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