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