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Ben Cotton
Personal information
Location: Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Homepage: https://funnelfiasco.com
E-mail: bcotton@fedoraproject.org
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#fedora-council,#fedora-devel,#fedora-mktg, #opensource.com​
Ham Radio: kc9fyx​
Twitter: funnelfiasco
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/BCotton/

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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  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I)  Tadpole with Legs  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer II)  Junior Badger (Badger I)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer IV)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer III)  Junior Editor  Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I)  If you build it... (Koji Success I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM I)  Associate Badger (Badger 1.5)  Let Me Introduce Myself  Associate Editor  White Hat  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I)  Take this and call me in the morning  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  Novice (Wordsmith I)  Macaron (Cookie I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  Origin  Bloggin' it! (Planet IV)  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  Bona Fide  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  Froglet  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  LISA16  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  Vacation  Speak Up!  Council Member  Secretary General  Riddle Me This  Senior Editor  Top 500  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Let's do lunch!  Master Editor  Helping Hand  Rollercoaster Restaurant  Community Messenger I  Flock 2018 Attendee  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  Black and White (Cookie III)  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  White Rabbit  CommOps Superstar  Common Bugs Contributor  Crypto Badger  Community Messenger II  Chief Editor  It's a Cake Thing  Community Messenger III  Community Messenger IV  I Voted: Fedora 29  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  DevConf 2019 Attendee  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Nuancier F30  Grandmaster Editor  Community Messenger V  Flock 2019 Attendee  Prolific!  You’re on a boat!  Top 100  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  Rockin' & Rollin'  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  It still works!  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  I Voted: Fedora 31  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  Readiness  Adult Frog  Science (Kernel Tester I)  Pizzelle (Cookie IV)  Summer Coder  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)  Master Badger (Badger III)  Fedora 32 Change Accepted  The Blessing of the FPL  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III)  Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  NeuroFedora SIG Member  The Panda Is In  SCaLE 18x Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  Rainbow (Cookie V)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  Fedora Advocate  I Voted: Fedora 32  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  Fedora Legal Badge of Doom  I converted to btrfs!  nest-attendee-2020  iot-name-game  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  Lets have a party Fedora 33  I Voted: Fedora 33  Social Panda  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  Community Survey Taker I  I Voted: Fedora 34  Learning from Sensei  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  Magazine Editor  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  Lets have a party Fedora 34  Akademy 2021  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  United Packages of Fedora  GUADEC 2021  Lets have a party Fedora 35  Nest Attendee 2021  Museum Visitor  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  Science (Kernel Tester III)  Science (Kernel Tester II)  I Voted: Fedora 36  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  Fedora Week of Diversity  I Voted: Fedora 35  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  IoT Working Group Member  Lets have a party Fedora 36  Community Survey Taker 2022  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  GUADEC 2022  SCaLE 19x Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 37  Top 25  Community Messenger VII  I voted: Fedora 37  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  Community Messenger VI  Called to Action  Community Messenger VIII  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant  I voted: Fedora 39  I voted: Fedora 38  Community Survey Taker 2023

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.