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= Ben Cotton =
= Ben Cotton =
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Greetings from your Fedora Program Manager!
Greetings from your Fedora Program Manager!
== Contact ==
'''Email''': [mailto:bcotton@fedoraproject.org bcotton@fedoraproject.org]
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'''IRC''': ''bcotton'' on the [http://freenode.net freenode IRC network]
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'''Social media'''
* '''Twitter''' [https://twitter.com/funnelfiasco @FunnelFiasco]
* '''LinkedIn''' [https://www.linkedin.com/in/BCotton/ Ben Cotton]
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'''Other Information'''
* '''GPG key''': [https://keybase.io/funnelfiasco keybase]
* '''Location''': Lafayette, Indiana, USA
* '''Timezone''': America/Indiana/Indianapolis
* '''Website''': [https://funnelfiasco.com funnelfiasco.com]


== Activities within Fedora ==
== Activities within Fedora ==


=== Fedora Program Manager ===
=== Fedora Program Manager ===
I started as the Fedora Program Manager on June 25th. I'll have more to say here once I get settled in.  
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 ===
=== My Badges ===
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=== Documentation Project ===
=== 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.
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 have a [[User:Bcotton/DocBook_notes|page of DocBook notes]] because I haven't found one elsewhere on the wiki.
I also have a page of [[User:Bcotton/Useful_links]] because I can never seem to find what I'm looking for via the wiki search.

Revision as of 16:50, 19 July 2018

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

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.