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Ben Cotton

Personal information
Pronouns:	he/him/his
Location:	Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Homepage:	https://funnelfiasco.com
E-mail:	bcotton@fedoraproject.org
Contact information
Ham Radio:	kc9fyx
LinkedIn:	https://www.linkedin.com/in/BCotton/
Fediverse:	@funnelfiasco@hachyderm.io
GitHub:	funnelfiasco
Fedora-specific information
FAS name:	bcotton
Fedora e-mail:	bcotton@fedoraproject.org
Fedora homepage:	bcotton.fedorapeople.org

Ben Cotton

Greetings! I'm Ben, author of Program Management for Open Source Projects and long-time Fedora contributor. What I do in Fedora is below. If you're interested in what I do the rest of the time, you can read Duck Alignment Academy or my personal blog.

Activities in Fedora

Packaging

I am an maintainer or co-maintainer of

wordgrinder
latex2html

I also maintain Copr builds for

QA

I occasionally contribute to QA activities, mostly by upgrading to the next release prior to the Beta release and enabling updates-testing. I also frequently vote on blockers/freeze exceptions.

Former activities

Community Blog

I was Editor in Chief of the Community Blog from 2019–2023.

Docs

My first foray into Fedora was joining the Docs team in 2009. 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 still pop in every once in a while to offer opinions and minor contributions.

Magazine

I was one of the Fedora Magazine Editors from 2019-2021.

Fedora Program Manager

I was the Fedora Program Manager (FPgM) frpm June 2018 until I was laid off by Red Hat in May 2023. I wrangled the changes, managed the schedule, and generally helped herd the cats. As the FPgM, I often found myself jumping into many areas to help out when needed.

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+|location=Lafayette, Indiana, USA
+|homepage=https://funnelfiasco.com
+|email=bcotton@fedoraproject.org
+|callsign=kc9fyx
+|linkedin=https://www.linkedin.com/in/BCotton/
+|github=funnelfiasco
+|pronouns=he/him/his
+|fediverse=@funnelfiasco@hachyderm.io
+|fediverse-url=hachyderm.io/funnelfiasco
+}}
 = Ben Cotton =
+Greetings! I'm Ben, author of ''[https://pragprog.com/titles/bcosp Program Management for Open Source Projects]'' and long-time Fedora contributor. What I do in Fedora is below. If you're interested in what I do the rest of the time, you can read [https://duckalignment.academy/ Duck Alignment Academy] or my [https://funnelfiasco.com/blog personal blog].
+== Activities in Fedora ==
+=== Packaging ===
+I am an maintainer or co-maintainer of
+* wordgrinder
+* latex2html
+I also maintain Copr builds for
+* [https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/bcotton/cherrytree/ CherryTree]
+* [https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/bcotton/wordgrinder/ Wordgrinder]
+=== QA ===
-<!-- An (optional) photo of yourself (image attached to the page).
+I occasionally contribute to QA activities, mostly by upgrading to the next release prior to the Beta release and enabling updates-testing. I also frequently vote on blockers/freeze exceptions.
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-<!-- Comment out the following line if you don't have one.
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-I am a member 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.
+=== Former activities ===
-As my day job, I work in the Research Systems group at Purdue University.  My projects include our [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor Condor] implementation and testing a Hadoop setup.
+==== Community Blog ====
-== Contact ==
+I was Editor in Chief of the [https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org Community Blog] from 2019–2023.
-'''Email''': [mailto:bcotton@fedoraproject.org bcotton@fedoraproject.org]
+==== Docs ====
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-'''Talk''': 5130552
-'''SIP''':  bcotton@talk.fedoraproject.org
+My first foray into Fedora was joining the Docs team in 2009. 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 still pop in every once in a while to offer opinions and minor contributions.
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-'''IRC''': ''bcotton'' on the [http://freenode.net freenode IRC network]
-* [irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-docs #fedora-docs] - Fedora Documentation Project
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-'''Other Information'''
-* '''GPG key''': [http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xAB46AA74 0xAB46AA74]
-* '''Location''': Lafayette, Indiana, USA
-== Activities within Fedora ==
+==== Magazine ====
-=== Documentation Project ===
+I was one of the [https://fedoramagazine.org Fedora Magazine] Editors from 2019-2021.
-I mostly lurk in the Documentation Project, but I'm trying to make more contributions.  I am currently coordinating the [[User:bcotton/RPM_Guide_tasks|update of the RPM Guide]] and writing a chapter on printing for the [https://fedorahosted.org/userguide/ User Guide].  In the past, I've contributed to some wiki gardening and the [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Quick_Start_Guide/index.html|Installation Quick Start Guide] for the Fedora 13 release.
-I have a [[User:Bcotton/DocBook_notes|page of DocBook notes]] because I haven't found one elsewhere on the wiki.
+==== Fedora Program Manager ====
+I was the Fedora Program Manager (FPgM) frpm June 2018 until I was laid off by Red Hat in May 2023. I wrangled the [[Changes | changes]], managed the [[Schedule | schedule]], and generally helped herd the cats. As the FPgM, I often found myself jumping into many areas to help out when needed.

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