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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)  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  You can call me "Patches" (SCM I)  Telegraphist (Upstream Release Monitoring I)  If you build it... (Koji Success I)  Associate Badger (Badger 1.5)  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I)  White Hat  Take this and call me in the morning  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I)  Associate Editor  Origin  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  Fedora 25 Change Accepted  What goes up... (Koji Failure I)  Froglet  Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II)  In Search of the Bull (Tester I)  You can call me "Patches" (SCM III)  LISA16  Bob Loblaw (Planet V)  Fedora 32 Change Accepted  Community Messenger III  I Voted: Fedora 29  DevConf 2019 Attendee  FOSDEM 2019 Attendee  Top 100  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure I)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure II)  I Voted: Fedora 31  Perceiving the Bull (Tester III)  Discovery of the Footprints (Tester II)  FOSDEM 2020 Attendee  Science (Kernel Tester I)  I Voted: Fedora 30  Extra!  Extra!  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine I)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine II)  Clickbait (Fedora Magazine III)  Speak Up!  Vacation  Council Member  Riddle Me This  Senior Editor  Secretary General  Top 500  Let's do lunch!  Master Editor  Helping Hand  Senior Badger (Badger II)  Flock 2018 Attendee  Community Messenger I  Rollercoaster Restaurant  Fedora Podcast Interviewee  What goes around comes around (Karma I)  Chocolate Chip (Cookie II)  White Rabbit  Crypto Badger  Community Messenger II  CommOps Superstar  Chief Editor  Common Bugs Contributor  Black and White (Cookie III)  It's a Cake Thing  Like a Rock (Updates-Stable II)  Nuancier F30  Grandmaster Editor  Community Messenger IV  Community Messenger V  Prolific!  Flock 2019 Attendee  You’re on a boat!  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II)  Ohio LinuxFest 2019  Rockin' & Rollin'  It still works!  Readiness  Pizzelle (Cookie IV)  Adult Frog  Catching the Bull (Tester IV)  Summer Coder  DevConf.cz 2020 Attendee  Master Badger (Badger III)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure VI)  The Blessing of the FPL  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure V)  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure III)  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build III)  NeuroFedora SIG Member  Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020  The Panda Is In  Lets have a party Fedora 34  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build IV)  SCaLE 18x Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build V)  Fedora Advocate  I Voted: Fedora 32  Taming the Bull (Tester V)  Rainbow (Cookie V)  Fedora Legal Badge of Doom  I converted to btrfs!  If you build it... (Koji Success III)  Fedora 33 Change Accepted  nest-attendee-2020  iot-name-game  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VI)  I Voted: Fedora 33  Social Panda  I Voted: Fedora 34  Red Hat Summit 2021  Delivery  Long Life to Pagure (Pagure IV)  Lets have a party Fedora 33  Fedora 34 Change Accepted  FOSDEM 2021 Attendee  DevConf.cz 2021 Attendee  Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build VII)  Magazine Editor  Akademy 2021  Community Survey Taker I  Riding the Bull Home (Tester VI)  Learning from Sensei  United Packages of Fedora  GUADEC 2021  Lets have a party Fedora 35  Nest Attendee 2021  Museum Visitor  Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation  Fedora Week of Diversity  Science (Kernel Tester II)  Badge Junkie (Badger IV)  Science (Kernel Tester III)  FOSDEM 2022 Attendee  DevConf.cz 2022 Attendee  I Voted: Fedora 36  I Voted: Fedora 35  Fedora Mentor Summit 2022  Lets have a party Fedora 36  Nest with Fedora 2022 Attendee  GUADEC 2022  Community Survey Taker 2022  SCaLE 19x Attendee  I voted: Fedora 37  IoT Working Group Member  Lets have a party Fedora 37  Top 25  Community Messenger VII  Called to Action  Creative Freedom Summit 2023 Attendee  Community Messenger VI  Community Survey Taker 2023  I voted: Fedora 39  Community Messenger VIII  I voted: Fedora 38  F38 Kernel Test Day Participant

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.