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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  Egg  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  Novice (Wordsmith I)  Bloggin' it! (Planet IV)  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  Vacation  Community Messenger II  Community Messenger III  It's a Cake Thing  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  Nuancier F30  Community Messenger IV  Community Messenger V  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  It still works!  Readiness  I Voted: Fedora 30  Extra!  Extra!  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III)  Master Badger (Badger III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  nest-attendee-2020  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  I Voted: Fedora 33  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  Community Survey Taker I  Akademy 2021  Science (Kernel Tester II)  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  I Voted: Fedora 36  I Voted: Fedora 35  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  SCaLE 19x Attendee  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 37  Top 25  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  Community Messenger VII  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant  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)  Associate Editor  Origin  Bona Fide  Froglet  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  Speak Up!  Council Member  Riddle Me This  Senior Editor  Let's do lunch!  Master Editor  Flock 2018 Attendee  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  White Rabbit  Crypto Badger  Chief Editor  Common Bugs Contributor  Black and White (Cookie III)  Prolific!  Flock 2019 Attendee  You’re on a boat!  I Voted: Fedora 31  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  Adult Frog  Fedora 32 Change Accepted  The Blessing of the FPL  NeuroFedora SIG Member  Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020  The Panda Is In  SCaLE 18x Attendee  Fedora Legal Badge of Doom  I converted to btrfs!  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  iot-name-game  Social Panda  I Voted: Fedora 34  Lets have a party Fedora 34  United Packages of Fedora  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  GUADEC 2021  Museum Visitor  Lets have a party Fedora 35  Fedora Week of Diversity  Science (Kernel Tester III)  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  Lets have a party Fedora 36  IoT Working Group Member  Called to Action  I voted: Fedora 38  Community Survey Taker 2023  I voted: Fedora 39  Let's have a party (Fedora 40)  Tadpole  Tadpole with Legs  Junior Editor  Take this and call me in the morning  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Macaron (Cookie I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  LISA16  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  Secretary General  Top 500  Helping Hand  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Community Messenger I  Rollercoaster Restaurant  CommOps Superstar  I Voted: Fedora 29  DevConf 2019 Attendee  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Grandmaster Editor  Top 100  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  Rockin' & Rollin'  Science (Kernel Tester I)  Pizzelle (Cookie IV)  Catching the Bull (Tester IV)  Summer Coder  DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  Fedora Advocate  I Voted: Fedora 32  Rainbow (Cookie V)  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  Lets have a party Fedora 33  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  Magazine Editor  Learning from Sensei  Nest Attendee 2021  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  Community Survey Taker 2022  GUADEC 2022  I voted: Fedora 37  Community Messenger VI  Community Messenger VIII  I voted: Fedora 40

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.