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