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