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Ben Cotton
Personal information
Location: Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Homepage: https://funnelfiasco.com
E-mail: bcotton@fedoraproject.org
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#fedora-council,#fedora-devel,#fedora-mktg, #opensource.com​
Ham Radio: kc9fyx​
Twitter: funnelfiasco
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/BCotton/

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