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