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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  Let Me Introduce Myself  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  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Associate Editor  Origin  Novice (Wordsmith I)  Bloggin' it! (Planet IV)  Macaron (Cookie I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  Froglet  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  Bona Fide  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  LISA16  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  Speak Up!  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  Vacation  Senior Editor  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Riddle Me This  Secretary General  Top 500  Let's do lunch!  Master Editor  Council Member  Flock 2018 Attendee  Helping Hand  Rollercoaster Restaurant  Community Messenger I  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  Crypto Badger  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  White Rabbit  Chief Editor  Community Messenger II  CommOps Superstar  Common Bugs Contributor  Black and White (Cookie III)  Community Messenger III  It's a Cake Thing  Nuancier F30  I Voted: Fedora 29  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  DevConf 2019 Attendee  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Grandmaster Editor  Community Messenger IV  Community Messenger V  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  Prolific!  Flock 2019 Attendee  You’re on a boat!  Top 100  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  Rockin' & Rollin'  I Voted: Fedora 31  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  Readiness  It still works!  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  Pizzelle (Cookie IV)  Science (Kernel Tester I)  Adult Frog  Catching the Bull (Tester IV)  The Blessing of the FPL  Summer Coder  I Voted: Fedora 30  Extra!  Extra!  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III)  DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee  Fedora 32 Change Accepted  Master Badger (Badger III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV)  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  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  SCaLE 18x Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  Fedora Advocate  I Voted: Fedora 32  Fedora Legal Badge of Doom  Rainbow (Cookie V)  I converted to btrfs!  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  nest-attendee-2020  Social Panda  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  iot-name-game  Lets have a party Fedora 33  I Voted: Fedora 33  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  Magazine Editor  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  Lets have a party Fedora 34  I Voted: Fedora 34  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  Learning from Sensei  Akademy 2021  Community Survey Taker I  United Packages of Fedora  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  Nest Attendee 2021  GUADEC 2021  Museum Visitor  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  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 Week of Diversity  Lets have a party Fedora 36  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  GUADEC 2022  Community Survey Taker 2022  I voted: Fedora 37  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 37  Top 25  SCaLE 19x Attendee  IoT Working Group Member  Community Messenger VI  Called to Action  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  Community Messenger VII  Community Messenger VIII  I voted: Fedora 39  I voted: Fedora 38  Community Survey Taker 2023  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant

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.