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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  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer II)  Egg  Junior Badger (Badger I)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer IV)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer III)  Let Me Introduce Myself  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I)  White Hat  Take this and call me in the morning  Bloggin' it! (Planet IV)  Macaron (Cookie I)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I)  Tadpole with Legs  Junior Editor  You can call me "Patches" (SCM I)  Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I)  If you build it... (Koji Success I)  Associate Badger (Badger 1.5)  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Associate Editor  Origin  Novice (Wordsmith I)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  Bona Fide  Froglet  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  LISA16  Speak Up!  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  Vacation  Council Member  Riddle Me This  Secretary General  Senior Editor  Top 500  Let's do lunch!  Master Editor  Flock 2018 Attendee  Helping Hand  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Rollercoaster Restaurant  Community Messenger I  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  Crypto Badger  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  White Rabbit  Community Messenger II  Black and White (Cookie III)  CommOps Superstar  Chief Editor  Common Bugs Contributor  Community Messenger III  It's a Cake Thing  Grandmaster Editor  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  DevConf 2019 Attendee  I Voted: Fedora 29  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Nuancier F30  Prolific!  Community Messenger IV  Community Messenger V  Flock 2019 Attendee  I Voted: Fedora 31  You’re on a boat!  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  Top 100  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  Rockin' & Rollin'  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  Readiness  It still works!  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  Science (Kernel Tester I)  Pizzelle (Cookie IV)  Summer Coder  Catching the Bull (Tester IV)  Adult Frog  Extra!  Extra!  I Voted: Fedora 30  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III)  DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI)  Fedora 32 Change Accepted  Master Badger (Badger III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV)  The Blessing of the FPL  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III)  SCaLE 18x Attendee  NeuroFedora SIG Member  Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020  The Panda Is In  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  Fedora Advocate  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  I Voted: Fedora 32  Rainbow (Cookie V)  Fedora Legal Badge of Doom  I converted to btrfs!  nest-attendee-2020  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  iot-name-game  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  I Voted: Fedora 33  Social Panda  Lets have a party Fedora 33  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 34  Magazine Editor  I Voted: Fedora 34  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  Community Survey Taker I  Learning from Sensei  United Packages of Fedora  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  Museum Visitor  Akademy 2021  GUADEC 2021  Nest Attendee 2021  Fedora Week of Diversity  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  Lets have a party Fedora 35  Science (Kernel Tester II)  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  I Voted: Fedora 36  I Voted: Fedora 35  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  Science (Kernel Tester III)  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  Community Survey Taker 2022  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  Lets have a party Fedora 36  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  GUADEC 2022  Community Messenger VI  SCaLE 19x Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 37  Top 25  I voted: Fedora 37  Called to Action  IoT Working Group Member  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  Community Messenger VII  Community Messenger VIII  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant  I voted: Fedora 38  Community Survey Taker 2023  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.