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