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