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