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= Ben Cotton =
= Ben Cotton =
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Greetings from your Fedora Program Manager!
Greetings from your Fedora Program Manager!
== Contact ==
'''Email''': [mailto:bcotton@fedoraproject.org bcotton@fedoraproject.org]
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'''IRC''': ''bcotton'' on the [http://freenode.net freenode IRC network]
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'''Social media'''
* '''Twitter''' [https://twitter.com/funnelfiasco @FunnelFiasco]
* '''LinkedIn''' [https://www.linkedin.com/in/BCotton/ Ben Cotton]
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'''Other Information'''
* '''GPG key''': [https://keybase.io/funnelfiasco keybase]
* '''Location''': Lafayette, Indiana, USA
* '''Timezone''': America/Indiana/Indianapolis
* '''Website''': [https://funnelfiasco.com funnelfiasco.com]


== Activities within Fedora ==
== Activities within Fedora ==


=== Fedora Program Manager ===
=== Fedora Program Manager ===
I started as the Fedora Program Manager on June 25th. I'll have more to say here once I get settled in.  
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 ===
=== My Badges ===
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=== 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 sort of faded away from the docs project when life got in the way.
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 16:50, 19 July 2018

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