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