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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  Take this and call me in the morning  Associate Editor  Novice (Wordsmith I)  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  Council Member  Riddle Me This  Senior Editor  Let's do lunch!  Master Editor  Flock 2018 Attendee  CommOps Superstar  DevConf 2019 Attendee  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Nuancier F30  Community Messenger IV  Community Messenger V  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  Science (Kernel Tester I)  Pizzelle (Cookie IV)  Master Badger (Badger III)  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 Legal Badge of Doom  I converted to btrfs!  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  Social Panda  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  Magazine Editor  I Voted: Fedora 34  Akademy 2021  Science (Kernel Tester II)  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 36  GUADEC 2022  IoT Working Group Member  Let Me Introduce Myself  You can call me "Patches" (SCM I)  Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I)  If you build it... (Koji Success I)  Associate Badger (Badger 1.5)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I)  White Hat  Origin  Bloggin' it! (Planet IV)  Macaron (Cookie I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  LISA16  Speak Up!  Secretary General  Top 500  Helping Hand  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  Community Messenger II  Chief Editor  Black and White (Cookie III)  Community Messenger III  I Voted: Fedora 29  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  Prolific!  Flock 2019 Attendee  Top 100  Rockin' & Rollin'  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  Adult Frog  Catching the Bull (Tester IV)  Summer Coder  DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee  The Blessing of the FPL  NeuroFedora SIG Member  Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020  The Panda Is In  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  I Voted: Fedora 32  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  nest-attendee-2020  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  I Voted: Fedora 33  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 34  Learning from Sensei  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  Nest Attendee 2021  Museum Visitor  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  Community Survey Taker 2022  Lets have a party Fedora 37  Community Messenger VII  Community Messenger VI  Community Messenger VIII  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant  Top 25  I voted: Fedora 37  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  I voted: Fedora 38  I voted: Fedora 39  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Bona Fide  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  Froglet  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  Vacation  Community Messenger I  Rollercoaster Restaurant  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  White Rabbit  Crypto Badger  Common Bugs Contributor  It's a Cake Thing  Grandmaster Editor  You’re on a boat!  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  I Voted: Fedora 31  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  It still works!  Readiness  I Voted: Fedora 30  Extra!  Extra!  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III)  Fedora 32 Change Accepted  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  SCaLE 18x Attendee  Fedora Advocate  Rainbow (Cookie V)  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  iot-name-game  Lets have a party Fedora 33  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  Community Survey Taker I  United Packages of Fedora  GUADEC 2021  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  Lets have a party Fedora 35  Fedora Week of Diversity  Science (Kernel Tester III)  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  I Voted: Fedora 36  I Voted: Fedora 35  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  SCaLE 19x Attendee  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  Called to Action  Community Survey Taker 2023  I voted: Fedora 40  Let's have a party (Fedora 40)

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.