I wrangled the changes, managed the schedule, and generally helped herd the cats. As the FPgM, I often found myself jumping into many areas to help out when needed.