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