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