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