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