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Ben Cotton
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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 II)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM I)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer I)  Tadpole with Legs  Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I)  Junior Badger (Badger I)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer IV)  Working' a Beat (Beat Writer III)  Junior Editor  Let Me Introduce Myself  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I)  Origin  White Hat  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Associate Editor  If you build it... (Koji Success I)  Associate Badger (Badger 1.5)  Take this and call me in the morning  Novice (Wordsmith I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM II)  Bloggin' it! (Planet IV)  Macaron (Cookie I)  LISA16  If you build it... (Koji Success II)  Bona Fide  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  Froglet  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  Vacation  Speak Up!  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  Senior Editor  Council Member  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Riddle Me This  Secretary General  Top 500  Let's do lunch!  Master Editor  Helping Hand  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  Community Messenger I  Flock 2018 Attendee  Rollercoaster Restaurant  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  White Rabbit  CommOps Superstar  Community Messenger II  Crypto Badger  Black and White (Cookie III)  Chief Editor  Common Bugs Contributor  It's a Cake Thing  Community Messenger III  DevConf 2019 Attendee  I Voted: Fedora 29  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  You’re on a boat!  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Community Messenger IV  Community Messenger V  Flock 2019 Attendee  Top 100  Nuancier F30  Grandmaster Editor  Prolific!  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  I Voted: Fedora 31  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  Rockin' & Rollin'  It still works!  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  Science (Kernel Tester I)  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  Pizzelle (Cookie IV)  Readiness  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV)  Adult Frog  Catching the Bull (Tester IV)  Fedora 32 Change Accepted  Summer Coder  I Voted: Fedora 30  Extra!  Extra!  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III)  DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee  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)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020  The Panda Is In  NeuroFedora SIG Member  I Voted: Fedora 32  SCaLE 18x Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  Fedora Advocate  Rainbow (Cookie V)  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  nest-attendee-2020  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  Fedora Legal Badge of Doom  I converted to btrfs!  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  iot-name-game  Social Panda  Lets have a party Fedora 33  I Voted: Fedora 33  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  Magazine Editor  I Voted: Fedora 34  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  Akademy 2021  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  Museum Visitor  Lets have a party Fedora 35  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  Science (Kernel Tester II)  Science (Kernel Tester III)  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  Fedora Week of Diversity  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  I Voted: Fedora 36  I Voted: Fedora 35  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 36  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  Community Survey Taker 2022  GUADEC 2022  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  SCaLE 19x Attendee  Lets have a party Fedora 37  Top 25  IoT Working Group Member  Called to Action  I voted: Fedora 37  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  Community Messenger VII  Community Messenger VI  Community Survey Taker 2023  Community Messenger VIII  I voted: Fedora 38  I voted: Fedora 39  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant

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.