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= Ben Cotton =
= Ben Cotton =
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Greetings from your Fedora Program Manager!
Greetings from your Fedora Program Manager!
== Contact ==
'''Email''': [mailto:bcotton@fedoraproject.org bcotton@fedoraproject.org]
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'''IRC''': ''bcotton'' on the [http://freenode.net freenode IRC network]
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'''Social media'''
* '''Twitter''' [https://twitter.com/funnelfiasco @FunnelFiasco]
* '''LinkedIn''' [https://www.linkedin.com/in/BCotton/ Ben Cotton]
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'''Other Information'''
* '''GPG key''': [https://keybase.io/funnelfiasco keybase]
* '''Location''': Lafayette, Indiana, USA
* '''Timezone''': America/Indiana/Indianapolis
* '''Website''': [https://funnelfiasco.com funnelfiasco.com]


== Activities within Fedora ==
== Activities within Fedora ==


=== Fedora Program Manager ===
=== Fedora Program Manager ===
I started as the Fedora Program Manager on June 25th. I'll have more to say here once I get settled in.  
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 ===
=== My Badges ===
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=== Documentation Project ===
=== 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.
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.
I have a [[User:Bcotton/DocBook_notes|page of DocBook notes]] because I haven't found one elsewhere on the wiki.
I also have a page of [[User:Bcotton/Useful_links]] because I can never seem to find what I'm looking for via the wiki search.

Revision as of 16:50, 19 July 2018

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