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= Ben Cotton =
= Ben Cotton =
Greetings from your Fedora Program Manager!


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I am currently the leader of the Documentation Project in Fedora. I joined the Docs project in order to learn more about Fedora and to give back to the community.
=== 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.


As my day job, I work in the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing at Purdue University.  My projects include documentation, training, and release management for [https://diagrid.org|DiaGrid] and an effort to bring high-performance computing into the classroom.
=== Community Blog ===
I am the editor-in-chief for the [https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org Fedora Community Blog].


== Contact ==
=== Marketing ===
I make occasional contributions to talking points, etc.


'''Email''': [mailto:bcotton@fedoraproject.org bcotton@fedoraproject.org]
=== Packaging ===
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I am an owner or co-owner of
'''IRC''': ''bcotton'' on the [http://freenode.net freenode IRC network]
* condor
* [irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-docs #fedora-docs] - Fedora Documentation Project
* wordgrinder
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* latex2html
'''Other Information'''
* '''GPG key''': [http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xAB46AA74 0xAB46AA74]
* '''Location''': Lafayette, Indiana, USA


== Activities within Fedora ==
=== Documentation Project ===
=== 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 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.
 
I have a [[User:Bcotton/DocBook_notes|page of DocBook notes]] because I haven't found one elsewhere on the wiki.
I also have a page of [[User:Bcotton/Useful_links]] because I can never seem to find what I'm looking for via the wiki search.

Revision as of 14:07, 23 September 2019

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
Telegram: bcotton
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/BCotton/
GitHub: funnelfiasco

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, manage the schedule, and generally help herd the cats.

Community Blog

I am the editor-in-chief for the Fedora Community Blog.

Marketing

I make occasional contributions to talking points, etc.

Packaging

I am an owner or co-owner of

  • condor
  • wordgrinder
  • latex2html

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.