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