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

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.