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