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