From Fedora Project Wiki

Revision as of 16:54, 19 July 2018 by Bcotton (talk | contribs)

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