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