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