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