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