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