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